Marston Clark Bartholomew was the son of Major General Joseph Bartholomew and his wife Christiana Pickenpaugh Bartholomew.

From "The History of Columbia County, Wisconsin" 1880:

M. C. Bartholomew, one of the early settlers of the town of Lodi. Father of JOSEPH M. BARTHOLOMIEW, express agent, Lodi. M. C. Bartholomew, one of the early settlers of the town of Lodi.

Also:

Father of R. N. BARTHOLOMEW, farmer, Sec. 22; P. 0. Lodi; M. C. Bartholomew, who came to the town of Lodi in the spring of 1845. He (M. C.) was born in Clarke Co., Ind., in 1806; removed to Illinois in 1830; then to Columbia Co., Wis. His wife was Mary Hopkins, born in the State of Delaware.

According to his military service and pension records, Marston C. Bartholomew enlisted on 12 June 1861 in Company A, 7th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry, for 3 years. He was 5' 6 1/4" tall, with blue eyes, dark hair, and florid complexion. He was a farmer. He was promoted to 2nd sergeant on 29 August 1862 and was injured on 17 September 1862 during the battle at Antietam, supposedly receiving a severe contusion on the right hip and back from a fall while trying to climb a fence during the battle. He was admitted on 29 September 1862 to Fairfax Seminary Hospital, Alexandria, VA, and transferred on 15 December 1862 to a convalescent hospital in Philadelphia. On 2 January 1863, he was transferred to Chestnut Hill Hospital in Philadelphia. He returned to duty briefly in May 1863, but then was admitted to another Philadelphia hospital with chronic bronchitis. He was discharged on 12 June 1863 at South Street Hospital in Philadelphia due to disability. According to his pension record, he was born in Indiana and was married on 15 May 1828 to Mary Hopkins at Charleston, Indiana. He died of a hemorrhage of the bowels on 8 January 1881 at home.

The Lodi (Wisconsin) Valley News, 15 January 1881, page 3, column 2.

Mr. Marston C. Bartholomew died at his home in this town on Saturday afternoon last, at three o'clock, aged about 75 years. He was one of the early settlers in Lodi, and an industrious and intelligent farmer. He was a soldier in the war of the rebellion. Although he was upwards of fifty years old when he enlisted, he was accepted, and served through the war, or a good part of it. He was a member of the Seventh Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers, and therefore of the old Iron Brigade, and was an honor to it. Even when he was sick enough to go to the hospital, he utterly refused to do so, as his regiment was marching, as was supposed, to meet Stonewall Jackson, and he said, "there is going to be a fight, and I am going to have a hand in it." That shows the material he was made of, and there were few soldiers composed of better stuff than he.

Since the war he has resided most of the time on his farm near this village, though, in company with some others, he spent one or more winters hunting and trapping in southern swamps and forests. He attended the Soldier's Reunion in Milwaukee last summer, where he met some of his old comrades in arms, and had a pleasant time with them while he remained in camp. He was taken sick there, however, and had to come home the second or third day. He has been in failing health for some years, but has kept about, attending to business up to within a couple of weeks of the time of his death, when he was stricken with pneumonia, of which disease he died, honored and respected by all who knew him. Mr. Bartholomew was chairman of the town of Lodi in 1849, 1850 and 1855, Assessor in 1861, and Side Supervisor in 1870, in all which positions he served faithfully and acceptably to the people of the town.

The Lodi (Wisconsin) Valley News, 15 January 1881, page 3, column 4.

BARTHOLOMEW. -- At his residence, in the town of Lodi, on Saturday, January 8th, 1881, of Pneumonia, Mr. Marston C. Bartholomew, in the 75th year of his age, in great peace.

Deceased was born in Clark County, Indiana, on the 16th day of March, 1806. He was married to Mary Hopkins in 1828, who now survives him. They have lived happily together for fifty-two years. He leaves two sons, three daughters and a number of grand children to mourn his loss. He moved with his family to McLean, Co., Illinois, in the fall of 1831, when that was a new country, where he lived until 1845, when he, with his family and one brother, moved to Lodi, Wisconsin, where he has since resided, enjoying the esteem of his neighbors, as often expressed in calling him to fill various offices, the duties of which he always discharged with acceptance. In his death the community has lost a worthy member, and the family a kind husband and father.