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JOHN RUSSELL BARTLETT (18o5-1886)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 450 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:RUSSELL See also:BARTLETT (18o5-1886)  , See also:American See also:historical and linguistic student, was See also:born in See also:Providence, Rhode See also:Island, on the 23rd of See also:October 18o5 . From his first to his eighteenthyear ire lived in See also:Kingston, See also:Canada; he was then in turn, from 1824 to 1836, a clerk in a dry goods See also:store, a See also:book-keeper-and a See also:bank See also:cashier at Providence, and for more than ten years after 1836 he was a bookseller in New See also:York See also:City, returning to Providence in 185o . In 1850-1853 he was the See also:commissioner on the See also:part of the See also:United States for the survey of the boundary between the United States and See also:Mexico, but owing to the lack of funds did not finish the See also:work . After being superseded by another commissioner upon the See also:accession of See also:President See also:Franklin See also:Pierce, he published A See also:Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in See also:Texas, New Mexico, See also:California, Sonora and See also:Chihuahua (2 vols., 1854), which, contains much valuable scientific and historical material concerning the See also:south-See also:west . From 1855 to 1872 he was secretary of See also:state of Rhode Island, and while serving in this capacity thoroughly re-arranged and classified the state records, and prepared various See also:bibliographies and compilations, See also:relating chiefly to the See also:history of the state . He is chiefly remembered however, for his See also:Dictionary of Americanisms (1848), a See also:pioneer work, which, although later See also:dialect changes have, of course, deprived it of completeness or final authoritativeness, is still of value to students of See also:language and remains the See also:chief contribution to the subject . He died in Providence on the 28th of, May 1886 .

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