JOSEPH DANA BARTLEY
BRIDGEPORT: Educator and Author
Joseph Dana Bartley was born in Hampstead, N. H., September 17, 1838. His father was Rev. John M. C. Bartley, who was pastor of the Congregational church of that town for over twenty years. His paternal grandfather was Dr. Robert Bartley, who was educated in Edinburgh university, Scotland. His mother, Susan Dana, was the daughter of Rev. Daniel Dana, D.D., who was a pastor in Newburyport for over fifty years, and was for one year president of Dartmouth College. His greatgrandfather, Joseph Dana, was pastor of the South church of Ipswich, Mass., for sixty-two years. Mr. Bartley was fitted for college at the academy in Atkinson, N. H., and took the regular course at Williams, graduating in 1859. We quote the following from the quarter-centennial report of his class.
"After graduation, he spent one year of theological study at Princeton, and then became assistant in the academy at Blairstown, N. J., and afterwards, principal of the Susquehanna Institute at Duncannon, Pa. In 1863 he was called to the charge of Skaneateles Academy, where he remained till April, 1866, when he became principal of the Female High School at Newburyport, Mass. In 1868 he was elected to the head of the High School of Concord, N. H., and in 1875, in response to a second call, accepted the principalship of the High School at Burlington, Vt., where he remained until 1882, when he took charge of the High School at Bridgeport, Conn., in one of the finest school buildings of the state. He has compiled several school books, made his gift of song useful, and entered generously into all good citizenship. He has had active membership in the Teachers’ Associations of the several states of his service, has been vice-president and director of the American Institute of Instruction, member of the New Hampshire Historical Society and of the Philharmonic Society of Burlington, trustee of the Concord Public Library, and examiner of Dartmouth College, had part in the Peace Jubilee at Boston, and has contributed to various educational journals, notably The New England Journal of Education, and in all methods, old and new, has kept well at the head of his profession."
In Bridgeport, Mr. Bartley has been a director of the Y. M. C. A. from its foundation, and is vicepresident of the Choral Society. He has recently resigned his position in the High School after ten years of service.
Source: Illustrated Popular Biography of Connecticut - 1891, Compiled and Published by J. A. Spalding, Hartford Conn., Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, 1891
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