Bartlett, Agnes Vernon, 1911-

Dr. Bartlett was born in Kyoto, Japan in 1911. She attended Bradford Junior College in Bradford, Mass. and Mount Holyoke College, receiving her A.B. degree from the latter in 1934. In 1938 she received her M.D. degree from Yale University School of Medicine. She was an intern, a resident in Domiciliary Medicine, and an obstetrics resident at Mass. Memorial Hospitals in Boston. During 1944 and 1945 Dr. Bartlett served as a physician, then as principal medical officer, at the War Relocation Authority Centers in Poston, Ariz. and Manzanar, Calif. She was engaged in general practice in Lyme, N.H. in 1946-1947, then became a Clinical Assistant in Pharmacology (Anesthesia) at Dartmouth Medical School in 1948. From 1950 to 1961 she maintained a private practice in Concord, N.H., but she returned to Dartmouth Medical School in 1964 as a Clinical Instructor of Surgery. In 1971 she became an Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery (Anesthesiology) at Dartmouth Medical School. She retired to Norwich, Vt. in 1976.

Samuel Colcord Bartlett, Jr., a missionary, was born in Chicago, Ill. in 1865. He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1887, the year he made his first trip to Japan. After teaching high school in Nashua, N.H. for a year, he received his A.M. degree from Dartmouth College in 1891. In 1894 he was graduated from Andover Theological Seminary in Andover, Mass., married Fanny Gordon, and returned to Japan to work as a missionary in Tottori and Otaru. During 1914-1915 he served as the acting pastor of the Congregational Church in Colrain, Mass., and from 1915 to 1922 he served as the pastor of the Congregational Church in Peace Dale, R.I. He received an honorary S.T.D. degree from Andover Theological Seminary in 1922, before becoming a lecturer and chaplain at Doshisha University in Kyoto; he remained in that position until his retirement in 1935. In 1936 he bought a home in Norwich, Vt., where he died in 1937.