Haas, Robert Bartlett

Haas was born on Jan. 20, 1916 in Santa Cruz, CA; BA, UC Berkeley, 1938; MA, Univ. of Chicago, 1939; Ed. D, Stanford Univ., 1945; postgraduate in art history, UCLA, 1965-68; became faculty member at UCLA in 1949; named director of arts and humanities extension in 1958; published books include A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein (1971) and Muybridge : man in motion (c1976); also wrote a paper on William Chauncey Bartlett; Bartlett was born on Dec. 30, 1818 in Haddam, CT; attended Williams College, and in 1847, Ohio Univ.; admitted to Ohio bar and was law partner of Hiram Strong in Dayton, 1848-55; joined the staff of the Dayton gazette, 1855; became anti-slavery preacher in Indianapolis in 1857; moved to San Francisco in 1860; became itinerant preacher in the California gold mining towns; served as editor of the San Francisco bulletin in 1866, and took over from Bret Harte as the editor of the Overland monthly in 1871; served as a school superintendent and board member of Mills College; author of works on a variety of subjects, including A breeze from the woods (1880); he died on Dec. 7, 1907 in Oakland, CA.

From the description of Collection of material about William Chauncey Bartlett, 1850-1987. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 39451952

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