Bios: JOHN BARTLE, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens
  
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      JOHN BARTLE,
  
  [p. 600] general farmer and representative citizen of Big Beaver
  Township, resides on his valuable farm of eighty-five acres, which is
  situated eleven miles south of New Castle. He was born July 24, 1861, at
  Hickory Corners, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of William
  and Sarah (Tindle) Bartle.
  
  William Bartle was born in England. There he was married twice, first to
  the mother of his oldest son, George, who later served in the Civil War,
  in the United States. His second marriage was to Sarah Tindle, who
  accompanied him to America. They established their first home at Hickory
  Corners, near Sharon, Pa., but later moved to Oil City, where they lived
  for a number of years, where William Bartle worked as weigh-master for a
  coal company. Later he worked in the coal mines in that vicinity for six
  years. When his days of activity were over he retired to Wampum, where
  he died in 1892, at the age of seventy-eight years. The death of his
  second wife occurred prior to 1873. They had five children, namely:
  Sarah, who married Richard Grinnen; John; William, deceased; Jane, who
  married Watt Davis; and Thomas.
  
  John Bartle was small enough to be carried a part of the distance on his
  father's back when the family removed from Hickory Corners to Oil City,
  and he remained at home until his own marriage. In early boyhood he
  attended school for a short time, but was not over eight years of age
  when he began to earn wages by working in a coal bank. His first duty
  was to bail out water, with a half-gallon bucket, and then he was
  advanced to the position of mule-driver, later became a miner and still
  later was made track-layer and still works in that position, in the
  employ of the Beaver Coal & Coke Company, No. 3, whose mine is partly
  situated on his farm. Following his marriage he lived at Possum Hollow,
  where he worked in a coal bank for a time and then rented the Thomas
  Cross farm for two years. In 1892 he bought the first ten acres of his
  present farm from Ernest Barber, and to the original purchase he added
  from time to time until he has now as large an acreage as he can
  comfortably cultivate. Since acquiring this land he has done a large
  amount of improving, this including the erection of all the present
  substantial buildings.
  
  Mr. Bartle was married in 1884 to Julia Seaburn, who is a daughter of
  William and Sarah (Fye) Seaburn, and they have had seven children:
  Thomas, Frank, David, Nettie, Sarah, Mary and George. Thomas died aged
  two years and Sarah aged three years. David is a soldier in the United
  States army and is serving in the Philippine Islands as a member of
  Battery A, Fifth Regiment. Mrs. Bartle's parents live on the same farm
  with Mr. and Mrs. Bartle. They had thirteen children, two of whom are
  deceased, Reuben and William H. The survivors are: Mary Jane, Matilda,
  Minnie, Elizabeth, Julia, Benjamin, David, William, Nettie and George.
  
  In his political views, Mr. Bartle is a Republican. He takes an active
  interest in public affairs and has served in local offices.
  
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  20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and
  Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing
  Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
  
  
  Updated: 14 Nov 2001