Nevada Genealogy Trails Nye County Honorable George A. Bartlett Biography (Transcribed by Jeanne Kalkwarf)

HON. GEORGE A. BARTLETT
The Congressman from Nevada is a Nevadan every inch. When Nevada cast off her territorial raiment and assumed the dignity of statehood it was decreed that one man should represent her in the Halls of Congress. To find the man better fitted to uphold her honor than George A. Bartlett would be difficult.

Without his knowledge or consent, George Bartlett was born in San Francisco. But a few weeks afterward, he was taken to Eureka, Nevada, in those days a hustling mining camp. Here his parents had lived for several years before his birth. When he was old enough to reason — those who ought to know, say that at a remarkably young age — he made up his mind that Nevada is the best place in the world and that opinion has not changed with advance in years. To live in Nevada ; to wander forth a little ; to gain the viewpoint of the world, and to return to Nevada to die is all he asks.

The George Bartlett of today, whom all his friends know as just George, is a man of power — a genius with a little more sanity than has the average genius. His name is known from one end of the state to the other, and in Washington his colleagues are not allowed to forget Nevada.

As an orator he is without a peer in the state. His small body seems charged with dynamic energy, and with the velocity of whirlwind, he sweeps obstacles from his path. A pair of blue eyes, merry and keen, peer out from the base of an expansive forehead. Nature has neglected to provide an overabundance of hair for the top of the Congressman's head, and he, determined to have so much hair in spite of everything, allows it to cover his neck in the back.

In the matter of dress he scorns all fashions but his own self-adopted and never-changing ones. He says he dresses for comfort, and his broad-brimmed sombrero, soft collar, and long black string tie, he carries with him even to the Capital.

In his profession, as the senior member of the law firm of Bartlett & Thatcher, with offices in the Butler Building in Tonopah, he occupies a prominent place in the first rank. Mr. Bartlett's early recollections are all centered around Eureka, Nevada, where he spent his boyhood days. He went to Georgetown College, and after leaving his alma mater, returned to his childhood home, and began practicing his profession. From the beginning he was successful, and rapidly he conquered the small world, which that mining camp represents. Politics interested him early in life, and his first public office was that of district attorney.

In Tonopah he became legal representative for Jim Butler in 1901, and since that time has become attorney for the Shoshone Consolidated, the Pittsburg Silver Peak Mining Company, the interests of Malcolm Macdonald and several other capitalists, and 'is vice- president of the First National Bank of Tonopah. Mr. Bartlett was one of the first to secure a lease on the" famous Jumbo in Goldfield, and since then has acquired interests in Goldfield, Bullfrog, Manhattan, and other camps in Southern Nevada. He has recently completed a home in Tonopah which is the largest and most beautiful residence in the southern part of the State.

Source:
Who's who in Nevada By Bessie Beatty 1907
Contributed by Barbara Z.