Rash's Surname Index
Notes for William BARTRAM
Occupations: Tanning, Cattleman, School Director
William attended Jonathan Gause's Institute, a boarding school. After completing an apprenticeship in tanning and currying trade, in Haverford Township, he worked as a jouneyman for six months. He then rented the property and purchased the business of the old Pratt tannery on Crum Creek, and he conducted this enterprise for seven years with much success. He then took up his residence upon his father's old farm and fed cattle for some years, after which he turned his attention to dairying, a business which he made
serviceable to the community and remunerative to himself. Deeply interested in community affairs, he rendered capable service as a school director and has aided largely in the development of the school system. He was a member of the Society of Friends and has also served on the school committee of that body. He was a Republican.
At the age of seventy-four he was still vigorous in body and in the prime of his mental powers. The tract where he lived contained one hundred and seventy acres, the old house was more than a hundred years old (1904) and upon it was his grandfather Pratt's old tannery and which was owned by Mr. Bartram's parents.
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