American Medical Biographies/Bartlett, John Sherren
Bartlett, John Sherren (1790–1863)
John Sherren Bartlett, journalist, founder of the Albion newspaper in New York, was born in Dorsetshire, England, in 1790 and died in New Jersey, August 24, 1863. He was educated as a physician in London and on recommendation of Sir Astley Cooper was appointed surgeon in the royal navy in 1812; sailed on the packet Swallow to the West Indies; was captured by the American frigates President and Congress, under Commodore Rogers, and remained a prisoner at Boston until discharged in 1813. At the close of the war he married a lady of Boston, and established himself there as a physician. He began the Albion in New York, June 22, 1822, as an English organ of conservative politics and through its interesting variety of miscellaneous reading this journal gained a wide circulation. Dr. Bartlett subsequently began one or two other papers of a similar character at a cheaper price, and on the beginning of Atlantic steam navigation also established at Liverpool the European, a weekly compendium of the latest news for American circulation. Owing to failing health he withdrew from the Albion in 1848. In 1855 he issued the Anglo-Saxon, a weekly paper, at Boston, which existed for about two years. In 1857 he was British consul at Baltimore.