Among the eminent men who, after having made high reputations for themselves in other localities, selected Yonkers as the home of their advanced life, is Professor William Holmes Chambers Bartlett. For more than forty years he was identified with the United States Military Academy at West Point, first as a cadet, and subsequently as Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy. The leading particulars of his life, obtained in outline from Cullum's " Register of the Officers and Graduates " of the academy, with such details as we have been able to gather from other sources, are as follows :

Professor Bartlett was born in Pennsylvania in I September, 1804, but as his parents removed immei diately after his birth to St. Louis, Missouri, his childhood and youth were passed in the latter State, and it was from it that he was in due time sent to West Point. His parents were poor, and as there were then no schools at the West, he had no home advantages for education. Attracting, however, the notice of Missouri men who were able to command ' the influence of Senator Thomas H. Benton, an appointment-was procured for him as a cadet. He was received at West Point on the 1st of July, 1822, at seventeen years and eight months of age, stood at the head of his class through his whole four years of study, and was graduated at its head on the 1st of July, 1826, having served as Acting iVssistant Professor of Matiiematics during the last two years of his ' course. From August 30, 1S2(;. to August 30, 1829,