Biography Bartlett Cynthia-Caroline

COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD

Truman Van Ornum was born in La-
colle. Canada. July n. 1825. son of Jacob
and Sarah (Lewis) Van Ornum. natives of
that same place. The father was a carpenter
bv trade, and passed most of his life in
Canada, but spent his later years on a farm
near Detroit, Mich. The son was educated
in the public schools, and after completing
the course of studv learned his father's
trade, which he followed at intervals the
greater part of his life. For many vears he
operated a sawmill at Lacolle. He left
Canada in 1880, and settled in Medford.
where he gave up his former occupation,
and began to deal in general merchandise.

He continued in this several years, but grad-
ually gave more and more of his attention
to contracting and dealing in railroad ties,
while he also returned to his earlier employ-
ment, and erected a number of buildings.
To a considerable extent he speculated in real
estate and other property, meeting with al-
most uniform success.

In 1892 Mr. Van Ornum fell from a
building which he was putting up. and he
was so injured that he was never after able
to do any active business, but for the remain-
ing eight years of his life was a great suf-
ferer. Then, even more than in the preced-
ing years of their long married life, his wife.
Cvnthia C. Bartlett, whom he had married
Dec. T/. 1840???????, showed herself a helpmeet in-
deed, and did everything possible to make
his last days comfortable. Mrs. Van Or-
num was a daughter of Dr. George C. and
Martha (Lewis) Bartlett. natives of Ver-
mont and Odelltown. Quebec, respectively.
Dr. Bartlett was educated at Fairfield, Vt.,
and practiced for many years at Licolle.
Mrs. Van Ornum continued to reside in
Medford, where a widower! daughter lives,
and there she died in July, 1905. Of the
six children born to her and her husband,
five are living, but the family is scattered.
Emma Amelia, the oldest, is now Mrs. Jo-
seph Lanphear. and lives in Tower, Minn. ;
Willard Oscar is in Chicago; Ida I., Mrs. T.
B. Cowles, lives in Madison, Wis. ; Florence
Evaline is the widow of S. C. Smith, of Med-
ford ; and Cora Winifred married T- S. Mc-
George, and resides in Hayward, Wis. Mrs.
Van Ornum had six livinsr grandchildren.

Mr. Van Ornum during his active life
was a regular attendant of the Methodist
Church, of which his wife was a member.
For many rears he had been a member of
the Masonic fraternity. Politically he was
always a Republican, and was elected to sev-
eral local offices, which he filled with the
same careful attention and ability, which be
manifested in all his own private operations,
thereby winning the confidence and respect