Dana Webster Bartlett (October 27, 1860 – July 16, 1942) was an American Congregationalist minister,

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director, and writer. He was an early advocate of the City Beautiful movement.

Biography

He was born in Bangor, Maine, and educated at

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in Grinnell,

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through 1882. He also attended

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and

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. He was pastor of Phillips Church,

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. He moved to

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in 1896 to manage the

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, also called the Bethlehem Institutional Church. The Institute was a non-denominational social, educational and social service center for working-class and immigrant people which covered six city lots. He ministered reached to

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, and the Brotherhood of

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from Russia. He influenced social work education and research, helping organize field research by students from the

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and Occidental College who would visit the slums of Los Angeles and write up their findings. He is one of the honorees in the

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. A Progressive, he campaigned for

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, social reforms, and workers' rights to organize. Bartlett died in Los Angeles.

Works

*''The Better City: A Sociological Study of a Modern City'' (Los Angeles: Neuner Company Press, 1907) *''The Better Country'' (Boston: C.M. Clark, 1911) *''The Bush Aflame'' (Los Angeles: Grafton Publishing, 1923) *''Our Government in Social Service, or a Nation at Work in Human Uplift''

References

Bio of BartlettCity Beautiful in California
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