Sacramento County
Biographies
REV. ERNEST
STORER BARTLAM
REV. ERNEST STORER BARTLAM.--A native of England, where he was born at Birmingham, on May 2, 1881, the Reverend E. S. Bartlam, present Vicar of the Pro-Cathedral of the Episcopal Church in Sacramento, has demonstrated his scholarly attainments to those who know him as pastor and as friend. His father, Reverend William E. Bartlam, is Vicar of Luddenden, Yorkshire, England, and is beloved by all for his humanitarian principles, and with his good wife Elizabeth A. Storer in maidenhood, is enjoying life to its full at their English home.
Ernest S. Bartlam was educated at the Wakefield grammar school and took the classical courses at Clare College, Cambridge University. On account of his health he came to Idaho and spent six years riding the range as a cowboy in that state and in Montana and Wyoming, from the date of his arrival in the United States in 1901 until 1907. It was in the latter year that he came to California, and in 1915 he was ordained a deacon at St. John’s Episcopal Church at Petaluma. In 1916 he was ordained priest in St. Paul’s in Sacramento, then held charges at the Holy Innocents in San Francisco and at St. Peter’s in Red Bluff, and on May 30, 1920, became Vicar of his present church.
The marriage of Rev. E. S. Bartlam, September 23, 1904, united him with Miss Bertha Jean Bruner; and two children were born to them, Ernest Percy and Lois Margaret. Mrs. Bartlam died September 27, 1915. On December 31, 1917, Reverend Bartlam married, for his second wife, Miss Fanny Ardley. Reverend Bartlam is deeply interested in the various movements for the advancement of the social, educational and moral conditions in Sacramento and is ever ready to do his full share to promote every good work brought to his attention. He is a member of the Masons, Knights of Pythias, Elks and Sons of St. George. He finds recreation in hunting and fishing and also greatly enjoys a camping trip where one gets closer to nature. He also finds pleasure in working with tools, and spends much of his spare time doing constructive work with edged tools in his little cabinet shop. As a citizen he takes an active part in all progressive movements of a nonpartisan character, and although a Republican in national politics he is a supporter of men and measures for the greatest good to the greatest number.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches,
Pages
980-981. Historic Record Company, Los
Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.