Ara Bartlett (born Bethany, Pennsylvania, 1825 – died Harper, Kansas, November 17, 1883)[1] was an American lawyer and judge who was the second Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Dakota Territory.
Bartlett moved to Kankakee, Illinois in 1853, the second lawyer to set up practice there.
[3] He was elected judge of Kankakee County in 1861, serving until he was appointed an associate justice of the Dakota Territory Supreme Court by president Abraham Lincoln in June 1864.
After his term expired, Bartlett practiced law for a time and then moved to Kansas; in 1880 he was living in the town of Wellington.
Her sister Mary Eldred married E. O. Hamlin, also a lawyer and judge.