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 | | The Bartleys' English forebears settled in Loudoun County, Virginia, in 1724, whence Mordecai's father, Elijah, moved to Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where Mordecai was born on December 16, 1783. |
 | | While in congress Bartley did not often take part in the debates, but he was alert to the interests of his district, which comprised a large part of northern Ohio, including Sandusky and Cleveland. |
 | | Bartley declined renomination for a second term and retired from public life to his home and business interests at Mansfield, where he lived out his eighty-seven years until his death on October 10, 1870. |
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