Dana Webster Bartlett was an American

United States

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 Congregationalist

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

He was born in Bangor, Maine

Bangor, Maine

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, and educated at Iowa College in Grinnell

Grinnell, Iowa

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, Iowa

Iowa

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 through 1882. He also attended Yale University

Yale University

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 and Chicago Theological Seminary

Chicago Theological Seminary

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. He was pastor of Phillips Church, Salt Lake City. He moved to Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 in 1896, where he founded the Bethlehem Institute, 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 reached out to Chinese

Chinese immigration to the United States

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, Japanese

Japanese American history

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 and Molokan

Molokan

Molokans are sectarian Christians who evolved from "Spiritual Christian" Russian peasants that refused to obey the Russian Orthodox Church, beginning in the 17th century...

 populations (he encountered the first Molokans to enter Los Angeles, and became a patron of their community http://www.molokane.org/molokan/Berokoff/Chapter-2.htm). He influenced social work

Social work

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 education and research, helping organize field research by students from the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

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 and Occidental College

Occidental College

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 who would visit the slums of Los Angeles and write up their findings. He is one of the honorees in the California Social Work Hall of Distinction

California Social Work Hall of Distinction

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. A Progressive

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, he campaigned for public baths

Natatorium

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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