James Bartley Given III ’48

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Dr. Bart was born in Brooklyn and died June 18, 2013, in Bloomfield, Conn.
He was 86. He had lived in West Hartford, Conn., and in New Suffolk, N.Y.

Bart came to Princeton from the Choate School and earned his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in New York City. He served in the Army Medical Corps during the Korean War until 1953. After a residency in anesthesiology at Hartford (Conn.) Hospital, he remained on the hospital’s staff until his retirement in 1990.

He was a member and officer in a number of professional societies, including the New England Society for his specialty in 1968-69. He was an ardent golfer, sailor, and hiker.

Bart’s first wife, Shirley (née Baxter); his son, Douglas; his daughter, Elisabeth; and his sister, Joan Given Kirsch, all predeceased him. He is survived by his second wife, Sarah (née Sather); sons James IV and Peter; stepsons William and D. Rees Phinney; five children; and two great-grandchildren.

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