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- The HARTLEY Surname Hall of Fame 2 M-R
Other notable bearers of the HARTLEY surname include:
Marcellus
HARTLEY [1827-1902] Marcellus HARTLEY was
born on 23rd September 1827 in New York City. His parents were Robert Milham
HARTLEY and Catherine MUNSON. He was not tall, had a light frame, was fair,
with bluish-grey eyes.
After training at his father's company, and with the importer, Francis Tomes
and Sons, Marcellus became interested in firearms. He became joint founder-member
of the firm, Schuyler, Hartley and Graham, manufacturers of firearms. Marcellus
was made the American goverment's arms agent during the Civil War [1862] and
was given the title, Brigadier-General. He bought and became Chairman of Remington
Arms [1888] and the Union Metallic Cartridge Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut.
He supplied arms during the Franco-Prussian and Russo-Turkish Wars.
Marcellus was noted for his many charities, among them the founding, in 1897,
of HARTLEY HOUSE, 413 West Forty-Sixth Street, the uniquely efficient settlement
in New York City.
Marcellus married Frances Chester WHITE on 15 November 1855 at Madison Square
Presbyterian Church. She was born 3 March 1833 in New York,USA. Her parents
were Dr.Samuel Pomeroy WHITE and Caroline M JENKINS. Marcellus died on 8th January
1902 Marcellus aged 21
Marcellus aged 45
He was the son of Robert Milham HARTLEY, who was also a leading philanthropist
of New York, the founder in 1829 of the New York Temperance Society, and, in
1844, of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor. Robert
was also largely instrumental in founding the Presbyterian Hospital, New York,
and was a supporter of the Workingmen's Home, the Juvenile Asylum, the Hospital
for the Ruptured and Crippled, and other charitable institutions. He started
also the first pure milk crusade. The fourth child, and eldest son of his parents,
Robert was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England, February 17, 1796.
Robert was brought by his mother, in 1799, to join his father, Isaac HARTLEY,
in New York, where he died March 3, 1881. Isaac was, like his father and grandfather,
a woollen manufacturer, and was born in Cockermouth, December 30, 1765, came
to America in 1797, and died in Perth, New York, October 6, 1851. In 1787 Isaac
married Isabella, the daughter of Joseph JOHNSON of Embleton, England.
Isaac's father, Robert HARTLEY, who was born in Broughton, England, in
1736 and who died in Cockermouth in 1803, married, in 1754, Martha SMITHSON,
the daughter of Isaac SMITHSON, granddaughter of Sir Hugh SMITHSON, Bart., and
a cousin of Sir Hugh SMITHSON [afterwards Percy], 1st Duke of Northumberland,
the father of James SMITHSON, who founded the Smithsonian Institute at Washington,
District of Columbia.
Robert HARTLEY's father, James HARTLEY, was the son of the Reverend
David HARTLEY, vicar of Armley, Yorkshire and brother of Doctor David
HARTLEY [see above].
Marcellus
Hartley Dodge, Snr. [February 28, 1881 – December 25, 1963] was the Chairman
of the Board of Remington Arms Company. He married Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge
[1882-1973]. He lived in Hartley House, located at Spring Valley Road on Hartley
Farms in Harding Township, New Jersey. The Marcellus Hartley Dodge Award is
bestowed in his honour.
Marcellus Hartley Dodge, Jnr. [1908 – August 29, 1930] was the heir to the
Remington-Rockefeller fortune who died in a car accident in France. He was the
son of Ethel Geraldine Rockefeller [1882-1973] and her husband, Marcellus Hartley
Dodge, Sr. [1881-1963]. He was a grandson of William Rockefeller, co-founder
of Standard Oil, great-grandson of Remington Arms Company founder Marcellus
Hartley, and grandnephew of Standard Oil's other co-founder, John D. Rockefeller.
Dodge was often referred to as "Hartley." Dodge was instantly killed in an automobile
accident on August 29, 1930, when his automobile struck a tree on the Bayonne-Bordeaux
road in Mogesca, France shortly after his graduation from Princeton University
in June 1930, where he played football. The car then caught fire and two passing
motorists, Henri Dupin, and Paul Theau, pulled the dead body of Dodge out, and
the still living Ralph Applegate. Dodges carotid artery had been severed, and
the car engine was pushed against the back seat. Marcellus Hartley Dodge, Sr.
went to the site of the accident and looked at the car and talked to the two
men who pulled the bodies out of the wreck. His mother, Geraldine, had sent
him there as a diversion from his hobby of aviation, which she felt was too
dangerous. His parents provided for the Dodge Gateway on Princeton's campus
in 1933 in his memory. In addition, the Dodges contributed to the construction
of the gymnasium at Columbia University that is also named in his honour ...
the Marcellus Hartley Dodge Physical Fitness Center. Dodge's mother also gave
Madison, New Jersey the Hartley Dodge Memorial Building that was dedicated on
Memorial Day, Thursday, May 30, 1935 to house its police department. This building
now houses Madison's Borough Hall.
for more details on HARTLEY FARMS Harding Township, NJ. USA
English writer, artist and historian. Marie Hartley made sure that the
Yorkshire Dales would be long remembered through 33 books, thousands of paintings
and photographs and an extraordinary collection of everything from oatcake pans
to knitting sticks. She chronicled the area for 75 years with her friends Joan
Ingilby and Ella Pontefract, creating a huge but lively record of the way things
were between the mid-19th century and modern times.
The contribution that Marie and Joan made to our knowledge
of the area was recognised by the award of an MBE to each of them in 1997. They
also hold a Silver Medal award of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society for their
contribution to Yorkshire History. Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby built up an
extraordinary picture of people's lives, largely described in their own words
which gives immediacy and colour to the book as well as making it unique and
irreplaceable Yorkshire Life
YORKSHIRE VILLAGE LIFE. Marie HARTLEY and Joan INGILBY. Published by Smith Settle
Ltd. of Otley. First published in 1953 LIFE IN THE MOORLANDS OF NORTH EAST YORKSHIRE.
Marie HARTLEY and Joan INGILBY. 2nd ed. Published in 1975 LIFE AND TRADITION
IN WEST YORKSHIRE. Marie HARTLEY and Joan INGILBY. Published in 1990 "Favoured
Land : Yorkshire in Text and Image - The Work of Marie HARTLEY" Life &
tradition in the Yorkshire Dales.
The Old Hand-Knitters of the Dales. Vanishing Folkways
Mariette HARTLEY
[b. June 1940 Weston, Connecticut, USA ]
American Film and TV Actress: Real name Mary Loretta
HARTLEY ... best known for Ride The High Country 1962, Drums Of Africa 1963,
Marnie 1964, Marooned 1969, Star Trek 1969, and in the 1970's, Little House
On The Prairie, Columbo, The Incredible Hulk, to name but a few. [see
HARTLEY Hall of Fame3.html]
Mary
appears on my Family Tree, with links to the HARTLEY and NOTHOGH/NUTTALL families
in Bury, Lancashire.
DVD's available include: The Magnificent Seven Ride Again,
Drums Of Africa, 1969, Mothers And Daughters, Murder C.O.D., Passion And Paradise
Marsden HARTLEY, born Edmund HARTLEY [4 Jan 1877-2 Sept 1943] American
Modern Artist, Poet and Essayist
Photographic portrait of Marsden Hartley by Carl van Vechten [1939] C.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
born Edmund HARTLEY on January 4, 1877 in Lewiston, Maine, to English
parents, the youngest of nine children. His mother died when he was eight, leaving
him under the care of an older sister. In 1892, at the age of 16, Edmund joined
his father and stepmother Martha MARSDEN at Cleveland, Ohio, where he began
formal art training at the Cleveland Institute of Art. In 1898 he moved to New
York and studied at the New York School of Art. In 1906, at the age of 29, Hartley
adopted his stepmother's maiden surname, Marsden, as his first name.
His talent won him a five-year scholarship for study at New York's National
Academy of Design, which he began in 1899 at the age of 22. Nearly 10 years
later, Hartley's post-impressionist Maine mountain scenes garnered the attention
of Alfred Stieglitz, who ran 291, the most influential gallery for vanguard
art in the United States in the early 1900s. Hartley's first solo exhibition
at 291 in 1909, led to his long-standing affiliation with the Stieglitz circle
of artists, writers, and cultural critics.
Dec
2011: Marsden HARTLEY's 1919 'Untitled - Still Life' sold for a remarkable $3,218,500
... more than three times the high estimate of $700,000-$900,000 and the single
highest price in the auction. The work was on offer from the Birger Sandzén
Memorial Gallery in Lindsborg, Kansas, and depicts a blooming cactus in a Pueblo
Indian blackware olla, set on a red and white striped table cloth with a view
of the New Mexico landscape behind. The painting originally cost $70-$75 !!
Matthieu
Aiden HARTLEY [b.4th Feb 1960 at Smallfield, Surrey] Keyboard Player 'The
Cure' 1980
Matthieu had been a Hair Dresser. He and Simon Gallup were involved in two other
bands called Lockjaw and The Magazine Spies before they joined The Cure, Simon
on bass and Matthieu on Keyboard. His addition in early 1980 expanded the group's
sound, though most of the time he played just single-note lines, not chords.
The Cure [l-r: Robert SMITH, Simon
GALLUP, Matthieu HARTLEY and Lol TOLHURST] had their first UK hit single with
"A Forest." which reached the bottom end of the UK Top 30 in that April.
After the release of their second album "Seventeen
Seconds", the Cure began their first world tour. Following the Australian
leg of the tour, Matthieu left the line up due to a difference in opinions with
the other three members; it appears standing on stage and using one finger to
play the keyboard lines had been frustrating. Since leaving The Cure, he played
with different local bands, worked at a zoo, and as a Labourer. Matthieu married
in 1983. He still keeps in touch with Robert Smith, who lives nearby.
Mike
HARTLEY - Pennine Runner, England
The Coast to Coast Walk is a 192-mile (according to a recent re-measuring
the real distance is almost 220 miles) unofficial and mostly unsignposted long
distance footpath in Northern England. Devised by Alfred Wainwright, it passes
through three contrasting national parks: the Lake District National Park, the
Yorkshire Dales National Park, and the North York Moors National Park. Wainwright
recommends that walkers dip their booted feet in the Irish Sea at St Bees and,
at the end of the walk, dip their naked feet in the North Sea at Robin Hood's
Bay. In 1991, the route was run in 39 hours 36 minutes and 52 seconds by Mike
HARTLEY, setting a new record, beating the previous record set in 1985 by
Mike Cudahy who completed it in 46 hours 49 minutes.
The
Pennine Way National Trail, 268 miles of chasing the Pennine Mountain tops
along the rugged backbone of England, from the Peak District through the Yorkshire
Dales and over Hadrian's Wall to the Cheviots. Amongst the finest upland walking
in England. The Pennine Way record is held Mike HARTLEY, who ran the
route in 2 days 17 hours 20 mins and 15 secs, finishing on the 23rd July 1989.
Mike did 2 years of research on the Way and peaked his training at 170 miles
per week. He ran without stopping for sleep. In fact, he stopped only twice
for 18 mins each time, one time for fish & chips in Alston! The Way took it's
toll on his feet - he ran the last 40 miles with a borrowed size 10 shoe on
his [ordinarily] size 8 right foot.
Old
HARTLEY Blue ['Blew Stone' and Standing Stones]
The Blue
whinstone at the Old Hartley, near the entrance to the Delaval Arms Hotel, [is
said to have ] once marked the centre of the village of Old Hartley. A number
of these large stones can be seen at various places on the Northumberland coast.
It is generally supposed that they rolled down during the ice age when the ice
moved from west to east at the time of the great thaw.
In the early English and Anglo-Saxon periods, they were called 'Moot Stones'
[also 'Oath Stones'] and were used as a meeting place by the 'Wittan', a council
of Village elders who gathered to formulate the laws and dispense justice. During
Norman times these stones were used as markers for castles and boundaries [Old
Hartley Blue stands just a few yards from the county border]. "Ye large Blew
Stone marked ye site of Warkworth Castle" and at Monkseaton, "Ye Boulder Stone
was a large "Blew Stone" near ye burn". The Old Hartley Blue Stone marked the
centre of the village and stood near the Blacksmith's shop, it was here that
the villagers would meet before setting out on a journey. At the time of the
black death in 1348 it was thought that if one touched the stone they would
be immune from the plague.
Over the years the stone became a symbol of good fortune and it was said to
become a citizen of Old Hartley you had first to kiss the Blue Stone.
The Story goes that William Carr, the Hartley Samson, who was born at the Hartley
Old Engine, and who was in his prime was the strongest man in all England, used
to demonstrate his strength by lifting the stone with one hand, above his head,
and then carry it under his arm.
When the old village was demolished in 1940, the stone was buried in the path
leading from the Blacksmith's shop to the PM chapel and when the new road was
planned, Mr Wesley Dickinson removed the stone for safe keeping. When the roadworks
were completed in 1973, the Whitley Bay Borough Council replaced the stone as
near as possible to it's original position.
There is also an upright standing stone clearly visible from the Blyth-Whitley
Bay road. It's about 2m high.
When visiting, the easiest way into the field is to park in the Deleval Arms
and use the gate in the NE corner.
Oliver
Cromwell HARTLEY [1823-1859]
According to some sources, Oliver Cromwell Hartley, legislator and codifier
of Texas law, was born in Virginia, but he was more likely born in Bedford County,
Pennsylvania, on March 31, 1823. He received his B.A. degree from Franklin and
Marshall College in Pennsylvania in 1841 and was admitted to the bar in 1844.
He served as a private in the Mexican War and was subsequently promoted to lieutenant.
He later supported filibustering campaigns to the south. He married Sarah C.
Davis of Bedford in 1845 and in 1846 became disabled and moved to Galveston,
Texas, to practice law; that year he was appointed reporter of the decisions
of the state Supreme Court. In this position, which he held until his death,
he reported volumes four through twenty-one of the Texas Reports. Between 1848
and 1849 he compiled A Digest of the Laws of Texas (1850). In 1851 and 1852
he represented Galveston County in the state legislature. In 1854 he served
on a three-man commission to codify the laws of the state, after which he published
a volume of forms for use in civil proceedings. He died at Galveston on January
or February 13, 1859. Hartley County was named for him and his brother,
Rufus K. Hartley. www.rootsweb.com/~txhartle/
Ralph
Vinton Lyon HARTLEY [30th Nov1888 - 1st May 1970] American Electronics Researcher
Ralph HARTLEY was an Electronics Researcher. He invented the Hartley Oscillator,
the Hartley Transform, and contributed to the foundations of information theory.
Ralph was born in Spruce, Nevada and attended the University of Utah, receiving
an A.B. degree in 1909. He became a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and
received a B.A. degree in 1912 and a B.Sc. degree in 1913. He returned to the
United States and was employed at the Research Laboratory of the Western Electric
Company.
In 1915 he was in charge of radio receiver development for the Bell System transatlantic
radiotelephone tests. For this he developed the Hartley Oscillator and also
a neutralizing circuit to eliminate triode singing resulting from internal coupling.
A patent for the oscillator was filed on June 1, 1915 and awarded on October
26, 1920. During World War I he established the principles that led to sound-type
directional finders. Following the war he returned to Western Electric. He later
worked at Bell Laboratories. He performed research on repeaters and voice and
carrier transmission and formulated the law "that the total amount of information
that can be transmitted is proportional to frequency range transmitted and the
time of the transmission." After about 10 years of illness he returned to Bell
Labs in 1939 as a consultant. During World War II he was particularly involved
with servo problems. He retired from Bell Labs in 1950 and died on May 1, 1970.
Randolph
HARTLEY [1870-1931] American opera librettist
Randolph Hartley was born in Blossburgh, Pennsylvania, on June 19, 1870, the
son of Rev.Benjamin Hartley and Emily Griswold. He was a dramatist, librettist
and theatrical agent. He wrote librettos for several operas beginning in 1895
with a romantic opera “The Juggler” and "The Quest". In 1902 he married
Emily Wakeman and together they built the Wakeman Theatre at Stamford. Randolph
was the librettist for the first American opera, "Poia", composed
by Arthur Nevin and presented at the Royal Opera House, Berlin in April 1910.
The opera tells the story of the origin of the Sun Dance by a Blackfoot Indian
prophet. Randolph later worked with Arthur Nevin on a one-act opera, initially
titled “Twilight”, which never saw the stage until it was performed as “A Daughter
of the Forest in Chicago” in 1918. Randolph seemed to fall quickly into obscurity
and died in Canada on April 4, 1931.
[thanks to Benjamin W. Hartley E-mail: bwhartley@myfairpoint.net
Richard Neville HARTLEY [b.28 July 1944 at Holmfirth, England] British
Composer and Producer
[see HARTLEY Hall of Fame3.htm]
Richard's
work is extensive and varied, including musical arrangement for theatre and
many scores for television and film.
In the 1970s he began a long association with Richard O'Brien. Richard was part
of the original four-piece band for the Rocky Horror Show. He also provided
arrangements for the film adaptation, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and its
sequel Shock Treatment, and worked with O'Brien on another, unproduced sequel,
Revenge of the Old Queen.
In the 1980s, Richard worked primarily in television, including providing the
music for the 1986 Doctor Who story Mindwarp. However, he also composed for
film, including the score for the film Sheena, for which he was nominated for
a Golden Raspberry Award, and the film Bad Blood.
In the 1990s he provided the score for many films including Princess Caraboo
[1994], Rogue Trader [1999] and Curtain Call [1999]
Alice In Wonderland [1999] and Don Quixote [2000]. Most
recently, Richard provided music for the acclaimed BBC/HBO film The Life and
Death of Peter Sellers [2004]
Marcellus HARTLEY was
born on 23rd September 1827 in New York City. His parents were Robert Milham
HARTLEY and Catherine MUNSON. He was not tall, had a light frame, was fair,
with bluish-grey eyes.
Marcellus aged 21 
Marcellus aged 45 
Marcellus
Hartley Dodge, Snr. [February 28, 1881 – December 25, 1963] was the Chairman
of the Board of Remington Arms Company. He married Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge
[1882-1973]. He lived in Hartley House, located at Spring Valley Road on Hartley
Farms in Harding Township, New Jersey. The Marcellus Hartley Dodge Award is
bestowed in his honour. 
Marcellus Hartley Dodge, Jnr. [1908 – August 29, 1930] was the heir to the
Remington-Rockefeller fortune who died in a car accident in France. He was the
son of Ethel Geraldine Rockefeller [1882-1973] and her husband, Marcellus Hartley
Dodge, Sr. [1881-1963]. He was a grandson of William Rockefeller, co-founder
of Standard Oil, great-grandson of Remington Arms Company founder Marcellus
Hartley, and grandnephew of Standard Oil's other co-founder, John D. Rockefeller.
Dodge was often referred to as "Hartley." Dodge was instantly killed in an automobile
accident on August 29, 1930, when his automobile struck a tree on the Bayonne-Bordeaux
road in Mogesca, France shortly after his graduation from Princeton University
in June 1930, where he played football. The car then caught fire and two passing
motorists, Henri Dupin, and Paul Theau, pulled the dead body of Dodge out, and
the still living Ralph Applegate. Dodges carotid artery had been severed, and
the car engine was pushed against the back seat. Marcellus Hartley Dodge, Sr.
went to the site of the accident and looked at the car and talked to the two
men who pulled the bodies out of the wreck. His mother, Geraldine, had sent
him there as a diversion from his hobby of aviation, which she felt was too
dangerous. His parents provided for the Dodge Gateway on Princeton's campus
in 1933 in his memory. In addition, the Dodges contributed to the construction
of the gymnasium at Columbia University that is also named in his honour ...
the Marcellus Hartley Dodge Physical Fitness Center. Dodge's mother also gave
Madison, New Jersey the Hartley Dodge Memorial Building that was dedicated on
Memorial Day, Thursday, May 30, 1935 to house its police department. This building
now houses Madison's Borough Hall.
[b. June 1940 Weston, Connecticut, USA ] 
Photographic portrait of Marsden Hartley by Carl van Vechten [1939] C.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
His talent won him a five-year scholarship for study at New York's National
Academy of Design, which he began in 1899 at the age of 22. Nearly 10 years
later, Hartley's post-impressionist Maine mountain scenes garnered the attention
of Alfred Stieglitz, who ran 291, the most influential gallery for vanguard
art in the United States in the early 1900s. Hartley's first solo exhibition
at 291 in 1909, led to his long-standing affiliation with the Stieglitz circle
of artists, writers, and cultural critics.
Dec
2011: Marsden HARTLEY's 1919 'Untitled - Still Life' sold for a remarkable $3,218,500
... more than three times the high estimate of $700,000-$900,000 and the single
highest price in the auction. The work was on offer from the Birger Sandzén
Memorial Gallery in Lindsborg, Kansas, and depicts a blooming cactus in a Pueblo
Indian blackware olla, set on a red and white striped table cloth with a view
of the New Mexico landscape behind. The painting originally cost $70-$75 !!
The Cure [l-r: Robert SMITH, Simon
GALLUP, Matthieu HARTLEY and Lol TOLHURST] had their first UK hit single with
"A Forest." which reached the bottom end of the UK Top 30 in that April. 
The Coast to Coast Walk is a 192-mile (according to a recent re-measuring
the real distance is almost 220 miles) unofficial and mostly unsignposted long
distance footpath in Northern England. Devised by Alfred Wainwright, it passes
through three contrasting national parks: the Lake District National Park, the
Yorkshire Dales National Park, and the North York Moors National Park. Wainwright
recommends that walkers dip their booted feet in the Irish Sea at St Bees and,
at the end of the walk, dip their naked feet in the North Sea at Robin Hood's
Bay. In 1991, the route was run in 39 hours 36 minutes and 52 seconds by Mike
HARTLEY, setting a new record, beating the previous record set in 1985 by
Mike Cudahy who completed it in 46 hours 49 minutes.
Ralph HARTLEY was an Electronics Researcher. He invented the Hartley Oscillator,
the Hartley Transform, and contributed to the foundations of information theory.