The HARTLEY Surname
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Other notable bearers of the HARTLEY surname include:
Marcellus
HARTLEY [1827-1902]
Marcellus HARTLEY of New York, was
a member of the firm of Schuyler, Hartley and Graham, manufacturers of firearms,
the organizer of the Remington Arms Plant and the Union Metallic Cartridge Company
of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and noted for his many charities, among them the
founding, in 1897, of HARTLEY HOUSE, the uniquely efficient settlement
in New York City.
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
[see Fame3.html]
Marsden HARTLEY [1877-1943]
American Modern Artist
Photographic portrait of Marsden Hartley by Carl van Vechten
[1939]. C. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Marsden Hartley was born Edmund Hartley on January 4, 1877 in Lewiston, Maine.
His mother died when he was eight, leaving him under the care of an older sister.
In 1893, at the age of 16, Hartley joined his father and stepmother of four
years, Martha (Marsden) Hartley, in Cleveland, Ohio, where he began formal art
training three years later (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.
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 HARTLEY [1888-1970]
American Electronics Researcher
Ralph Vinton Lyon Hartley [November 30, 1888 - May 1, 1970] was an Electronics
Researcher. He invented the Hartley Oscillator, the Hartley Transform, and contributed
to the foundations of information theory.
Hartley 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 the librettist for the first American opera to be presented
in Berlin, in 1910. He was born in Blossburgh, Pennsylvania, on June 19, 1870.The
composer was Arthur Nevin, another American; the opera tells the story of the
Blackfoot Indian prophet "Poia." Randolph Hartley died in Toronto on April 4,
1931. [thanks to Benjamin W. Hartley E-mail: bhartley@top.monad.net
Richard Neville HARTLEY [b 28 July 1944
at Holmfirth, England]
British composer/songwriter/producer [see Fame3.html]
His 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. Hartley 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, Hartley 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 Hartley 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,
Rogue Trader and Curtain Call.
Most recently, Hartley provided music for the acclaimed BBC/HBO film The Life
and Death of Peter Sellers in 2004.
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. 
Ralph Vinton Lyon Hartley [November 30, 1888 - May 1, 1970] was an Electronics
Researcher. He invented the Hartley Oscillator, the Hartley Transform, and contributed
to the foundations of information theory. 
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