Charles P. Hartley

1863 - 1932  (69 years)

• Name	Charles P. Hartley  [1, 2, 3]
  Born	1 Jan 1863	Cedar County, Missouri, USA   [1, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Biography	Biography of Charles P. Hartley, in Hawley's History of Idaho Charles P. Hartley Among those who have contributed to the development of Idaho as a great horticultural state, is numbered Charles P. Hartley, a prominent citizen of Gem county, who is living in the vicinity of Emmett and who is classed with Idaho's pioneers, having come to the northwest with his parents in 1864, when Idaho was still under territorial rule. The journey westward had been made from the state of Missouri and Charles P. Hartley was at that time but a year old, for he was born in southwestern Missouri, January 1, 1863, his parents being Henry K. and Sarah J. (Paynter) Hartley. The father was a native of Illinois, born in 1833, and with his parents had gone to Missouri in early life. There he was reared and married to Sarah J. Paynter and Charles P Hartley was their eldest child. When the Hartley family first came to Idaho they tarried for a few months in the Boise valley and then proceeded to the Willamette valley of Oregon. In 1871, however, they returned to Idaho and the parents spent their remaining days in the vicinity of Caldwell. The father, Henry K. Hartley, became a prominent figure in democratic circles of the state and served for several terms as a member of the Idaho legislature and also for several terms filled the office of county commissioner. He passed away in Caldwell several years ago, having for a number of years survived his wife. Chares [sic] P. Hartley has one brother and one sister living: Mrs. Florence Mullen, residing in California; and Henry Hartley, of Caldwell. Charles P. Hartley has for many years been numbered among the prominent ranchmen and citizens of Idaho, having lived for fifty-six years in the northwest, while for more than a third of a century he has concentrated his efforts and attention upon ranching activities. He resided near Caldwell upon a tract of land that he homesteaded more than thirty years ago, securing one hundred and twenty acres in the first tract. This he improved with substantial buildings and also set out orchards and cultivated the land in other ways. From time to time he purchased adjoining land until the Hartley ranch finally included within its borders two hundred and eighty acres. This is one of the best improved properties in the Boise valley and he retained possession thereof until 1907, when he sold the ranch for twenty-five thousand dollars, a high price at that time. Since then Mr. Hartley has resided in Gem county near Emmett and has given his attention largely to the raising of fruit. His present farm on which he resides comprises forty-five acres of arable and, mostly planted to peach orchards. It is known as the Rocky Point Fruit Farm and is one of the best improved ranches in this vicinity. The improvements have been put upon it by the present owner and the excellent appearance of the place is due to his energy and enterprise. When he first came to the Emmett district he located on a thirty acre ranch two miles southeast of Emmett. Upon that property he also made splendid improvements, erecting there a large two-story residence and other buildings of corresponding size and value. He likewise planted orchards and for several years he was extensively engaged in the nursery business on the slope south of Emmett, conducting his interests under the name of the Emmett Nurseries. He became widely known in that connection, supplying the nursery stock for many of the best and largest orchards of Idaho. Eventually, however, the business ceased to be profitable as few new orchards have been planted since the year 1910. The Emmett Nurseries formerly included from one hundred and ten to one hundred and fifty acres of growing stock, planted on his own and on leased lands in the vicinity. The Hartley ranch, southeast of Emmett, was sold by the owner in 1917 but is still known by his name. Mr. Hartley has been the pioneer in the development of two of Idaho's counties, for he brought about the cultivation and improvement of one of the best hay and grain ranches in the Boise valley and he has developed two of the best fruit ranches in the Payette valley. Mr. Hartley was married near Caldwell, Idaho, February 9, 1887, to Miss Estelle L. Madden, who was born six miles east of Caldwell, April 27, 1868, and is a daughter of Charles Francis Madden, a pioneer of the Boise valley, who came to Idaho territory from California in 1863. He had made his way across the plains from Missouri to the Pacific coast in 1849 and he died in Caldwell, Idaho, in the spring of 1919 at the age of eighty-nine years after seventy years' residence in the west. Mrs. Hartley has lived in the Boise and Payette valleys throughout her entire life and is therefore familiar with many phases of the pioneer development and later progress of the stat. She has become the mother of three children: Charles P., Jr., born June 18, 1889; Ray Irvin, born November 27, 1891, who is now married and has a daughter, Nathelle, six years of age, who with her parents occupies a pleasant home in Caldwell; and Esther Alice, who was born February 26, 1894, and on the 18th of April 1919, became the wife of Captain Homer C. Darrah, who served in France with the American Expeditionary Force in the World war, in the capacity of dentist in the aviation department. Mr. Hartley is a democrat in his political views. He served as commissioner of Canyon county and was the sergeant at arms in the Idaho house of representatives during the fourteenth session of the state legislature. He served on various boards during the war period and at all times has been a most progressive citizen.Fraternally he is an Odd Fellow and his wife belongs to the Crescent Improvement Club of Gem county, of which she was formerly president, and is identified with the State Federation of Women's Cubs. In a word Mr. and Mrs. Hartley are most progressive people who keep in touch with the trend of modern thought and advancement, whose ideals of citizenship are high and who at all times recognize the rights and privileges of others and meet their own obligations in matters of citizenship.  [3]
  Died	After 1932
  	Wife's death certificate, Estelle Madden Hartley, died 10 October 1932, Emmett, Gem County, Idaho (FamilySearch database). Names husband Charles P. Hartley and offers her marital status as "married."
  Person ID	I4342	Full | ProgenitorWalker
  Last Modified	25 Sep 2011

  
  

  Father	Henry Kindell Hartley,   b. 15 Mar 1833, Greenville, Bond County, Illinois, USA ,   d. 1905, Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho, USA  (Age 71 years)
  Mother	Sarah J. Paynter,   b. Abt 1836, Virginia, USA ,   d. 12 Mar 1887, Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho, USA  (Age ~ 51 years)
  Married	Abt 1862	Missouri, USA   [1, 5, 6]
  	No record of Henry K. Hartley's marriage to Sarah Paynter has been found. Nonetheless, it is clear when all the evidence is taken into consideration that his wife was indeed Sarah Jane Paynter, Sarah's surname is generally accepted as "Paynter" among Hartley researchers There is a record for the marriage of William C. Hartley (younger brother of Henry K. Hartley) to Eliza Ann Paynter in Cedar County in 1861 Christian Paynter was enumerated in 1860 Cedar County with daughters "Sarah J." and "Eliza A." Henry K. and Sarah J. Hartley were enumerated in 1880 Ada County, Idaho, with daughter "Annie B.," age 7 (bo about 1873) The Idaho death certificate of Anna Bell Taylor (born in 1873) in Washington County, Idaho, in 1912, names her parents as "H. K. Hartley" and "Sarah Paynter" The biography of son Charles P. Hartley in Hawley's History of Idaho states that his parents were Henry K. Hartley and Sarah Jane Paynter.
  Family ID	F1454	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Estelle L. Madden,   b. 27 Apr 1868, Caldwell, Ada County (present-day Canyon County), Idaho, USA
  Married	9 Feb 1887
  Children	1. Charles P. Hartley, Jr.,   b. 18 Jun 1889   2. Ray Irvin Hartley,   b. 27 Nov 1891   3. Esther Alice Hartley,   b. 26 Feb 1894
  Last Modified	25 Sep 2011
  Family ID	F1523	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S1599] 1870 U. S. census, Polk County, Oregon, population schedule, Independence, Monmouth township, p. 26 (penned), p. 290 (stamped, verso), dwelling 192, family 188, Henry Hartly [Hartley] household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 September 2011); citing NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 1287. [S1600] 1880 U. S. census, Ada County, Idaho Territory, population schedule, District 2, enumeration district (ED) 2, p. 12 (penned), p. 26 (stamped, verso), dwelling 137, family 137, Henry K. Hartley household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 20 September 2011); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 173; FHL film no. 1,254,173. [S1621] Hawley, James Henry, History of Idaho: Gem of the Mountains (Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1920), vol. 3, 356-357, biography of Charles P. Hartley; digital images, GoogleBooks (http://books.google.com : accessed 23 September 2011). [S1621] Hawley, James Henry, History of Idaho: Gem of the Mountains (Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1920), vol. 3, 356-357, biography of Charles P. Hartley; digital images, GoogleBooks (http://books.google.com : accessed 23 September 2011). States specific date of birth and that he was born in ""southwestern Missouri." [S1608] 1860 U. S. census, Cedar County, Missouri, population schedule, Bear Creek, Madison township, p. 128 (penned), [no stamped p. no.], dwelling 890, family 890, Christian Paynter; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 September 2011); citing NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 613. [S1607] "Idaho Death Certificates, 1911-1937," database, FamilySearch.org (https://familysearch.org : accessed 21 September 2011), entry for Anna Bell Taylor, Washington County, death certificate (1912), reference no. p 2250 [page no.?]; GSU film no. 1509277.