Henry Kindell Hartley

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• Census: 1840, Polk County, Missouri, USA;

  James "Hartly" [Hartley] household 1 male under 5 [William C., abt 5] 1 male 5-10 [Henry K., abt 7] 2 males 15-20 [Richard D. abt 15?; Solomon abt 17?; John Evans, abt 19?] 1 male 50-60 [James Hartley, abt 61] 1 female 10-15 [Channy Ann, abt 12] 0 slaves 6 total 3 engaged in agriculture

• Census: 23 Sep 1850, District 17, Cedar County, Missouri, USA;

  1. Hartly [Hartley], James, 67, male, farmer, real estate value $600, Georgia 2. _____, Thom, 20, male, laborer, Tennessee 3. _____, Henry K., 17, male, laborer, Illinois 4. _____, Wm C., 15, male, laborer, Illinois 5. [illegible], Channy, 22, female, Tennessee

• Census: 5 Dec 1850, Dry Creek, El Dorado County, California, USA;

  1. Tatum, Wm, 19, male, miner, Illinois, $4.00 [average daily product?] 2. Hartley, Thos., 20, male, miner, Tennessee, $4.00 3. _____, Henry K., 16, male, miner, Tennessee, $4.00

• Census: 21 Aug 1860, Plum Grove, Mt. Pleasant township, Cass County, Missouri, USA;

  1. Case, George [W.?], 33, male, farmer, real estate value $4500, personal $2,630, Kentucky 2. Harper, Sarah, 45, female, sister, Kentucky 3. Kelly, Nancy, 40, female, sister, Kentucky 4. Hartley, Henry K., 27, male, farmer, real estate $1500, personal [blank], Illinois 5. Case, Henry D., 21, male, farmer, [no real estate value], [no personal value], Kentucky

• Military: June 1861-December 1861, Missouri, USA;

  Henry K. Hartley served in Co.'s A and H of the 4th Missouri Cavalry from at least June to December of 1861. He served as both a Lieutenant and a Lt. Col., resigning his commission on 4 December 1861, the same day as his older brother Thomas J. Hartley. [More research should be done to discover what motivated the resignation; I suspect it had to do with political affiliations.]

• Migration: About 1864, Polk County, Oregon, USA;

  In 1864, Henry moved his young family from Missouri to Idaho, probably traveling in "McPike's train" with his brother William and wife Eliza Ann (sister to Henry's wife Sarah Jane). The two couples left the train in Boise rather than continuing on to its terminus in Oregon. A few months later, however, they moved on to Polk County, Oregon, while William and Eliza Ann remained in Idaho. Henry's older sister Luvina and husband Richard Tatom had been living in neighboring Benton County, Oregon, since about 1854. (Luvina and Richard were the parents of William C. Tatom with whom Henry had mined in California.)

• Census: 14 Jun 1870, Independence, Monmouth township, Polk County, USA;

  1. Hartly [Hartley], Henry, 37, male, white, farmer, real estate $300, personal $450, Illinois 2. _____, Sarah, 34, female, white, keeping house, Virginia 3. _____, Charles, 7, male, white, Missouri 4. _____, Florence, 5, female, white, Oregon 5. _____, Cora, 3, female, white, Oregon 6. _____, Alice, 7 months, Oregon, born in November

• Migration: 1871, Ada County, Idaho, USA;

  In 1871, Henry and Sarah moved their family from Polk County, Oregon, to Caldwell, Ada County, Idaho. (Caldwell is in present-day Canyon County, created from Ada County in 1891.)

• Census: 9 Jun 1880, District 2, Ada County, Idaho, USA;

  1. Hartley, Henry K., white, male, 47, married, farmer, Illinois, Georgia, Georgia 2. _____, Sarah J., white, female, 46, wife, married, keeping house, Virginia, Virginia, Virginia 3. _____, Charles P., white, male, 17, son, laborer, attending school, Missouri, Illinois, Virginia 4. _____, Florence L., white, female, 15, daughter, at home, attending school, Oregon, Illinois, Virginia 5. _____, Allice [Alice] M., white, female, 10, daughter, attending school, Oregon, Illinois, Virginia 6. _____, Annie B., white, female, 7, daughter, attending school, Idaho, Illinois, Virginia 7. _____, Henry M., white, male, 5, son, attending school, Idaho, Illinois, Virginia 8. Carrick, Sandford, white, male, 50, boarder, single, laborer, Indiana, Indiana, Indiana

• Occupation: 7 Feb 1895, Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho, USA;

  Henry K. Hartley was confirmed by the senate as postmaster of Caldwell, Idaho; announcement in the Boise newspaper.

• Census: 1 Jun 1900, East Caldwell precinct, Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho, USA;

  1. Hartley, Henry K., head, white, male, March 1833, 67, married 2 years, Illinois, Georgia, Tennessee, capitalist, can read and write, owns home free of mortgage 2. _____, Minerva, wife, white, female, September 1850, 49, married 2 years, 1 child 0 living, Pennsylvania, at sea [illegible addition], Pennsylvania, can read and write 3. _____, Florence L., daughter, white, female, September 1864, 35, Oregon, Illinois, Virginia, clerk in post office, can read and write

Henry married Sarah J. Paynter about 1862 in Missouri, USA. Sarah (daughter of Christian Paynter) was born about 1836 in Virginia, USA; died on 12 Mar 1887 in Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho, USA; was buried in Caldwell-Canyon Hill Cemetery, Canyon County, Idaho, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Minerva Arbuckle about 1898 in Canyon County, Idaho, USA. Minerva (daughter of James Arbuckle and Margaret Fisher) was born on 16 Sep 1848 in Pennsylvania, USA; died on 26 Apr 1930 in Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho, USA; was buried in Canyon Hill Cemetery, Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 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.

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Died:

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."

Charles married Estelle L. Madden on 9 Feb 1887. Estelle was born on 27 Apr 1868 in Caldwell, Ada County (present-day Canyon County), Idaho, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children: 8. Charles P. Hartley, Jr.   was born on 18 Jun 1889. 9. Ray Irvin Hartley   was born on 27 Nov 1891. 10. Esther Alice Hartley   was born on 26 Feb 1894.

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Birth:

The death certificate of Florence (Hartley) Mullins offers one discrepancy: place of birth. While Florence was clearly born in Oregon, as supported by every census enumeration, her birthplace is cited on the death certificate as Georgia. Her grandparents, James Hartley and Elizabeth (Walker) Hartley) were both born in Georgia.

Other information offered:

• Father's name "Hartley"
• Mother's name "Paynter"

Florence married Christopher Mullins about 1904. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alt. Birth: 30 Oct 1869, Polk County, Oregon, USA

Esther married Capt. Homer C. Darrah [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]