FRED HARTLEY For thirty-eight years Fred HARTLEY has been identified with the monument business, and for twelve of these has been in business for himself at Savannah, Missouri, where he is one of the representative and enterprising men in other lines and is numbered with the most useful citizens of the county seat of Andrew County. He was born in Putnam County, Indiana, May 31, 1861, and is a son of Rufus and Jeannie (BEARD) HARTLEY. Both parents were natives of Indiana and resided there until 1865 when they moved to Ringgold County, Iowa, and from there in 1872, to Worth County, Missouri, settling permanently in Andrew County, Missouri, in 1877. The father was engaged in the monument business at Savannah during the rest of his active life. His death occurred in 1907, at the age of seventy-seven years. The mother survives and lives at Savannah. They had five children: John, who is a resident of New Mexico; Charles, who is in business at St. Joseph, Missouri; Fred; Samuel, who is associated with his brother Fred at Savannah; and Minnie, for the past fifteen years a teacher in the public schools at Savannah, who is now the wife of Samuel CLINE.

Fred HARTLEY obtained his education in the public schools and began to learn marble cutting in his father's shop in boyhood and later mastered every detail of the business. For twelve years he was superintendent for the Des Moines Marble and Mantel Compnay, a large concern doing business in several states, but for twelve years he has conducted his own monument works at Savannah, which city he has claimed as his home since 1877. He has large yards and employs skilled workmen, conducting his business according to his ideas of a business man's responsibility. His public spirit was manifested in the establishing here of the Globe Theater, a moving picture house and the first of its class in the place. The building was opened April 20, 1914, and he operates it himself. It is proving a very successful venture. In politics Mr. HARTLEY is a republican and is serving as on eof the city's alderman and is credited with looking after the interests of his own ward with the same care that he gives to his private affairs.

In 1888 Mr. HARLTEY was united in marriage with Miss Anna M. SMITH, who is a daughter of Henry M. and Katherine SMITH. Mrs. HARTLEY was born in Pennsylvania but was reared in Andrew County, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. HARTLEY have one son, Harry S., who is a very talented young man and is a graduate of the class of 1913, of the Art Institute, Chicago. At present he is a popular cartoonist, working under Cartoonist DARLING *, on the Register and Leader, of Des Moines, Iowa. Mr. HARTLEY belongs to the Modern Woodman of American and to the Knights of Pythias.

* Jay Norwood "Ding" DARLING (1876-1962) was a popular Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist who drew approximately 15,000 editorial cartoons which chronicaled the history, trends, thoughts, and politics of the United States. He was also an important activist in the Conservation movement, conceived and drew the first stamp for the Federal Duck Stamp program.

NOTE: The Globe Theater, pictured above right, has been closed.

SOURCES:
WILLIAMS, Walter, editor. A History of Northwest Missouri, p. 1633. Volume III. Lewis Publ. Co. Chicago. 1915.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Norwood_Darling

Transcription and note by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2009