Bedford County PA Archives Biographies.....Hartley, Harrison ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Judy Banja jbanja@msn.com May 2003 HARRISON HARTLEY, a prominent citizen of Snake Spring, Bedford County, Pa., was born in this township on April 19, 1844. he is a son of the late John G. Hartley, a former Associate Judge of Bedford County. (Further ancestral history may be found in connection with the sketch of Edwin Hartley, a brother of Harrison Hartley, on another page of this volume.) Mr. Hartley was educated in Bedford County, in the schools of Snake Spring and Bedford townships, acquiring therein practical knowledge that has been of inestimable value to him during his business career. Since leaving school he has been very extensively engaged in farming and stock-raising. He now owns and occupies a farm of more than two hundred acres, which by care and forethought he has placed in good cultivation, his estate being one of the best in regard to improvements of any in the locality. Taking an intelligent interest in town and county matters, he gives liberally toward the support of movements calculated to benefit the community, and for many years he has been a member of the Snake Spring township School Board, the greater part of the time serving as its president. In politics he is a firm adherent of the Democratic party. In his religious belief he is a Methodist, and for a number of years has served as Deacon of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Hartley married on October 9, 1867, Miss Sarah E., daughter of the late Henry Nicodemus, of Bedford, Pa. Five children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Hartley, namely: Mary G., wife of Harry Morgart, of Everett, Pa.; Harry W., of Peoria, Ill; Frank J. H., of Swissvale, Pa.; Grace L.; and Maggie E. Source: Bedford Biographical Review, 1899, Bedford Co., Pa