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DANIEL HARTLEY, an old and esteemed resident of Yankeetown, was born at Rockport, Ind., February 4, 1828, the second in a family of seven children born to Uriah and Delilah A. (Brown) Hartley, who were natives of Virginia. Mrs. Hartley, our subject’s mother, came to what is now Rockport, Ind., with her parents, where she became a wife in 1824. In 1832 the family removed to Boonville, and from there, four years later, to Yankeetown, where the father engaged in blacksmithing two years. He then moved onto a farm where he resided until his death in 1839. His widow afterward returned to Yankeetown, where she died in 1874. At the age of eleven years Daniel Hartley began to realize the necessities of life by being compelled to shoulder some of the responsibilities of the family, owing to his father’s death. He found employment at three picayunes (18 ¾ cents) per day, which was afterward reduced to an equivalent of 9 cents per day. Thus it was he began life’s battle on his own responsibility, but under such circumstances his education was neglected. February 24, 1852, he wedded Amanda Taylor, and nine children were born to them, these yet living: Anna, Henry H., Orin B., M. C., Flora, Ollie and Etta. In 1862 Mr. Hartley began merchandising at Yankeetown, and at intervals has continued there until the present. From 1869 to 1874 he resided in Illinois. March 23, 1881, his wife died, after being the companion of his joys and sorrows for a period of twenty-nine years. As a Democrat Mr. Hartley has served his township as Trustee, and under President Johnson’s administration acted as Postmaster at Yankeetown. Owing to his dealing in stock, to a greater or less extent, for the past thirty years, he has become one of the best known men of Anderson Township.