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ROGER HARTLEY, coal-operator, post office Banksville, was born in 1829 in the county of Durham, England, son of Richard Hartley, a native of Lancashire, England, who married Ann Gray, of the county of Durham, and by her had five children, of whom Roger is the youngest. Roger received his education in England, at the night schools, and in 1851 immigrated to America, immediately coming to Saw-Mill run, where he was employed as assistant engineer; this was during the building of the Little Saw-Mill Run railroad, after which he was locomotive engineer for some time afterward, working for the Pittsburgh & Fort Wayne road until 1856, when he moved to Madison county, Ill., and there superintended the coal-mines and railroads of the Madison County Coal company, continuing in same six years. At the expiration of that time he returned east, and leased the coal-lands of his present works, then owned by the Saw-Mill Run Coal company, where up to the present time he has been actively engaged. He was a partner with the late George Marshall. Mr. Hartley was married in 1855 to Miss Margaret, daughter of Robert Marshall, of England, and following-named five children were born to them: Beecher M., now assistant superintendent of the coal works; Charles, employed in his father’s office in the city; Sadie, at home, and Lillie and Maggie, at school. Few men in the county have been more successful in business than Mr. Hartley. He and family are members of the Methodist Church; he is a republican.