The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-01-09
MARCELLUS HARTLEY DEAD.
SUDDENLY AT A SURETY co.
COMMITTEE MEETING.
A Famous Man In the Firearms business
I'm which lie Had Made q Fortune
Was Sent Abroad In the tiNn
war 10 Buy Arms for Union Troops.

Narcellus Hartley, President Of the Mar
cellus Hartley Company, the Remington
Arms Company, the Union Metallic Cartridge
Company and the Bridgeport u lmple-
ment Company and a director or trustee
In n dozen other corporations, died sud-
denly about i2:i0 o'clock yesterday alter
noon while attending a regular weekly
meeting of the Executive Committee OF the
American Surety Company. The meeting
was held In the Presidents room on the
fifth floor Of the ~company's building, 100
Broadway. Walter S. Johnston. William
A. wheelock, James A.. Hayden and r.. A.
C. Smith we're there. MIR. Hartley had
been sitting at the writing table. One OF
the committee noticed that he was leaning
forward from his chair. This man thought
that Mr.. Hartley's eye glasses had fallen
of and that he had stopped 10 pick them up
Mr.. Hartley did not recover hitnSeh AT
once, however. and his associates. seeing
that something was wrong, went 10 his as
~sistanoe. As he vas helped back into his
chair no gave a gasp and died.
The body was left in the Presidents room
until late In the day. DIR. Bross OF the
Eouitable Life Assurance Society, of which
Mr.. Hartley was "a trustee, was summoned
and gave a death certificate, n the DCdy
was removed to Mr.. Hartley's home at 232
Madison avenue. IL is supposed that acute
indigestion was the cause OF death ne
had complained yesterday morning oil not
feeling well and of indigestion. lie was
IA years of age, but had been apparently III
p~erfect health up TO three days ago, when
he was out horseback riding. A widow,
a daughter. Mrs. George W. Jenkins, OF
Morristown, N. j., and a grandson. Mar
cellus Hartley Dodge, now q student In Co
lnmhin University, survive Nun.
Marcellus Hartley, the eldest son OF the
late Robert NJ. Hartley, was born III thls cty,
i'm 1928. He was educated at n classical
school in this city and then entered the
counting room of Francis Tones 4 Son,
importers and dealers in guns and fancy
hardware. After acquii ing a knowledge
Of the business In 1854 he established me
firm Of Schuyler, Hartley d Graham, which
dealt in arms and ammunition. In 1870
Mr.. Schuyler retired from the firm which
then became Hartley & Graham. This
firm did business until 1899 when MIR. Ora
ham died and the name was changed
To the Marcellus Hartley Co., MIR. Hartley
becoming President of the concern.
In the Gvil War the firm with which
Mr.. Hartley was connected supplied the
loyal States with arms and ammunition.
Mr.. Hartley was appointed a Brlgadler-
General by Secretary stanton ana sent
to purchase arms abroad. This work kept
him in Europe for two years. On ne re-,
turn he published a pamphlet entitled
"Philanthropic Results of the War.
Mr.. Hartley was a large be~nefactor OF
the Hartley House. which was organized
under the auspices Of the New York Asso-
citation for the Improvement of tho Poor.
The house was named in honor of his father
He was a member of the Union League
Club, the Republican Club, the American
Fin Arts Society, the Metropolitan Museum
of Art and the New England Society, He
made a large fortune in tho firearms BUSH
ness