NORTHWESTERN IOWA ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION VOLUME II 1804-1926 G. A. Hartley Dr. George Alexander Hartley has for the past eighteen years been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of medicine at Battle Creek, where he specializes in surgery and conducts a hospital. His birth occurred near Ida Grove, Ida county, Iowa, on the 12th of November, 1882, his parents being Alexander F. and Frances Elen (Glenn) Hartley, the former born at West Galway, Saratoga county, New York, October 1, 1845, and the latter at Glenville, Montgomery county, New York, May 12, 1841. The Hartley family is of English lineage, while the Glenn family comes of Scotch, English and Dutch descent and was represented in the Revolutionary war. Alexander F. Hartley, the father of Doctor Hartley of this review, was a son of Isaac and Sarah (Barlow) Hartley, a grandson of Robert and Martha (Smithson) Hartley, and a great-grandson of Henry Hartley. David Hartley, M. P., was plenipotentiary in the treaty with America. James Smithson was a famous philanthropist and the founder of the Smithsonian institution. George A. Hartley acquired his early education in the rural school of his native county, subsequently pursued a high school course at Ida Grove and continued his studies in Coe College at Cedar Rapids. His professional training was received in the State University of Iowa, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in June, 1908. He had spent the period of his minority on the farm in Ida county on which he was born and had taken up his abode at Ida Grove in 1903. Following his graduation from the State University of Iowa he began the practice of his chosen profession at Battle Creek, where he has remained continuously to the present time and has gained a degree of success commensurate with his skill and ability. As above stated, he devotes particular attention to surgery and conducts a well equipped hospital. He keeps thoroughly informed concerning the latest discoveries of the medical science through his membership in the Ida County Medical Society, the Iowa State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the American Association of Railroad Surgeons. On the 19th of June, 1912, at Odebolt, Iowa, Doctor Hartley was united in marriage to Miss Flora E. Buehler, who was there born on the 3d of September, 1883. They are the parents of four children - Frances Elise, Eugene Robert, Miriam Constance and George Norman, all of whom are still at home. Doctor Hartley is a Scottish Rite Mason and a worthy exemplar of the teachings and purposes of the craft. He subordinates all other interests to the demands of his profession, of which he is an able exponent, and he fills an essential place in his community, in which he is highly esteemed. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/