1910-01-14-New York Tribune-Rev Richard Hartley

The New York Tribune, 14 January 1910, p. 7 c. 4

The Rev. Richard Hartley

The Rev. Richard Hartley, pastor of Hope Baptist Church, at 104th street and Broadway, died early yesterday morning, at the church rectory, from heart disease. Mr. Hartley had been ill since a month ago, when he was stricken with hardening of the arteries.

Mr. Hartley was born in Wahli Abbey, Lancashire, England, in 1852, and at the age of two years came to America with his parents. He was educated in the public schools of this city and later entered Crosier Seminary, in Pennsylvania. When he was graduated from the seminary he received his first call to Ogden, Utah, being the first Baptist minister sent among the Mormons.

After remaining in Utah doing missionary work among the Mormons for three years Mr. Hartley returned to New York and became secretary to the New York Baptist Mission Society. Shortly after this, Mr. Hartley accepted a call to the Laight Street Baptist Church, in this city, which was later removed and became Hope Baptist Church. Mr. Hartley served as pastor of the church for twenty-flve years. He leaves a wife and two children —— Lyman R. and Miss Jessie Hartley.