Interesting story behind this historic piece.
September 8, 1900 a hurricane hit Galveston Island in Texas. It had estimated winds of 135 miles per hour at landfall, making it a Category 4 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale.
query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9502E1DC163CE433A25750C1A96F9C946197D6CFSeptember 13, 1900, Wednesday edition of the New York Times:
Here one M. Hartley Co. donated $250 for aid to the Hurricane victims.
Aid sent to Galveston, Mayor Van Wyck being the key words if you need to look it up at their archives.
query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9901E7DB1139E433A2575AC1A9609C94699ED7CFMarcellus Hartley was born on Sept. 28th 1828. In 1854 he established the firm of Schulyer, Hartley and Graham. Which continued on until the retirement of Mr. Schyuyler in
1876, when it changed to Hartley and Graham... (Where) the principal business of the house is in arms and ammunition, and it is the largest and most influential in that line of business in the U.S. During the civil war it came into special promninence in supplying the loyal States with arms. The war Department at Washington, then under the charge of the late Edwin M. Stanton, recognizing the necessity of securing a loyal, patriotic citizen to purchase arms for the troops being fitted out, selected Mr. Hartley for that purpose, appointing him agent of the Government, and commissioned him a Brigadier General, with plenary power opening him an unlimited credit on Baring Brothers and Co. of London, the fiscal agents of the Government.
Mr. Hartley (was) not only the head of the firm of
Harley and Graham, but his broad enterprising spirit... led him into other large industrial enterprises... He is president of the Remington Arms Company of Illon, N.Y.; of the Union Metallic Cartridge company of Bridgeport, Conn.: the Gun Implement Company, the American Ordinanace Company, also of Bridgeport; Director of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, the Manhattan Railroad,, the Western, Lincoln, and German-American Banks; the American Deposit and Loan Company, The American Surety Company, the Mercantile Trust Company, the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company of Pittsburg, the United Electric Light and Power Company of New York, the Newark Electric Light and power Company, and other industrial institutions.
He (was) also officially identified with many of our charitable institutions, and a large benefactor to the Hartley House, organized under the auspices of the New York Association for the Improvement of the Poor, named in honor of his father, who devoted hte maturity of his life to its organization, and carrying out its wise beneficent designs to help the needy poor.
query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E04EFD71130E132A25751C1A9679C946397D6CFTHE FUNERAL OF MARCELLUS HARTLEY; Services Held in Madison Square Presbyterian Church.
January 12, 1902, Sunday
The funeral services of Marcellus Hartley, the millionaire philanthropist, who died suddenly in the Directors' room of the American Surety Company
last Wednesday (Jan. 8, 1902), took place yesterday morning in the Madison Square Presbyterian Church. Friends of the dead financier, including Andrew Carnegie, Russell Sage, J. Pierpont Morgan, and many others prominent throughout the country, filled the pews of the church and the galleries.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcellus_Hartley_Dodge,_Sr.
Marcellus Hartley Dodge, Sr. (February 28, 1881 – December 25, 1963) was the chairman of the board of Remington Arms Company and a member of the family associated with the Phelps Dodge Corporation. Marcellus Hartley Dodge also was the grandson and successor to
Marcellus Hartley, his maternal grandfather, a famous merchant and financier of Manhattan.
In 1907 he became engaged and married to (Ethel) Geraldine Rockefeller of 689 Fifth Avenue. She was a child of William and Almira Geraldine Goodsell Rockefeller, and was estimated to have her own fortune of over 100 million dollars. They were said to be the wealthiest newlyweds in the country when they married. Initially, when in New Jersey they lived together at Hartley Farms, a country estate purchased by Marcellus and his aunt, Helen Hartley Jenkins, in 1904.
At the time of his marriage Dodge was president and a director of the Union Metallic Cartridge Company, president of the Bridgeport Gun Implement Company, director of the Equitable Trust Company, director of International Banking Company,
director of M. Hartley Company, a member of the Lawyers Club of New York City, the Essex County Country Club, and the City of New York Club.
Eventually Dodge became the chairman of Remington Arms Company, taking the place of his maternal grandfather. The Remington Arms and Union Metallic Cartridge factories at Bridgeport, Connecticut were described as the greatest small arms and ammunition plant in the world by the editor of the New York Times in 1916.[2] Cash control of the company was acquired by E.I. du Pont de Nemours Company of Wilmington, Delaware in 1933, but Dodge remained at the head of the business.
The polo fields of Marcellus Hartley Dodge... was the location of secret arms and ammunition supply discussions during WWII
Following the business tradition established by his grandfather at the time of the American Civil War, during the Second World War his company was the supplier of sixty-nine percent of the arms, ammunition, and munitions being used by the federal government and secret meetings about this were held on his country estate, Hartley Farms, at his polo fields which, except for the war years, also were used from 1927 as the site of the exhibition of the Morris and Essex Dog Show held by his wife, Geraldine. During these meetings General Dwight D. Eisenhower and he became close friends.
He was a member of the board of trustees of Columbia University and was the founder of the Marcellus Hartley Dodge Cup that is awarded in crew. The Marcellus Hartley Dodge Award is bestowed in his honor.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remington_Arms_CompanyIn 1865, Remington incorporated into a stock company, and in 1873 began a new venture, producing Remington brand typewriters. Remington sold the typewriter business in 1886. The typewriter company eventually became Remington Rand, and the firearms business became Remington Arms Company. I
n 1888, Remington was purchased by Marcus Hartley and Partners, a major sporting goods chain who also owned the Union Metallic Cartridge Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The Bridgeport site became the home of Remington's ammunition plant.
In 1912, Remington and Union Metallic Cartridge were combined into a single entity, called Remington UMC. Even today, Remington produces U.M.C. brand ammunition. In 1915, the plant at Ilion was expanded, and with this expansion became basically the same plant as today.
www.cornellpubs.com/old-guns/historic-hartley-and-graham.phpShows the business "Hartley and Graham" was still in operation until the Name changed sometime between 1899 and 1903/04. This short date time frame strongly suggest that the name change came about the time of Marcellus Hartley's death in 1902.
query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D06E3DC1030E733A25752C0A9679C946297D6CFShows the value of Marcellus Hartley's estate holding upon his death, where M. Hartley Company is specifically mentioned. So at this point sometime between 1899 and 1902 when Marcellus Hartley passed away, Hartley acquired the business and "Graham's" name was dropped from the company logo. Now go back to the beginning of this article about the hurricane in Galveston, Texas.
September 13, 1900, Wednesday edition of the New York Times:
Here one
M. Hartley Co. donated $250 for aid to the Hurricane victims.
This shows that Hartley acquired the full rights to the company sometime between 1899 and 1900, a few years before his death.
So, your article was produced sometime
after Marcellus Hartley acquired full rights to the company in 1899-1900. The Remington company is less than fulfilling when trying to find out what happened to the M. Hartley Co. It seems to disappear sometime before WWII. It still is an early piece, probably made sometime between 1899 and 1940. Still an interesting item to see... Thanks for sharing it.
