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tice of his profession. ]\rr. Stuckert is 

 the present borough solicitor of the 

 borough of Newtown, and has already, 

 built up a remunerative business, and 

 established a reputation for careful and 

 painstaking service in behalf of his 

 clients. 



GEORGE W. HARTLEY, Jr.. of 

 Pineville, Buckingham township. Bucks 

 county, was born in New Hope borough. 

 Bucks county. December 28, 1867, and 

 is a son of William H. and Sarah Ellen 

 (Girton) Hartley, and a grandson of 

 Levi and Rachel (Heaton) Hartley. 



The pioneer ancestor of the Hartley 

 family was Edward Hartley of English 

 Quaker stock who settled m Bucking- 

 ham about 1700, and has left numerous 

 descendants in various parts of the 

 union, although few of the name now 

 reside in Bucks county. 



William H. Hartley, the father of the 

 subject of this sketch, was born in 

 Buckingham. July 4. 1836. At the age 

 of sixteen he left the paternal roof and 

 learned the trade of a blacksmith, which 

 he followed in connection with farming 

 until t886, when he retired from active 

 life. He resided in Pineville from 1877 

 until his decease on April 10. 1904. He 

 married Sarah Ellen Girton. daughter 

 of James and Diadama Girton. who was 

 born at Dolington, Bucks county, No- 

 vember 18, 1841, and died at Pineville. 

 January 6, 1900. Their children were as 

 follows: J. Howard: INIary. widow of 

 Piers'on Eddowes of Hartsville: George 

 W.. the subject of this sketch; .Eh of 

 Doylestown: and Dr. William K. Hart- 

 ley of Dovlestown. 



George 'W. Hartley. Jr., acquired his 

 education at the public schools and re- 

 mained on the farm with his father as- 

 sisting in the operations during the 

 summer months, and during the winter 

 months followed various other occupa- 

 tions. After the death of his father he 

 moved to his present residence where he 

 has since lived a retired life. He mar- 

 ried November i. 1894. Margaret Ann 

 Kelley. daughter of Isaac' and Martha 

 E. (Mathews) Kelley. of Solebury.^ and 

 they are the parents of one child. Walter 

 Sickle, born March 28. 1899- In politics 

 Mr. Hartley is a Republican, and is a 

 member of the Methodist Episcopal 

 church. He is a member of Wycombe 

 castle. No. 125, Knights of the Golden 

 Eagle. 



CYRUS T. VANARTSDALEN. of 

 Newtown township. Bucks county, was 

 born in Northampton township. April 

 5. 1823. He is a son of Isaac and Ann 

 (Torbert) Vanartsdalen, the former a 

 descendart through seven generations in 

 an unbrrken line from as many Dutch 



ancestors who emigrated from Holland 

 to New Netherlands in the first half of 

 the seventeenth century, while the lat- 

 ter's ancestry traces back to at least 

 four Ulster Scots who found homes in 

 Bucks county a century later. The pa- 

 ternal ancestor of the Van Artsdalens, 

 who bore their patronymic, was Simon 

 jansen Van Artsdalen, who emigrated 

 from Holland in 1656 ,and settled m 

 Flatlands. Long Island, where he mar- 

 ried Pieterje Claesen Wycoff. who had 

 accompanied her brother to New Neth- 

 erlands in 16,36. Simon Jansen Van 

 Artsdalen was a magistrate of Flatlands. 

 1661-1686. 'and a deacon of the Dutch 

 church there. He died in 1710, leavmg 

 several sons and daughters: among the 

 former was Cornelis Symonse Van 

 Artsdalen, born in Flatlands in 1665, and 

 died there in 1745- He was thrice mar- 

 ried, first to Tlletje Reinerse Wizzel- 

 penning. second, on March 16, 1687, to 

 A.eltje Willemse Couvenhoven, born De- 

 cember 14. 1665. daughter of Willemse 

 Gerretse Covenhoven and Altie Brinck- 

 erhoff. and granddaughter of Gerret 

 Wolfertse Couvenhoven. who had emi- 

 grated from Holland with his father m 

 1630 having been born in Holland in 

 1610 Cornelis Symonse Van Artsdalen 

 married third, Maretje or Mary Dirckse. ^:i^ 

 on May 2. 1691. By the three wives 

 he had ten children: Aeltje, Jacobus, 

 Dirck. Petronella, Alaria, Abraham, 

 Jannetje, Jacobiis, who married Alice, 

 daughter of Jacob Hogeland. of New 

 Jersey. Philip. John, and Simon, born 

 August 16. 1697. Cornelis Symonse 

 Van Artsdalen purchased a farm of 

 his father at Gravesend. May 7. ^700. 

 and is supposed to have lived thereon 

 until 1726 when he sold it to his 

 brother John and removed to Somerset 

 county. New Jersey. / He was active in 

 building the Dutch church there, and 

 was prominent in the affairs of the com- 

 munity. It is possible that he returned 

 to Long Island prior to his death, as his 

 will is registered at the surrogate's 

 office at New York in 1745, though dated 

 at Somerset in 1738. 



Simon Van ARXsnALEN, son of Cornells 

 and Marv (Dirckse) Van Artsdalen. was 

 born at "Flatbush. Long Island. August 

 16. 1697. and married there. October 30. 

 1716 jannetje Romevn, whose father 

 and' his tw^o brothers had emigrated 

 from Holland about 1650. Simon re- 

 moved with his father to Somerset 

 county New Jersey, and prior to 1730 

 removed with his family to the Dutch 

 colony in Southampton township, Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania, where he was 

 one of the early elders of the Dutch 

 church, lived a long and useful life, and 

 reared a family of seven children, hve 

 sons and two daughters. He died m 

 the winter of 1770. and is buried at "The 

 Buck." The children of Simon and 

 Jane (Romeyn) Van Artsdalen were as 



