Arrived in Brainerd in 1887.
Sister of Dr. James L. Camp.
Niece of Elizabeth Leeworthy Camp Hazen.
•See Fred S. Parker.
•See Daniel D. Smith.
•See Henry Spalding.
•See Leonore Peabody Spencer.
•See Maude Alice Davis Mowers.
•See Lucinda "Louise" Barrett.
Miss Irma Camp has resigned her position as teacher of the primary department of the Second ward schools, to take effect at the end of the winter term. Miss Camp will in a short time go to Colorado to spend the summer with a brother who resides there. (Brainerd Dispatch, 29 March 1889, p. 4, c. 4)
Married Thomas Hartley on September 10, 1891 in Brainerd, Crow Wing County, Minnesota.
Crow Wing County Superintendent of Schools for many years.
A Wedding.
On Tuesday evening of this week Thomas Hartley, formerly of this city but who now resides in Seattle, Wash., was united in marriage to Miss Irma Camp, at the residence of Dr. J. L. Camp, Rev. Geo. H. Davis of the Episcopal church performing the ceremony. The wedding was a private affair, only the relatives and a few of the more intimate friends of the bride and groom being present. Hosts of friends in this city and elsewhere will join the DISPATCH in extending to the newly married couple hearty congratulations and wishes for long life and prosperity. Mr. and Mrs. Hartley left on the 8 p.m. train Tuesday for Seattle, where they will be at home at No. 2588 Madison St. (Brainerd Dispatch, 11 September 1891, p. 4, c. 5)
LETTER FROM T. J. HARTLEY.
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Interesting Account of a Trip to the
Alaskan Gold Fields.
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Wood Costs Six Cents per Pound, Dough-
nuts Sell for 25 cents Each and
Other Things in Proportion.
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Through the kindness of Mrs. T. J. Hartley we are permitted to publish the following extract from a letter received by her a few days ago from her husband who is on his way to the gold regions of Alaska. The letter is dated at Lake Linderman September 19th and says:
I think I wrote you that I would be over the summit by Sept. 5th and I just made it the night of Sept. 4th and overtook the Madison street party right there. I joined them there and have been one of the crowd since. We are now camped on the banks of Lake Linderman with all our baggage and provisions and I think our boats will be ready to go down the river in about four days. McDonald, the man I intended to go down with and F. H. Knapp, the lawyer, both went the Skagway trail and Jim Gibson tells me cannot get through this year. They are having a dreadful time over there and am told have killed horses by the hundreds all to no purpose. When I got loose from the Willamete I put my goods in a boat and took them up the Dyea river a distance of six miles. I then bought a horse paying $125 for him and packed my stuff to the foot of the summit getting there about September 1st by carrying a load myself and packing my horse with all he could carry. I carried my goods over the summit a distance of a mile and a half on my back and overtook the Madison street boys in camp on Crater lake about a half mile from the summit. Of course I saw them at different times on the trail but they had about two weeks the start of me and I did not catch up to them with all my goods until about Sept. 4. They couldn't understand how I did it since I had as large an outfit as any of them. I have been camping with them for two weeks now and am virtually one of the party.
The hardships of getting over this trail from Dyea to Lake Linderman have not been much overrated though this is by far the best route. One of the worst features of the whole thing is the fact that from Sheep camp, five miles from the summit, to Lake Linderman, eleven miles down the Yukon side there is little or any wood to be had and at the summit and for two miles on each side wood of any kind, even shrubs, do not grow, the whole country being just simply mountains of rock. The last half mile before you reach the summit you rise 2,000 feet so you can imagine how steep it is. Wood at the foot of the summit is worth six cents a pound and one cannot have a fire to dry himself with but is in luck if he can get a cup of something warm once a day. I have seen doughnuts sell for 25 cents a piece and even hard tack biscuit sold all the way from 10 to 20 cents each. Money is no object on this trail. When I packed my goods over the summit I took over 400 pounds in one day. As the rate for carrying over was then 8 cents a pound I earned $32 that day carrying my own goods. I have about 1100 pounds here on Lake Linderman and it would have cost me 40 cents a pound to have it carried here from Dyea so you can imagine what I could have earned packing for some one else. A pair of shoes worth $5 in Seattle are worth from $10 to $15 here and you can't buy a pound of flour here on the lake for less than 40 cents or $20 per sack. A man sold 100 pounds of sugar this morning for $100 and so it goes. Scores of fellows have sold out and gone back all along the trail from Dyea here. I was the first man over the summit who came up on the Willamette except those who hired their goods carried right through by Indians. There are eighteen in this party now and I think we will be able to sail down country by the 24th. The boys are all pretty well but the biggest men have proved the poorest stayers. We expect to go up Stewart river as far as we can before it freezes thinking things will be too full at the Klondyke for us at present. Every report that we get from the Stewart is more encouraging than the last.
There are quite a number of ladies on the trail and the way they dress would no doubt interest you wonderfully. Some wear bloomers and sweaters others wear bicycle suits and some just wear pants like the men. I met three on the trail together one day wearing overalls inside rubber boots. The weather here is not clear and cool but is almost always raining and blowing and the wind blows so hard that it seems to drive the rain right through your clothing and chills your very soul. We are wet through nearly every night and the trail is so muddy that you are saturated with filth to your knees anyway but we are over with that now. News has just come into camp of a glacier sliding down the mountain and killing four or five men and they have recovered two of the bodies. All of our party are far past those dangers now, however, and we can safely say we are over the worst of them so far as getting into the country is concerned. There are probably 1500 people here getting ready to go down the river and boats pulling out ever day. A good boat to hold a ton and a half and three men is worth four to five hundred dollars here on the beach. (Brainerd Dispatch, 22 October 1897, p. 1, c's. 2 & 3)
Elected a Librarian.
The executive committee of the Public Library Association held a meeting on Saturday evening, and elected Mrs. Irma Hartley as librarian. It was also decided to keep the library rooms open at present two evenings and one afternoon each week. The time has not yet been definitely decided, but it will probably be Wednesday evening, and Saturday afternoon and evening.
During the past week the library rooms have been put into shape for use. The shelving has been completed and nicely painted, and the walls of the rooms papered and decorated, and the books purchased are now being unpacked and placed on the shelves ready for use in a few days, probably tomorrow afternoon. (Brainerd Dispatch, 10 November 1899, p. 10, c. 2)
Mr. T. J. Hartley will return to this city on Tuesday from the Klondike, after an absence of about three years. He went from Seattle, and Mrs. Hartley and son came here and have resided here since with her brother, Dr. Camp. (Brainerd Dispatch, 26 December 1900, p. 12, c. 3)
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Hartly went to Minneapolis on Tuesday to visit friends for several days, when Mrs. Hartley will return to this city and Mr. Hartley will again start for the frozen gold domains of Uncle Sam in Alaska. He will go by way of Skagway and down the frozen Yukon to Dawson City, where he will look after his interests in several good gold claims during the summer. (Brainerd Dispatch, 25 January 1901, p. 8, c. 1)
21 March 1914. Mrs. Irma Camp Hartley, county superintendent of schools, was at Crosby yesterday where she attended the dedication exercises at the Crosby High School, taking part in same and delivering an address. (This Was Brainerd, Brainerd Dispatch, 21 March 2014)
04 February 1915. Mrs. Irma Camp Hartley, while driving Wednesday afternoon to attend a school meeting at Bay Lake was thrown from her sleigh when the horses shied. Her arm was broken at the elbow. Dr. Thabes met her at the train from the east and took her to St. Joseph's Hospital where she is resting. This Was Brainerd, Brainerd Dispatch, 04 February 2015)
Complete Arrangements for Hartley Funeral Here
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Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday from the First Congregational church for Mrs. Irma Camp Hartley, former superintendent of county schools, who died this week. The body will be brought to the church shortly before the time of the rites Saturday.
The body of Mrs. Hartley, will be brought to her home, 310 N. 5th street, at 9 a. m Saturday where friends may view the body until shortly before the funeral.
Pallbearers at the rites will include Herb Scott, Edw. Anderson, Levi Johnson, Ernest Jones, Robert Duerr and Judge L. B. Kinder. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch, 28 January 1938, p. 8)
Former Head of County's Schools Dies
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Mrs. Irma Camp Hartley, 69, county superintendent of schools here from 1910 to 1930, died suddenly at her home, 310 North Fifth street, about 3 a. m. today.
Funeral services are scheduled from the First Congregational church, Fifth and Juniper streets, at 2 p. m. Saturday with the Rev. N. P. Olmsted officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen cemetery.
Mrs. Hartley was born June 14, 1868, in Dixon county, Illinois and came to Brainerd when this city was a wilderness village in 1887. After teaching in schools in the city for several years she was married to the late Thomas Hartley in 1892.
Following his death many years ago, she resumed her teaching and was elected county superintendent of schools in 1910. She served in that capacity for 20 years and during that time she became widely known throughout this territory, with friends in every corner of Crow Wing county.
After her retirement in 1930, Mrs. Hartley, though stricken with illness at that time, retained her interest in the many civic and social organizations of the city and county and was active until her last short fatal illness early today.
Ranked as probably the most popular woman in the county, Mrs. Hartley was known to have aided literally scores of rural boys and girls to attain a high school education in Brainerd during and since her tenure of office as the county schools superintendent. She took a deep interest in the city, the entire county and its residents and kept closely abreast with the lives and affairs of her friends throughout this territory.
Mrs. Hartley was a charter member of the Brainerd Drama league, which she helped organize, and was one of the founders of the Brainerd Music club. She was also an active member for many years of the Congregational church and of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Surviving is one nephew, Neil Camp, bank president in Durango, Colo. Her husband and two sons preceded her in death many years ago. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch, 26 January 1938, p. 1, c. 6)
Sister of Dr. James L. Camp.
Niece of Elizabeth Leeworthy Camp Hazen.
•See Fred S. Parker.
•See Daniel D. Smith.
•See Henry Spalding.
•See Leonore Peabody Spencer.
•See Maude Alice Davis Mowers.
•See Lucinda "Louise" Barrett.
Miss Irma Camp has resigned her position as teacher of the primary department of the Second ward schools, to take effect at the end of the winter term. Miss Camp will in a short time go to Colorado to spend the summer with a brother who resides there. (Brainerd Dispatch, 29 March 1889, p. 4, c. 4)
Married Thomas Hartley on September 10, 1891 in Brainerd, Crow Wing County, Minnesota.
Crow Wing County Superintendent of Schools for many years.
A Wedding.
On Tuesday evening of this week Thomas Hartley, formerly of this city but who now resides in Seattle, Wash., was united in marriage to Miss Irma Camp, at the residence of Dr. J. L. Camp, Rev. Geo. H. Davis of the Episcopal church performing the ceremony. The wedding was a private affair, only the relatives and a few of the more intimate friends of the bride and groom being present. Hosts of friends in this city and elsewhere will join the DISPATCH in extending to the newly married couple hearty congratulations and wishes for long life and prosperity. Mr. and Mrs. Hartley left on the 8 p.m. train Tuesday for Seattle, where they will be at home at No. 2588 Madison St. (Brainerd Dispatch, 11 September 1891, p. 4, c. 5)
LETTER FROM T. J. HARTLEY.
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Interesting Account of a Trip to the
Alaskan Gold Fields.
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Wood Costs Six Cents per Pound, Dough-
nuts Sell for 25 cents Each and
Other Things in Proportion.
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Through the kindness of Mrs. T. J. Hartley we are permitted to publish the following extract from a letter received by her a few days ago from her husband who is on his way to the gold regions of Alaska. The letter is dated at Lake Linderman September 19th and says:
I think I wrote you that I would be over the summit by Sept. 5th and I just made it the night of Sept. 4th and overtook the Madison street party right there. I joined them there and have been one of the crowd since. We are now camped on the banks of Lake Linderman with all our baggage and provisions and I think our boats will be ready to go down the river in about four days. McDonald, the man I intended to go down with and F. H. Knapp, the lawyer, both went the Skagway trail and Jim Gibson tells me cannot get through this year. They are having a dreadful time over there and am told have killed horses by the hundreds all to no purpose. When I got loose from the Willamete I put my goods in a boat and took them up the Dyea river a distance of six miles. I then bought a horse paying $125 for him and packed my stuff to the foot of the summit getting there about September 1st by carrying a load myself and packing my horse with all he could carry. I carried my goods over the summit a distance of a mile and a half on my back and overtook the Madison street boys in camp on Crater lake about a half mile from the summit. Of course I saw them at different times on the trail but they had about two weeks the start of me and I did not catch up to them with all my goods until about Sept. 4. They couldn't understand how I did it since I had as large an outfit as any of them. I have been camping with them for two weeks now and am virtually one of the party.
The hardships of getting over this trail from Dyea to Lake Linderman have not been much overrated though this is by far the best route. One of the worst features of the whole thing is the fact that from Sheep camp, five miles from the summit, to Lake Linderman, eleven miles down the Yukon side there is little or any wood to be had and at the summit and for two miles on each side wood of any kind, even shrubs, do not grow, the whole country being just simply mountains of rock. The last half mile before you reach the summit you rise 2,000 feet so you can imagine how steep it is. Wood at the foot of the summit is worth six cents a pound and one cannot have a fire to dry himself with but is in luck if he can get a cup of something warm once a day. I have seen doughnuts sell for 25 cents a piece and even hard tack biscuit sold all the way from 10 to 20 cents each. Money is no object on this trail. When I packed my goods over the summit I took over 400 pounds in one day. As the rate for carrying over was then 8 cents a pound I earned $32 that day carrying my own goods. I have about 1100 pounds here on Lake Linderman and it would have cost me 40 cents a pound to have it carried here from Dyea so you can imagine what I could have earned packing for some one else. A pair of shoes worth $5 in Seattle are worth from $10 to $15 here and you can't buy a pound of flour here on the lake for less than 40 cents or $20 per sack. A man sold 100 pounds of sugar this morning for $100 and so it goes. Scores of fellows have sold out and gone back all along the trail from Dyea here. I was the first man over the summit who came up on the Willamette except those who hired their goods carried right through by Indians. There are eighteen in this party now and I think we will be able to sail down country by the 24th. The boys are all pretty well but the biggest men have proved the poorest stayers. We expect to go up Stewart river as far as we can before it freezes thinking things will be too full at the Klondyke for us at present. Every report that we get from the Stewart is more encouraging than the last.
There are quite a number of ladies on the trail and the way they dress would no doubt interest you wonderfully. Some wear bloomers and sweaters others wear bicycle suits and some just wear pants like the men. I met three on the trail together one day wearing overalls inside rubber boots. The weather here is not clear and cool but is almost always raining and blowing and the wind blows so hard that it seems to drive the rain right through your clothing and chills your very soul. We are wet through nearly every night and the trail is so muddy that you are saturated with filth to your knees anyway but we are over with that now. News has just come into camp of a glacier sliding down the mountain and killing four or five men and they have recovered two of the bodies. All of our party are far past those dangers now, however, and we can safely say we are over the worst of them so far as getting into the country is concerned. There are probably 1500 people here getting ready to go down the river and boats pulling out ever day. A good boat to hold a ton and a half and three men is worth four to five hundred dollars here on the beach. (Brainerd Dispatch, 22 October 1897, p. 1, c's. 2 & 3)
Elected a Librarian.
The executive committee of the Public Library Association held a meeting on Saturday evening, and elected Mrs. Irma Hartley as librarian. It was also decided to keep the library rooms open at present two evenings and one afternoon each week. The time has not yet been definitely decided, but it will probably be Wednesday evening, and Saturday afternoon and evening.
During the past week the library rooms have been put into shape for use. The shelving has been completed and nicely painted, and the walls of the rooms papered and decorated, and the books purchased are now being unpacked and placed on the shelves ready for use in a few days, probably tomorrow afternoon. (Brainerd Dispatch, 10 November 1899, p. 10, c. 2)
Mr. T. J. Hartley will return to this city on Tuesday from the Klondike, after an absence of about three years. He went from Seattle, and Mrs. Hartley and son came here and have resided here since with her brother, Dr. Camp. (Brainerd Dispatch, 26 December 1900, p. 12, c. 3)
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Hartly went to Minneapolis on Tuesday to visit friends for several days, when Mrs. Hartley will return to this city and Mr. Hartley will again start for the frozen gold domains of Uncle Sam in Alaska. He will go by way of Skagway and down the frozen Yukon to Dawson City, where he will look after his interests in several good gold claims during the summer. (Brainerd Dispatch, 25 January 1901, p. 8, c. 1)
21 March 1914. Mrs. Irma Camp Hartley, county superintendent of schools, was at Crosby yesterday where she attended the dedication exercises at the Crosby High School, taking part in same and delivering an address. (This Was Brainerd, Brainerd Dispatch, 21 March 2014)
04 February 1915. Mrs. Irma Camp Hartley, while driving Wednesday afternoon to attend a school meeting at Bay Lake was thrown from her sleigh when the horses shied. Her arm was broken at the elbow. Dr. Thabes met her at the train from the east and took her to St. Joseph's Hospital where she is resting. This Was Brainerd, Brainerd Dispatch, 04 February 2015)
Complete Arrangements for Hartley Funeral Here
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Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday from the First Congregational church for Mrs. Irma Camp Hartley, former superintendent of county schools, who died this week. The body will be brought to the church shortly before the time of the rites Saturday.
The body of Mrs. Hartley, will be brought to her home, 310 N. 5th street, at 9 a. m Saturday where friends may view the body until shortly before the funeral.
Pallbearers at the rites will include Herb Scott, Edw. Anderson, Levi Johnson, Ernest Jones, Robert Duerr and Judge L. B. Kinder. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch, 28 January 1938, p. 8)
Former Head of County's Schools Dies
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Mrs. Irma Camp Hartley, 69, county superintendent of schools here from 1910 to 1930, died suddenly at her home, 310 North Fifth street, about 3 a. m. today.
Funeral services are scheduled from the First Congregational church, Fifth and Juniper streets, at 2 p. m. Saturday with the Rev. N. P. Olmsted officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen cemetery.
Mrs. Hartley was born June 14, 1868, in Dixon county, Illinois and came to Brainerd when this city was a wilderness village in 1887. After teaching in schools in the city for several years she was married to the late Thomas Hartley in 1892.
Following his death many years ago, she resumed her teaching and was elected county superintendent of schools in 1910. She served in that capacity for 20 years and during that time she became widely known throughout this territory, with friends in every corner of Crow Wing county.
After her retirement in 1930, Mrs. Hartley, though stricken with illness at that time, retained her interest in the many civic and social organizations of the city and county and was active until her last short fatal illness early today.
Ranked as probably the most popular woman in the county, Mrs. Hartley was known to have aided literally scores of rural boys and girls to attain a high school education in Brainerd during and since her tenure of office as the county schools superintendent. She took a deep interest in the city, the entire county and its residents and kept closely abreast with the lives and affairs of her friends throughout this territory.
Mrs. Hartley was a charter member of the Brainerd Drama league, which she helped organize, and was one of the founders of the Brainerd Music club. She was also an active member for many years of the Congregational church and of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Surviving is one nephew, Neil Camp, bank president in Durango, Colo. Her husband and two sons preceded her in death many years ago. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch, 26 January 1938, p. 1, c. 6)
Arrived in Brainerd in 1887.
Sister of Dr. James L. Camp.
Niece of Elizabeth Leeworthy Camp Hazen.
•See Fred S. Parker.
•See Daniel D. Smith.
•See Henry Spalding.
•See Leonore Peabody Spencer.
•See Maude Alice Davis Mowers.
•See Lucinda "Louise" Barrett.
Miss Irma Camp has resigned her position as teacher of the primary department of the Second ward schools, to take effect at the end of the winter term. Miss Camp will in a short time go to Colorado to spend the summer with a brother who resides there. (Brainerd Dispatch, 29 March 1889, p. 4, c. 4)
Married Thomas Hartley on September 10, 1891 in Brainerd, Crow Wing County, Minnesota.
Crow Wing County Superintendent of Schools for many years.
A Wedding.
On Tuesday evening of this week Thomas Hartley, formerly of this city but who now resides in Seattle, Wash., was united in marriage to Miss Irma Camp, at the residence of Dr. J. L. Camp, Rev. Geo. H. Davis of the Episcopal church performing the ceremony. The wedding was a private affair, only the relatives and a few of the more intimate friends of the bride and groom being present. Hosts of friends in this city and elsewhere will join the DISPATCH in extending to the newly married couple hearty congratulations and wishes for long life and prosperity. Mr. and Mrs. Hartley left on the 8 p.m. train Tuesday for Seattle, where they will be at home at No. 2588 Madison St. (Brainerd Dispatch, 11 September 1891, p. 4, c. 5)
LETTER FROM T. J. HARTLEY.
_____
Interesting Account of a Trip to the
Alaskan Gold Fields.
_____
Wood Costs Six Cents per Pound, Dough-
nuts Sell for 25 cents Each and
Other Things in Proportion.
_____
Through the kindness of Mrs. T. J. Hartley we are permitted to publish the following extract from a letter received by her a few days ago from her husband who is on his way to the gold regions of Alaska. The letter is dated at Lake Linderman September 19th and says:
I think I wrote you that I would be over the summit by Sept. 5th and I just made it the night of Sept. 4th and overtook the Madison street party right there. I joined them there and have been one of the crowd since. We are now camped on the banks of Lake Linderman with all our baggage and provisions and I think our boats will be ready to go down the river in about four days. McDonald, the man I intended to go down with and F. H. Knapp, the lawyer, both went the Skagway trail and Jim Gibson tells me cannot get through this year. They are having a dreadful time over there and am told have killed horses by the hundreds all to no purpose. When I got loose from the Willamete I put my goods in a boat and took them up the Dyea river a distance of six miles. I then bought a horse paying $125 for him and packed my stuff to the foot of the summit getting there about September 1st by carrying a load myself and packing my horse with all he could carry. I carried my goods over the summit a distance of a mile and a half on my back and overtook the Madison street boys in camp on Crater lake about a half mile from the summit. Of course I saw them at different times on the trail but they had about two weeks the start of me and I did not catch up to them with all my goods until about Sept. 4. They couldn't understand how I did it since I had as large an outfit as any of them. I have been camping with them for two weeks now and am virtually one of the party.
The hardships of getting over this trail from Dyea to Lake Linderman have not been much overrated though this is by far the best route. One of the worst features of the whole thing is the fact that from Sheep camp, five miles from the summit, to Lake Linderman, eleven miles down the Yukon side there is little or any wood to be had and at the summit and for two miles on each side wood of any kind, even shrubs, do not grow, the whole country being just simply mountains of rock. The last half mile before you reach the summit you rise 2,000 feet so you can imagine how steep it is. Wood at the foot of the summit is worth six cents a pound and one cannot have a fire to dry himself with but is in luck if he can get a cup of something warm once a day. I have seen doughnuts sell for 25 cents a piece and even hard tack biscuit sold all the way from 10 to 20 cents each. Money is no object on this trail. When I packed my goods over the summit I took over 400 pounds in one day. As the rate for carrying over was then 8 cents a pound I earned $32 that day carrying my own goods. I have about 1100 pounds here on Lake Linderman and it would have cost me 40 cents a pound to have it carried here from Dyea so you can imagine what I could have earned packing for some one else. A pair of shoes worth $5 in Seattle are worth from $10 to $15 here and you can't buy a pound of flour here on the lake for less than 40 cents or $20 per sack. A man sold 100 pounds of sugar this morning for $100 and so it goes. Scores of fellows have sold out and gone back all along the trail from Dyea here. I was the first man over the summit who came up on the Willamette except those who hired their goods carried right through by Indians. There are eighteen in this party now and I think we will be able to sail down country by the 24th. The boys are all pretty well but the biggest men have proved the poorest stayers. We expect to go up Stewart river as far as we can before it freezes thinking things will be too full at the Klondyke for us at present. Every report that we get from the Stewart is more encouraging than the last.
There are quite a number of ladies on the trail and the way they dress would no doubt interest you wonderfully. Some wear bloomers and sweaters others wear bicycle suits and some just wear pants like the men. I met three on the trail together one day wearing overalls inside rubber boots. The weather here is not clear and cool but is almost always raining and blowing and the wind blows so hard that it seems to drive the rain right through your clothing and chills your very soul. We are wet through nearly every night and the trail is so muddy that you are saturated with filth to your knees anyway but we are over with that now. News has just come into camp of a glacier sliding down the mountain and killing four or five men and they have recovered two of the bodies. All of our party are far past those dangers now, however, and we can safely say we are over the worst of them so far as getting into the country is concerned. There are probably 1500 people here getting ready to go down the river and boats pulling out ever day. A good boat to hold a ton and a half and three men is worth four to five hundred dollars here on the beach. (Brainerd Dispatch, 22 October 1897, p. 1, c's. 2 & 3)
Elected a Librarian.
The executive committee of the Public Library Association held a meeting on Saturday evening, and elected Mrs. Irma Hartley as librarian. It was also decided to keep the library rooms open at present two evenings and one afternoon each week. The time has not yet been definitely decided, but it will probably be Wednesday evening, and Saturday afternoon and evening.
During the past week the library rooms have been put into shape for use. The shelving has been completed and nicely painted, and the walls of the rooms papered and decorated, and the books purchased are now being unpacked and placed on the shelves ready for use in a few days, probably tomorrow afternoon. (Brainerd Dispatch, 10 November 1899, p. 10, c. 2)
Mr. T. J. Hartley will return to this city on Tuesday from the Klondike, after an absence of about three years. He went from Seattle, and Mrs. Hartley and son came here and have resided here since with her brother, Dr. Camp. (Brainerd Dispatch, 26 December 1900, p. 12, c. 3)
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Hartly went to Minneapolis on Tuesday to visit friends for several days, when Mrs. Hartley will return to this city and Mr. Hartley will again start for the frozen gold domains of Uncle Sam in Alaska. He will go by way of Skagway and down the frozen Yukon to Dawson City, where he will look after his interests in several good gold claims during the summer. (Brainerd Dispatch, 25 January 1901, p. 8, c. 1)
21 March 1914. Mrs. Irma Camp Hartley, county superintendent of schools, was at Crosby yesterday where she attended the dedication exercises at the Crosby High School, taking part in same and delivering an address. (This Was Brainerd, Brainerd Dispatch, 21 March 2014)
04 February 1915. Mrs. Irma Camp Hartley, while driving Wednesday afternoon to attend a school meeting at Bay Lake was thrown from her sleigh when the horses shied. Her arm was broken at the elbow. Dr. Thabes met her at the train from the east and took her to St. Joseph's Hospital where she is resting. This Was Brainerd, Brainerd Dispatch, 04 February 2015)
Complete Arrangements for Hartley Funeral Here
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Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday from the First Congregational church for Mrs. Irma Camp Hartley, former superintendent of county schools, who died this week. The body will be brought to the church shortly before the time of the rites Saturday.
The body of Mrs. Hartley, will be brought to her home, 310 N. 5th street, at 9 a. m Saturday where friends may view the body until shortly before the funeral.
Pallbearers at the rites will include Herb Scott, Edw. Anderson, Levi Johnson, Ernest Jones, Robert Duerr and Judge L. B. Kinder. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch, 28 January 1938, p. 8)
Former Head of County's Schools Dies
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Mrs. Irma Camp Hartley, 69, county superintendent of schools here from 1910 to 1930, died suddenly at her home, 310 North Fifth street, about 3 a. m. today.
Funeral services are scheduled from the First Congregational church, Fifth and Juniper streets, at 2 p. m. Saturday with the Rev. N. P. Olmsted officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen cemetery.
Mrs. Hartley was born June 14, 1868, in Dixon county, Illinois and came to Brainerd when this city was a wilderness village in 1887. After teaching in schools in the city for several years she was married to the late Thomas Hartley in 1892.
Following his death many years ago, she resumed her teaching and was elected county superintendent of schools in 1910. She served in that capacity for 20 years and during that time she became widely known throughout this territory, with friends in every corner of Crow Wing county.
After her retirement in 1930, Mrs. Hartley, though stricken with illness at that time, retained her interest in the many civic and social organizations of the city and county and was active until her last short fatal illness early today.
Ranked as probably the most popular woman in the county, Mrs. Hartley was known to have aided literally scores of rural boys and girls to attain a high school education in Brainerd during and since her tenure of office as the county schools superintendent. She took a deep interest in the city, the entire county and its residents and kept closely abreast with the lives and affairs of her friends throughout this territory.
Mrs. Hartley was a charter member of the Brainerd Drama league, which she helped organize, and was one of the founders of the Brainerd Music club. She was also an active member for many years of the Congregational church and of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Surviving is one nephew, Neil Camp, bank president in Durango, Colo. Her husband and two sons preceded her in death many years ago. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch, 26 January 1938, p. 1, c. 6)
Sister of Dr. James L. Camp.
Niece of Elizabeth Leeworthy Camp Hazen.
•See Fred S. Parker.
•See Daniel D. Smith.
•See Henry Spalding.
•See Leonore Peabody Spencer.
•See Maude Alice Davis Mowers.
•See Lucinda "Louise" Barrett.
Miss Irma Camp has resigned her position as teacher of the primary department of the Second ward schools, to take effect at the end of the winter term. Miss Camp will in a short time go to Colorado to spend the summer with a brother who resides there. (Brainerd Dispatch, 29 March 1889, p. 4, c. 4)
Married Thomas Hartley on September 10, 1891 in Brainerd, Crow Wing County, Minnesota.
Crow Wing County Superintendent of Schools for many years.
A Wedding.
On Tuesday evening of this week Thomas Hartley, formerly of this city but who now resides in Seattle, Wash., was united in marriage to Miss Irma Camp, at the residence of Dr. J. L. Camp, Rev. Geo. H. Davis of the Episcopal church performing the ceremony. The wedding was a private affair, only the relatives and a few of the more intimate friends of the bride and groom being present. Hosts of friends in this city and elsewhere will join the DISPATCH in extending to the newly married couple hearty congratulations and wishes for long life and prosperity. Mr. and Mrs. Hartley left on the 8 p.m. train Tuesday for Seattle, where they will be at home at No. 2588 Madison St. (Brainerd Dispatch, 11 September 1891, p. 4, c. 5)
LETTER FROM T. J. HARTLEY.
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Interesting Account of a Trip to the
Alaskan Gold Fields.
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Wood Costs Six Cents per Pound, Dough-
nuts Sell for 25 cents Each and
Other Things in Proportion.
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Through the kindness of Mrs. T. J. Hartley we are permitted to publish the following extract from a letter received by her a few days ago from her husband who is on his way to the gold regions of Alaska. The letter is dated at Lake Linderman September 19th and says:
I think I wrote you that I would be over the summit by Sept. 5th and I just made it the night of Sept. 4th and overtook the Madison street party right there. I joined them there and have been one of the crowd since. We are now camped on the banks of Lake Linderman with all our baggage and provisions and I think our boats will be ready to go down the river in about four days. McDonald, the man I intended to go down with and F. H. Knapp, the lawyer, both went the Skagway trail and Jim Gibson tells me cannot get through this year. They are having a dreadful time over there and am told have killed horses by the hundreds all to no purpose. When I got loose from the Willamete I put my goods in a boat and took them up the Dyea river a distance of six miles. I then bought a horse paying $125 for him and packed my stuff to the foot of the summit getting there about September 1st by carrying a load myself and packing my horse with all he could carry. I carried my goods over the summit a distance of a mile and a half on my back and overtook the Madison street boys in camp on Crater lake about a half mile from the summit. Of course I saw them at different times on the trail but they had about two weeks the start of me and I did not catch up to them with all my goods until about Sept. 4. They couldn't understand how I did it since I had as large an outfit as any of them. I have been camping with them for two weeks now and am virtually one of the party.
The hardships of getting over this trail from Dyea to Lake Linderman have not been much overrated though this is by far the best route. One of the worst features of the whole thing is the fact that from Sheep camp, five miles from the summit, to Lake Linderman, eleven miles down the Yukon side there is little or any wood to be had and at the summit and for two miles on each side wood of any kind, even shrubs, do not grow, the whole country being just simply mountains of rock. The last half mile before you reach the summit you rise 2,000 feet so you can imagine how steep it is. Wood at the foot of the summit is worth six cents a pound and one cannot have a fire to dry himself with but is in luck if he can get a cup of something warm once a day. I have seen doughnuts sell for 25 cents a piece and even hard tack biscuit sold all the way from 10 to 20 cents each. Money is no object on this trail. When I packed my goods over the summit I took over 400 pounds in one day. As the rate for carrying over was then 8 cents a pound I earned $32 that day carrying my own goods. I have about 1100 pounds here on Lake Linderman and it would have cost me 40 cents a pound to have it carried here from Dyea so you can imagine what I could have earned packing for some one else. A pair of shoes worth $5 in Seattle are worth from $10 to $15 here and you can't buy a pound of flour here on the lake for less than 40 cents or $20 per sack. A man sold 100 pounds of sugar this morning for $100 and so it goes. Scores of fellows have sold out and gone back all along the trail from Dyea here. I was the first man over the summit who came up on the Willamette except those who hired their goods carried right through by Indians. There are eighteen in this party now and I think we will be able to sail down country by the 24th. The boys are all pretty well but the biggest men have proved the poorest stayers. We expect to go up Stewart river as far as we can before it freezes thinking things will be too full at the Klondyke for us at present. Every report that we get from the Stewart is more encouraging than the last.
There are quite a number of ladies on the trail and the way they dress would no doubt interest you wonderfully. Some wear bloomers and sweaters others wear bicycle suits and some just wear pants like the men. I met three on the trail together one day wearing overalls inside rubber boots. The weather here is not clear and cool but is almost always raining and blowing and the wind blows so hard that it seems to drive the rain right through your clothing and chills your very soul. We are wet through nearly every night and the trail is so muddy that you are saturated with filth to your knees anyway but we are over with that now. News has just come into camp of a glacier sliding down the mountain and killing four or five men and they have recovered two of the bodies. All of our party are far past those dangers now, however, and we can safely say we are over the worst of them so far as getting into the country is concerned. There are probably 1500 people here getting ready to go down the river and boats pulling out ever day. A good boat to hold a ton and a half and three men is worth four to five hundred dollars here on the beach. (Brainerd Dispatch, 22 October 1897, p. 1, c's. 2 & 3)
Elected a Librarian.
The executive committee of the Public Library Association held a meeting on Saturday evening, and elected Mrs. Irma Hartley as librarian. It was also decided to keep the library rooms open at present two evenings and one afternoon each week. The time has not yet been definitely decided, but it will probably be Wednesday evening, and Saturday afternoon and evening.
During the past week the library rooms have been put into shape for use. The shelving has been completed and nicely painted, and the walls of the rooms papered and decorated, and the books purchased are now being unpacked and placed on the shelves ready for use in a few days, probably tomorrow afternoon. (Brainerd Dispatch, 10 November 1899, p. 10, c. 2)
Mr. T. J. Hartley will return to this city on Tuesday from the Klondike, after an absence of about three years. He went from Seattle, and Mrs. Hartley and son came here and have resided here since with her brother, Dr. Camp. (Brainerd Dispatch, 26 December 1900, p. 12, c. 3)
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Hartly went to Minneapolis on Tuesday to visit friends for several days, when Mrs. Hartley will return to this city and Mr. Hartley will again start for the frozen gold domains of Uncle Sam in Alaska. He will go by way of Skagway and down the frozen Yukon to Dawson City, where he will look after his interests in several good gold claims during the summer. (Brainerd Dispatch, 25 January 1901, p. 8, c. 1)
21 March 1914. Mrs. Irma Camp Hartley, county superintendent of schools, was at Crosby yesterday where she attended the dedication exercises at the Crosby High School, taking part in same and delivering an address. (This Was Brainerd, Brainerd Dispatch, 21 March 2014)
04 February 1915. Mrs. Irma Camp Hartley, while driving Wednesday afternoon to attend a school meeting at Bay Lake was thrown from her sleigh when the horses shied. Her arm was broken at the elbow. Dr. Thabes met her at the train from the east and took her to St. Joseph's Hospital where she is resting. This Was Brainerd, Brainerd Dispatch, 04 February 2015)
Complete Arrangements for Hartley Funeral Here
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Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday from the First Congregational church for Mrs. Irma Camp Hartley, former superintendent of county schools, who died this week. The body will be brought to the church shortly before the time of the rites Saturday.
The body of Mrs. Hartley, will be brought to her home, 310 N. 5th street, at 9 a. m Saturday where friends may view the body until shortly before the funeral.
Pallbearers at the rites will include Herb Scott, Edw. Anderson, Levi Johnson, Ernest Jones, Robert Duerr and Judge L. B. Kinder. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch, 28 January 1938, p. 8)
Former Head of County's Schools Dies
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Mrs. Irma Camp Hartley, 69, county superintendent of schools here from 1910 to 1930, died suddenly at her home, 310 North Fifth street, about 3 a. m. today.
Funeral services are scheduled from the First Congregational church, Fifth and Juniper streets, at 2 p. m. Saturday with the Rev. N. P. Olmsted officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen cemetery.
Mrs. Hartley was born June 14, 1868, in Dixon county, Illinois and came to Brainerd when this city was a wilderness village in 1887. After teaching in schools in the city for several years she was married to the late Thomas Hartley in 1892.
Following his death many years ago, she resumed her teaching and was elected county superintendent of schools in 1910. She served in that capacity for 20 years and during that time she became widely known throughout this territory, with friends in every corner of Crow Wing county.
After her retirement in 1930, Mrs. Hartley, though stricken with illness at that time, retained her interest in the many civic and social organizations of the city and county and was active until her last short fatal illness early today.
Ranked as probably the most popular woman in the county, Mrs. Hartley was known to have aided literally scores of rural boys and girls to attain a high school education in Brainerd during and since her tenure of office as the county schools superintendent. She took a deep interest in the city, the entire county and its residents and kept closely abreast with the lives and affairs of her friends throughout this territory.
Mrs. Hartley was a charter member of the Brainerd Drama league, which she helped organize, and was one of the founders of the Brainerd Music club. She was also an active member for many years of the Congregational church and of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Surviving is one nephew, Neil Camp, bank president in Durango, Colo. Her husband and two sons preceded her in death many years ago. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch, 26 January 1938, p. 1, c. 6)
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