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Edward Hartley was born in 1847, in Montreal, Quebec.

He showed a great aptitude for the study of the natural and physical sciences and mechanics and studied at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College. He worked on the examination and surveying of mineral lands in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. In 1868, he was appointed an assistant geologist of the Geological Survey of Canada and a mining engineer in 1869. His principal work was done in connection with a survey of the Pictou Coal basin where together with Sir William Logan, they completed and published a geological map of the area. He was also a fellow of the Geological Society of England, France, and Scotland.

He died on November 10, 1870, in Pictou, Nova Scotia.

Haldan Keffer Hartline; b. Bloomsburg, Pa., Dec. 22, 1903; d. Mar. 17, 1983; prof. biophysics, chmn. dept. Johns Hopkins U., Balt., 1949-53; Nobel prize in physiology or medicine, 1967.