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1877: January 4: Edmund Hartley born in Lewiston Maine to Thomas and Eliza Jane Hartley.

1885: March 4: Mother, Eliza Jane Hartley, dies. Younger sisters sent away to live with older sister. Edmund moves across Androscoggin River to live with elder sister in Auburn, Maine.

1889: Father, Thomas Hartley, marries Martha Marsden and moves to Cleveland, Ohio.

1892: Edmund leaves school to work in Knopf shoe factory in Lewiston.

1893: Edmund moves to Cleveland to join father and stepmother where he takes job as office boy in a quarry.

1896: Takes weekly art lessons with Cleveland landscape painter John Semon.

1898: Summer: Loses job at quarry; studies plein-air painting with Cullen Yates in Cleveland.

Fall: Enrolls in Cleveland School of Art on scholarship. Teacher Nina Waldeck gives him a copy of Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays.

1899: Spring: Awarded five-year annual stipend of $450 from Anne Walworth, trustee of Cleveland School of Art, to study art in New York City.

Fall: Enrolls in New York School of Art (The Chase School); works with Luis Mora and Frank Vincent DuMond.

1900: Summer: Returns to Lewiston for first time in 7 years. Makes field studies of flora and fauna.

Fall: Transfers to National Academy of Design, where he studies for next four years under Francis C. Jones and others.