Francis Hartley, IV spent his early years in Kittery Point, Maine. He attended Phillips Academy, Andover. Mr. Hartley later graduated from Yale University. Mr. Hartley lived for many years at "The Farm," Kittery Point, Maine. Mr Hartley has travelled around the world extensively. He has lived in Spain. He has lived for a number of years in Quebec, Canada. Mr. Hartley lives with an abiding reverence for the natural world of birds and animals, the sea, the trees, the fields, and the marshlands.