Biography:

Richard Hartshorne (February 29, 1888-September 19,1975) was the son of William Sidney Hartshorne and Margaret Bentley Hartshorne of New Jersey. He graduated from Princeton in 1909 and from Columbia University Law School in 1912. During World War I he served in the United States Navy as an officer, working at the Office of Naval Operations in Washington, D. C. In 1919 he married Ellen Fritz Sahlin and they settled in East Orange, New Jersey, where Richard worked as a judge in the Essex County Court of Common Pleas. In the 1920s he purchased an island near Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire, which he and the family named "Ellen's Isle." Shortly after he bought a beach house in Island Beach State Park, New Jersey, which was thereafter known as "The Judge's Shack." In 1951 he was appointed to the New Jersey United States District Court by President Truman, an office he held until retiring in 1961. In the 1960s, Ellen and Richard Hartshorne moved to Philadelphia, to a house on American Street renovated by and across the street from their daughter, Penelope Hartshorne Batcheler. Richard died in 1975 after years of deteriorating health due to arthritis and the loss of his sight.