Biographies from Historical and Biographical Annals by Morton Montgomery

HART, G.
HOWARD

p. 1698

Surnames: HART, DURRELL, MOORE, MOULD, TROUT, WEIDNER, YOUNG

G. Howard Hart, traveling freight agent of the Chicago & Alton
Railroad Company, who resides at No. 341 North Second street,
Reading, and maintains an office at No. 290 Broadway, New York, was
born in the city of Reading, Aug. 19, 1870, son of George and
Maggie (Weidner) Hart.

The Hart family originally lived in Scotland.
Early in 1790, three brothers of Scotch-Irish ancestry, George,
Henry and Barney Hart, emigrated to America and located in
Cumberland county, Pa. They were iron molders by trade. In those
days pig iron was all made at the old charcoal furnaces. From
Cumberland county the brothers came to Reading where they remained
only a short time and then went to Oley Furnace, in Berks county.
Of these George Hart , great-grandfather of G. Howard, married
Polly Young, of Lancaster county, Pa. To this marriage were born
three sons, John, William and Samuel.

Samuel Hart, grandfather of G. Howard, was the
youngest. He was born at Oley Furnace in 1815, and in 1837 he
married, in Reading, Lovina Moore, of Robeson township, Berks
county, daughter of George and Susanna Moore, early settlers of the
county. Eight children – four sons and four daughters – were born
to them: George, Daniel D., William, Samuel, Mary, Susan, Sophia
and Agnes. Samuel Hart, the father, was a forgeman, having learned
this trade at Gibraltar, Berks county, working there and elsewhere
in the State for many years. Of the children Daniel D. and Samuel
have been employed for a quarter of a century as forgemen at
Parkesburg, Chester county, and both George and Daniel served in
the Civil war, the latter as a member of Battery D, Capt. George
Durrell’s Independent Artillery.

George Hart, son of Samuel, learned the business
of forgeman. As stated above he served in the Civil war. He married
Maggie Weidner, and they had three sons, G. Howard, Norman and
Grant, all of Reading.

G. Howard Hart received his education in the
common schools of Reading, also taking a course at Prof. Steward’s
Business Academy. After completing his literary training he clerked
in J. Mould’s department store for a short time, and on March 17,
1884, accepted a position with the Philadelphia & Reading
Railway Company as messenger boy. He remained with that company
until April 1, 1895, having been promoted from messenger boy to
chief clerk, and later engaged with the Lehigh Valley Railroad,
continuing with that road until Sept.1, 1899, being contracting
freight agent, with headquarters in the city of Reading. On the
date last named Mr. Hart resigned to accept a position with the
Chicago & Alton Railroad, with which he has been connected to
the present time. Mr. Hart is a member of Mt. Penn Council, Royal
Arcanum; Reading Lodge, B. P. O. E., No. 115, in which he was
elected E. R. in 1908; the New York Freight and Passenger
Association; the Inter-state Railroad and Steamship Association and
the Traveling Freight Agents’ Association. He is independent in
politics, and is a member of the Reformed Church.

Mr. Hart married Minerva Trout, of Reading, and
to them were born two sons: George and Charles L., the latter of
whom is deceased.

HART, HARRY
E.

p. 1473

Surnames: HART, LEIGHTON, PENNYPACKER

Harry E. Hart, proprietor of the Birdsboro Job Printery, was born
in Union township, Berks county, in 1869, son of William and Annie
(Leighton) Hart. He was educated in the schools of Birdsboro, where
he established a high reputation for studious habits and good
conduct. At the age of seventeen he entered the printing
establishment of Rapp & Ryan, where he served an apprenticeship
for five years, thoroughly mastering every detail connected with
the printer’s trade – in fact thoroughness is one of his chief
characteristics, and whatever he attempts one may be assured will
be done well.

In 1891 Mr. Hart started out in business for
himself , as editor of the Birdsboro Review, and this he continued
until 1906, since which time he has devoted his attention
exclusively to his job printing business. He is agent for several
Philadelphia papers, and besides his four carriers he keeps three
men constantly employed. His establishment is well stocked with a
full line of books and stationary, and it caters to the best trade.

Mr. Hart was raised a Mason in Union Lodge, F.
& A. M., of Birdsboro; and also belongs to Reading Lodge of
Perfection; Washington Camp No. 417, P. O. S. of A. In politics he
is a staunch Republican, and has been very active in the interests
of his party, for ten years giving efficient service as a
committeeman. For a short time he served as justice of the peace,
and then in 1903 was appointed by Governor Samuel Pennypacker as
notary public, his term expiring in 1909. Mr. Hart is a young man
of much ability, and he has stood every test that he has faced. In
his religious beliefs he is an Episcopalian, and he is now serving
as a vestryman in St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, also taking a
keen interest in the work of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew.

HARTGEN, EDWARD A.

p. 1152

Surnames: HARTGEN, FRITZ, KEMP, RAFTER

Edward A. Hartgen, proprietor of the “Eagles’ Inn,” located at the
northwest corner of Tenth and Washington streets, Reading, was born
Oct. 1, 1877, at Norristown, Montgomery Co., Pa., and came to
Reading with his parents in his infancy. He attended St. Paul’s
parochial school and later learned the trade of confectioner, which
he followed for a period of twelve years. He then, in 1902, entered
the hotel business, and has since been successfully engaged in that
line, conducting the “Eagles’ Inn” in a perfectly up-to-date
manner.

Mr. Hartgen has numerous social connections,
belonging to Aerie No. 66, Fraternal Order of Eagles; to B. I. L.
of A., No. 155, of which he was one of the organizers and charter
members; to Columbus Commandery No. 271, Knights of St. John; to
the Knights of St. George; to the Catholic Literary and Social
Union, and to the Bavarian Beneficial Association. He also holds
membership in the German Alliance of America. He is a member of St.
Paul’s Roman Catholic Church, and in politics he is actively
identified with the Democratic party; and is a member of the
Northeastern Democratic League.

On June 2, 1887, Mr. Hartgen was married to Miss
Annie C. Kemp, daughter of John and Margaret (Rafter) Kemp, and
they have a family of three children: William E., F. Anthony and
Charles A.

Jacob Hartgen, father of Edward A., was born in
1843, in the Province of Nassau, Kingdom of Prussia. In his youth
he learned the trade of baker, but gave it up to enlist for the
Austro- Prussian war, which lasted four months, being concluded
in1866. After the war he went to Antwerp, Germany, where he worked
at his trade for nine months. The next four months he spent at sea
as cook and baker, after which he came to America. He went to
Mineral Point, Wis., where he met his future wife, and from there
to Galena, Ill., where he met President Grant just after his
nomination. He was married a year late to Mary Fritz, and the young
couple went to Grand Rapids, Mich., where Mr. Hartgen worked in
Sears & Co.’s cracker factory. The oldest son, J. Fred was born
here. Their next location was Bellevue, Iowa, where the second son,
Joseph was born. On coming to Pennsylvania, Mr. Hartgen first
located in Mahanoy City, but stayed there only one week, when he
went to Philadelphia. For about three years in the seventies he was
located in Norristown. After the birth of his son Edward A., he
located in Reading, where he has remained.

HARTLINE
FAMILY

p. 1306 Surname:
HARTLINE, HARTLEIN, DRESSLER, BOCHM (BOEHM), DILLEPLANE (DE LA
PLAINE), CLOUSER, BOYER, HOFFMAN, AUCHE, SMITH, BRANDT, FOCHT,
AHRENPRIESTER, KUSER, OHLINGER, WANN, HOLLOWAY, PRICE, EISENHOUR,
SEYLER, HESS, SHOLLENBERGER, HARTMAN, YODER, DRUMHELLER, WEIDNER,
CORRELL, DEYSHER, STRUNK, ANTHONY, LIVINGOOD, KNABB, NOLL, DEYSHER,
HEFFNER, BOWERS, DILIPLAINE

The Hartline family long prominent in Berks county Pa., is
represented by George C. Hartline, justice of the peace of Mt. Penn
borough and a foremost citizen of that vicinity; Warren D.
Hartline, a trusted employee of the Philadelphia & Reading
railroad, with his residence in Mt. Penn borough; and Dr. Charles
H. Hartline, a prominent physician and surgeon in Oley township.
The family is of German origin, but has been a part of the
substantial German element of Pennsylvania citizenship since the
first half of the eighteenth century.

(I) John Jacob Hartlein was born Sept. 8, 1699, in Saxony, Germany,
son of Nicholas and Dorothea Hartlein, as indicated by the Hill
Church records. On Sept. 28, 1726, he married Julia, daughter of
John Christian and Appolonia Dressler, born July 4, 1694. They came
to America in 1732, and settled in Earl township, Berks county, Pa.
They became the parents of six children, as follows: John Jacob and
Jacob both died young; Margaret, born in 1729, married John _____;
George, born 1732; Anna Dorothea, born 1734, died 1736; and
Nicholas, born 1736, died 1741.

(II) George Hartlein, son of John Jacob, was born in Saxony,
Germany, in 1732, shortly before the emigration of his parents to
the New World, In 1750 he was a taxable in District township, this
county, as was also George, Jr. In 1755 he married Maria Catharine
Bochm (Boehm), who was born in 1730, daughter of Conrad Bochm a
native of Fehrfield, Wurtenberg, Germany (born about 1705), who
came to America in 1732. To George Hartline and wife were born the
following children: Jost (Yost), born Jan. 8, 1767, died Dec. 21,
1852, aged eighty-five years, eleven months, thirteen days, and is
buried at Oley Church; by his side is buried Sarah Hartlein, born
Oct. 18, 1780, died Sept. 24, 1873, aged ninety-two years, eleven
months, six days (It is not known whether she was his wife or his
sister). George, Jr., was born Jan. 11, 1781. There were perhaps
other children but the names of these two alone are of certain
record.

(III) George Hartlein, Jr., son of George, was born in Earl
township Jan. 11, 1781, and he died Feb. 19, 1865, aged eighty-four
years, one month and eight days. He married Maria Dilleplane
(properly spelled De la Plaine), daughter of Frederick Dilleplane,
of French extraction and of an early settled family of Oley
township. She was born April 29, 1784, and died Aug. 10, 1853, aged
sixty-nine years, three months, and eleven days. Both she and her
husband are buried at the Oley Churches. Their children were:
Daniel; Solomon; Mary m. Elijah Clouser, of Oley township; Harriet
m. Enoch Boyer; Josiah m. Anna Hoffman (1828-1899); Joel m. Mary
Auche; Susanna m. Isaac Smith; Elizabeth m. Michael Brandt; Joshua
D. m. Elizabeth Clouser; and Ezra, a weaver by trade and a veteran
of the Civil war, m. Catherine Focht, and resides in Earl township.

The name George was a very common family name,
and at the present time (1908) there are four George Hartlines
living within a radius of seven miles in Berks county.

(IV) Josiah Hartline, son of George, Jr., was born in Earl
township, Oct. 11, 1814, and his death, the result of an attack of
pneumonia, occurred in Oley township March 21, 1877, when he was
aged sixty-two years, five months and ten days. In his youth he
learned the trade of shoemaker and cobbler from John Ahrenpriester,
of Earl township, and this he followed all of his active life. He
owned a small home in Oley township, where he died. He was a member
of the Oley Lutheran church, and is buried in the Hartline plot in
the cemetery adjoining. He married Anna Hoffman, born Feb. 15,
1828, daughter of John Hoffman. She died Sept. 10, 1899, aged
seventy-one years, six months and twenty-five days.

Their children were: Deborah, widow of Cornelius
Kuser; Morris H., living at the old home in Oley; Hannah, who died
young; Franklin, lineman for the American Telegraph and Telephone
Co.; Harriet, who died young; Dr. Charles H.; Ellen, who married
Charles Ohlinger, of Reading; and Enoch, a school teacher of Oley
township.

(VI) Dr. Charles H. Hartline, son of Josiah and Anna, was born in
Oley township March 22, 1859. His early education was obtained in
the public schools of his district, and in the Oley Academy, which
was established in 1857. He later attended the Amityville Seminary
under Profs. D. M. B. Wann and Irwin Holloway, afterward taking a
course in Pierce’s Business College at Philadelphia, graduating in
1885. His medical studies were pursued at Jefferson Medical
College, Philadelphia, from which he was graduated in 1891. He
immediately located for practice at Friedensburg, in Oley township,
where he has since remained, having won a high place in the esteem
and affection of the people by his ability, conscientious care and
high principals. His practice covers a radius of ten miles, and
throughout all this territory he is well known. His country
practice is so large that he is obliged to keep three horses. Since
1896 he has been a member of the Berks county Medical Society, and
he also belongs to the American Medical Association. His fraternal
relations are with Mt. Penn Lodge No. 518, I. O. O. .; Mt. Penn
Encampment, No. 152; Oley Castle, No. 119, K. G. E.; Minnehaha
Lodge No. 154, K. .; Reading Aerie o. 66, F. O. E. The Doctor and
his family all belong to the Friedensburg Lutheran Church.

On May 11, 1906, Dr. Hartline was graduated from
Allemannia Gesang Verein von Philadelphia. He is a fine musician
and is much interested in vocal culture in his district. Dr.
Hartline has been twice married. On Jan. 19, 1895, he married
Sallie E. Price, daughter of Adam and Mary (Eisenhour) Price, of
Fleetwood. She died April 15, 1898, aged twenty-three years, seven
months and five days. To this union were born two daughters: Esther
P. and Sallie P. He married (second) Nora H. Seyler, daughter of
John and Susan (Hess) Seyler, on June 29, 1901. No children have
been born of this union.

(IV) Joel Hartline, son of George, Jr., was born Nov. 18, 1818. He
made his home in Earl township and died Feb. 12, 1909, aged ninety
years, two months, twenty-seven days, and is buried in Oley
Churches Cemetery. He earned a good reputation for industry,
engaging all his active life at day’s labor. During his last years
he made his home with his son George A., in Exeter township. He
married Mary Auche, who died July 9, 1892, aged seventy-three
years. They became the parents of five children, namely: One died
in infancy; James, a carpenter in Earl township, m. (first) Hettie
Shollenberger, deceased, and (second) Kate Hartman, widow of Amos
Hartman; George A.; Ammon, a laborer at Shanesville, m. Sally
Hartman; and Sarah m. Peter Yoder, of Fleetwood.

(V) George A. Hartline, son of Joel, was born May 16, 1842, in Oley
township, and when a young man learned the shoemaker’s trade, which
was his occupation until 1900. He then tenanted for six years, and
in 1907 he purchased a tract of twenty-two acres in Exeter
township, which he is now cultivating very successfully. He is a
hardworking, industrious man,and is esteemed by all who know him.
In political matters he is Democrat, and in religious belief he and
his family are Lutherans, belonging to Christ Lutheran Church,
Spangsville. He married Deborah Drumheller, daughter of Charles and
Abigail Drumheller, and to them were born eight children: Clara m.
Harry Weidner, a shoemaker of Reading; Robert D., a truck farmer at
Black Bear, Exeter township, m. Alice Shollenberger; Harry D., a
shoe maker and toll-house keeper at Oley Line (Limekiln P. O.), m.
Bertha Correll; Warren D.; George, a professional egg packer at
Philadelphia, m. Sallie Deysher; and Mary, Oscar and Odelia are
unmarried and at home.

(VI) Warren D, Hartline, son of George A., and now a reliable
citizen of Mt. Penn borough, was born in Oley township Jan. 24,
1872. He attended the public schools of his native township until
he was about nineteen years of age, after which he learned the
machinist’s trade with Orr & Sembower, at Millmont, in whose
employ he remained for a period of twelve years. He then accepted a
position with the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company, where
he has continued to the present time, discharging the duties of his
position with ability and care. In the spring of 1904 Mr. Hartline
erected a comfortable residence on Twenty-third street, Mt. Penn,
where he has since made his home. He is a Democrat in political
principle, but is independent of party lines. He is a member of
Camp No. 560, P. O. S. of A., and of Tent No. 426, K. O. T. M. He
and his family attend Zion’s U. B. Church at Reading.

On Sept. 26, 1898, Mr. Hartline was married to
Cora Strunk, born April 18, 1877, daughter of Daniel and Rebecca
(Anthony) Strunk, truck farmers of Exeter township. To Mr. and Mrs.
Hartline have been born four children: Elsie, March 27, 1900; Mary,
Jan. 24, 1903; Paul, March 27, 1905; and Sarah, Feb. 19, 1907.

(IV) Joshua D. Hartline, son of George, Jr., was born in Earl
township May 6, 1826. He learned the trade of shoemaker in his
youth, and followed that occupation all his life in Oley and Exeter
townships, the latter of which was his home the major portion of
his life. He died there Feb. 2, 1890, in his sixty-fourth year, and
was buried in Oley Church cemetery. On Oct. 12, 1852, Mr. Hartline
married Elizabeth L. Clouser, born May 15, 1826, died Jan. 12,
1907, daughter of Abraham and Catharine (Livingood) Clouser. To
this union were born: Miranda m. Daniel Knabb, a farmer of Oley;
Mary Catharine, born July 6, 1855, died when less than one year
old; William H., born March 21, 1857, died in his fourteenth year;
John, a farmer at Stonetown, in Exeter township, m. Maggie Noll;
Sarah m. Howard B. Deysher, who resides at Mt Penn; Harriet, born
Jan. 28, 1866, died in her fifth year; and George C.

(V) George C. Hartline, son of Joshua D., and exburgess, justice of
the peace, and school director of Mt. Penn borough, was born in
Exeter township, Dec. 8, 1868. He was educated in the public
schools and Oley Academy, of which Profs. George H. Heffner and
Hiester A. Bowers were the instructors, and this well-known
institution he attended for about four years. He then taught school
successfully for ten terms in Alsace, Exeter, Ruscombmanor, Lower
Alsace and Earl townships, but in June, 1889, he gave up teaching
and accepted a position on the construction force of the
Philadelphia, Reading & Pottsville Telegraph Company, receiving
in 1897 a well-deserved promotion to the position of store keeper
of telegraph materials, a capacity in which he has ever since
continued, his office and storehouse being located at the corner of
Seventh and Chestnut streets, Reading.

Mr. Hartline is one of Mt. Penn’s most
influential Democrats, this borough having formerly been a part of
Lower Alsace township, in which Mr. Hartline was elected a justice
of the peace in 1897, serving in that office until Mt. Penn was
incorporated. Here he continued in the office, having been elected
for the third time, and during all of this service to the county he
has never drawn one cent for discharged cases, believing this
practice to be legalized robbery of the tax-payer’s money. He is
greatly interested in educational matters and faithfully served
Lower Alsace and Mt. Penn as school director. After the
incorporation of the latter place, the people unanimously elected
“Squire” Hartline to the office of chief burgess, a position which
he filled with honor, and during his incumbency many important
incidents are recorded, including the Topographical survey, the
laying of considerable curbing and sidewalks, and the installation
of the water mains. Mr. Hartline proved himself a capable incumbent
of the chief executive’s office, and an honest and incorruptible
official. Socially he is connected with Chandler Lodge, No. 227, F.
& A. M., Reading; Reading Lodge of Perfection, 14th degree; and
Philadelphia Consistory, 32nd degree; Mt. Penn Lodge, No. 518, I.
O. O. F., Mt. Penn Encampment No. 152; and Reading Canton No. 72,
of that order; Washington Camp No. 221, P. O. S. of A., of Lime
Kiln. He and his family attend Grace Lutheran Church, of which they
are consistent members. Since 1895 Mr. Hartline has been
superintendent of Faith Lutheran Sunday-school in Mt. penn. He was
instrumental in having the full course of the graded literature of
the General Council of the Lutheran Church adopted in the
Sunday-school, and in various ways through his influence the school
has been brought to its present flourishing condition.

In 1892 Mr. George C. Hartline was married to
Amanda C. Clouser, daughter of Enoch L and Maria (Diliplaine)
Clouser, of Tiffin, Ohio, and granddaughter of Abraham and
Catharine (Livingood) Clouser. To them have been born these
children: Joshua Enoch, born Feb. 22, 1893; B, Franklin; Martin L.
and John W., twins; and a son, the four last names dying in
infancy.

HARTMAN,
ADAM

p. 1189

Surnames: HARTMAN, ENNIG, KESSLER, HOWERTER, MOSER

Adam Hartman, a successful young business man of Reading, Pa., and
one of the members of the firm known as the Reading Cement &
Paving Company, was born in Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany, in 1871, son
of Jacob Hartman, also a native of that county.

Jacob Hartman was a miller in Germany, an
occupation which he had followed all of his life. In 1878 he came
to America and landed at New York, whence, however, he returned to
his native country with his family. In 1889 Mr. Hartman again came
to America, and now resides with his son, Adam, in Reading. Mrs.
Hartman, whose maiden name was Mary Ennig, also resides with her
son.

Adam Hartman came to America with his parents
when but seven years of age and for a time attended the public
schools of this country.

He returned to Germany with his father and
mother, but when eighteen years old again came to America and
located in Reading, being first employed in the Conrad Kessler hat
factory, where he remained three years. At the end of this time Mr.
Hartman connected himself with the Reading Hardware Company, and
after leaving that firm he was engaged for three years at the plant
of Orr & Sembower. Mr. Hartman next engaged in the cement
business, working for other firms until 1899, when with Samuel
Howerter, he engaged in business under the firm name of the Reading
Cement & Paving Company, with offices at no. 917 Locust street,
Reading. The business has been a successful one from the start, the
partners being energetic, enterprising men, and they now employ,
even in the dull season, from six to ten hands, while during the
busy season they require as many as twenty-seven skilled laborers.
The Reading Cement & Paving Company is well known for its high
class of work, and the firm has been noted for living up to the
terms of its contracts.

Mr. Hartman married Elvina Moser, daughter of
Albert Moser, of Reading, and they have had six children; Ella,
Daniel, Annie, Maria, Charles and Catharine. Mr. Hartman with his
family and parents resided at No. 1103 Chestnut street, until
March, 1907, when they purchased a stone-front residence at No. 917
North Twelfth street, where they now live.

HARTMAN, CHARLES R.

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1444

Surnames: HARTMAN, REBER, SWARTZ, SCHOENER, WEISER, BAUSHER,
BOQUET, HOFFMAN, SLOATE, UNGER, HEINLY, MOTES, NAFTZINGER, GUNDY,
STETZLERM, EHRENS

Charles R. Hartman, of Perry township, Berks county, whose fine
dairy farm is situated near Shoemakersville, was born across the
township border in Windsor township, April 15, 1866, son of Jacob
and Rufena (Reber) Hartman, and a descendant of John Hartman, for
whom Hartman’s Spring was named.

John Hartman was born in 1713, in an ancient
farmhouse near the beautiful and historic city of Reutlingen,
Wurtemberg. When a young man he married Magdalena Swartz, and they
lived happily together on the old homestead for several years. Mr.
Hartman had a maternal uncle, Frederick Schoener, who had gone to
America and settled in Pennsylvania, and from whom the Hartmans had
received letters. One of these letters, addressed to the young
man’s father, was as follows, and was read and re-read by the young
married man: “Heidelberg, Berks Co., Pa., June 17, 1753–To George
Hartman, near Reutlinger, Kingdom of Wurtemberg, Germany. Dear
brother-in-law: This is to inform you that we are all well and well
pleased with America. We live in a good land, where everything is
plenty, and we have schools and churches. I hope you will come to
this promised land. We live about four German miles from Reading.
If you write, address as above. Yours in brotherly love, Frederick
Schoener.”

This letter made a lasting impression on John
Hartman’s mind, and he decided to go to America. After sixty-four
days of tedious voyage, he and his family arrived at Philadelphia,
June 20, 1754. Seeking for some weeks an advantageous location he
decided to go to Reading, and thence to some point near the Blue
mountains. He had four children, all born in Germany: George,
Barbara, Regina and Christian. They left Philadelphia about the
last of June, with a farmer who was to take them in his four-horse
wagon to Heidelberg, Berks county, near where Conrad Weiser lived.
On reaching their destination they learned that the persons whom
they sought had crossed the Blue mountains, and Mr. Hartman was
advised to do so also by an old soldier, and this he and his family
accordingly did. For about twenty-seven pounds he purchased an old
wagon and two horses, and in this they journeyed until they arrived
at the spring where the crystal water poured in profusion, the site
of Orwigsburg. Here in the solitude of the forest, which was at
that time included in the county of Berks, his much forgotten
pioneer family lived religiously happy. The only books that
constituted their library were a Lutheran Catechism, a Bible and a
German hymn book. An almost daily scene was the happy family seated
by the hearthstone, reading the Bible and singing the old German
hymn: “Allein, und doch nicht allein, bin ich,” etc. In English:
“Alone, and not alone am I Though in this solitude so drear; I feel
my Savior always nigh; He comes the weary hours to cheer; I am with
him and He with me, E’en here alone I cannot be.”

This section of Pennsylvania was frequently
overrun by the Indians, who had been incited to bloody deeds by the
French after the loss of the Canadian territory. Hence, during the
French and Indian war, the few scattering inhabitants contiguous to
the Blue Mountains were often alarmed. At breakfast on the morning
of Oct. 16, 1755, Mr. Hartman’s wife said: “Well, John, you know
the flour is all gone, and some one must go to the mill. You are
seeding the last field, and suppose you let Christian go. I will go
with him, for I have long since promised to go over and see Mrs.
Swartz.” She was permitted to go and George and his father finished
seeding that day. Mrs. Hartman and her son started through the
dense forest to the mill, the present site of Schuylkill Haven.
Barbara, aged ten years, and Regina, aged nine, were left to take
care of the household. While they were seated around the table
their faithful dog, “Wasser,” came running in. Hartman seized his
rifle, but fifteen Indians entered the home, killed Hartman and his
son, George, while Barbara and Regina were made captives, and the
house was laid in ashes.

It was never known what became of Barbara, but
Regina was given to an old Indian woman, who sent her into the
woods to hunt roots and herbs, and when she did not get enough she
was beaten. In 1764, Col. Boquet conquered the Indians, and peace
to them was granted on the condition that all the white prisoners
should be given to him. More than 400 were brought to him, and
among them was Regina, now about nineteen years old.

The colonel took the children to Carlisle and
had it printed in the newspapers that the parents of children who
had been taken captive by the Indians, should come and see whether
they were among them. Several thousand husbands and parents went
hundreds of miles in hope of meeting lost wives or children. When
Regina’s sorrowing mother got to Carlisle she did not recognize her
daughter, as she had grown up, looked, dressed and spoke like the
Indians. The woman went up and down among the captives weeping and
could not find her child. Col. Boquet asked her whether she
recollected nothing by which her daughter might be discovered. She
said she recollected nothing but a hymn she used to sing to her
children, “Alone, Yet Not Alone Am I,” etc. The colonel asked her
to sing the hymn. Scarcely had she sung two lines of it, when poor
Regina rushed from the crowd, began to sing it also and threw
herself into her mother’s arms. They both wept for joy, and Col.
Boquet gave up the daughter to the mother. Tradition says that
Regina is buried by the side of her mother in Christ Lutheran
cemetery, near Stouchsburg.

Jacob Hartman, the great-grandfather of Charles
R., tradition says was a son of Henry Hartman, a younger brother of
John Hartman. The greater part of his life was passed in Windsor
township, but he was buried at Zion’s Union cemetery in Perry
township. His wife was a Hoffman, and they had several children.

Benjamin Hartman, son of Jacob, spent his life
in Windsor township, where he owned a small farm, and where he also
engaged as a stone mason.

His wife was Racey Bausher, of Albany township,
and they had these children: Jacob; Daniel, who lived at Myerstown,
Pa.; Benjamin, who lived and died in Philadelphia; and Katie,
deceased, who in early life went to Michigan, with her uncle Jacob
Bausher, and was there married to a Mr. Sloate, by whom she had one
daughter, Katie.

Jacob Hartman, father of Charles R., was born
Dec. 14, 1842, in Windsor township, and at the age of twenty-five
years began farming near Hamburg, on the railroad farm, on which he
continued to reside until 1885. In this year he removed to Perry
township, settling on the old Unger homestead, which he cultivated
for fourteen years. Mr. Hartman, who is still carrying on
operations in Perry township, is a good citizen, being active in
educational and church work. He and his family are Lutheran members
of Zion’s Union Church, of which he was a deacon for a number of
years.

On Aug. 15, 1865, Mr. Hartman was united in
marriage with Rufena Reber, born July 4, 1845, daughter of Jacob
and Mary (Heinly) Reber, both of Windsor township. To this union
were born children as follows: Charles R.; George R., who resides
at home; Margarite m. J. J. Motes, of Reading; Katie m. Peter E.
Naftzinger of Berne, Pa., who died in 1906; Lillie, who is
unmarried at home; Mary m. J. L. Gundy, of Calcium; Emma m. Samuel
L Stetzler, of Shoemakersville; Louis M., also of Shoemakersville;
and Thomas W., Adam D. and Eva J., who are all at home.

Charles R. Hartman spent his boyhood days with
his parents, and his education was secured in the district schools
of Hamburg and Perry township. He began farming for himself in
1881, purchasing his present farm of forty-four acres in 1889. This
tract is in an excellent state of cultivation, Mr. Hartman being a
progressive and enterprising man. He greatly improved his home by
beautifying its surroundings. In politics he supports the
Democratic party, in whose behalf he is quite active, and he is
popular in his township. He and his family are Lutheran members of
Zion’s Union Church of Perry township, where since 1900 he has been
a deacon.

On Aug. 25, 1888, Mr. Hartman was married to
Mary Ehrens, born in Richmond township, daughter of Henry Ehrens.
Among their children are: Elva M., Clara I., Nevin D., Clarence J.
and Earl J.

HARTMAN, DANIEL H.

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Surnames: HARTMAN, ERMENTROUT, CURTIN, SCHROEDER, SICKLES, MURRAY,
LEE, HINNERSHITZ, GIBSON, RICHARD, BURKEY, LEVAN, HOLDER, STRUNK,
MAST, SEIDEL

Daniel H. Hartman, one of the esteemed retired residents of
Reading, is a surviving veteran of the Civil war, and took an
important part in the great struggle. Mr. Hartman is a native of
Berks county, Pa., and was born in Alsace township, in 1846, son of
Samuel H. and a grandson of John Hartman.

Grandfather John Hartman was a very prominent
farmer of Alsace township and owned a large amount of valuable land
in that township. There he died aged sixty-eight years, and his
remains rest in the Spies’ cemetery. He had a large family. Samuel
H. Hartman, father of Daniel H., followed closely in his fathers
footsteps. He became a man of substance, and a leader in public
matters in his township, and he also passed away at the age of
sixty-eight years, and was laid to rest by the side of his parents.
He married Judith L. Hartman, daughter of Daniel Hartman, and she
lived to the age of sixty-six years.

Politically he was a Democrat. The children of
Samuel H. Hartman and wife were: John H.; Daniel H.; Mary and
Catherine. John H., the eldest son, enlisted in Company D, 198th Pa
V. I., Aug. 25, 1864, and was mortally wounded at the battle of
White Oak Swamp, from which he died five hours later, aged
thirty-four years.

Daniel H. Hartman attended the public schools of
his native township until sixteen years of age, and then began to
learn the carpenters trade. He worked also one year as a
millwright, and one year as a carpenter at Logansport, Ind. In 1865
he was again at home, but prior to this he had served his country
in her hour of peril, faithfully and well.

Daniel H. Hartman enlisted from Berks county,
Pa., July 3, 1863, to serve three months or during the emergency
and was mustered into service at Harrisburg, Pa., in Ermentrouts
Independent Battery A, Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Capt. William
C. Ermentrout commanding. The battery was recruited in response to
Gov. Curtins call for emergency troops to assist in protecting the
Keystone State from the threatened invasion by the Confederates.
Daniel H. Hartman received his honorable discharge at Harrisburg,
Aug. 26, 1863, by reason of expiration of term of service. Mr.
Hartman had done his full duty during his first term of service,
but he realized that the war was not over, and the help of brave
and loyal men was still needed. On Aug. 25, 1864, he re-enlisted,
at Reading, Pa., to serve one year or during the war, and was
mustered into the service at Philadelphia as a private in Capt.
Isaac Schroeders company, this being Company D, 198th Reg. Pa. V.
I., commanded by Col. Horatio G. Sickles. Early in the morning of
Sept. 19, 1864, the regiment moved to join the Army of the Potomac,
in front of Petersburg, Va. Upon its arrival it was assigned to the
First Brigade, First Division, Fifth Corps, at a point on the
Weldon railroad, which had just been captured from the enemy. Soon
after, Col. Sickles was placed in command of the brigade, Lt. Col.
John B. Murray succeeding him in command of the regiment. The first
engagement with the enemy was at Prebles Farm, Va., Sept. 30th and
Oct. 1st, 1864. Later engagements were Hatchers Run, Dabneys
Mills and Vaughn Road, the Appomattox campaign, including Quaker
Road or Gravelly Run, Boydton, White Oak Road, Five Forks,
Petersburg, Sutherland Station, Sailors Creek, High Bridge,
Farmerville and Appomattox, all in Virginia. During the Appomattox
Campaign alone, the regiment lost between 500 and 600 officers and
men in killed, wounded and missing. After General Lees surrender
at Appomattox, April 9, 1865, the regiment went into camp at
Arlington Heights, Va., and remained there until June 3, 1865. Mr.
Hartman did not escape injuries during this long exposure to
danger. He received a gunshot wound in the left ankle, at Gravelly
Run, Va., March 29, 1865, and was confined one day in the field
hospital and then rejoined his regiment determined not to be left
behind. By reason of the close of the war, Mr. Hartman received his
final honorable discharge near Washington, D.C., June 3, 1865.

In 1871 Mr. Hartman came to Reading and was in
the employ of the Philadelphia & Reading railroad shops for a
period that covered thirty-six years, during which time this great
system was extended hundreds of miles. Mr. Hartman retired May, 29,
1901, retaining the cordial good-will of the corporation which he
had served so devotedly for a decade over a quarter of a century.

On Oct. 20, 1866, Mr. Hartman was married to
Mary M. Hinnershitz, daughter of Conrad and Mary (Gibson)
Hinnershitz. To this marriage twelve children were born; Mary
Alice, m. to Charles W. Richard, had one child, Carrie (m. to
Daniel Burkey, and has a son, Daniel): Clara, m. to William J.
Levan, of Reading (mentioned in full elsewhere); Carrie Agnes, m.
to Jacob H. Holder, has two children, Ira and Dorothy; Lottie, m.
to Joel M. Strunk, has two children, Alice and Paul; Bertie, m. to
Albert F. Mast, has one son, Daniel H.; and Gertrude m. to Milton
Seidel, of Reading, and has two children, William M. and Mary
Magdalena; and Samuel H., Daniel H., Ida F., Hattie M., Katie and
Judith, all of whom are deceased.

In 1897 Mr. Hartman built his present home at
No. 123 South Ninth street, Reading, and later built the modern
residence in the rear for his daughter. For three years Mr. Hartman
was constable of Alsace township. He is a member of Star of
Nativity Lodge, Shepherds of Bethlehem, of which he is a trustee.
Mr. Hartman also belongs to Keim Post, No. 76 G. A. R., of which he
has been senior vice-commander.

HARTMAN, DANIEL
IRENEUS

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Surnames: HARTMAN, HASSLER, ROTHENBERGER, KINSEY, NOLL, SCHMECK,
SPIES, MILLER, KLINE, HILL, MAURER, GERHART, SPANGLER, DOLCH,
WEAVER, ROTHERMEL, DELLICKER, LESHER, WANNER

Daniel Ireneus Hartman, of Maiden-creek township, was born Oct. 13,
1870, in Muhlenberg township, son of Mabery and Mary (Rothenberger)
Hartman.

John Hartman, the great-grandfather of Daniel
I., lived at Spies’s Church, where he married a Miss Hassler. They
had these children: Kate m. George Kinsey; Mary (Polly) m. John
Noll; Elizabeth m. Daniel Schmeck; Judith m. Isaac Kinsey; Sally m.
Daniel Spies; John; Daniel; Jacob; Samuel; and Benjamin.

Jacob Hartman, grandfather of Daniel I., was a
farmer by occupation, and cultivated a large tract of land near
Spies’s Church. He was married to Helena Schmeck, and they became
the parents of these children: Hiram m. Mary Miller; Jacob m. Sarah
Hill; Mabery; Lydia m. Theodore Maurer; and Angelina m. Levi Kline.

Mabery Hartman, father of Daniel I., was reared
in Alsace township, where he was married to Mary Rothenberger,
daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Gerhart) Rothenberger. They had
six children, as follows: Emma m. (first) George Spangler, and
(second) William Dolch; Kate m. Howard Weaver, deceased; Daniel I.;
Ida m. Wilson Rothermel; Urias m. Lizzie Dellicker; and Mary, died
young.

Daniel I. Hartman received his education in the
common schools of his native district, and as a young man assisted
in the work on his father’s farm, after leaving which he learned
the carpenter’s trade. Mr. Hartman followed that occupation for
thirteen years, and then purchased his present property in
Maiden-creek township, which he has been operating with much
success to the present time. He has brought his property to a high
state of cultivation, has built good, substantial buildings, and is
rated as one of the substantial farmers and good citizens of his
community. Oct. 13, 1900, Mr. Hartman was married to Miss Agnes
Lesher, daughter of Rueben and Esther (Wanner) Lesher. It is a
singular coincidence that both Mr. and Mrs. Hartman were born on
the 13th of October, and that that was the date of their marriage.
Two children have been born to them: a boy, who died in infancy;
and Esther Mary, born Sept. 13, 1907. Mr. and Mrs. Hartman are
members of the Reformed faith, and attend Gernant’s Church.
Fraternally, he is connected with Camp No. 68, P. O. S. of A., Hyde
Park, and Muhlenberg Castle, No. 372, K. G. E.

HARTMAN
FAMILY

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Surnames: HARTMAN, VON MATHIAS, VON MOYER, VON ESHBACH, LANCISCUS,
DEIBLER, RITTER, YOUNG, SCHMECK, ROTHERMEL, RAPP, CRONRATH, YERGER,
GLASE, REMPPIS, GRIESEMER, YODER, SHALTER, HOPPES, CLAUSER,
CLEAVER, GASS, SHAEFFER, LONG, De TURCK, KAUFFMAN, LEVAN, HOPPES,
BRUMBACH, HAUSMAN, CLAUSER, CLEAVER

Hartman. The common ancestor of the Hartman family in America was
Valentine Hartman, a pioneer of Alsace township. His remains and
those of his wife lie side by side among those of other members of
the Hartman family, in the old graveyard at Spiess Church in
Alsace township. A brown sandstone marks his grave, and upon it
appears the following inscription:

“HEIR RUHET DER LEIB VON VALENTINE HARTMAN ER
WERDE GEBOREN 1738 IN AUGUST, UND STARB 21 JULY 1794 ALT 56 JAHRE
HEIR RUHET DER LEIB VON MAGDALENA HARTMAN GEBORNE IM JAHR 1740 UND
STARB DEN 19 OCTOBER 1814 ZEICHTE 4 SOHNE UND 2 TOCHTER WAR ALT
GEWORDEN 74 JAHRE

The following were probably the children of Valentine and Magdalena
Hartman, all of whom are buried in the same old graveyard at
Spiess Church: Valentine, born 1766, died in 1835; a daughter;
Jacob, born in 1771, died in 1837; a daughter; Johannes, born in
1777, died in 1843; Daniel, born in 1780, died in 1840. Near the
grave of the elder Valentine Hartman is a brown sandstone on which
is the following inscription:

“DENKMAHL VON TOCHTER NAMEN JUDITH HARTMAN GEBOREN
1727, STARB IN DECEMBER 1790 ALT 64 JAHRE

The elements have almost obliterated this inscription. There is
doubt as to the fourth word, the word back of “Tochter” is almost
entirely effaced. Judith Hartman probably was a sister of the elder
Valentine Hartman, born in 1738.

Among other interesting facts relative to the
Hartman family gleaned from gravestone inscriptions to be found in
the burial ground of the Oley church are: Adam Hartman(son of
George and Elizabeth), born Oct. 6, 1793, died Sept. 7, 1865, aged
seventy-one years, eleven months, and one day. He married Anna
Margaret Von Mathias born Aug. 14, 1795, died May 3, 1872, aged
seventy-six years, eight months, nineteen days. David Hartman, born
Nov. 27, 1836, died May 13, 1905, aged sixty-eight years, five
months, and sixteen days. Daniel Hartman, born Feb. 19, 1817, died
April 1, 1899, aged eighty-two years, one month, and twelve days,
married Elizabeth Von Moyer, born in 1812, died in 1880. Joseph
Hartman, born Jan. 3, 1825, died March 2, 1879, aged fifty-four
years, one month, and twenty-nine days, married Elizabeth Von
Eshbach, born in 1827, died in 1877, and they had one son and three
daughters. John M. Hartman, born Jan. 16, 1829, died May 29, 1900,
aged seventy-one years, four months and thirteen days.

Sydney J. Hartman, cashier of the First National Bank of Oley, Pa.,
was born in Alsace township, Jan. 4, 1874, and he is the
great-grandson of John Valentine Hartman, who was the first of the
family to settle on the Hartman farm in Alsace township, which
property is now owned by Ephraim R. Hartman, father of Sydney J.
The tract then consisted of 170 acres, and much of it was woodland
when John Valentine Hartman secured it from a man by the name of
Lanciscus. This man one day while hunting brought home in his pouch
a little pine tree which he planted on what is now the Hartman
farm. It grew into a fine tree and stood for more than one hundred
years, but in 1876 a violent hail storm broke it down, and thus
passed away one of the old landmarks of Alsace township, if not of
Berks county.

The barn on the property was built by John
Valentine Hartman in 1814, but the house was built by Valentine
Hartman in 1843. There is a fresh spring on the farm that never
runs dry, and adds materially to the value of this really fine
property. The Hartman farm was used during the life of the old
State militia as a drilling ground once a year. There annually all
able-bodied men between twenty-one and fifty-five came and were
given military training. This great event was called Battalion Day.

John Valentine Hartman was married to Catherine
Deibler, and they are both interred in the old Spiess church
burial ground, the following inscriptions appearing on their tombs:
John Valentine Hartman, born Nov. 4, 1766, died May 5, 1835, aged
sixty-eight years, six months and one day. Catherine Hartman, born
in 1776, died in 1827, aged fifty-one years. The children of John
Valentine and Catherine Hartman were: (1) William settled near
Circleville, Ohio, where he was three times married, and had
twenty-four children, (2) Samuel lived and died in Alsace township,
and is buried in the Spiess church burial ground: he had children,
Gideon, Valentine, Lewis, Israel, Samuel and Emma, and Justina. (3)
Abraham lived at Spiess church where he is buried, and had three
children, Rebecca, Sarah and Susan. (4) Valentine. (5) Hannah
married John Ritter, who moved to Union county, Pa. (6) Polly
Maria, born in 1806, died in 1851, married first a Mr. Young, and
second Henry Schmeck. John Valentine Hartman was one of the early
supervisors of his district, and among the heirlooms of the Hartman
family is an account book kept by him showing the income and
expenditures of the district during his term of office, and the
items in his careful penmanship afford a good idea of the early
history of those times.

Valentine Hartman, son of John Valentine
Hartman, was born in Alsace township in 1808, and died there in
1882. All his life he followed farming and became a prosperous
landowner and proprietor of the Hartman farm, now owned by his son,
Ephraim Hartman, father of Sydney J. Hartman. In politics Valentine
Hartman was a Republican after the formation of that party, and
served his district as assessor. In religious matters he was
connected with the Spiess church, and is buried in the family lot
of the old Spiess church cemetery. He married Mary Rothermel
(1814-1899), daughter of Leonard Rothermel, of Maiden-creek
township. The following children were born of this marriage: Levi,
of Oley township; Catherine, who died at the age of twenty-four
years: Jeremiah, of Friedensburg: Valentine, who died in1907, aged
sixty-eight years, at Friedensburg; Harrison, who died about 1870;
Moses, of Belleville, Ill.; Amos, deceased; Mary, wife of Samuel
Rapp; Amanda, who married Levi Cronrath, has one son, Thomas H.,
and lives in Exeter township; Ephraim R.; Emma, who died in
infancy; Sarah, who died in 1872, and is buried at Spiess church;
Mahlon, an extensive farmer at Freeburg, Ill.; Ezra, of
Friedensburg; and Hannah, who married Appolonius Shalter, of Alsace
township. During his long and useful life Valentine Hartman was a
prosperous and representative man of his township and is pleasantly
remembered as one of the men who helped to make Berks county what
it is today.

Ephraim R. Hartman, father of Sydney J. Hartman
and son of Valentine Hartman, was born July 7, 1848, in Alsace
township, where he lived until he attained his majority, working on
the family homestead. In 1873 he began farming for himself in
Alsace township on the Pricetown road, continuing there for five
years. He then removed to the homestead, where he remained until
1891, at which date he settled at Friedensburg to engage in a
general merchandise business, but after nineteen months he sold his
interests to H.R. Yerger, the present proprietor of the store. Mr.
Hartman then retired, and now resides at Friedensburg in a
handsome, large stone residence, which was once known as the
Benneville Glase house. In addition to his home, Mr. Hartman owns a
valuable farm of 151 acres in Alsace township, the Hartman
homestead; the foundry and machine shops at Fleetwood, formerly
known as the Schaeffer & Merkel foundry, now occupied by the
Reading Metal Body Company, a successful corporation employing 120
men. He is also the owner of No. 837 Penn street, on which property
is located “Leithams Hotel.” It has a frontage of 30 feet 9
inches, and being in the very center of business part of the city,
is very valuable. In addition to his other interests Mr. Hartman
was one of the organizers of the First National Bank of Oley
incorporated in 1907, of which he is now director. He is also a
director of the Oley Knitting Mills where thirty people are
employed. During the civil War a very valuable iron ore mine was
worked, 4,000 tons of ore having been taken from the mine which is
located on the Hartman homestead. In all of his business
enterprises Mr. Hartman has been very successful, and he has not
only won prosperity, but also the confidence and esteem of his
associates for his honorable methods and unflinching integrity of
purpose. In religious affiliations Mr. Hartman and his family are
members of the Reformed denomination of Spiess church.

In 1872 Mr. Hartman married Amanda Gass,
daughter of Jacob Gass, of Muhlenberg township, and these children
were born to them: Sydney J.; Esther m. Jabez Hartman, of Lehigh
county, Pa., now a grocer of Reading; Warren G. is cashier of the
First National Bank, at Fleetwood, Pa.; Valentine is a student of
Franklin and Marshall College; and six died young.

Sydney J. Hartman was educated in his township
schools, the Keystone State Normal School, the Oley Academy, and
was finally graduated from the Franklin and Marshall College at
Lancaster, Pa., in 1897, having entered that institution in 1893.
Following his graduation he was appointed principal of the Leesport
high school, and held the chair for one term, resigning to become a
teacher in the Robesonia grammar school. Later he became grammar
school teacher at Brielle, N. J., and remained in that capacity for
four years, thus completing his successful career as an instructor.
He then became bookkeeper for William K. Remppis Co. at Reading
where he remained for four years, or until his election to the
position of cashier of the First National Bank of Oley, located at
Friedensburg, where he has since remained, his connection with the
bank adding to its financial strength and firmly establishing its
management in the confidence of the business public.

Socially Mr. Hartman is a member of Oley Castle
No. 119, K.G.E. He is a member of Friedens Reformed church. Mr.
Hartman is justly regarded as one of the most representative young
business men of Oley. He has a wide circle of warm personal
friends, as well as many business associates, who recognize his
ability and excellent business training, which fit him so well for
his responsible position.

Levi R. Hartman, son of Valentine Hartman, and
father of Ammon S. Hartman, an aged and very substantial resident
of Oley township, was born in Alsace township on the Hartman
homestead Sept. 17, 1835. He was brought up on the farm, working
for his father until he was twenty-two years of age, at which time
he engaged in farming on his own account on one of his fathers
farms of fifty-eight acres in Exeter township. Here he resided for
twenty-two years, and in 1860 he bought the farm, and still owns
it, but has it tenanted. His next purchase was a fine farm of 135
acres located on the road from Yellow House to Friedensburg, and on
the Oley turnpike from Yellow House to Reading. This is regarded as
the best farm in Oley township, and is well supplied with
substantial buildings. The house is of stone, and was built by
Casper Griesemer in 1792, while the barn was built by Daniel
Griesemer in 1839. The crops are excellent and the profit is good.
This farm is also rented. Mr. Hartman owns still another farm, this
one being of seventy-four acres, at Pleasantville. As are his other
farms, this one is well located, is well stocked and has good
buildings. Formerly it was a Yoder farm. Mr. Hartman owns
considerable woodland, and resides near his 135-acre farm on a
small tract he purchased from Benneville Griesemer. A portion of
the house was built over one hundred years ago, and the other was
put up in 1868. The three acres of land surrounding the houses are
well laid out, and there is plenty of fruit. A very large spring
supplies water that is recognized as good as any in the world, and
Mr. Hartman takes great pride in the spring. Not only is Mr.
Hartman a large landowner, he also holds bank stocks and bonds, and
is one of the heaviest tax payers of the township, and a man whose
word is as good as his bond anywhere.

On Oct. 4, 1857, Mr. Hartman married Mary Ann
Shaeffer, daughter of Capt. Henry Schaeffer, of Light Horse Brigade
in the Civil war. Mrs. Hartman was born Oct. 2, 1833, and died Oct.
19, 1903, aged seventy years and seventeen days, and is buried at
Spiess church in the Hartman family lot. The children born to Mr.
and Mrs. Hartman were: Henry, born in 1858, died in 1881; Emma R.,
born in 1860, died in 1861; Abner, born in 1861, died in 1862;
Ammon S.; William C., born in 1864, died in 1865; Mary Ann, born in
1866, died in 1873; Calvin, born in 1867, died in 1905, m. Hannah
Long, and had five children-Harry, Levi, Clarence, Erma and Ira (he
was a farmer of Oley township) ; Lillie m. Seth De Turck, a very
substantial farmer of Oley township; Carrie, born in 1871, died in
1873; Elizabeth, born in 1875, died in 1877; and Miss Clara is at
home attending her aged father, whose great comfort she is. The
young lady is a model of daughterly love and devotion and the
attachment between her and her father is beautiful. Since her
mothers death she has endeavored to fill her place, and is
rewarded by seeing the pleasure her father takes in her
ministrations.

Ammon S. Hartman, second vice president of the
First National Bank of Oley and a prominent business man of lower
Berks county, was born in Alsace township, Jan. 21, 1863, son of
Levi R. Hartman. Until his twenty-second year, when he married ,
Mr. Hartman worked for his father farming, but in 1884 he began
working for himself and for eleven years worked in Oley township on
shares. He then sold his farm stock, and in that same year(1897)
moved to Oley Line, buying a farm of 122 acres from Hiram Kauffman.
This land was located at Oley Churches. and at the time of his
purchase there were no buildings upon it, so that he has built the
substantial ones now standing. The house is 39 x 40 feet with a
kitchen and summer house attached. The Swiss barn is 45 x 100 feet.
He also has a carriage shed, a big wagon shed, 30 x 40 feet, a
straw shed and pig sty and good chicken house. Although lumber was
then cheap, compared to present prices, these buildings cost him
$7,500.

In addition to his home property, Mr. Hartman
owns a 120 acre farm, located near the Oley Churches on the
Manatawny creek. This property belonged to Jacob Griesemer and Mr.
Hartman purchased it at an assignees sale in 1896, and it is now
rented. In 1898 Mr. Hartman went to Wyomissing, a suburb of
Reading, and purchased two houses and twelve building lots.
However, after two years he moved to Friedensburg where he bought
of Jacob Levan the home he now occupies on Main street. After
securing this property, he erected the coach making establishment
opposite his home, where he is conducting a large and constantly
growing business. He gives employment to five skilled mechanics,
and manufactures all kinds of home-made vehicles. Mr. Hartman was
also engaged in the manufacture of farm implements until the spring
of 1908, when he sold that branch of the business to Charles H.
Hoppes, of Oley. He also owned the building and store at Manatawny,
where he built a warehouse, renting the property to Tilghman
Hausman for three years, but he then sold to James Brumbach, who in
turn disposed of it to Manatawny Castle No. 461 K.G.E., of which
Mr. Hartman was the organizer and a charter member. So interested
was he in the success of this society that he had a lodge hall
built and made many improvements upon the property.

Mr. Hartman bought two farms from Mahlon D.
Clauser of Manatawny, and these he sold five days later to C. B.
Cleaver of the same place at a good profit. Mr. Hartman is a man of
progressive ideas and is always interested in matters calculated to
prove beneficial to the community. He was one of the organizers of
the First National Bank of Oley, of which he became a director, and
of which he is now second vice president. He is actively interested
in educational matters, and when the Pleasantville district school
was built, in 1887, Mr. Hartman acted as architect and builder, and
rendered very efficient service, which was fully appreciated as is
shown by the many testimonials he received from the officials and
members of the district.

In addition to his other interests Mr. Hartman
belongs to Suyeto Tribe No.477 I.O.R.M.; Griesemersville Lodge,
I.O.O.F., as well as the K.G.E. No. 461 already mentioned. He and
his family are members of Spiess Reformed Church.

In 1885 Mr. Hartman married Mary R. De Turck,
daughter of Samuel De. Turck, of Oley. They have three daughters:
Sallie E., a graduate of Reading Collegiate Institute, was licensed
to teach in the public schools of Berks county; Annie D. took a
course in stenography and typewriting, and is now the clerk at the
A.J. Brumbach factory at Reading; Nora E. is an accomplished
musician and a charming young lady.

The Hartman family as has been shown in these
brief sketches is one of the oldest and most important of Berks
county. Its representatives are numbered among the leading
financiers, professional men and farmers of the several communities
in which they reside, and they are all worthy of the name. They are
all prosperous, influential and progressive, and each in his way
has borne an important part in the development of his locality.
They are all industrious, honest and frugal, and ever ready to bear
a part in the support of state and church. Surely the name of
Hartman is one that is honored and respected not only in Berks
county but wherever it is found.

HARTMAN FAMILY

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Surnames: HARTMAN, WAMSHER, BLEILER, GERETH, SILVIS, MAURER,
HUYETT, SCHAEFFER, YOST, KIRST, ROTHERMEL, KRICK, REBER, HIGH,
WARDMAN, DUNKEL, POTTEIGER, HAHN, REESER, ULRICH, LEINBACH, HAIN,
ERMENTROUT, WARD, REED, MOSER, KAUFMAN, TELLER, ISMAN, BARBER,
PRESKER, ZERR, KAUFFMAN, PARVIN

The Hartman family is an old and honored one of Berks county. There
are many representatives of the name scattered all over the
country, and the Hartmans are numerous in the eastern counties of
Pennsylvania. As the Pennsylvania Archives, Vol. XVII, record about
seventy of this name that emigrated to Pennsylvania between 1727
and 1808, it is evident that the present day Hartmans are not
descended from a common pioneer. In Berks county there are Hartmans
to the east and south of Reading, while another branch live in the
valley north of the city, and whether even these come from a common
pioneer is not certain, although this is not probable. This family
of Hartmans originally located to the north of Reading, but its
descendants have since scattered through Schuylkill, Columbia,
Lycoming and other northern counties of Pennsylvania, as well as
into the Middle West.

John Hartman (I) was the name of the earliest
known ancestor of the branch in which we are interested. No
definite records have been discovered up to this time to indicate
when he came to America, but it is known that he came from the
Rhine country—Erbach in the district of Odenwald, a mountainous
region between the Main and Necker rivers, probably some thirty
miles from Frankfort-on-the-Main. Tradition gives a romance in
connection with his emigration to the New World, which is related
in Vol. VII, page 344, of “The Pennsylvania German.” He settled in
Exeter township, now a part of Berks county, where he was employed
as a miller at the Bishop Mill, which is now the property of George
Wamsher. Later he settled on what is now the old Hartman homestead,
lately owned by Henry Hartman (deceased) and still in the
possession of his estate near Temple. John Hartman’s happy married
life lasted but one year, when his wife died without issue. His
second marriage was to Agnes Bleiler, widow of Jacob Bleiler, and
to this union were born five children, two sons and three
daughters, viz.: Michael, John, Juliana (wife of Michael Gereth),
Catharine Elizabeth (wife of Henry Silvis), and Catharine. John
Hartman (I) died Oct. 18, 1786, aged fifty-five years within two
months and ten days, which would bring the date of his birth to
Dec. 28, 1731. His wife, Agnes Hartman, died between the 2d and the
18th of April, 1791. They are both buried at Reading on the present
site of Trinity Lutheran Church.

John Hartman (II), son of John, the emigrant,
was born June 23, 1771, in Exeter township, and was, therefore,
only fifteen years of age when his father died. He was younger than
Michael, and probably the youngest of all the children. In his
father’s will, written Sept. 1, 1786, he is the only one spoken of
or treated as a minor child. He was a farmer and spent the greater
part of his life on the old homestead at Temple. He owned several
farms besides the homestead, as well as extensive woodland property
now owned jointly by Frederick S. Hartman, the Estate of Henry
Hartman, and George C. Hartman. The Temple hotel property and the
farm adjoining the homestead were also included among his
possessions. He married Sophia Mary Maurer, daughter of Frederick
Maurer, and died Sept. 3, 1823, of biliary fever, aged fifty-two
years. His wife survived him and died about 1852. Their remains now
rest side by side in Alsace Church graveyard, whither their bodies
were removed by their sons in 1860. They were originally interred
in the burialground of Trinity Lutheran Church.

They left three sons and three daughters,
namely: John, Daniel, Frederick, Elizabeth (wife of John Huyett),
Esther, and Mary (who was married to Daniel Maurer).

Michael Hartman, the eldest son of John, the
emigrant, obtained possession by his father’s will of the mill
property in Exeter township and about eighty acres of woodland in
the same township. It appears that some years later he purchased a
mill property and a considerable tract of land in Brunswick
township, Berks (now Schuylkill) county, and many of his
descendants may still be found in that vicinity.

John Hartman (III), son of John (II), was born
on the homestead at Temple and there passed his entire life. After
his father’s death he became owner of all the latter’s real estate
except the hotel property, which was sold. He followed farming and
became wealthy, becoming prominently known as a money lender. His
possessions included an iron ore mine, situated in the woodland
tract on South Mountain, east of Temple, the ore from which was
taken by team to Eckert’s Furnace at Reading, Mr. Hartman receiving
a royalty on the product. He married Mary Schaeffer, and to them
were born six children, five sons and one daughter, viz.: Amos,
John, Frederick S., Daniel, Henry and Sophia Maria; the parents are
buried in Alsace Church cemetery.

Amos Hartman (IV), son of John (III), was like
his brothers and sister born on the homestead at Temple. Before his
father’s death he lived on and farmed the property adjoining to the
west, but afterward he bought the homestead and moved upon that
place, his mother and brothers Frederick and Henry taking
possession of the farm he vacated. Subsequently Amos Hartman sold
the homestead to his brother Henry, the property adjoining to the
west previously mentioned becoming the property of Frederick. Amos
bought and moved to a large farm in Spring township near Cacoosing,
and later still he bought the Jacob Kirst place, near North
Reading, to which he moved. He also purchased an adjoining tract
now owned by Garson Huyett, where he died. He and his wife Rebecca
(Yost) are buried in the Alsace Church cemetery. They had a family
of four children, viz.: Frank Y., Mary (married to Adam Rothermel),
Susan (married to Garson Huyett), and Clara (married to William
Krick).

Frank Y. Hartman (V), son of Amos, was born at
Temple. He bought the Kirst farm near North Reading, which he now
occupies. He married Sarah Reber, and they have had three children:
Edwin R., Nora and Paul, Paul dying in infancy.

John Hartman (IV), son of John (III), journeyed
out to Ohio when a young man to what in those days was considered
the “far West.” He died at the age of about twenty-three years in
Ohio, and is buried there.

Frederick S. Hartman (IV), son of John (III),
was born on the homestead at Temple. For a time he lived on the
farm adjoining to the west, which he still owns, and later he
bought a property near Cross Keys, where he now lives. He is a man
of intelligence and business ability, and is the owner of a number
of large farms. He married Amanda High, and to them were born six
children, John H., James (deceased), Mary A. E., Sallie H., Bertha
S. and Emma M.

John H. Hartman (V), son of Frederick S., in
early manhood went to Arkansas City, Kans., where he was employed
in a bank and interested in real estate. He married Mrs. Augusta
Wardman, of Kansas, and they have one son, John R., who lives in
Philadelphia.

Daniel Hartman (IV), son of John (III), died
unmarried at the age of twenty years.

Henry Hartman (IV), son of John (III), became
the owner of the homestead, buying it from his brother Amos. He was
a farmer and also owned a limestone quarry near Evansville, Berks
county. His wife was Sarah Dunkel, and they had three children,
viz.: John D., married to Elmora Potteiger; Bertha, married to
Valentine Hartman; and Nora, who lives with her mother at Temple.

Daniel Hartman (III), son of John (II), was born Dec. 8, 1799, in
Alsace (now Muhlenberg) township, at Temple, and died April 5,
1876. In his early manhood, when traveling was usually done on
horseback, except when it was possible to go by steamboat, he saw
considerable of the country, going west as far as Ohio and Indiana,
and north into Canada. For a while he lived in Chester county,
where he was in the employ of a Quaker family. He also lived near
Faust’s Mill, in what was then Maiden-creek (now Ontelaunee)
township, where his son George C. was born. Later he moved to the
Bodey property, near Bodey’s schoolhouse in Muhlenberg township,
now owned by Frank Hahn, where he and his family lived about two
years, after which he bought the place now owned and occupied by
Jacob Reeser, in Bern township. He also bought the adjoining Fox
property, and there he lived until his death. He and his wife are
buried in Epler’s Church cemetery. At the age of thirty-seven
Daniel Hartman married Anna Ulrich, and to them were born six
children, viz.: George C, Daniel, John, Mary (who died in infancy),
Ellen and Mary.

George C. Hartman (IV) was born May 2, 1838, in
Maiden-creek (now Ontelaunee) township, and moved with his father
to Bern township when scarcely three years old. In 1861 he married
Rebecca J. Leinbach, and during his first year of their married
life they lived with his father on the home farm. About that time
Daniel Hartman bought a property in Penn township near Bern Church,
on which George C. Hartman and his wife moved, remaining there two
years. They then returned to Bern township, again taking his
father’s farm. The following year Daniel Hartman bought the Hain
farm in Bern township, along the Schuylkill river above Felix’s
Adam, and his son, George, moved to that place and there resided
for twenty-three years. Some time before his father’s death George
C. Hartman bought this property. Although farming was his principal
business for so many years, he was also engaged in the lime and
coal business in company with two partners under the firm name of
Hartman, Kramer & Ulrich. The lime was shipped by canal-boat
along the Schuylkill to Reading, the lower part of Berks county,
and Montgomery and Chester counties. In 1886 Mr. Hartman bought the
large quarries of Leinbach & Brother, located just above
Felix’s dam, at Cedar Hill, and adjoining the former property. In
1888 Mr. Hartman moved with his family onto this property and
devoted himself more especially to the lime business until 1898,
when he moved to West Leesport, Berks county. He has since lived
there in retirement. He still owns the Cedar Hill property and the
farm adjoining it, as well as retaining a number of other
interests. He is an intelligent, broad-minded man, and has always
appreciated the value of a liberal education, a fact which he has
shown practically by giving all his sons college training. Eight
children, six sons and two daughters, were born to Mr. and Mrs.
George C. Hartman, viz.: John Daniel, George Washington, Irvin
Henry, Franklin Oscar, Harrison Edwin, Winfield Leinbach, Mary Ann
and Carrie Jane; all of this family, with the exception of Mary,
have at various times been students at the Keystone State Normal
School at Kutztown, and all the sons are pursuing professional or
business careers.

John D. L. Hartman (V) was born in Penn township
Aug. 9, 1863. He taught two terms in the public schools of Bern
township, and in 1883 was appointed a cadet to the United States
Military Academy at West Point by Daniel Ermentrout, the
Congressional representative of his district. He is at present a
captain in the 1st United States Cavalry and has seen service in
practically all the Western and frontier States, Cuba and the
Philippines. Lately he was an instructor of military art in the
United States Infantry and Cavalry School and Staff College at Fort
Leavenworth, Kans., and still later he was engaged in the same kind
of work at Fort Riley. He is at present doing service in the
Philippine Islands. In 1894 he married Helen C. Ward, whose father
is now colonel of the 2d United States Cavalry.

George W. Hartman (V) was born Oct. 5, 1867, in
Bern township, where all the children except John were born. After
teaching for several terms in the public schools he entered
Franklin and Marshall College, from which institution he graduated
in 1895. He later attended the Harvard Physical Culture School, and
the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church at Lancaster. While
attending the latter institution he held the position of physical
instructor in Franklin and Marshall College. He was also, for
several terms, a member of the faculty of Kutztown State Normal
School. He is at present in the Reformed ministry and is located at
Orwigsburg, Schuylkill county. He married in 1901 Carrie M. Reed,
of Doylestown, Pa., a graduate of the Keystone State Normal School.
They are parents of two children, a son, George E., and a daughter,
Esther L.

Irvin H. Hartman (V), M. D., was born May 22,
1869, near Epler’s Church in Bern township. He was reared on the
farm and received his early education in the common schools, later
attending the Normal School at Kutztown and Palatinate College at
Myerstown. He taught in the public schools for five terms. He
entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in
October, 1892, graduating in June, 1895. After graduation he was
elected resident physician of St. Joseph’s Hospital, Reading, for
one year. He has since been engaged in private practice and
established himself at West Reading, where he remained until
settling at his present location in Reading, No. 137 South Fourth
street, in 1902. In addition to his private practice Dr. Hartman
serves as examiner for the New York Life Insurance Company, Mutual
Benefit Life Insurance Company of Newark, N. J., and the Travelers
Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn. He is associated
professionally with the Berks County Medical Society, the Reading
Medical Association, the Pennsylvania State Medical Society and the
American Medical Association. He belongs to the Masonic and Odd
Fellows Fraternities, holding membership in Chandler Lodge No. 227,
F. & A. M., Reading Commandery, No. 42, K. T., and Rajah
Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., and in Progressive Lodge, No. 470, I. O.
O. F. He and his family are members of the Second Reformed Church,
of Reading. On June 20, 1899, Dr. Hartman married Miss Frances E.
Moser, of Greenville, Pa., daughter of Jacob and Catharine Moser.
Dr. and Mrs. Hartman have one child, Katharine Nella.

Frank O. Hartman (V) was born Jan. 9, 1872.
After teaching in the public schools he prepared for college at
Palatinate College and entered Franklin and Marshall College in
1894, graduating in 1898. Since then he has served as principal of
the Leesport (Pa.) high school, professor of natural sciences in
the City High School of Franklin, Pa., principal of the Bernville
and Sinking Spring high schools, and is now supervisor of the
public schools at Woodbine, N. J. He married in 1901 Elizabeth A.
Kaufman, of West Leesport, Pa., and their family consists of two
daughters, Clara R. and Mary E.

Harrison E. Hartman (V), who is conducting a
very prosperous real estate business in the Commonwealth Title,
Insurance and Trust Company building, Philadelphia, as a member of
the firm of Barber, Hartman & Co., was born Jan. 23, 1876, in
Bern township, Berks county, son of George C. and Rebecca Jane
(Leinbach) Hartman.

Harry Edwin Hartman received his preliminary
education in the township school, and after attending the Keystone
State Normal School at Kutztown for one term secured a teacher’s
certificate. He then taught public school, for three terms near his
home and one term in West Leesport, meanwhile attending the Normal
school for three spring sessions to increase his qualifications as
teacher. In 1896 he went to Philadelphia and took a business course
in Palm’s Business College, and after following bookkeeping for two
years became a teacher in the college mentioned, where he continued
two years. He then engaged in the real estate business with
Benjamin F. Teller & Brother and Felix Isman for five years,
when he formed a partnership with Edward Barber and George W.
Presker in the same line of business, under the firm name of
Barber, Hartman & Co. They have since carried on operations in
a very successful manner, with rooms in the Commonwealth Title,
Insurance and Trust Company building at Twelfth and Chestnut
streets, as successors to the well-known firm of Benjamin F. Teller
& Brother.

Winfield L. Hartman (V) was born April 25, 1880.
He graduated from the Keystone State Normal School in 1897. After
teaching in the public schools he prepared for college in Perkiomen
Seminary, Pennsburg, Pa. He entered Princeton University in 1900,
graduating from that institution with high honors in 1904. While a
student at Princeton he was the successful competitor for the
Thomas Wanamaker prize on the English, and was elected a member of
the Phi Beta Kappa Society, which is an honorary society for
scholarship. Since that time he has held the position of instructor
in Latin and Greek in Perkiomen Seminary, and is now the head of
that department. He is a member of Vaux Lodge, No. 406, F. & A.
M. In 1905 he married Sophia Zerr, of Geiger’s Mills, Pa. They have
one child, Helen Elizabeth.

Mary A. Hartman (V) was born March 25, 1862, in
Bern township. In 1886 she married James G. Kauffman, a progressive
young farmer of Centre township, Berks county. Their union has been
blessed with nine children, seven sons and two daughters, viz.:
Winfield (deceased), David, Laura (deceased), George, Mabel, James,
John (deceased), Irvin and Harry.

Carrie J. Hartman (V) was born Nov. 11, 1873.
She graduated from the Keystone State Normal School in 1899, and
taught in the public schools of Ontelaunee township for four years.
In 1903 she married Mordecai S. Parvin, of East Berkley, Pa. They
have one child, Mordecai Hartman Parvin.

Mary Hartman (IV), daughter of Daniel (III) and sister to George C.
(IV), died in early childhood at the age of about one year.

Daniel Hartman (IV) also died in childhood, at the age of about two
years.

John Hartman (IV) was born in Bern township and died at home in the
twenty-fifth year of his age.

Mary Hartman (IV), the second daughter of Daniel who was named
Mary, died at her home in Bern in her eighteenth year.

Ellen Hartman (IV) was the only member of Daniel Hartman’s family
besides George C. who lived to rear a family of her own. She was
born in Bern township in 1845. She became the wife of Jacob Reeser,
of Centre township, and for a time they lived in Bern with her
father. In about 1873 Mr. Reeser bought the farm of Daniel Hartman,
located near Leize’s bridge, in Bern township, and Mr. Hartman had
his home with him until the time of his death, in April, 1876. Mrs.
Reeser died in August, 1902, and was buried in Epler’s Church
cemetery. She was the mother of four children, one son and three
daughters, viz.: James, Valeria, Mamie and Elizabeth.

*Acknowledgement is due to Mr. Winfield L. Hartman, of Perkiomen
Seminary, who has spent much time and labor in securing the data
for the compilation of the major portion of this sketch.

HARTMAN, FREDERICK S.

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Surnames: HARTMAN, WAMSHER, BLEILER, WELLS, SYLVIS, MAURER,
SCHAEFFER, HIGH, WARTMAN, BECHTEL, KRICK

Frederick S. Hartman, of Ontelaunee township, is a member of one of
the oldest and most numerous families of Berks county, members of
which are to be found in all parts of this section. It is not
definitely known, but it is supposed, that all of these Hartmans’
descend from a common ancestor. A great many of the name are found
throughout eastern Pennsylvania, and in Berks county one branch of
the family lives to the east and south of Reading, while another is
to be found in the valley to the north of that city; whether these
two branches are closely related has not as yet been determined.
This sketch pertains to that branch of the family originally living
to the north of Reading, the descendants of which have been spread
over Schuylkill, Columbia, Lycoming and other northern counties of
Pennsylvania as well as into the Middle West.

The earliest pioneer of this family was John
Hartman, the great-grandfather of Frederick S. who came to America
in 1767 from the Rhine country in Germany, making the passage
across the Atlantic in the ship “Crawford,” and landing at the port
of Philadelphia. A romance is connected with the story of his
immigration to America. He was in love with a girl whose name is
unknown, but who was not regarded with favor by Hartman’s parents.
In spite of opposition he decided to marry the girl of his choice,
and in order to overcome parental prejudice and interference
emigrated to America. They settled in Exeter township, Berks
county, where he was employed as a miller in Bishop’s Mill, a
property now owned by George Wamsher. Unfortunately their happiness
was short-lived, for in the first year of their wedded life the
young wife died, without issue. Afterward Mr. Hartman married a
widow named Bleiler, and to this union were born five children, as
follows: John, Michael, Mrs. Wells, Mrs. Harry Sylvis and
Catherine. Mr. Hartman later settled on what is now the old
homestead, recently owned by the late Henry Hartman, and still
possessed by the Hartman Estate, near Temple, Muhlenberg (then
Alsace) township, Berks county. He and his wife were buried in
Reading, at the present site of Trinity Lutheran Church. As this
church was built in 1799, both must have died prior to that date.

John Hartman, son of the emigrant, was born
probably at Bishop’s Mill, Exeter township, and was a farmer,
spending practically all of his time on the old homestead at
Temple. He married Sophia Maurer. Mr. Hartman was possessed of
considerable real estate, owning besides the homestead several
farms and an extensive tract of woodland, and later increased his
possessions by the purchase of the Temple (now Graul’s) hotel
property, which was later sold by his heirs. He had also bought the
farm adjoining the old homestead on the West. John Hartman and his
wife had been buried in the burial ground of the Trinity Lutheran
Church, Reading, but were subsequently re-interred at the Alsace
church graveyard by their sons about 1860. Mr. Hartman had died
prior to 1830 at the age of fifty-four years, Five children were
born to Mr. and Mrs. Hartman: John, Daniel, Frederick, Elizabeth
and Mary.

John Hartman (3), father of Frederick S., was
born on the old homestead at Temple, and lived there all of his
life. After his father’s death he became the owner of all of his
real estate with the exception of the hotel property, which was
sold. Mr. Hartman carried on farming, and also owned an iron ore
mine in the woodland tract on South Mountain, east of Temple, was
in good financial circumstances, and was widely known as a money
lender. He married Mary Schaeffer, and they had six children: Amos,
John, Frederick S., Daniel, Henry and Sophia Mary. Both parents are
buried in Alsace Church cemetery.

Frederick S. Hartman was born March 17, 1830, on
the old homestead near Temple, as were his brothers and sister, and
after the death of his father he obtained possessions of the
property adjoining the homestead on the west, which he still owns.
He later bought a property along the Reading & Pottsville
turnpike near Cross Keys, and there he resides. Mr. Hartman is well
educated, having attended school at Trappe during his youth.

Mr. Hartman married Miss Amanda R. High, who
died March 10, 1908. To this union were born the following
children: John H., Daniel (deceased), James V. (deceased), Mary A.
E., Sallie M., Bertha S. and Emma M.

John H. Hartman, son of Frederick S., born at
Temple, PA., m. Augusta C. Wartman, of Allentown, Pa.; they have
one son, John Raymond, and reside in Philadelphia.

Mary A. E. Hartman graduated from the Keystone
State Normal School in 1883. She m. John A. Bechtel, of Pottsville,
Schuylkill county, who is prominently identified with the
‘Pottsville Miners’ Journal’, and they have had seven children, all
girls: Esther (deceased), Ruth, Martha, Bertha, Laura, Marian and
Florence.

Sallie M. Hartman m. Charles S. Krick, who holds
an important position with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and is
located in New York City. They have had ten children: William
(deceased), George, Catherine, Charles, John (deceased), Frederick,
Helen, James, Daniel and Robert.

Bertha S. Hartman and Emma M. Hartman, who are
both graduates of the Keystone State Normal School, reside with
their father at Tuckerton. They are unmarried.

HARTMAN, GEORGE H.

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Surnames: HARTMAN, HARTLINE, MECK, SWAVELY, MILLER, RICHARD,
FISHER, KEHL, HAFER, REINERT, FOX

George H. Hartman, engaged in the produce business at Boyertown, is
of the family founded in this section by German emigrants of the
same name in the eighteenth century, they becoming loyal and
industrious citizens of their adopted land.

(1) George Hartman, the emigrant ancestor, was a soldier in the
Revolution. The date of his emigration is not known, but is was a
short time only prior to the outbreak of the war for independence.
In the Pennsylvania Archives, Series 2, Vol. 17, is a record of
three Hartmans — Jonathan, Adam, John and George — who sailed
from Rotterdam in the “Union,” Andrew Bryson, master, and arrived
in Philadelphia Sept. 27, 1773. There is also a record of John
George Hartman, who sailed in the “Crawford.” Charles Smith,
master, from Rotterdam, arriving at Philadelphia, Oct. 25, 1774.
There is no record of a George Hartman sailing from Germany prior
to that date except in 1764, at which time Frantz Thomas Hartman
and George Henry Hartman sailed from Rotterdam on the “Sarah,”
Francis Stanfell, master, and arrived in Philadelphia, Sept. 20,
1764. George Hartman, the ancestor, was born in Rotenburg, Germany,
and when he landed in America, owed for his passage, and was
accordingly hired to a man in Oley until this money should have
been paid. While there a recruiting officer for the Continental
army met him in the field and asked him to enlist. He said he would
only that he had to serve his time. The officer told him the farmer
could be satisfied, and this would be done if he would get ready,
to go immediately. Satisfactory arrangements were made, and the
young German enlisted, serving, according to tradition, seven
years. After the war he settled near Woodchoppertown, and some time
later married a Hartline. They had five sons and three daughters:
Adam, who settled in Earl township, Berks county, and had eight
children; Conrad, who located in Oley, and had eight children;
George, of Mohnsville, who was the father of three; Jacob, of
Colebrookdale township, who had three children; Daniel, of Earl
township, who also had three children; and the daughters, who
married respectively, George Meck, Peter Swavely, and Peter Miller,
all of Rockland. George Hartman died in 1831, and was buried at
Oley Church, as was also his wife, who died in 1847.

(II) Conrad Hartman, son of George, was born in Earl township, Dec.
12, 1801. He owned a farm in Colebrookdale township (at
Morysville), and he made farming his lifelong occupation. In 1823
he married Elizabeth Richard, who was born June 30, 1801, and who
died Oct. 30, 1878. He died Aug. 28, 1878, and both are buried at
Boyertown. They had eight children: Daniel R., born March 18, 1824,
lived at Boyertown, and died Dec. 15, 1895; Anna, born Oct. 28,
1828, married Silas Fisher, of Reading, and died July 27, 1895;
William, born Nov. 27, 1827, died at Phoenixville, April 2, 1907;
George, born Jan. 2, 1831, lives in Reading; David born Feb. 15,
1832, lives at Reading; Amos, born June 13, 1835, died on the old
homestead June 15, 1907; Deborah, born July 15, 1839, married W. D.
Kehl, and died March 31, 1901; and Jacob, born April 30, 1842,
lives at No. 2243 North Sixth street, Philadelphia.

(III) Daniel R. Hartman, son of Conrad, was a native of Oley
township, born March 18, 1824, and he died at his home in Boyertown
Dec. 15, 1895, and is buried at Fairview cemetery. For six years he
farmed in Douglass township, but the greater part of his active
life was spent at his trade of shoemaker. In his religious views he
was a Lutheran, and he held a number of church offices. While in
Exeter he belonged to Schwartzwald Church. He married Phoebe Hafer,
born July 31, 1827, daughter of George Hafer, and she died Jan. 10,
1891. They had eight children; Deborah (1852-1872) died unmarried;
Frank H. lived at Boyertown; George H.; Ellen married Henry H.
Reinert, of Boyertown; Misses Lizzie and Amanda live together at
Boyertown; and Daniel H. and William H. also live at Boyertown.

(IV) George H. Hartman, son of Daniel R., is one of the successful
business men of Boyertown. He was born in Exeter township June 25,
1855, and his education was acquired in the township schools. Ass a
young man he learned the painter’s trade, and this he followed
three years. In 1876, Centennial year, he engaged in the produce
business, buying butter, eggs, poultry and vegetables from the
farmers in Colebrookdale and Earl townships, and shipping them by
rail to Philadelphia once a week. The success that attended him in
the beginning induced him to continue in this line, and he had
trade for all his goods in Germantown, Pa. He is thoroughly
familiar with every part of this work, and attends personally to
the major details. For four years he was in business with his
uncle, William Kehl. He has shipped as many as 1,500 dozen eggs per
week, and as high as 2,000 pounds of butter. Mr. Hartman has a
comfortable home on Philadelphia avenue. He and his family belong
to St. John’s Lutheran Church.

In 1879 Mr. Hartman was married to Mary Fox,
daughter of Samuel Fox, of New Berlinville, and their three
children are: Charles C., Mabel F., and Florence F. In politics Mr.
Hartman is a Democrat. For years he was a member of the council,
and he served one term as chief burgess. He is active and
progressive, keenly alive to the best interests of the town, and is
very highly respected.

HARTMAN,
GRANT

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Surnames: HARTMAN, LAUCK, DECKERT, PINYARD, ENSINGER, BEHNEY

Grant Hartman, a prosperous farmer of Bern township, Berks county,
was born in Millcreek township, Lebanon county, Pa., Dec. 24, 1872,
a son of Joseph and Leah (Lauck) Hartman, and comes of an old Berks
county family.

Joseph Hartman was born along the Northkill in
the vicinity above Bernville, in 1833, and when quite young his
parents moved to Millbach, Lebanon county. There he was married to
Leah Lauck who was born in 1839, and is still living, as is Mr.
Hartman. He became a farmer in Millcreek, where he resided until he
was about thirty-eight and then moved to Stouchsburg, Berks county,
and worked on David Deckerts farm two years. In about 1873, he
bought a farm at Reinholds Station, where he resided three years,
then purchased a farm of eighty-three acres at State Hill, Berks
county, and resided there eighteen years. Selling his farm he moved
to Klopps Store, North Heidelberg, where he lives retired. He and
his family are members of the Reformed Church.

The children born to Mr. And Mrs. Joseph Hartman
are: Kate; Ellen; Lucy (widow of George Pinyard, and lives at
Philadelphia); Lizzie, married John Ensinger, of Walters Park;
Leah, married Davies Behney of Robesonia; Harrison, a farmer of
Bern township, Centerville; George, of Millersburg; Grant and
Joseph L. Joseph L. was born Oct. 3, 1870, at Stouchsburg, was
educated in the public schools, and graduated from the Keystone
State Norman School, class of 1902. He taught school in Berks
county ten terms. On Dec. 27 and 28, 1907, he took a civil service
examination and was appointed school teacher in the Philippine
Islands, Aug. 4, 1908, where he is now located.

HARTMAN,
JAMES Y.

p. 1364

Surnames: HARTMAN, BOWER, KULP, BAKER, SHAFFER, FRITZ, SCHWENK,
DANIG, MENGEL, SIMMONS, LODER, IMPINK, WEAVER, OSWALD, BECKER,
DAILEY, GRUBE

James Y. Hartman, a well-known resident of the Twelfth ward,
Reading, who is now living retired, was for many years engaged in
butchering and contracting, and was also prominently connected with
public affairs of the city. Mr. Hartman was born in Reading, Oct.
21, 1838, son of John and Elizabeth (Bower) Hartman.

John Hartman was born in Alsace township, Berks
county, where as a young man he learned the stone mason’s trade,
and this occupation he followed successfully for many years in
Reading, employing from six to eight men, and becoming one of the
best known men in his line in the city. He died at the age of
eighty-four years and was buried at the Catholic cemetery. Mr.
Hartman was married to Elizabeth Bower, who attained the remarkable
age of ninety-four years and was buried at the Alsace cemetery, and
to this union there were born the following children: Elizabeth,
who married (first) Jacob Kulp and (second) Joseph Baker; John;
Angeline, who married Peter Shaffer; Sophia, who married Emanuel
Fritz; Mary, who married Adam Schwenk, a resident of Reading;
Christiana, who married Jacob Danig; Henry; Amos, who died young;
and James Y.

James Y. Hartman attended the public schools of
Reading, and when a boy was employed with his father. At the age of
seventeen years he went to learn the butchering trade with William
Mengel and John Simmons, with who he served an apprenticeship of
three years, and then engaged in business for himself for
twenty-seven years, serving many families and being located most of
this time at Tenth and Marion streets. In 1887 he gave up
butchering to engage in the contracting business, and in addition
to furnishing many of the cobble stones that were used in paving
streets and gutters, the last being the stones used on Fidelity
street, east from Twelfth, between Elm and Buttonwood streets, he
has dug many cellars and built the foundation walls for many
houses. Among Mr. Hartman’s many contracts may be mentioned the
cellars and foundation walls for four houses on Douglass street
above Birch, built by Joseph Loder and Irvin Impink, and the
foundation walls for Loder & Impink’s thirteen new houses on
Locust and Elm streets. Mr. Hartman for a number of years lived at
no. 839 Hampden street, but after his retirement in October, 1907,
he started the erection of a fine three-story residence at No. 1239
Douglass street.

On June 24, 1874, Mr. Hartman was married to
Catherine Weaver, daughter of Daniel and Hettie (Oswald) Weaver,
and to this union there have been born children as follows: Charles
N., born April 6, 1875, who married Gertrude Becker, July 14, 1909;
Henrietta, born Jan. 28, 1878, who married William Dailey of
Reading; Franklin F., born July 6, 1880, who lives at home; Maggie
M., born Jan. 14, 1883, who married Harry Grube, of Reading; and
Matilda, born Oct. 10, 1885, Emma E., born Nov. 16, 1887. Cecelia,
born Feb. 17, 1890, and Josephine E., born July 29, 1893, who all
live at home.

In political matters Mr. Hartman is a stanch
Democrat, and served his ward, then the Eleventh, in the city
council in 1874-5 and again in 1882-84. He is a member of St.
Paul’s Catholic Church, while Mrs. Hartman belongs to the Lutheran
faith.

HARTMAN,
JOHN S.

p. 764

Surnames: HARTMAN, FELIX, WRIGHTMEYER, RITTER, GECHTER, SNYDER,
FEISS, FISHER, SEIDEL, FORNEY, BARTO, WARNER, SCHWENCK, STEIN,
YOUNG, SHADLER, MOYER, REIGEL, HOLLENBACH, HAINES

John S. Hartman, a leading business man of Reading, Pa., well and
favorably known in the building and contracting line, was born May
11, 1861, in Muhlenberg township, Berks Co., Pa., son of Absalom
and Caroline(Felix) Hartman, grandson of Samuel and
Elizabeth(Wrightmeyer) Hartman, and great-grandson of Valentine
Hartman.

Valentine Hartman was born in Alsace township,
near Spies’s Church, and he subsequently owned a farm in that
vicinity, where both he and his wife died. They were worthy members
of the Reformed Church. In political views he was first a Whig but
afterward was inclined to the Republican party. The children of
Valentine Hartman and his wife were: Samuel, William, Abraham, and
Kate(m. Valentine Ritter).

Samuel Hartman learned the wheelwright’s and
millwright’s trades, and followed same for many years. He also
operated a small farm. His death took place at the age of
eighty-two years, and that of his wife, Elizabeth Wrightmeyer, when
she was aged eighty-one years. They had ten children, all of whom
grew to maturity and married, their names appearing as follows:
Lewis, Gideon, Absalom, (born April 28, 1827), Augustus, Samuel,
Israel, Christy (of Reading), Elizabeth(M. John Gechter), Emma(M.
Jacob Snyder), and Valentine. In politics he was first a Whig, but
later became identified with the Republican party.

Absalom Hartman attended school in Alsace
township and then learned the wheelwright’s trade with John Feiss,
which he followed for several years, and then engaged for several
more years in a hotel business at Reading. Prior to his retirement
from business cares he conducted a store at the corner of Centre
avenue and Exeter streets. During the Civil War he was employed by
the U.S. Government as a wheelwright, and was first stationed at
Martinsburg and later at Harper’s Ferry, Va. In 1887 Mr. Hartman
entered the Philadelphia & Reading railroad shops where he
continued until 1899. He died May 3, 1907.

In 1855, Mr. Hartman was married to Caroline
Felix, daughter of Solomon and Catherine(Fisher) Felix, and they
have had children as follows: Emma E., born July 13, 1856, died
aged five years; Catherine R., born Oct. 22, 1857, is deceased;
Amelia, born July 4, 1859, m. F. F. Seidel; John S.; Lillie E.,
deceased, born Jan. 26, 1864, m. John Forney; Howard L., born in
1866, died in infancy; Annie, born March 21, 1867, m. John Barto;
Caroline E., born in 1870, died three months; Caroline(2), born
Sept. 9, 1871, m. Dr. Abraham Warner; William A., born July 3,
1875, a steel worker, m. Sallie Schwenck; Solomon F., born July 26,
1878, m. Carrie Stein; Edwin M., a cigar manufacturer, born May 30,
1881, m. Gertrude M. Young.

The father of Mrs. Hartman, Solomon Felix,
served in the Mexican war. He was born at Reading and was engaged
in various lines of business in this city at different times. He
was a stone mason, a quarryman, a shoemaker and a butcher. He
acquired a good estate and was a well-known citizen. His children
were the following: Lucetta m. Adam Shadler; Catherine m. William
Moyer; Emma m. Lewis Reigel; and Caroline m. Mr. Hartman. Mr.
Hartman is a Republican in politics. Both he and his wife belong to
the Reformed Church. Formerly he was connected with the F.& A.
M. and the I. O. O. F.

John Hartman attended school both in his native
township and in the Reading schools. He then learned the molding
trade with the Reading Hardware Company, and he worked as a molder
for some years and then learned the wheelwright’s trade under his
father, which he followed for two years. He was next employed by
the Philadelphia & Reading company, as a carpenter, and
remained with this organization for five years, working in
different departments. Mr. Hartman then engaged in carpenter work
and bridge building, following the same for three years, after
which he engaged with the Philadelphia & Reading Railway
Company, as a carpenter, in a very short time being appointed
foreman of his division. After a faithful service with this company
which extended over fourteen and one-half years, Mr. Hartman
remained one year with the Reading Stove Works. In 1900 he engaged
in a general contracting and building business and has met with
well deserved success, his experience being long and thorough.

Mr. Hartman was married to Nellie Hollenbach,
daughter of William and Susan(Haines) Hollenbach, and they have two
children, Harrison J. and L. Elizabeth. The former was a graduate
in 1906 in the Reading high school and is now taking a collegiate
course. The latter, born Sept. 10, 1891, is a high school pupil.
The family home of Mr. Hartman is situated at No. 204 Douglass
street. In politics he is a Republican. He belongs to Camp No. 61,
P. O. S. of A.

HARTMAN, SAMUEL M.

p. 1154

Surnames: HARTMAN, MAURER, WRIGHTMOYER, DOTTERER, HERBST, CLEAVER,
BRIDEGRAM

Samuel M. Hartman, who is engaged in the harness business in the
city of Reading, was born in Oley township, Berks county, in 1850,
son of Gideon and Sarah D. (Maurer) Hartman. His grandfather,
Samuel Hartman, was a native of Alsace township this county, where
he conducted a small farm and followed the trade of millwright. He
married Elizabeth Wrightmoyer, and they had ten children, Lewis,
Gideon, Absalom, Valentine, Augustus, Israel, Samuel, Jessie, Eliza
and Emma. In religion this family was connected with the Reformed
Church.

Gideon Hartman was born in Alsace township, near
Spiess Church, and received his education in the local schools. He
learned the trade of miller, but followed it only a short time,
when he turned his attention to huckstering, raising and selling
farm produce for twenty years. He retired in the spring of 1876,
after which he removed to Lyons, along the East Penn railroad,
where he lived for nineteen years. In 1898 he located at Reading,
and died there in January 1903, at the age of seventy-nine years.
He was a temperate man in all things and never used tobacco or
spirituous liquors himself. He was a Democrat in political belief,
and in religion was allied with the United Evangelical Church. In
August 1845, he married Sarah D. Maurer, a daughter of Henry H. and
Sarah (Dotterer) Maurer, and to them were born sixteen children,
eleven sons and five daughters, namely: Mary, Gideon (deceased),
Nathaniel, Samuel M., Henry (deceased), Albert (deceased), James
(deceased), Ammon (deceased), Sarah, Edward (deceased), Susan,
Elizabeth, Violetta, John, Harvey and Warren. Mrs.Hartman, who is
now in her eighty-third year, still resided in Reading.

Samuel M. Hartman spent all his school days in
Oley township, but his advantages were rather limited, for he began
work in a brich-yard when only twelve years old. He worked thus for
one year, at the end of which time he was hired out to Dr. Herbst,
who at that time was county treasurer. This was in Pike township,
and there he remained over one year in the Doctors employ. He then
went to learn the trade of harness maker in his native township,
with J. Cleaver. At this time he was fourteen years old. After two
years Mr. Hartman came to Reading, where he remained about six
months, and then went to Birdsboro, where the next three years of
his life were spent. He again returned to Reading, but was engaged
at carpenter work for one year, working the next three years at
Pottstown, and six months at Philadelphia. After returning to
Reading, Mr. Hartman in 1875 engaged in his present business, first
locating where the Penn National Bank now stands on Penn street.
There he remained five years, and in 1880 located at his present
place, No. 806 Penn street, where he has remained ever since. He
has an extensive trade, all over Berks county and his stock is of
the highest standard. Hr. Hartman employs two skilled workmen.

In 1876 Mr. Hartman married Clara Bridegam,
daughter of William Bridegam, a tinsmith of Reading, and one child
has been born to this union, Helen, who is attending school. In
politics Mr. Hartman is a Democrat. He served as councilman of the
Third ward for two terms, and was a delegate to the county
convention several times. He is a member of Grace Lutheran Church.
Fraternally his is connected with the Royal Arcanum; the
Freemasons, Royal Arch Chapter, Commandery and Shrine. Mr. Hartman
is a public-spirited citizen and good business man, greatly
esteemed by all who know him. He and his family reside at No. 15
South Eleventh street.

Henry H. Maurer, grandfather of Samuel M.
Hartman, on his mothers side, was born in Coldebrookdale township,
near Boyertown, Pa. In boyhood he learned the trade of tailoring.
He was a self-made man, very studious, and taught school in the
eastern section of the county. He was a very successful business
man and also served as justice of the peace, and came to be known
in the neighborhood as the country lawyer. He held the office of
recorder of deeds of the county from 1842 to 1845. He was a noted
auctioneer, and also conducted a hotel near Friedensburg, in Oley
township, for many years. In politics he was a Democrat. He died
May 15, 1834, at the age of seventy-nine years. A grandson, Dr. E.
M. Herbst, is at present serving his third term in the Senate of
Pennsylvania as the Senator from Berks county.

HARTMANN, HENRY JOSEPH

p.1439

Surnames: HARTMANN, BRUDER, HOUCK, EMMICH, BOLLANDER, MOSSER,
ROHRBACH, HILLER, GOOD, PINYARD

Henry Joseph Hartmann, a rising young business man of the Tenth
ward, Reading, Pa., who is engaged in cement contracting for
builders, is a native of this city, born Jan. 29, 1874, son of
Godfrey and Modesta (Bruder) Hartmann.

Staffron Hartmann, the great-grandfather of
Henry J., was a laborer in the Fatherland, and lived in
Grossherzogthum Hessen. He had a family of children, among them
Nicholas Hartmann, who was born in the Grand Duchy in 1818, and
died in 1874. He married Theresa Houck, and to them were born eight
children: Charlotte, of Reading; Magdalena, of Reading; Barbara,
who was blind and died at the age of nine years; Jacob and Godfrey,
twins; Heinrich, who died at the age of two years; Margaretta and
Anna.

Godfrey Hartmann was also a native of
Grossherzogthum, Hessen, Germany, born Jan. 22, 1840. He was
educated in the German schools, which he attended until fourteen
years of age, and then learned the milling trade, which he followed
for one year. Mr. Hartmann then learned the millwright trade, in
which he was engaged until coming to America in 1863, and after
landing at Castle Garden, New York, proceeded immediately to
Reading, where he worked at carpentering for many years in the car
shops. Later he engaged in the contracting business, and erected a
large number of houses in Reading including the double brick
residence at Nos. 412-414 South Eleventh street, which now belongs
to his son, Henry J., and here lived until his death. He and his
family were members of St. Paul’s Catholic Church. Mr. Hartmann
married Modesta Bruder, and to them were born four children,
namely: Godfrey, who died single, aged twenty-one years; Mary, who
died at the age of seventeen years; Henry J.; and one that died in
infancy.

Jacob Hartmann, the twin brother of Godfrey, and
uncle of Henry J., of Reading, lived for some years in Rei
Breidenbach, Kreiss Ehrbach, in Odenwald, and on Oct. 29, 1881,
embarked on the ship “Rheinland,” at Antwerp, and came to Castle
Garden, where he landed Nov. 12, 1881. He at once came to Reading,
and worked for seven years in the employ of the Reading Iron
Company, but in 1888 went back to Germany, returning to America the
year following and settling in Reading, where he has since resided.
He and his family are members of St. Paul’s Catholic Church. In
1871 Jacob Hartmann was married to Anna Maria Emmich, daughter of
Frederick and Elizabeth (Bollander) Emmich, and to them have been
born these children: Frantz, who died in infancy; Adam, who married
Ella Mosser, lives in Reading; Annie, who resides at home and is
single; and Magdalena, who died in 1900, at the age of twenty-one
years.

Henry J. Hartmann was educated in St. Paul’s
Catholic Parochial school, after leaving which he worked in a box
factory, and for the Reading Hardware Co. When seventeen years of
age he learned the machinist’s trade with Orr & Sembower, of
Reading, after leaving whose employ he engaged with his father,
assisting him in contracting until 1900, since which time he has
been carrying on business on his own account, doing contracting
jobs for builders. Mr. Hartmann is a man of more than ordinary
business ability and has gained a reputation for living up to the
word of his contracts. In political matters he is a Democrat,
giving his support to the candidate he thinks best fitted for the
office. Socially he is connected with the Knights of St. John, No.
271, of Reading. Mr. Hartmann and his family are members of St.
Paul’s Catholic Church, and his children attend the parochial
school.

On Nov. 27, 1897, Mr. Hartmann was married to M.
Elizabeth Rohrbach, born Dec. 11, 1874, daughter of Isaac and
Elizabeth (Hiller) Rohrbach. Mr. Rohrbach, who was a native of
Hereford township. Berks county, was a blacksmith by trade, and he
and his wife had four children: Henry, who is single and lives in
Reading; Charles, who married Mary Good, of Reading; Samuel, who
married Minnie Pinyard; and M. Elizabeth. Mr. and Mrs. Hartmann
have two children: Clarence J., born July 20, 1898, and Catherine,
born May 16, 1904.