HARTMAN, Moses

HARTMAN

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Date: 5/30/2021 at 20:21:16

Moses Hartman
born Sep 4, 1851

M. Hartman, Mayor of Battle Creek, Ida County, Iowa, and a man known far and wide as an extensive stock dealer, being a member of the firm of Soesbe & Co., Battle Creek, dates his birth in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, September 4, 1851. His parents, Phillip and Hannah (Will) Hartman, are natives of Pennsylvania, and are still residents of that State, aged respectively seventy-six and seventy-three years. His father is a miller by occupation. They have had ten children, five of whom are deceased, the subject of this sketch being the fourth-born. He was reared on a farm. When he reached his majority, Mr. Hartman located in Sterling, Illinois, where he held the position of foreman of Powell’s Nursery for four years. In 1879 he went to Kansas, and was there engaged in farming until the fall of 1881, when he came to Garfield township, Ida county, Iowa, and purchased eighty acres of land in section 6. On this property he farmed six years. Then he sold out and bought 200 acres in sections 4 and 5, same township, and here gave his attention to general farming and stock-raising until the spring of 1888. At that time he located in Battle Creek and formed a partnership with Mr. Soesbe, in the stock business. They handle upward of three carloads of stock per week the year round, shipping to Chicago, and paying out from $10,000 to $25,000 per month. Mr. Hartman is one of the most active and enterprising men of Battle Creek. In the spring of 1892 he was elected Mayor of the city, having filled the office two years prior to that time. He has also served as Township Trustee of Maple township. As a politician he is an active worker, being identified with the Republican ranks. He has served as Chairman of the Maple Township Central Committee, and at various times has been a delegate to the Congressional conventions, always looking to the best interests of his constituents. Socially, he is a member of the A. F. & A. M., Perseverance Lodge, No. 446, Battle Creek, of which he is Junior Deacon, having passed the Master’s chair; also of the K. of P., Olympic Lodge, No. 257, being Prelate of the same.
While a resident of Sterling, Illinois, and in the employ of Mr. Powell, he was married to Miss Melissa Powell, a native of that State, their marriage occurring December 25, 1877. Her parents C. R. and Mary (Quick) Powell, were born in New York State.
Source: Biographical History of Crawford, Ida, and Sac Counties, Iowa, 1893, p.421