Hardman, Charles W.

HARDMAN

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 11/6/2008 at 13:50:00

charles W. Hardman

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.243, Valley Twp.)
Charles W. Hardman, physician, Hancock, was born in Tazewell County, Ill., in 1853, son of Samuel B. and Mary F. Hardman; he is a farmer and Methodist preacher; she is the mother of three children - our subject, one son, a druggist in Avoca, Iowa, and a daughter living in Davenport, Iowa, the wife of Mr. Hancock, who founded the town in Iowa which bears his name. Dr. Hardman was raised on his father's farm, in Tazewell County, and subsequently took a course in Rush Medical College, Chicago, graduating from the same in 1878. After graduating, Dr. Hardman located in Pawnee County, Kan., where he practiced till 1881, then came to Hancock, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, where he is the only physician, and has a good practice; he and his brother are preparing to go into the drug business in Hancock. Dr. Hardman was married, in Kansas, in 1879, to Miss Mary Lula Pugh, of Chicago, Ill.; they have one daughter, Mary Grace. Dr. Hardman is a member of the I. O. O. F., and in politics is a Democrat.