Hartman, William H.

HARTMAN

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Date: 6/29/2021 at 11:44:48

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.716

HARTMAN, WILLIAM H., farmer, Allen Township, Sec. 1; P. O. Carlisle; born in Richland county, Ohio, March 25, 1836; when quite young his parents emigrated to Cooper county, Missouri, where they lived about three years, and returned to Ohio in November, 1843, and lived there and in Illinois about two years, and came to this county, in August, 1845; he married Miss Samantha Roberts, Dec. 27, 1860, a native of Indiana, born in 1843; they have three sons and three daughters: Lulu M., Albert C., Charles C., Clarissa B., Franklin S. and Dora A.; was in the late war, in Co. D, Thirty-fourth Iowa Infantry; enlisted in July, 1862, and served one year, and was discharged on account of disability; owns a farm of 120 acres.

History of Warren County, Iowa from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908, by Rev. W. C. Martin, Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908, p.968

WILLIAM H. HARTMAN
W. H. Hartman, a prominent pioneer of Warren County, and who is still engaged in mercantile and farming pursuits here, was born in Richland County, Ohio, March 25, 1835, his father being J. D. Hartman. The latter, who was also a native of Richland County, Ohio, was a farmer and miller by occupation, and was married in the Buckeye state to Miss Margaret Parker, who was born in Pennsylvania. The parents of our subject came to Warren county, Iowa, in 1846, laid out the town of Hartford and sold the first goods ever disposed of in that town. J. D. Hartman conducted his mercantile enterprise in a log house, and for many years was known as the veteran merchant of Hartford. He spent a few years prior to his death in California, and passed away in Indianola when sixty-seven years of age, his widow being called to her final rest when she had attained the age of eighty-one years. Their family numbered five children, three sons and two daughters.
W. H. Hartman was reared and educated in Hartford and subsequently was employed in his father's mill. Purchasing ninety acres of land west of Hartford, he grubbed out the timber and erected a house, developing a good farm property. At the time of the Civil War he enlisted in Company B, Thirty-fourth Regiment, which was organized at Hartford, Warren county, and participated in the battles of Vicksburg and Arkansas Post, but after seven months service was sent home on account of ill health. Disposing of his farm near Hartford, he bought an improved place of one hundred and twenty acres in Camp Township, Polk County, where he resided for two years. In 1868 he bought eighty acres of his present farm on section 1, Allen township, subsequently added forty acres and still later fifty acres more, while from time to time he has made additional purchases. He erected a good two-story residence and outbuildings, and fenced his fields, making the place a model farming property of the twentieth century. In addition to the work of the fields he also raises a fine grade of cattle, feeding mostly hogs; In 1883 he built a store in Clarkson, a quarter of a mile from his farm residence, and has since conducted mercantile pursuits here. He is a well known and honored pioneer of the county, whose success in business also entitles him to representation among its prosperous and progressive citizens.
On the 27th of December, 1860, Mr. Hartman was married to Miss Samtha Roberts and by this union were born seven children, as follows: Laura E., who died at the age of two years; Albert C., an agriculturist of Palmyra, who wedded Lily Miller, by whom he has three children; Lulu May, who is the wife of George Carty, and resides in the state of Nevada; Charles, who is on the home farm; Belle, at home, who for several years taught school in Des Moines and also in Indianola; Frank, who resides in Nevada; and Dora, at home.
Mr. Hartman gives his political allegiance to the republican party where national questions and issues are involved, but at local elections casts an independent ballot. He cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln, and since that time has never filed to support the presidential nominee of the republican organization. He continuously served as postmaster at Clarkson for twenty-six years and never had an inspection during the entire period. He likewise served as road supervisor, and for several terms was trustee, while for a number of years he was a member of the school board. He has also been a delegate to several county conventions and has taken an active and helpful part in local politics, his aid and influence ever being given on the side of right, truth and progress. He still maintains pleasant relations with his old army comrades through his membership in the Grand Army of the Republic at Carlisle, and both he and his wife are identified with the Baptist church of Hartford. A resident of this county for sixty-two years, he witnesses the building of Des Moines and Indianola, and in the early '50s carried mail from Hartford to Indianola. He is one of the few remaining veterans of the civil war, and is widely known and highly esteemed as one of the oldest living pioneers in Warren county.