In 1897 he began making a specialty of the breeding and raising of thorough bred Duroc Jersey hogs. He has made a particularly careful study of breeds and is one of the best, if not the best, informed man along this line in this section of the state. He has bred some of the best stock in this part of the country, at the same time raising the standard among stockmen generally, many of the heavy breeders obtaining their strain from him. He has probably done more than any other stockman in his immediate vicinity to improve the breed of hogs, and his reputation in this line has spread as he ships stockmen all over the country. He has been exhibiting his stock for years past at the county fairs and for three years has been an exhibitor at the state fair and has never yet failed to win a ribbon.
Mr. Hartung was united in marriage to Miss Eva L. Osborne, on the 10th of March, 1897. She is a daughter of the late John Osborne and Mrs. Sarah Osborne, of Maxwell, both of whom were among the pioneers of Story county.
In his political views Mr. Hartung has always been guided by the policy of the republican party for whose candidates he casts his ballot. Although he has never sought political favor he has, without any solicitation on his part, been twice elected to the office of township assessor and is the present incumbent of that office. He is well known and highly esteemed throughout the community and is ranked as one of the very successful and substantial farmers and stockmen in Story county.
ERNEST EDWARD WHITE, M. D.
Through conscientious application to his profession and by a personal interest in the advancement of the town which he adopted as his home seven years ago, Dr. Ernest Edward White has attained an honored place in the estimation of the people of Huxley, Iowa, and the surrounding region. He was born in Saunders county, Nebraska, September 12, 1872, a son of Edward T. and Rose (Stocking) White, the former a native of Wahoo, Nebraska, and the latter of Hope, Indiana. They were married in Nebraska, to which state Mrs. White had previously moved with her parents. Her father was the Hon. Moses Stocking, a member of the Nebraska state legislature and one of the first men to introduce blooded cattle into Saunders county. He was county commissioner, a life member of the state board of agriculture, a director of the State Horticultural Society, president of the Wool and Sheep Growers Association, and vice president of the Fine Stock Breeders Association, being also a charter member of the State Historical Society and a member of the committee on awards on wool at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. He also received an award from this exposition on wool raised from his own farm. He was a fluent writer and a frequent contributor to periodical literature.