Warren County IA Archives Biographies.....Hartzler, Abram 1844 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1896)

ABRAM HARTZLER.—The subject of this sketch is a descendant of two of the pioneer
families of the famous Lancaster county of Pennsylvania. He was born in
Cumberland county, that State, October 7, 1844, one of the nine children of John
and Fannie (Erb) Hartzler, all of whom are living except one. The names of his
brothers and sisters are as follows: Mary, wife of Joseph Ruhl, Cumberland
county, Pennsylvania; John, on the old homestead in Pennsylvania; Samuel,
Cumberland county; Daniel; Annie, wife of Jacob Herr; Barbara, wife of John
Greble, and Harry,—the last four being residents of Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

   John Hartzler, the father, was born in Lancaster county, near the city of
that name, in the year 1800, and when five years of age removed with his
father's family to Cumberland county, where his life was spent. He was a farmer,
enterprising and successful, and after he was retired from active life spent his
closing years in the city of Carlisle, where he died at the age of
seventy-seven. His wife, nee Fannie Erb, was also a native of Lancaster county,
born in the year 1805, daughter of Rev. John Erb and Catherine, his wife, both
natives of Lancaster county. Her father was a Mennonite preacher, and lived to
be sixty years of age. Mrs. Hartzler died at the age of seventy-five.
Grandfather Abram Hartzler was born in Lancaster county in the year 1769. That
place continued to be his home until 1805, when he removed to Cumberland county,
where he died at the age of eighty-seven years. He was a well-known and highly
respected man. His father, the great-grandfather of our subject, was the
progenitor of the Hartzler family in this country, having emigrated from his
native land, Switzerland, to America far back in the Colonial period, and made
settlement among the earliest pioneers of the Keystone State. He died in
Pennsylvania, at a good old age.

   Abram Hartzler, whose name graces this sketch, started out on his own
responsibility early in life. He was married in October, 1868, to Miss Fannie
Strickler, a native of Carlisle and a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth
(Brenneman) Strickler, she being one of their six children. Her parents were
Lancaster people by birth, and by occupation her father was a farmer. He died at
the age of seventy-six years; her mother, at forty-two. Mr. and Mrs. Hartzler
have nine children living, namely: Traub, Lincoln township, Warren county, Iowa;
Ada; Effie, wife of William Spray, Indianola, Iowa; Harry, also of Indianola;
and John, Lula, Berty, Frank and Katie, at home.

   Mr. Hartzler has always been engaged in farming, and on a large scale. In the
year 1887 he came West to Iowa and took charge of the noted Bozler farm near
Indianola, a property comprising about 1,000 acres, where he has since carried
on his operations, cultivating some 250 acres, chiefly in corn and oats, and
utilizing the rest of the land for stock purposes. He is one of the noted stock
men of this region. He keeps from 150 to 200 head of cattle, a large flock of
sheep, and between 100 and 150 hogs. Also he deals to a great extent in horses,
owning, buying and selling, and frequently making shipments to Pennsylvania. His
cattle market is Chicago.

   In politics Mr. Hartzler is a strong Republican, deeply interested in the
principles represented by his party. During the war he enlisted in the Two
Hundred and Ninth Regiment of Pennsylvania, Company A, and went to the front,
where he rendered the Union valiant service until he was honorably discharged in
June, 1865, at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Such, in brief, is a review of the life
of one of Warren county's most enterprising and broad-gauge men.


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A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF IOWA

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CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1896

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