Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....Hartman, Henry A. C. 1840 - 1907
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

HENRY A. C. HARTMAN

ONE of the best known of the really old timers of Logan township was Henry A. C.
Hartman. He was born in Prussia in 1840 and came to this country with his
parents when he was a child. He was raised in the state of Ohio and came to
Barton County in 1875. He located a homestead in Logan township, one mile north
and three miles south of the township of Claflin. In 1876 be brought his family
to the new country and began the work of building a home. Until the time of his
death which occurred in July, 1907, he took an active part in the development cf
the resources of the northeastern part of the county of Barton. His death was
due to drowning in Cow creek, where as the result of the water being
exceptionally high his wagon in which he was riding was overturned and he was
thrown into the water while he was attempting to cross. Mr. Hartman was married
to Miss Anne Elizabeth Shellhase in Ohio and they were the parents of eleven
children. Mrs. Hartman came to America from Russia where she was born in
Hess-Cassel province. She arrived in America in 1845 at a time when this
counttry [sic] was in the throes of a scare due to the cholera, which caused the
death of a great number of people. Mrs. Hartman at that time was six years of
age and many of her relatives and people who came over on the boat with her died
as a result of being afflicted with this disease. Of the eleven children born to
Mr. and Mrs. Hartman, two of them died in infancy. Those who are living are:
Louise, who is now Mrs. F. W. Waknitz of Ness County; Lydia, who is now Mrs. W.
H. Barnes of Preston, Kansas; Charles A., who resides in Reno County, where he
is interested in farming; Matilda H., who is the wife of Dr. S. B. Russell of
Yuma, Colorado; John H., who was born in Logan township, February 15, 1877, and
now resides in Hoisington where he is vice president of the First National bank,
an institution which he founded. He is also engaged in the insurance and loan
business in that city. He was married to Miss Dale Nimocks, daughter of G. W.
Nimocks of Great Bend, January 1, 1902. They have two children, Blanche and R.
Lynn.

   Edwin E. is a traveling representative of the Acme Harvester company with
headquarters at Wichita; James F. is in the hardware business at Preston; Jesse
S. is now Mrs. E. R. Jukes of Boise, Idaho; Benjamin H. is farming near Preston;
Mrs. Hartman is now living in Idaho with her daughter, Mrs. Jukes. There is no
family that is better known in Barton County than the Hartmans, and John H., who
is mentioned above is one of the best known business men of Hoisington and is an
enterprising and progressive citizen.


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