Bio of Phillip HARTMAN (b.1825 d.1903), Faribault Co., MN Includes Family Information USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by: Alan Hartman ***Note: There is a picture of Philip and Matilda HARTMAN at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/faribault/images/family/hartmapm.jpg The is a clickable link on the Faribault Achives Page. Alos see Philip HARTMAN under obits. PHILLIP HARTMAN , a pioneer of 1856, was born in Stark County, Ohio, November 6, 1825, a son of James and Mary (Egler) Hartman, natives of Pennsylvania. The father was a shoemaker by trade, and when Phillip was a young child his parents moved to Columbiana county, Ohio, where he grew to manhood, and learned the shoemaker's trade in his father's shop. He worked for the farmers of the neighborhood during the summer months, and attended school in the winter. In the spring of 1853, at the age of twenty-eight years, he left his native State for Rock County, Wisconsin, where he worked on a farm during the summer, and in the following fall removed to Fayette county, Iowa. In the summer of 1856 he came to Faribault county, Minnesota, arriving in Winnebago City township on August 3, where he filed a claim under the pre-emption law on sections 10 and 15, but at the time of the Indian massacre of 1862 he sold his claim. Mr. Hartman then returned and spent the winter in Fayette county, Iowa, and in the spring of 1863, on his return to Winnebago City township, he purchased a claim to 160 acres on section 7, and during the first winter here worked a part of the time at his trade, having made the first pair of boots in this township. He is now practically retired from active labor. Mr. Hartman has been three times married, first January ll,1849,in 0hio, to Miss Barbara Sanders, and they had one daughter, Mary, now the wife of Darius Douglas, of Kansas. Mrs. Hartman died June 19, 1852, and, in Fayette County, Iowa, our subject was united in marriage with Elizabeth Catherine Jemison. They had four children, viz.: Joseph J., a farmer of Nashville, Martin county, Minnesota; James J., engaged in the same occupation in the same county; Loren E., who farms the old homestead; and Susie, wife of Edward A. Perman, of St. Paul. The wife and mother departed this life April 3, 1877. December 31, 1881, Mr. Hartman married Matilda (Robins) Hill, a native of Granville county, Ontario, and widow of A. R. Hill. By her former marriage Mrs. Hartman had two daughters: Emily Clarinda, wife of Frederich J. Clark, of Rochester, New York; and Trissie A., who died March 18, 1882. The family are members of the United Brethren Church. Exerpt from "Memories of the Counties of Faribault, Martin, Watonwan and Jackson, Minnesota" Chicago The Lewis Publishing Company 1895 **Family of Philip HARTMAN** Philip Hartman was married to his first wife by John Voglesong b. 1808 in PA, a Justice of the Peace and shoemaker. His 3 wives are (A) (B) (C) b.Nov. 6, 1825 in Stark Co, OH. (1850 census says PA instead). d.1903 Winnebago, MN. m.(A)Barbary (or Barbara) Saunders/Sanders Jan. 11, 1849 in Columbiana Co., OH. b.1828 PA d.Jun. 19, 1852 Child: A1. Mary b. 1849/50 m. Darius Douglas and moved to KS. m.(B)Elizabeth Catherine Jemison Dec. 25, 1856.(Philip's 2nd wife) her parents were Joseph (1796-1862) and Susan (1790-1871) Jemison from Maryland and Pennsylvania respectively. b.1834 in PA d.Apr. 3, 1877 buried Basey Cem. Children:B1.Joseph Jackson b. 1858 was a farmer in Nashville, Martin Co, MN. m. Rosa Wells. He is believed to have died from Typhoid. Basey Cemetery, Truman MN Children: Leona m. Jay Stratton Mina m. Paul Mausehund Floyd buried Basey Cem. Children: may still be living Elmer buried Basey Cem. B1. James Jemison lived and farmed in Winnebago, MN., dying of what was believed to be typhoid. (see *Note below) b.Aug. 11, 1861, at Winnebago, MN. d.Oct. 12, 1895, at Winnebago, MN. m.Lydia A. Marsh b.Apr. 4, 1867 in Faribault Co, MN. d.1905 buried Basey Cem. Children:B2.Theresa Adella b. Sep. 1, 1889 d.Nov. 29, 1956 buried Basey Cem., Faribault Co, MN m. Calvin Loyd Stauffer Sep. 9, 1908, Blue Earth, Faribault Co, MN Children: Elwin Olson b. 10 Sep 1909 in Nashville Twp, Martin Co, MN d. Oct 8, 1911 in Martin Co, MN Dysentery buried: in Basey Cem, Faribault Co, MN Mildred Iona Scott b. Mar. 7, 1912 in Nashville Twp, Martin Co, MN d. before 1962 DeWayne b. Nov. 29, 1921 d. Sep. 16, 1988 in Hosp, Blue Earth, Faribault Co, MN buried in Basey Cem, Faribault Co, MN other children may still be living B2.Eva Mae m. Edward Kelsey and then a Mr. Roberts in Winnebago, MN. Child:still living B2.Philip b. Apr. 2, 1893 d. Jun. 1967 in Hewitt, MN., m. Lou Vina Miller at Fairmont, MN., Apr. 2, 1914, b. Dec. 14, 1896. Lou Vina's father played with the John Philip Sousa band. Child:Louis James (Pappy) b. Sep. 8, 1917, at Winnebago, MN., Child:wife and children still living B2.Jay Clarion b.Aug 15, 1895 Winnebago, MN. d.Oct. 27, 1967 Eagle Bend, MN. m.Jessie Burton Loomer Dec. 31, 1919 in Winnebago, MN. b.Jul. 18, 1888 in Kalo, IA. d.Aug. 1978 in Minneapolis, MN. B2.Roscoe Milton b. 1888 d. 1951 Basey Cem. B1.Loren Elmer m. Ruth Ellen (Marsh) (Lydia's sister) Basey Cem. Children:Horace Wilbert b. Mar. 26, 1896 d. 1979 Basey Cem. m. Anna Children: still alive B1.Susie m. Edward A. Perman of St. Paul, MN. dau. Gretchen m.(C)Mathilda (Robins) Hill Dec. 31, 1881. (3rd wife of Philip) She was a native of Granville County, Ontario, and a widow of A. R. Hill Children by former marriage: Emily Clarinda m. Frederich J. Clark of Rochester, NY Trissie A. d. Mar. 18, 1882 **Bio of Philip HARTMAN by Louis James Hartman** One of Philip's great grandsons, Louis James (Pappy) Hartman, died in Aug.1983 but people in northern MN, the Dakotas, and family members still fondly remember him The following biography of Philip Hartman is his. In it, Pappy's exuberance for genealogy and drama shine. GREAT GRANDPAP Philip Hartman 1825-1903 Philip Hartman was born November 15, 1825 in Stark County , Ohio to James and Mary (Egler) Hartman. The first years of his life were spent on his parent's farm and attending the country schools as they existed at that time. He grew up to manhood at the time that the young United States was expanding westward. Details of his early life are rather scant although it is certain that he had two brothers, John and Jonathan, both younger. Shortly after the Territory of Wisconsin became a state, Philip Hartman determined to seek his fortune, in what was then known as the West. About 1846 or 1847 he found himself at Baraboo, Wisconsin which at that time was the western frontier. The newly opened limestone quarries and lead deposits provided employment and for a time he was engaged in hauling lead ore to the Wisconsin River for shipment down to the smelters in Illinois along the Mississippi River. While at Baraboo he met up with and married Barbara Saunders in 1848 . To this union one daughter, Mary, was born in January 1850. Two years later Philip Hartman's wife died leaving him with a two-year-old daughter. The daughter, Mary, was taken care of by her maternal grandparents, the Saunders. Having gained some experience in lead mining and limestone quarrying, Philip Hartman began to succumb to the gold fever that was particularly virulent after gold was discovered in California in 1849 . In early June, 1853 , after leaving his two year old daughter in the care of her maternal grandparents, he struck out afoot for Council Bluffs, Iowa in the hopes of attaching to an overland immigrant train headed for California. He arrived at Council Bluffs a few days too late to join the last caravan headed for California. No wagon train would leave after July first and ever hope to get through the mountain passes before they were snow clogged for the winter. The memory of the Donner Disaster was a bitter lesson. Having missed the last opportunity to join a wagon train to the California Gold Fields, Philip Hartman decided to return to Wisconsin. The most direct route lay across the southern portion of the territory of Minnesota, which was just first becoming settled. He had heard that a hundred years earlier a party of Frenchmen had discovered what they believed to be deposits of lead along the Blue Earth River. The French explorers had sent a canoe load of samples down the Blue Earth River to the Minnesota and on to the Mississippi and thence down to an outpost at Kaskaskia on the Mississippi and had their samples analyzed. It wasn't lead, it was a variety of metallic colored bluish gray clay and worthless as far as minerals were concerned. But Philip Hartman had the vague idea that it might not hurt to double check the findings of the French explorers of a hundred years before. So he did. He arrived at the Blue Earth River in what is now Faribault County in August 1853 and set up a temporary camp while he explored the possibilities of this new land. After looking over the new country, he came to the conclusion that the rich level prairies would in time yield more wealth to the farmer's plow than the California gold fields would yield to the miner's pick . Anticipating the possibilities of the future, he took advantage of what was known as "squatters sovereignty” which meant that whoever laid claim to a parcel of land would be the first considered after the land was surveyed and attached as a part of a legal government unit. So he set about building a small log cabin before cold weather set in. He chose a ravine along the Blue Earth River not far from where the late Russell Huber lived around 1960. It is possible that he intended to go back to Wisconsin for the winter and return the following spring of 1854 and try to develop his squatter's claim. Family history and legend isn't clear whether he went back to Wisconsin late in the fall of 1853 or whether he stayed. But probably he went back because the nearest settlement where he could get supplies would be far to the east along the Mississippi River. The next we hear of Philip Hartman, he was back at his claim in the early summer of 1854 and the first wave of frontier settlers was just starting to trickle in. Late that summer he had a neighbor by the name of William Stauffer. William Stauffer arrived with a yoke of oxen and a wagon. He arrived a bit too late in the season to build a cabin so he overturned his wagon box, lined it with grass and leaves, covered it with more of the same and lived the first winter inside his wagon box buttressed up with a lean-to made of brush, rushes and mud. It was hardly Hotel Hilton accommodations but he survived. The next year, 1855, a few more stragglers drifted in such as the Claybaughs, Pierces, Jemisons and others. But the red man was still boss around these parts. Being that the palefaces were so few in number, it was most prudent to try to get along as best as they could with their red skinned neighbors. And with a few hardy settlers in one spot, it became easier for one of their number to take oxen back to the settlements along the Mississippi and bring back a whole wagonload of supplies for the group. At some time during this period, Philip Hartman must have made some contact with his in-laws back in Wisconsin and supplied himself with a few more implements of survival among which included some apples trees. With an eye to a permanent future in the new land, he set out an apple orchard and amongst his tools and implements was a shoe cobbler's set. Philip Hartman made the first pair of cowhide boots in what is now known as Faribault County. The year of 1855 brought another decided improvement when Joseph and Susan Jemison hit the country and brought along three marriageable daughters. In due time nature took its course and Claybaugh bagged one of the daughters, Pierce bagged another one and Philip Hartman bagged one on Christmas day 1856. By that time a little outpost that was the beginnings of Winnebago City was born and it was a convenience because now there was a source of supplies and necessities within walking distance. Very likely, the first supplies to Winnebago came from Fort Snelling via the Minnesota and Blue Earth Rivers by boat. In due time Philip Hartman and his neighbors began to gradually tame the wild land. The prairies west of the ravine felt the bite of settler's plow and the woods along the river bottom felt the bite of the woodsman's axe. Jemison had a few blacksmith tools, Philip Hartman had his leather tanning and shoemaking tools and other settlers had various skills that were combined for the benefit of the infant community. And Philip Hartman's young apple trees began to look promising. Then a small dam was built on the Blue Earth River a couple of miles downstream from Philip Hartman's holdings and the hamlet of Coronet was born. That was an added convenience because Winnebago City was four or five miles off and on the other side of the river. Coronet was only half as far away and it was on the convenient side of the river. More and more settlers came in. The land was surveyed and now it was possible to buy land from the Territorial Government for as little as a dollar and a half an acre. Minnesota became a state in the late spring of 1858 and Philip Hartman's apple trees were first starting to bloom . In a couple of years he would have apples enough for everybody in the community. Not only that, he got along well enough with the Indians that they would swap him deer and buffalo hides for his tanned leather and other articles that he could produce in his spare time in the winter months. One of his wintertime projects was the manufacture of a cider press in anticipation of the growing prospects of his orchard. By 1861 when the Civil War broke out in earnest, there was a sudden demand for wheat. And Philip Hartman's family had grown. In addition to his daughter, Mary, from his first marriage to Barbara Saunders, there was now Joseph Jackson, James Jemison and a stepdaughter, Mina Jemison Hartman. And that was the year that his cider press went into action. Cider comes in several-varieties. There is the soft or sweet cider suitable for women and children and for serving when the preacher makes his calls. Then there is cider vinegar that is useful in cooking and pickling. Lastly there is the good natured cider usually reserved for the menfolk and sometimes to illicitly swap to the Indians in spite of some idiotic law forbidding it. If the Civil War brought prosperity to the tillers of the soil in the form of a great demand for wheat, it also complicated the Indian problem. The Indians were supposed to be paid for their lands that had been gobbled up by the settlers. The U.S. Government by treaty had agreed to furnish the Indians flour, blankets, gold and other necessities in return for their lands. But the Civil War raging in the southern states seemed to be of more national importance than a few tribes of Indians. The settlers had come in such numbers that it ruined the Indian's hunting and the government payment for their lands was diverted to the war effort. The Indians became restless and eventually hostile. The year of 1862 saw the situation worsen. The Indians were starving and becoming desperate. But Philip Hartman managed to keep on reasonably good terms with them. He swapped wheat, apples, fresh pork and other fruits of his labors to them in exchange for raw hides. There is also a family suspicion and legend that he also cemented his friendship with the Indians with a bit of his good-natured cider. Then came that fateful August of 1862 when the Sioux Indian's Dent up rage and frustrations boiled over in the famous Sioux Uprising. Philip Hartman had prospered for the past several years. A team of horses and a yoke of oxen, poultry and some cows and pigs were added to his "squatter's claim" that had long since been recognized and legalized. The wheat harvest was on. And wheat in those days was cut with a scythe and cradle, bound by hand, shocked and stacked until such time as some primitive horse driven threshing machine could make the rounds. A group of disgruntled Sioux Indians showed up one day while Philip Hartman was cutting and binding wheat. They complained bitterly that the game had fled before the settlers and that the great white father in Washington had not delivered the promised flour, blankets, supplies and gold. They were facing winter and starvation. So, Philip Hartman, in order to keep on reasonably good terms with the Indians, made them a proposition. If they would help him bind-and shock wheat, he'd give them some of his last year's wheat in turn and they could take it to Coronet and have it ground into flour. That seemed to be fair enough. But the Indians were not used to the white man’s ways and labor. They made a miserable mess trying to bind wheat into bundles and build shocks. Philip Hartman thanked them for their efforts, gave them some wheat for making an honest try at white man's toil and for good measure and passed around a jug of glorified apple juice. The next day the Indians returned and wanted some more of this wonderful elixir that chaseth away gloom and causeth the headaches. Philip refused. That night the Indians stole all he had on hand and a couple of days later the Indians uprising boiled over at Fort Ridgely and New Ulm. Philip Hartman had his horses hitched to a wagonload of wheat bundles and was stacking his wheat one August afternoon when a messenger came riding in from the northwest on an exhausted horse with the horrifying news that the Indians were besieging Fort Ridgely and massacring the solid Deutschmen at New Ulm and murdering, burning and pillaging all over. The messenger added that he was supposed to carry the alarm to Blue Earth City and Shelbyville but his horse was exhausted. Philip unhitched his horses from his wagonload of wheat bundles and told the messenger to take one of his horses and go on to Blue Earth City and spread the alarm and he would send someone on the other horse to warn the people of Shelbyville a few miles to the north. Then Philip Hartman and his wife, Elizabeth Catherine (Jemison), loaded their children in the ox cart along with what necessities they could conveniently carry with them and headed for Waseca, some twenty-five or thirty miles to the northeast, Where there was reported to be a crude stockade. Oxen plod along at a painfully slow gait of about two miles an hour and long before they reached Waseca darkness had fallen. Far back on the western horizon they could see red glares in the sky as settler’s cabins went up in flames. The family reached Waseca safely and Philip was rejoined by the messenger he had sent to Shelbyville and got his horse back. A paramilitary expedition was set up comprised of settlers who had horses and firearms to make reconnoitering patrols back west as far as the Blue Earth River. He found his own place in ruins. His wheat stacks and log buildings were piles of ashes and only the bones and scraps of hide remained of his pigs and cows. There was nothing to come back to and hope to survive the winter on. After the Indian Uprising was decisively quelled at the battle of Wood Lake,Philip Hartman made the track to West Liberty, Iowa where his brother, John Hartman, had established himself and spent the winter in Fayette County, Iowa. And you can bet your breeches that he did not spend the winter of 1862-1863 snowmobiling and watching TV either. But Philip was a hardy soul. The next spring in 1863 he was back. The Morill Homestead Act of 1862 offering a quarter section of land free to settlers was in effect. So Philip Hartman chose a quarter section of land in section 7, Winnebago Township. In the course of time Philip Hartman built up one of the better farms in the area and in 1866 his youngest son, Loren E., was born. Philip Hartman was a solid, middle-aged citizen and he established another apple orchard. But after affiliating with a local church that looked askance at letting yeast and apple juice do what comes naturally, he stuck strictly to-the soft cider business and sold choice apples by the barrelful. In the early 1870's, his second wife, Elizabeth Catherine, passed on and left a lonely man on the old homestead. In 1875 he married for the third time. This time he married a widow, Mathilda Robbins Hill, who had two daughters by her previous marriage. In due time Philip Hartman reached the age when a man can relax and enjoy the fruits of his life labor. His youngest son, Loren, eventually took over the old homestead. Philip Hartman died in August 1903 lacking a few months of reaching his seventy-eighth birthday. But he was preceded in death by two wives, his two older sons, Joseph J. and James J. as well as a stepdaughter. In time the old homestead was passed on to his grandson, Horace Hartman. Now 150 years after Philip Hartman was born, is it possible that any of his grandsons, great grandsons or even his great-great grandsons could cope with the problems he faced during the last three quarters of the nineteenth century? Or for that matter, could Philip Hartman cope with the problems of the last quarter of the twentieth century? **Submitter's notes: In Pappy's bio, the dates are a bit off and I think the hard cider given to the Indians is a bit apocryphal so I think there should be a caveat. I have since learned that there was no younger brother John Hartman. I appears that John Clabaugh, a pioneer of the same time and brother-in-law to Philip was later thought to be a brother. I don't know if Pappy wrote any more on the family. I have heard that he used family info for some of his articles and I hear they are all archived up north but have not seen any. James Jemison Hartman's wife Lydia's parents were Robert Harrison and Emma Jane (Reed) Marsh. They're buried in Basey Cem also and I have the descent on down from Francis Cooke who came over on the Mayflower on thru to Lydia on the Reed side of the family (Pappy used this info to join the Mayflower Society). Lydia was widowed at age 33 with 5 kids. She had a tough time of it trying to work the farm, raise the kids and start the fire at church (Basey) on Sunday mornings. At times, Lydia could really get mad and beat the tar out of the kids leaving my grandfather Jay Clarion Hartman to be one hating any corporal punishment. Jay in fact, while on guard duty in WWI, confronted and shot a camp water tower saboteur and subsequently, in civilian life, refused to handle firearms. If a horse had to be "put down," he would send son Dale to fetch a neighbor who owned a rifle. Lydia married a civil war pensioner with a disability, Henry Clay Shufelt, on June 9, 1900, "farming" the kids out to relatives, notably relative Loren Elmer Hartman youngest son of Philip Hartman. It is said that Eva (Hartman) (Kelsey) Roberts was worried that no one would take her brother Philip as he was so mischievous, even losing his new shoes during Lydia's funeral. As mentioned, Loren took in Laurel and possibly Jay but it is not clear who took in the others when Lydia died in 1905. Jay went into the service during the tail end of the W.W.I, finishing boot camp and going to France in April with the war ending by the next fall. While he was in the service he got a "Dear John" letter from the girlfriend he left behind. His Uncle Loren Hartman and Leonard Loomer, a nearby farmer, got school teacher sister Jessie Burton Loomer to write to Jay. After the war, Jay and Jessie married and, with some farm equipment from Loren, moved to farm land in Todd Co, MN. Jay's brother Philip (Pappy's father) also moved to the same area. Loren's descendants still farm the old Winnebago farmstead. *Note: October 12, 1895, James Jemison Hartman, a farmer in Winnebago City Twp, Faribault Co., MN, died at age 34 of what was thought to be typhoid. At his death, he left Lydia (Marsh) age 28 and five children. On June 9, 1900, Lydia married the then widower Henry C. Shufelt, producing a daughter Laurel. Lydia died in 1905 from what was thought to be dropsy (congestive heart failure) at a young 38. She is buried in Basey Cemetary next to James. Laurel and her stepbrother Jay Clarion Hartman were taken in by Loren Elmer Hartman a farmer in the area.