BIO:  Noah W. HARTMAN, Franklin Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Pages 407-408

NOAH W. HARTMAN, nurseryman, P.O. Arendtsville, was born in Franklin Township, 
this county, in 1838.  The first of this family to come to America was John 
Hartman, who emigrated from Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany, about 1700, and settled 
with his young wife in Northumberland County, near the Tulpchocken Church.  He 
reared a family, among whom was a son, George, and a daughter, Regina.  One day, 
the mother, accompanied by her son George, started to the mill ten miles 
distant, leaving the father and the other children at home.  During her absence 
the Indians made an attack, burned the house and killed the entire family, 
except Regina, whom they carried off, together with Susan Swartz, the daughter 
of a neighbor.  They were taken west of the Alleghenies and remained in 
captivity twelve years before they were reclaimed.  When peace was declared a 
general exchange of captives was made at Carlisle.  Regina’s mother and her 
brother, George, crossed the Susquehanna on horseback and brought her long lost 
daughter to her Northumberland home.  George subsequently married Susan Swartz, 
who was captured at the same time as his sister, and became the father of twelve 
stalwart sons.  John Hartman, one of the sons, emigrated from Northumberland 
County to Northampton County, where he enlisted in the Revolutionary Army, and 
served to the end of the war.  He came to Adams County in 1786, and became the 
father of John Hartman, grandfather of our subject.  He lived where Isaac 
Starner now resides, married Annie Blocher and reared a family of seven 
children, one or whom, Henry, was the father of Noah W., our subject.  Henry was 
born in 1803, in this county, and in 1831 married Sally A. Raffensperger.  
During their married life they resided in Franklin Township.  He died in 1869.  
His widow still survives, nearly seventy-four years of age.  They were the 
parents of thirteen children, eight of whom are living:  Ephraim, Catharine, 
Margaret, Noah W., John F., Annie E., Sarah and Solomon.  Noah W. (our subject) 
was married in 1863, to Rebecca, a daughter of Peter and Annie Ketterman.  He 
was at that time engaged in the nursery business, and they began life on the 
farm where they now reside.  They have six children:  Clement A., Mary E., 
Milton E., Edgar W., Calvin and Annie S., all of whom still reside with their 
parents.  Mr. Hartman has fifteen acres in fine cultivation with every variety 
of tree and plant indigenous to our soil.  The nursery returns a fine revenue 
and is the only one in the township.  He was a charter member of the 
Arendtsville Lodge, No. 325, K. of P., of Arendtsville, and was nominee of the 
Democratic party, in 1884, for representative.  Clement A. has been engaged in 
teaching and will complete his education in the near future.  The maternal 
grandmother Heintzleman, was a relative of Gen. Heintzleman, and her father 
owned a large tract of land in this township the spot where the original cabin 
was built when the land was pre-empted is marked b a large stone on the Jonas 
Orner farm, where there was an Indian shot by Mr. Heintzleman off of a 
grapevine, and was buried near by.  Our subject’s great-grandmother received a 
State pension in the Pennsylvania Legislature in the year 1855.  His great-
grandfather Hartman was married in 1775, in Northampton County, Penn., to a Miss 
Ritter.  The Indians were numerous and used to congregate around their cabin.  
The Heintzlemans all lived to a ripe old age and were a noted family in this and 
Franklin County.