BIO:  Jeremiah T. HARTZEL, Cumberland 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 401-402

JEREMIAH T. HARTZEL, farmer and dairyman, P.O. Gettysburg, was born in Franklin 
Township, Adams County, Penn., January 25, 1849, a son of Samuel E. and Rebecca 
(Thomas) Hartzel.  Samuel E., who is the son of George and Mary (Brame) Hartzel, 
is also a native of this county, born June 29, 1816.  He is still a resident of 
the county, a farmer and stock-raiser.  He obtained such an education as the 
rural district schools of the time afforded, and in 1839, was married to Rebecca 
Thomas, a lady of German descent and a daughter of Andrew Thomas.  Jeremiah T. 
was reared on a farm in Adams County, received a fair common school education 
and chose farming as his occupation, which he has since followed, and at which 
he has been reasonably successful, his accumulations being the result of his own 
exertions.  In connection with agriculture since 1878, he has carried on a 
dairy, which is known as the Katalysine dairy, and keeps about twenty cows on an 
average.  In 1874 he was married to Olive E., daughter of Daniel Plank, and a 
native of Pennsylvania, of Dutch descent, and to this union have been born John, 
Harvey, Mahlon Plank, Charles K., Samuel, Elmer and May Belle.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Hartzel are members of the Reformed Church at Gettysburg, in which he has been a 
deacon.  Mr. Hartzel served in 1877 as a deacon, tax collector in 1878, school 
director in 1883, and as county commissioner in 1885.  In politics he is a 
Republican.