Columbia-Montour County PA Archives Biographies.....HARTZELL, William A. 1851 - living in 1899
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  WILLIAM A. HARTZELL, the popular proprietor of the City Hotel and the Fashion
  Livery, is one of the leading and enterprising business men of the town of
  Bloomsburg. He is a son of William and Martha (Clark) Hartzell, and was born in
  Danville, Montour County, January 8, 1851. His gradfather [sic] is Solomon
  Hartzell, a prosperous farmer of Northumberland County.
  
    William Hartzell, the father of our subject, was born in Northumberland
  County, Pa., and his first work in his own interest was as a rail-straightener
  in the shops at Danville. He also owned a farm and was engaged in agricultural
  pursuits. He was a stockholder in the Danville Nail Manufacturing Company and
  spent the latter years of his life in retirement. He affiliated in marriage with
  Martha Clark, a daughter of Rev. Clark, of Northumberland County, and they
  reared the following children: Mary; Alice; Amanda; Minnie; Isabella, deceased;
  William A., the subject of this sketch; George W., deceased; and Edward C, of
  Sunbury. Mr. Hartzell died at the age of sixty-four years.
  
  William A. Hartzell was reared on his father's farm and received his education
  in the common schools in the vicinity. He spent the early portion of his life in
  farming on the old homestead and in 1876 he moved to Blooms-burg and established
  a teaming and trucking business and also opened a boarding and feed stable at
  the Exchange Hotel barns. He conducted his affairs in a successful manner and
  remained in these businesses until he purchased the Stearns Hotel, which is now
  known as the City Hotel. He has made many improvements in the hotel, which has
  seventeen well-furnished rooms. The landlord, by the genial and courteous manner
  which he manifests toward every one, has won a large share of the patronage of
  the public and is respected and esteemed as a .man of real worth to, the
  community. The hotel is at No. 121 West Main street and is a handsome
  three-story brick structure. In connection with the hotel Mr. Hartzell conducts
  one of the finest livery barns in the town, known as the Fashion Livery. He is a
  good judge of horse flesh and has about fourteen of the best roadsters to be
  found in the vicinity of Bloomsburg. He also owns several valuable trotting
  horses, which he keeps merely for his own pleasure. His vehicles are in keeping
  with the horses, being very stylish turnouts of every kind. Mr. Hartzell and his
  family reside at the hotel, but he owns a large double tenement house in
  Bloomsburg, which he rents.
  
    Our subject formed a matrimonial alliance with Hannah Brewer, a daughter of
  Henry Brewer, of Danville, and they have been blessed by eight children: Edward,
  Flora, Harley, and Eugene, deceased; George W., who is clerk in the hotel;
  Charles, who has charge of the livery; Martha G.; and Maggie E.
  
    Politically, Mr. Hartzell stanchly supports the principles of the Democratic
  party.
  
  
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  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
  Published by 
  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
  
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