BIO: HENRY HARTZ, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 340-341
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    HENRY HARTZ, a most highly respected citizen of Monroe township, Cumberland
  county, where he owns a fine farm, was born in 1824, in Lancaster county. In
  1833 his parents moved to Cumberland County.
 
    The family is of German extraction, reaching back to the grandfather of
  Henry Hartz, a native of Germany, who came to

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  America prior to, or during, the Revolutionary War, taking part in the same
  and being wounded in the leg. With his wife he died in Berks county, Pa.,
  where he owned a farm. His four sons were: Caleb, Samuel, Conrad and Peter.
    
    Conrad Hartz was born in Berks county and attended school there. In the
  year of his marriage he located near New Holland, Lancaster county, and
  engaged in teaming to Baltimore, Philadelphia and Pittsburg. In 1820 he came
  to Cumberland county, and located in Middlesex township to engage in
  agriculture. Some nine years later he came to Monroe township, and farmed the
  Michael Betzhoover farm, then the Goodyear farm, and finally the Moses Bricker
  farm, where he lived for twenty-one years, and where both he and wife died.
  They left these children: William died in the West; Jacob died in Ohio;
  Conrad and Samuel both died in the West; George took part in the Mexican War,
  and disappeared; Mary died at Churchtown; Henry; Elizabeth died in Carlisle;
  and Catherine is a resident of Churchtown.
    
    Henry Hartz obtained the best education possible at the time in the
  district schools of Cumberland county, and remained with his father until he
  was thirty-three years of age. Prior to purchasing his own farm he had many
  years of experience, working for ten years with his father, and, after
  marriage, five years on the William Brandt farm in Monroe township, five
  years on the George Brindle farm, after which he spent one year in York
  county. Upon his return he bought, in 1879, what was known as the old Piper
  farm in Monroe township, and located on it in the following year, ever since
  making it his home.
    
    In 1857 Mr. Hartz married Esther Baker, daughter of Peter Baker, of
  Cumberland county. She died in 1899, and was buried in the cemetery at
  Baker's Church. They had these children: George. who is a farmer in Monroe
  township, near Mechanicsburg, married Annie Smizer, and they have three
  children, William H., Aida and Della, all at home; and Annie Elizabeth, who
  is her father's neat and capable housekeeper, a most estimable lady.
    
    For the last nine years Mr. Hartz has been a valued member of the Dunkard
  Church. He is highly regarded by all who know him. For his years he possesses
  wonderful vitality, and takes a great interest in hearing of the welfare of
  neighborhood friends, exerting a good and pious influence on all with whom he
  comes in contact. He has led a long and useful life, upon which he can look
  backward with few regrets.