Montour-Lackawanna County PA Archives Biographies.....HARTMAN, F. Q. 1861 - 
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  F. Q. HARTMAN, one of the well-to-do and influential citizens of Danville, Pa.,
  who is the proprietor of the Nemoloton Silk Mills of that town, was born at
  Scranton, Pa., May 3, 1861, and is a son of John G. Hartman, deceased, who was a
  native of Germany and a mechanic by trade.
  
    F. Q. Hartman possesses a good education which he received in the public
  schools of Scranton. Leaving school when a mere lad he sought employment in the
  Sagnoit Silk Mills of Scranton remaining with that company many years during
  which time he became thoroughly familiar with the manufacture of silk. His wide
  experience in business affairs attracted the attention of the Delaware & Hudson
  Railroad Company officials who offered him a position as assistant-paymaster of
  the railroad, which position he accepted; not only did he fulfill his duties
  with great credit to himself but to his superior officers as well, and upon his
  resignation from that position of trust he was begged to reconsider his action,
  and as an inducement, he was offered an increase in salary, but our subject had
  determined to enter into business on his own account. He removed to Danville and
  erected a large two-story brick building 53 by 125 feet on Water street and
  engaged in the manufacture of silk. The mill is equipped with sixteen thousand
  spindles and gives employment to about three hundred hands who are kept
  constantly busy in order to keep up with the orders. In 1896 the mill was
  destroyed by a cyclone and our subject sustained a severe loss; he immediately
  re-built and enlarged the mill, which is equipped with the most modern
  machinery. The mill is lighted throughout by. electricity, which is supplied by
  its own dynamo.
  
    Our subject was united in the bonds of matrimony to Genevieve Atwood, a
  daughter of Eugene Atwood, a silk manufacturer of Stonington, Conn. Mr. Hartman
  is considered an important factor in the business and industrial interests of
  Danville, aiding materially in developing its resources.
  
  
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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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