Sullivan-Columbia-Luzerne County PA Archives Biographies.....Hayman, George Washington 1860 - 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
  GEORGE WASHINGTON HAYMAN, one of the most enterprising and successful business
  men of Dushore, has by his ability and business tact built up a harness business
  that is a credit to the town, as he carries a larger assortment and stock than
  all of the shops in the neighboring villages combined. He is a thorough mechanic
  of the old school, having learned his trade when collars, saddles, trunks, bags,
  etc., were nearly all made in connection with harness-making, and he understands
  every detail of his business. For over a quarter of a century he has carried on
  business at Dushore, and consequently his work is well known throughout Sullivan
  and adjoining counties.
  
      Mr. Hayman was born in Orangeville, Columbia county, Pennsylvania, June 14,
  1846. His father, Peter Hayman, a tailor by trade, was born at Allentown,
  Pennsylvania, about 1803, and learned his trade at that place, where he worked
  for a time. In 1833 he removed to Orangeville, where he continued to follow his
  trade until his death in 1852. He married Miss Mary M. Sterner, also of
  Allentown, and to them were born ten children, six of whom reached maturity,
  namely: Randolph, an undertaker and furniture dealer at Turbottsville,
  Pennsylvania; Joseph, who died of yellow fever in North Carolina, while a
  soldier in the Civil war; Mary, deceased wife of Charles Fisher, of Kentucky;
  George W., our subject; Susan, who died at the age of thirty-five years; and
  John W., a car-inspector for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Harrisburg,
  Pennsylvania.
  
      Three members of the family served in the Civil war. Randolph and Joseph
  enlisted in 1861, in Company A, Sixth Pennsylvania Reserves. Randolph
  re-enlisted and served to the end of the war. Joseph died of yellow fever while
  in the service, at Newbern, North Carolina. George W., our subject, enlisted in
  1863, at the age of seventeen, in Company H. Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania
  Emergency Volunteers, and was honorably discharged with his regiment, at
  Harrisburg, the same year. The parents were both devout members of the Methodist
  church.
  
      During his boyhood and youth George W. Hayman attended the public schools
  and also an academy at Orangeville, Pennsylvania. When eight years old he went
  to live with an uncle, and worked on his farm for four years, after which he
  attended school for the same length of time. At the age of sixteen he began
  learning the harness-maker's trade, in Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania. He completed
  his apprenticeship and worked as a journeyman one winter; from there he went to
  Danville, Pennsylvania, later to Reading, and finally to Tennessee, where he
  spent one year. On his return to this state he worked at his trade in Harrisburg
  until the fall of 1868, when he came to Dushore and entered the shop of
  Christian Hoffman, remaining with him four years. On the expiration of that time
  he embarked in business on his own account, and has since continued operations
  in Dushore, with the exception of seven years, a part of which time he passed in
  the states of Connecticut and Kansas. Returning to Pennsylvania, he worked for
  two years at car-trimming for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, after which he
  returned to Dushore and resumed the harness business, carrying the largest and
  most complete stock of the kind in Sullivan county and enjoying excellent
  patronage. Fraternally he is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and the
  Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and politically is identified with the
  Democratic party.
  
     In November, 1872, occurred the marriage of Mr. Hayman and Miss Catherine E.
  Hoffman, a daughter of Christian and Caroline Hoffman, and to them have been
  born seven children, as follows: Maud M.; Charles F.; Grace A.; Mabel; George
  S., who died in infancy; Mildred; and Marjorie. The family attend the German
  Reformed church and are quite prominent socially. Mr. Hayman has a fine home on
  Turnpike street, in Dushore borough.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
  
  Extracted from: 
                      
                    History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania
          by Thomas J. Ingham
                      
                              Compendium of Biography
                      
          The Lewis Publishing Company
                        Chicago: 1899
    
  
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