Westmoreland County PA Archives Biographies.....Hartzell, George M. July 24, 1852 

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GEORGE M. HARTZELL, a pleasantly-located and progressive farmer of Mt. Pleasant
township, is a son of George and Hannah (Barnhart) Hartzell and was born in Mt.
Pleasant township, Westmoreland county, Pa., July 24, 1852. His paternal
grandfather, George Hartzell, was born east of the Alleghenies and migrated to
Mt. Pleasant township where he died. He was a tailor by trade but followed
farming. He was a republican, a member of the Reformed church and married a Miss
Lauffer by whom he had ten children. Abraham Barnhart, maternal grandfather, was
a native of Mt. Pleasant township where he followed farming during his lifetime.
He was a member of the Reformed church and married a Miss Hugus, who bore him
three children, all of whom were daughters. George Hartzell (father) was a
farmer by occupation. He removed in 1878 to Mt. Pleasant where he resided until
his death in 1886 at the age of sixty-four years, seven months and twenty days.
He was a republican, served one term as burgess of Mt. Pleasant and made a
popular borough official. He was an ardent member and generous supporter of the
Reformed church, to which he left a donation of §1,500 and in which there is a
memorial window to his memory. He was a consistent church member whose everyday
life was in full accord with the teachings of Christianity. He married Hannah
Barnhart who is now in the sixty-eighth year of her age. They had eleven
children, of whom two sons and three daughters are living.

   George M. Hartzell was reared in Mt. Pleasant township where he received his
education in the common schools. He then engaged in farming and stock raising
which he has followed ever since. His farm contains one hundred and sixty-eight
acres of well-improved land on which he has erected good buildings, he has one
of the finest farm residences to be found in the township. It is a large
three-story frame dwelling with basement containing ten rooms, wide reception
halls, pantry, front and rear porches and is modern and complete in all its
arrangements.

   On September 20, 1877, he married Jennie P. Lobingier, daughter of John C.
Lobingier (see sketch of Lobingiers). They are the parents of four children:
John G., Harry L., Lizzie O. and Percy C.

   In politics Mr. Hartzell is a republican and was elected school director in
1888 for the term of three years. He is an influential member of the Reformed
church but his wife is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran church.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.
Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant
1890


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