BIO:  John M. Hart, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Fairview Township, Pg 97

JOHN M. HART was born October 16, 1822, in Fairview Township, son of Isaac and 
Elizabeth (Moore) Hart, natives of this county.  His great-grandfather, Jacob 
Hart, was born in Germany, came to America at an early date, and settled in York 
County, Penn., where he engaged in farming.  Subject’s grandfather, John Hart, 
was born in this county, and was a large landowner.  He died in 1849, aged about 
eighty years.  Isaac Hart, subject’s father, was born in 1788, was a farmer by 
occupation, and died in 1839.  His wife was born in 1799, and died in 1876.  They 
had seven children:  Sarah J., John M., Joseph K., Jacob, Andrew, Robert L. 
(deceased), and Elizabeth.  John M., at the age of twenty-five years, bought a 
farm of 125 acres in Fairview Township, on which he followed farming from 1849 to 
1884, when he retired from active life.  He has a finely improved farm, and has 
made all by his own industry and energy.  In 1870 he married Mary E. Lloyd, 
daughter of William and Amanda (Anderson) Lloyd, the former a native of Chester 
County, the latter of Cumberland County, Penn.  Mr. Hart has been a director of 
the Second National Bank of Mechanicsburgh, Penn., for fifteen years, and was 
elected president of that establishment January 1, 1884.  Mrs. Hart is a member 
of the Methodist Church.