BIO:  John H. HARTMAN, 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, Hanover Borough and Penn Township, Pg 64

REV. JOHN H. HARTMAN, resident pastor of Leshey Reformed Church, and three other 
congregations, was born in Bavaria, Germany, September 9, 1848.  His parents 
were Peter and Wilhelmina (Fetzer) Hartman, who came to this country in 
September, 1852, bringing with them their two boys and one daughter, and located 
in Tamaqua, Schuylkill Co., Penn., where they have since resided, and where two 
more sons have been born.  Rev. John went to school in his boyhood, and also 
worked in the coal mines as slate picker, after which he worked at the barber’s 
trade in Philadelphia.  When about twenty years of age he attended Palatinate 
College, at Myerstown, Penn., where he spent two years and a half.  From there 
he went to Heidelberg Theological Seminary, at Tifflin, Ohio, from which he 
graduated in 1874.  His first charge was the Trinity Reformed Church at Tamaqua, 
Penn., which he served six years; then Lehighton, Carbon Co., Penn., where he 
was in charge four years and three months.  He came to Hanover, April 23, 1884, 
and assumed the pastorate of “Leshey” charge.  He was ordained by a committee of 
Lebanon Classis at Tamaqua, Penn., March 10, 1874.  On June 4, 1874, he was 
married at Canfield, Ohio, to Mary A. Berger, a native of Switzerland, who lived 
at the time of her marriage at North Georgetown, Ohio.  They have five children:  
John Edwin, Charles Reuben, Minnie Eliza, Mary Elizabeth and Oliver Samuel.  
Both husband and wife were brought up in the Reformed Church.  Rev. H. preaches 
in German and English.