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PHILLIP HARTZELL, farmer, stock-raiser, steam thrasher and corn-sheller, Sec. 36; P. 0. Beamsville; was born in Adams Township, this County, May 23, 1843; his father, John J. Hartzell, was born in Pennsylvania Dec. 1, 1815, and married Nancy Westfall; he died in September, 1852, and she died in 1865, in Richland Township; they were among the earliest settlers of Darke Co. The subject of this sketch was raised a farmer; in 1864, he traveled West, and followed teaming between Omaha, Neb., and Denver City, for about a year and a half; then returned to where he resides, on the homestead of his father; last year, he erected for himself a fine residence; has only one brother, David, who lives an Rossville, Kan. Phillip Hartzell married Caroline Dill in October, 1868; she was born in Beamsville Sept. 14, 1851; her father, John H. C. Dill, was born in Germany, and came to this country in 1832; he married Martha C. Siegmunt, in 1834, in Butler Co., Ohio; she died March 7, 1858, in this county. In Germany he learned harness-making, and followed it awhile in Trenton, Ohio; afterward in Beamsville, where at the same time he kept a hotel, also engaged in merchandising; he moved to Dallas and engaged in merchandising, but at the decease of his wife, was farming, but was in the mercantile business at the time of his death, in April, 1865. Mr. and Mrs. Hartzell have two children, viz., Rosetta, born Aug. 3, 1869, and Charles D., born May 22, 1875; he owns a fine farm of 115 acres, part of which was the homestead.