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Below is a family biography included in the Biographical Annals of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania published in 1904 by T. S. Benham & Company and The Lewis Publishing Company; Elwood Roberts, Editor. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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FREDERICK (or Fritz) J. HARTMAN, Jr., is one of the most prominent and successful farmers of Montgomery township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. He is a son of Fritz J. and Katrina (Stine) Hartman, both natives of Germany, the father born in Manheim, Baden, and the mother of Hesse Darmstadt. Both are living and reside in Gwynedd township, Montgomery county, where they have lived since 1877. Mr. Hartman, father of the subject of this sketch, is a fine musician, and has been the leader of several bands. He now lives retired at Gwynedd station. Mr. and Mrs. Hartman have had the following children: Fritz J., Jr., born October 13, 1858; George, born August 24, 1860, married Anna Mary Marple, and resides at Ambler, Pennsylvania; Henry, born December 28, 1865, resides at Campbell, California; Katie, born in 1875, resides with her parents.
Fritz (or Frederick) J. Hartman, Jr., was educated in the public schools of Philadelphia, and also in a German pay school in that city. After leaving school he learned the trade of a musical instrument maker, and followed that occupation four years and a half. He abandoned this calling in consequence of ill health, and engaged in agricultural pursuits as better calculated to promote his physical welfare. He managed a farm owned by his father at Springhouse until 1891. He then rented it and remained as a tenant until 1896, when he rented another farm in Gwynedd township for one year, and in 1898 purchased the farm of seventy-eight acres in Montgomery township on which he now resides.
Mr. Hartman married, in Philadelphia, on May 2, 1891, Louisa Lucy Emonot, daughter of Fritz and Mary Ann Emonot. She was born in Mobelier, France, February 4, 1870. The couple have had the following children: Frederick J., born June 25, 1892, died October 1, 1894; Henry, born June 25, 1896; Sophie, born on Good Friday, April 13, 1900.
In politics Mr. Hartman is a Republican, but not an office seeker in any sense of the term. He and his family attend the Lutheran church. He is a man who stands well in the community, and is highly esteemed by all who know him.
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