Ohio County, West Virginia      Biography of Henry J. HARTMANN

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago and New York, Volume II
pg.66

HENRY J. HARTMANN. In capital invested and volume of business ice
manufacture now stands eighth among the industries of the United
States. The oldest and largest ice industry of Wheeling is the Wheeling
Ice and Storage Company. The efficient manager of this business is
Henry J. Hartmann, a native of Wheeling and with a long and successful
experience in local business affairs.

Mr. Hartmann was born in Wheeling, June 12, 1869. His father, William
Hartmann, was born in Waldeck, Germany, in 1843, was reared and educated
in his native country, and on coming to the United States in the Spring
of 1868 settled at Wheeling. For a period of forty-six years he was a
warehouseman with the old Hobbs-Brockunier Glass Company, after which
he retired. He died at Wheeling, October 2, 1915. He was a democrat
in earlier years, but became a republican at the McKinley campaign
of 1896. He was always one of the faithful members and attendants of
the Lutheran Church. Soon after coming to Wheeling he married Miss
Elizabeth Bremer. She was also born in Waldeck Germany, in 1847 and
had come to the United States in the spring of 1868 in company with
friends. Henry J. Hartmann is the oldest of his parents' children.
Charles is a broker at Wheeling and Fred W. is a salesman for the
wholesale candy firm of Ellison Heifer Company, with home at Martins
Ferry, Ohio.

Henry J. Hartmann was educated in the public schools of Wheeling and
attended Frasher's Business College. He left school in 1885, and his
first regular work was six months employment in a leather store. For
two years he was with the Joseph Speidel Wholesale Grocery Company,
and for fourteen years was with Waterhouse Brothers, wholesale grocers.
In this establishment he reached the position of head bookkeeper and
salesman.

It was in September, 1902, that Mr. Hartmann went with the Wheeling
Ice and Storage Company, beginning as clerk, was promoted to assistant
manager in 1913 and since October, 1921, has been manager. He is also
a stockholder and director of the company. The great prestige and
business this company enjoys is fully credited to the hard work and
splendid management of Mr. Hartmann. The plant and offices are at 2224
Water Street.

Mr. Hartmann is a republican, and has long been prominent in Zion
Lutheran Church. He has served as corresponding secretary, has on
several occasions been a member of the Church Council and has been
president, secretary, treasurer and trustee of the various church
benevolent organizations. He is a member of Ohio Valley Lodge No.
131, Knights of Pythias, Wheeling Lodge No. 28, Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, and LaBelle Lodge, Ancient Order of
United Workmen. He owns a modern home at 15 Kentucky Street in
Wheeling. He married in that city June 30, 1897, Miss Matilda
Schenck, daughter of Frederick L. and Catherine (Baumberger)
Schenck. Both her parents died in Wheeling, her father having
been for a number of years an employe of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company. Mr. and Mrs. Hartmann have one child, Kathryn born March
1, 1899. She is a graduate of the Wheeling High School and is now
bookkeeper for the Wheeling Ice and Storage Company.