Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Hartman, Eldon W. March 3, 1847 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

ELDON W. HARTMAN,
an efficient and successful business man, and a prominent and useful citizen
of Woodbury township, is a son of Benjamin and Penina M. (Wilson) Hartman,
and was born at Manor Hill, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, March 3, 1847.
The Hartman's are of German descent. Benjamin Hartman was born April 5, 1805,
near Ickesburg, Perry county, from which he removed in 1840 to Huntingdon
county, where he was variously employed until 1870, in which year he went to
Springfield Furnace, at which place he died August 31, 1880, aged
seventy-five years. He was engaged, until 1861, in merchandising at Manor
Hill, Neff's Mills, and Cottage, and was postmaster at the last named place.
He followed stock dealing to some extent in early life, and was engaged in
farming for some years before his death. He was a republican, was well known
and popular throughout Huntingdon county, and married Penina M. Wilson, by
whom he had nine children, of whom five grew to manhood and womanhood: Mary
E., wife of John A. Martin, a blacksmith and farmer of Royer; Eldon W.; Henry
W., who married Mary Holliday and is president of the Hartman Manufacturing
Company, of Beaver Falls and Pittsburg Company, of Pittsburg, and laid out
the town of Elwood City, Lawrence county, where he now resides; Jesse L., who
married Ella M. Dennison, and lived at Hollidaysburg. He has been prominently
engaged in the iron business, and is now prothonotary of Blair county; and
Frank R., who married Jane Carl, now dead, and lives at Elwood City. Mrs.
Penina M. (Wilson) Hartman was born in 1817, near Masseyburg, Huntingdon
county; she was the first to die out of a family of nine children, the
youngest of which was fifty-five years old at the time of her death. Her
parents both lived to be nearly ninety years of age, and the Wilson family is
one among the old and early settled families of Huntingdon county.
      Eldon W. Hartman passed his boyhood days in his native county, teaching
school in the winter and going to school in the summer. He received his
education at Tuscarora academy, Juniata county. Leaving school, he sought to
especially qualify himself for business, and entered the Iron City Business
college, of Pittsburg, from which he was graduated at the completion of his
course. Returning from Pittsburg, he was engaged in teaching until the autumn
of 1867, when he went to Springfield, Lynn county, Iowa, where embarked in the
drug business. A year later he disposed of his drug store, and, in the latter
part of the year 1870, became a clerk in a hardware store at Port Royal,
Juniata county, where he remained one year. He then served, until July, 1874,
as a passenger brakeman and assistant agent on the Pennsylvania railroad, and
at the end of that time became a book-keeper for the Cambria Iron Company, at
the Springfield mines, which position he held until July,1890, when he quit
their employ, and has since resided at the old Royer homestead, at
Springfield Furnace.
      On December 18, 1878, Mr. Hartman was united in marriage with Anna M.
Royer, daughter of Samuel and Martha Royer, of Springfield Furnace. Mr. and
Mrs. Hartman have one child, a son named Royer P., who was born September 4,
1879.
      Eldon W. Hartman is an unswerving republican who warmly advocates the
cardinal principles of his party, and has served as a school director of
Woodbury township for fifteen years. He is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church, of Williamsburg, of which he is a steward and trustee. He
is also a member of Juniata Castle, No. 105, Knights of the Golden Eagle, of
which order he is district grand chief of the Third division of Blair county.
Mr. Hartman is pleasant, intelligent, and agreeable. He is a man of sound
judgment and correct business principles, and has always been successful in
whatever enterprise he has been engaged.

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