Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Hartman, Jesse L. June 18, 1853 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

JESSE L. HARTMAN, 
one of the most active business men of Hollidaysburg, and the present
prothonatary of Blair county, is a son of Benjamin and Penina M. (Wilson)
Hartman and was born at Cottage post office, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania,
June 18, 1853.  His paternal great-grandfather, Jacob Hartman, came from
Germany in 1775, and settled in Chester county, where he died.  His grandson,
Benjamin Hartman, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Perry
county in 1804.  In 1852 he removed to Cottage post office, in Huntingdon
county, where he acted for several years as postmaster, and was engaged in
farming and the general mercantile business.  In 1869 he came to
Hollidaysburg, but the next year removed to Royer, where he was engaged in
farming, and where he died in August, 1880 at the age of seventy-six years. 
He was energetic and active in whatever he undertook, and by good judgment
and careful management, always secured fair returns upon his investments.  He
married Penina M. Wilson, a native of Stone Valley, Huntingdon county, and of
a family of nine children she was the first to die, when the youngest was
fifty-five years of age.  She passed away on New Year's day, 1888, aged
seventy one years.  Her father, Thomas Wilson was of Scotch-Irish descent,
and a native of Huntingdon county, where he died in 1862 when in the
eighty-fifth year of his age of his age.  He was a prosperous farmer, and a
descendant of one of the early settled and most substantial families of that
county.  
      Jesse L. Hartman was reared on his father's farm until he was
fifteen years of age, and received his education in the common and in the
graded schools of Martinsburg and Bell's Mills.  At fifteen years of age he
came to this county, and in the fall of 1872 became a clerk in the store of
B.M. Johnston & Co., at their furnace at McKee's Gap.  He was successfully
promoted until he became manager of the store, and in 1878 was appointed
general manager of the furnace.  Although trying and arduous, he discharged
every duty of both these positions until 1891, when he left the employ of the
firm, and at the solicitation of many of his friends he allowed his name to be
used in connection with the office of prothonatary.  He received the
republican nomination for that office, and at the ensuing election was
elected by the largest majority given any candidate on the ticket.  Since
assuming charge of the prothonatary's office he has conducted it upon correct
business principles and has rendered good satisfaction to all who have had
business to transact with the office.  Mr. Hartman may well be proud of his
remarkable but well deserved political success, and the unexpected majority
which he received. 
     On the 7th of November, 1878, he united in marriage with Ella, daughter
of James Denniston, of Hollidaysburg.  To them have been born two children: a
daughter, who died August 5, 1882 and James D. born May 15, 1880.
     Jesse L. Hartman is a republican in politics.  He is a member of
Woodbury Lodge, No. 539, Free and Accepted Masons, Mountain Commandery No.
10, Knights Templar of Altoona and Syria Temple of the Mystic Shrine at
Pittsburg.  Although Mr. Hartman withdrew from the employ of Johnston & Co.
yet he is still engaged in business and has considerable interest in the
Juniata Gannister Company, which was organized in 1886, when he became one of
it's stockholders and was elected manager and treasurer, which positions he
has held ever since.  Jesse L. Hartman is pleasant and courteous, ever ready
to grant a favor, but unbending in anything of principle, and always
requiring business to be transacted according to correct methods.

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