BIO: MARTIN A. GOODHART, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 400-401
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    MARTIN A. GOODHART. Among the leading representatives of the best interests
  of Churchtown, Monroe township, is Martin A. Goodhart, born April 14, 1861, in
  Penn township, this county, son of Alexander, and grandson of Isaac Goodhart.
    
    Isaac Goodhart was of German origin, born in Lancaster county, but he came
  to Cumberland county, settling in Penn township at Palmstown, where he
  married a Miss Palm, of the same place, her people being among the first
  settlers of the county. Locating on the old Palm farm, he later added to the
  property, and lived there about thirty years, dying about 1870. His wife also
  died on their home place. They had a family of ten children: Elizabeth died at
  Palmstown; Rebecca died in West Pennsboro; Lewis died in Penn township;
  William died in West Pennsboro; Isaac died in Newton township; Alexander is
  living at Palmstown; Marian is living at Mifflin; Anna is living on the old
  homestead; Mary resides at Palmstown; and Drucilla makes her home in
  Stoughstown.
    
    Alexander Goodhart, son of Isaac and father of Martin A., was born at
  Palmstown in 1832, and was educated at the common schools. His boyhood and
  youth were passed in work upon the farm. In 1850, he married Mary Ann Beetem,
  a daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Beetem, of Penn township. After their
  marriage they located in Penn township, where he now resides, living on a
  portion of his father's homestead, and there his wife died in 1882. The chil-
  dren born to himself and wife were: W. B. married a Miss Rhoads, and is a
  teacher living at Newville; Berdilla lives in Upper Allen township; James 4.
  died in Penn township, aged twenty-six years; Howard, living in Upper Allen
  township, is in the mercantile and milling business; Elmira married John
  Dalton, and is living at Chester City, Pa.; John; Mary Jane married John
  Widder, and lives at Gettysburg, where he is in a lumber business; Martin A.;
  Ella is living in Upper Allen township; Edwin is living at Mount Rock, West
  Pennsboro township where he is a merchant.
    
    Martin A. Goodhart was well educated in the common schools of his
  neighborhood. In 1885 he married Sarah Beck, a daughter of Jacob and Caroline
  (Wise) Beck, of North Middleton township. After marriage the young couple
  located in Dickinson township, where they lived a year, and then went to West
  Pennsboro township, spent a year, and finally came to Churchtown, Monroe
  township, in 1892, where he engaged in a general mercantile business, making
  it the leading store of the place. In 1903, he bought the old George Strock
  farm of forty-two acres at Churchtown, and has a beautiful home there. The
  children born to himself and wife were: Bessie, born in 1886; Fred, born in
  1888; Helen, born in 1890, attending school at Newville; Elmer, born in 1891;
  Jeannette, born in 1894; Paul, born in 1898; Lester and Leone, twins, born in
  1902. In politics Mr. Goodhart is a Republican, but he has never aspired to
  public office. He is a member of the Lutheran Church of Churchtown, of which
  he has been a deacon for six years, and he takes a very active part in
  Sunday-school work. Mr. Goodhart is a man well and favorably known in this
  community, where his honorable methods of doing business, and pleasant,
  genial manner 


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  have made for him many friends, and firmly established him in the confidence
  of his fellow townsmen.