BIO: ELIAS HARTMAN, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 383-384
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    ELIAS HARTMAN, a wealthy farmer of Middlesex township, is descended from a
  family that settled first in Montgomery county, Pa., but in later generations
  lived in Lancaster, and then in Cumberland counties. Elias Hartman was born in
  Lancaster county, Sept. 21, 1834.
    
    The paternal grandfather of Elias Hartman was a farmer in York or Lancaster
  county, and after his death his widow married a Mr. Peters.
    
    Christian Hartman, father of Elias, was born on the farm in Lancaster
  county in 1800, was married there to Miss Anna Gantz, a native of the same
  county, and remained there until 1837. He worked at carpentering and teaming,
  making trips to Philadelphia, but after removing to Cumberland county, he
  settled on a farm and devoted his attention to agriculture till 1863, when he
  retired from active life, and made his home in New Kingstown, where he died in
  1877. He had lost his wife many years before in 1861, while he was still
  living on the farm. They are interred in Longdorf's cemetery at New
  Kingstown. Mr. Hartman had been reared in the German Lutheran faith, but as
  there was no church of that denomination in Middlesex township, both he and
  his wife joined the Lutheran Church, after going to Cumberland county.
  Politically, he was a stanch Democrat, and served many years in various
  township offices. There were five children in the family, the first four born
  in Lancaster county, namely: Elizabeth, who married Samuel Voglesong, and died
  in Silver Spring township in 1892; Anna, the wife of William P. Eckles, of New
  Kingstown; Elias; Catherine, who died
    
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  in 1856, at the age of twenty-one; and Susan who died unmarried.
    
    Elias Hartman was only two and a half years old when his parents settled in
  Middlesex, so that practically his whole life has been passed there. As a boy
  he attended school in the old Rocker school-house, his first teacher being
  William Kent, but most of his time was needed on the farm, and he could drive
  a furrow when only ten years old, and at fifteen he could do a man's work at
  cradling. Mr. Hartman has never left the family homestead, but at his
  marriage brought his wife home, and after his father's retirement and death,
  he naturally remained at the head of affairs. He has added some improvements
  to the place, and in addition to that farm of 120 acres, has acquired an
  adjoining tract of 100 acres, and another of 126 acres in South Middletown
  township.
  
    On Christmas Day, 1862, Mr. Hartman was married to Catherine Musser, who
  was born in Silver Spring township, Oct. 8, 1841. They have had five
  children, namely: Annie Elizabeth, the late wife of George B. Otto; Mary
  Jane, Mrs. Edward W. Herman, of New Kingstown; John C., who died in infancy;
  and Bertha Ellen and Viola Catherine, both unmarried. Mrs. Hartman was a
  daughter of John and Elizabeth (Eckert) Musser, and granddaughter of Jacob
  Musser. Jacob Musser married a Miss Margaret Frye, and with his wife and
  family moved from York county, where he had owned a fishery along the river,
  to Silver Spring township, Cumberland county, about 1832. John Musser was
  born in 1813. He enjoyed few educational advantages and most of his time was
  employed in work about the farm, but during the winters he was at times
  engaged in knitting seines for fishing. At the age of nineteen he married,
  and shortly after, accompanied his father, when the latter removed to
  Cumberland county. His death occurred in Hogestown, Pa., in May, 1901, at the
  age of eighty-eight. Their children were: Jacob and Henry, deceased;
  Catherine, Mrs. Hartman; Joseph, of Hogestown.
    
    Elias Hartman is a Democrat in his political sentiments. His chief interest
  in public matters is in educational work, and for the past twelve years he has
  served as one of the school directors. He is a member of the Lutheran Church,
  and a man who enjoys the respect of all who know him.