FREDERICK HARTMAN, one of the most successful farmers in Lancaster Township, where he, in connection with his brothers Isaac and Henry, is extensively engaged in general stock-raising and farming, is the subject of this notice. His father, whose name was Henry, was born in Chester County, Pa., and was brought up in what is now Snyder County, where he was married at first to Annie Staner, who died after the birth of two children. Mr. Henry Harman, Sr., was the second time married, to Mary Freed, of Old Pennsylvania Dutch stock. After this marriage the couple resided in Snyder County where they engaged in farming, until the year 1864.

During the latter year the parents, together with the family, came to Illinois, locating on section 20, Lancaster Township, where they secured 160 acres, and here he built his home, and after a long and useful life departed to the other shore in 1870, at the advanced age of seventy-five years. Mr. Hartman was an active member of the Lutheran Church, and in politics was a faithful Republican. His aged widow still remains in the land of the living, residing on the old homestead with her sons, she having reached three-score years and ten. She is a member of the Lutheran Church, and is the mother of nine children, two of whom are dead. The living are in the order of their ages, are Samuel, married and living in Wright County, Iowa; he is a farmer and his wife was Catherine Aurand. Caroline, wife of G. W. Snyder, a blacksmith of Freeport; Elizabeth, wife of J. H. Gaskins, who resides near Laporte, Iowa, where he follows the occupation of a shoemaker; George P. resides on a farm in this township, and is married to Amelia Berry Gott. The next in order is the subject of this sketch.

Frederick Hartman was born in Snyder County, Pa., Jan. 27, 1845, and remained at home until he arrived at the age of seventeen, when together with the family he removed to Illinois, assisting his father in carving a farm out of the Western prairies, until he arrived at the age of maturity. Since the death of his father, he has still remained at home, where he owns an interest in the homestead. He was married to Miss Mary A. Allen, in Mt. Morris, Ogle County. She is a native of Maryland, and came to Illinois with her father, who settled in Ogle County and there resided until the time of his death. Mr. and Mrs. Hartman are the parents of one child, Effie E.

The next member of the Harman family is Isaac P., who is next younger to the subject of this sketch. He was also born in Snyder County, coming to Illinois with the family as has been stated, and he now lives with his brother on the old homestead and is a joint owner of the farm. Henry T. is the younger son, and was born in Pennsylvania, July 3, 1849. He resided at home until after the death of his father, since which time he and his brother have operated the farm in partnership. He was married in Harlem Township, first to Jennie Bennet, who died at the birth of the first child, the child surviving the mother and being named for her. Mr. Hartman married the second time in Black Hawk County, Iowa, his happy bride being Susan Anton, of a well-known family, noted for their good, neighborly habits and their successful and thrifty farming.

The Hartman brothers and all the members of the family in general are Republican in politics, and attend the Second Presbyterian Church at Freeport. They have a beautiful home, the farm being embellished with fine, first-class buildings of brick, and there is no better illustration of the prosperity of the farmers of Lancaster Township than the sight of the pleasant home of the Hartman family.

Contributed by Carol Parrish - Portrait and Biographical Album of Stephenson County, Ill. (1888), p. 274