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- William assisted his father on the old home farm until twenty-five years old, and then took a part of the homestead property, upon which he engaged in mixed husbandry until his death. When his father died, the estate contained 579 acres, the was divided among William's siblings and the share that fell to William was 69 acres. He then moved on to a five acre lot that he purchased of the heirs of Susannah Hartman, his grandmother, where he lived and carried on farming. He continued and had always followed farming and had been eminently successful. By his energy, economy and enterprise he has acquired a large property and is ranked among the leading agriculturists of the county. His advantage for an education were such were afforded by the common schools of his town and the academy at Dansville. He had never been an office seeker nor an active politician. He gave his allegiance to the Democratic party until 1860, when he voted for Abraham Lincoln, and voted for the candidates of the Republican party from 1860 to 1872, when he voted for Horace Greeley. Since that time he had voted for whom he had considered the best man, regardless of party. William had never united with any religious denomination, but attends, as does his family, the English Lutheran church in Dansville.
- A GOOD MAN GONE.
William Hartman, Whom Every One Knew and Respected.
William Hartman died at his home one mile north of the village after a two week illness of gastro-enteritis. The best efforts of his family physician aided and assisted by a council of eminent physicians from Buffalo and the Sanatorium, were rewarded by only an apparent mitigation of his disease. Heart failure supervening, he suddenly passed away, surrounded by his devoted wife and loving family on Saturday morning April 12th, 1890. Mr. Hartman was born Jan 30. 1820, on the old homestead farm. In 1850 was married to Catherine Driesbach, and moved to his present home, which was adjoining and part of the old homestead. Here he lived for forty years acquiring an honest reputation for industry and sound judgement which will always attach to his memory. His integrity was beyond question and his industry has always been apparent in the care he bestowed upon his several farms. He did not live simply to enjoy the prudent and honest accumulation of property, but commencing with a common school education he sought the aid of the best periodicals and publications of the day, which he perused and stored in his mind until his knowledge became extensive and versatile. He has taken Harper's Magazine from its first number dated June 1850, having read every number up to his last illness. A conservative man, it was only in his present home when dispensing hospitality to his friends that Mr. Hartman was at his best. It was then his well-stored mind gave forth its rich treasure. He leaves a wife and three children, William H. Hartman, Miss Lydia M. Hartman, and Mrs. F. W. Noyes. The funeral services were conducted on Monday by the Rev. W. R. McCutcheon and Geo. K. Ward, and a large concourse of relatives and friends followed his remains to Greenmount cemetery, where amid the smiles and tears of an April day he was quietly laid to rest."
(The Dansville Express, April 17, 1890)
- The home in which he built in 1850 and lived for forty years, is just north of the Elementary School, and is today known as the Barden House https://dansvillelibrary.org/community/dansville-history/
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