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builder, building some of the first houses built by that compny. He held that position with the company for some time, when, because of the mechanical skill he had displayed, he was promoted to the pattern department of the same company, where he remained up to the breaking out of the Civil War, when he entered the service of his country in that memorable conflict. He enlisted for the three months' service in 1861, in company G, of the Third regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer infantry, as an orderly-sergeant, but before the end of this term of enlistment was promoted to second lieutenant. At the end of the three months' service he re-enlisted for three years in the famous Fifty-Fourth regiment, and participated in the many hotly-contested engagements of that regiment, and was mustered out a first lieutenant. His military record is that of a soldier, who was brave and courageous, and who discharged every duty with fidelity, and in such a way as to command the confidence of his superiors, and win the respect of his inferiors in arms. Laying down the pursuits of the soldier, and returning to those of the civilian, he became one of the founders of the Johnstown Mechanical works, with which he remained, perhaps, seven or eight years. Then, after three or four years as a sewing-machine agent, he was appointed by the governor of the State an auctioneer for the borough of Johnstown. At the end of that period he again entered the pattern-making department of the Cambria Iron company, where he spent the remainder of his days.     Politically he was a democrat prior to the war, but being a strong anti-slavery man, became a republican upon the issues of that conflict. Religiously he was a member of the Lutheran church, and fraternally a charter member of Corona Lodge, No. 999, I. O. O. F.,

and a respected member of the Union Veteran Legion, No. 60. He married in August 1853, Mary J. Shaffer, a daughter of Michael Shaffer, of Somerset county, and to this union were born nine children: John P., who died when but seven years of age; William Fry, who died August 19, 1896, at Mt. Clements, Michigan. He was a brick contractor by avocation; Bertha J., wife of Willis A. Moses, a merchant tailor, of Johnstown; Campbell, chief clerk of the Gautier Department of the Cambria Iron Company's works; Edgar N., who married Jennie Boler, and is engaged in the bricklaying business as a contractor; Harry, who married Annie Zinges, and is a bricklayer by trade; Minnie and Marion, twins, the former the wife of Harry McDowell, a machinist in the employ of the Cambria company, and Katie M., the wife of Frank J. McMullen, of Model City, New York. PHILIP HARTMAN, a self-made man and the general superintendent of the large coal-mining plant at Ehrenfeld, is a son of Lawrence and Catherine (Cramer) Hartman, and was born in the kingdom of Prussia, now a state of the German Empire, on October 2, 1839.     Lawrence Hartman was born October 2, 1806, in Prussia, where he was a coal-miner for some years. He came to Pennsylvania in April, 1840, locating at No. 6, on the old Portage railroad, where he followed mining to a small extent, but worked chiefly on the railroad. He was soon promoted to a foreman, which position he held until the Pennsylvania railroad was built, and the old Portage road was abandoned. He retired from active life in 1869. His latter years were spent at Houtzdale, Clearfield county, where he died March 25, 1887. He was a catholic, and served for six years as a soldier in his native country.

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