Henry
F. Hartman was born in Germany and educated in the University of
Berlin. After coming to this country, he studied for a short time
at Mercersburg. He served a charge in Crawford County, Pa., for
some years, and married Miss Lizzie Kern, from Saegertown, and they had
on child, a son, who became an Episcopal clergyman. Rev. Mr.
Hartman took the pastorate of several congregations in Mercer Co., Pa.,
on Nov. 1st, 1856, and bought a farm and lived on it where the village
of Shenango afterwards grew up. He was very successful in the
ministry and organized the congregations in Greenville and New
Hamburg. He was pastor of the Shenango charge for ten years and
then entered the Episcopal church and served a congregation in the
suburbs of Pittsburgh. At length he returned to Germany and for a
time held an important office under the government. He was
popular among his people and the churches were strengthened under his
pastorate.
(Source: The History of the Pittsburgh Synod of the
Reformed Church in the United States: prepared in commemoration
of its fiftieth anniversary, by David B. Lady, 1920, pages 178-179.)
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