tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31892840797002467382024-03-05T03:26:10.024-05:00Judging By His BooksWhen my great-grandfather Holliday Ellwood Hartman died in 1960, his library was boxed up and moved to my grandparents' attic. It remained there, probably untouched, until August 2008. Now twelve boxes of H. E. Hartman's books are sitting behind my parents' couch. I'm going through them, book by book, to discover more about my family.
If you have anything to add, please comment or e-mail me at katherinehala@gmail.com.kahalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01431399294532432635noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3189284079700246738.post-90200499365561899482010-03-30T23:06:00.005-04:002010-04-02T01:12:14.862-04:00An Ancestry in Books<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">I haven't been working on my Judging By His Books project lately, but I revisited the material in order to enter The Lawrence G. Blackmon Student Book Collecting Contest sponsored by Boston University's <a href="http://www.bu.edu/dbin/archives/index.php"target="_blank">Howard Gotlieb Archival Reasearch Center</a>. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">For the contest, I wrote an essay called "An Ancestry in Books" which features many of the people and titles I've already discussed in this blog. I also created family trees using photos of the books that belonged to my ancestors instead of their portraits. In the essay and the diagrams, I reference a total of 25 of the books in the collection. They are indicated with letters in brackets [X]. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Alas, I did not win the book collecting contest or the generous prize. However, I'm posting my essay and diagrams because they fulfill some of the goals I had when I started the Judging By His Books project and blog.</span><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------------------<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />An Ancestry in Books<br />By Katherine Hala, March 2010<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">When I was younger, my grandma told me more than once, "The brains in this family</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> come from me - my daddy went to Yale." My grandpa saw his father-in-law differently. "Your grandma's father was named Holliday, and the story goes he declared one from the day he was born." I grew up with two ideas about my great-grandfather Holliday Ellwood Hartman - that he was smart and that he was lazy - and that's all I knew about him until I inherited his library.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">In August 2008, my grandparents moved from their home of fifty years in Harmony (a farming town in Western Pennsylvania) to a small apartment attached to my uncle's house a half mile away. My mom and brother helped pack their belongings and came across twelve boxes of books in their attic. According to my grandfather, most of the books had come from Holliday Ellwood Hartman's home when he died in 1960. The boxes had been up in my grandparents' attic for nearly fifty years and no one had paid much attention to them. My grandpa thought I might like looking through them, so my brother drove the boxes to my parents' house outside Philadelphia and stacked them behind the living room couch.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">I joined the books at my parents' house one month later. I had just finished a two-year contract with the French Ministry of Education and needed a place to live until I found a new job. I hadn't lived with my parents for any extended period of time since I was 17 years old, so I was hoping to keep my "in-between jobs, living back home" status brief. My timing couldn't have been worse, though, and I had trouble finding a job.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">In my ample free time, I started looking through the boxes of books that were stashed behind the couch. My grandfather was right that most of the books were Holliday Ellwood Hartman's, and I started to piece together his bibliographical biography. In 1890, when he was five years old, Holliday received <span style="font-style: italic;">The Birds' Xmas Carol</span> [A] from his father. Two years later, his</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> mother gave him books in the <span style="font-style: italic;">Five Little Peppers</span> [B] series, and two years after that she gave him <span style="font-style: italic;">The Century Book For Young Americans</span> [C]. All of these books are signed and dated, but the most helpful find was a journal called <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kahala/2936052813/"target="_blank">"Books I Have Read"</a> - a journal my great-grandfather received from his Aunt Blanche one hundred and ten years ago, when he was 14. The young Holliday recorded dozens and dozens of books each year, including many that I found behind the couch: <span style="font-style: italic;">Man in the Iron Mask</span> [D] by Alexander Dumas (a gift from his brother for Christmas 1899), <span style="font-style: italic;">The White Company</span> [E] by Arthur Conan Doyle, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Last of the Mohicans</span> [F] by James Fenimore Cooper, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Virginian</span> [G] by Owen Wister.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">In addition to many novels, I found a <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI9n7qUNgL5rIVfya6D0__UtMOHnNjvUQIk2hNvlejt-kEnb_Z2Mv5DRHxdE0h8VzGmZskuCWmbm8pL80vb8GVZTNf2vTVQaUHY7vcnUubc9HzR6ZV6NFgGpkQzWgxhAAMNIvAyEUAkguz/s1600-h/journal.jpg"target="_blank">Feltinum composition book</a> marked, "H. E. Hartman / Betts Academy" and, after doing some research and looking through family photos, I discovered that my great-grandfather had attended the preparatory school Betts Academy in Stamford, Connecticut, around 1903. Incidentally, I also read that the playwright Eugene O'Neill went to Betts in 1902 and studied there for three years. The playwright died in 1953 in Room 401 of a Sheraton Hotel on Bay State Road in Boston. The building is now Boston University's Shelton Hall, and I lived on the 4th floor - The Writer's Corridor - my freshman and sophomore years of college. Perhaps my great-grandfather and I both lived in the same hall as Eugene O'Neill.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">Holliday was sent to a reputable preparatory school and had many nice books and <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4DenZa1xKCzL0cejZOGx5v3xoC5P-3BY8UdwgXKSSW2MwH3_SnyFALrwc6W0bgklN3i0yTjX-lHo2blHS-4LI0jo6LdGdQWUg8fb6MvG152qROOZ1ysZC1R_8nZtJAkmw241-EALCrSPP/s1600-h/BabyHolliday.jpg"target="_blank">photos</a>, and I wondered what his situation had been to afford him such luxuries. I visited my grandparents in Harmony to ask about Holliday's parents. His father, Henry Waters Hartman, was an industrialist. He was born in 1850 in Huntington County, Pennsylvania, and worked for Hollidaysburg Iron & Nail Company, the Pottstown Iron Company, and the Gaither Steel Works</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> in Johnstown. At the age of 33, H. W. Hartman opened a steel mill in Beaver Falls - Hartman Steel Works - where he employed more than 900 men. Andrew Carnegie was one of the primary investors. My great-great-grandfather was chairman of The Hartman Steel Company Limited and maintained branch offices in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, St. Louis, and Chicago. In 1892, he founded Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, and moved his steel mill there. I visited the Ellwood City Historical Society and saw the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kahala/3214953849/"target="_blank">Hartman family home</a>. I also saw a <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp-HlFUCk18xZ9vWtxu0LOTau3pyjV5KfmE1QxPOneS1eYvqox29mgM3ONAlSOTXmSv0C9zsNRGFnSVjaaUuoyxNQ99_SJfRcoxPXlbXBI-BQUlj-lTl4Myx1e7KQUOrtD1xjfNO8uWlfy/s1600-h/HWHartman.jpg"target="_blank">portrait</a> of my great-great-grandfather that had been taken in Paris. I returned to Philadelphia and looked through the books more carefully. I found <span style="font-style: italic;">Triumphant Democracy</span> [H] by Andrew Carnegie and, knowing that my great-great-grandfather had been his business partner, I eagerly opened the cover. It is dedicated: "H W Hartman Esq / With regards of / Andrew Carnegie."<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">Moving along in Holliday's life, I found his 1907 yearbook from his senior year at Yale. Other students' biographies start with quotes like, "Thou who hast / That fatal gift of beauty" (he was voted Class Beauty) and "Your</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> wit goes well, it ambles easily" (voted Wittiest). My great- grandfather looks miserable, one might even say haunted, in <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kahala/3224578546/"target="_blank">his photo</a>. His quote is, "Wake, for thou hast long enough been silent" and he wasn't voted anything. Shortly after graduating, Holliday traveled in Colorado. I know about this trip because his book <a style="font-style: italic;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS3JESZvBMuG6RFUXcT7lo5RpQlXAAvoT7MrNmsV9cKM-_TCVGK7_MscQMFbmlXDBzj_QSSEmfzj_EdvnEtw8Q-f71nywmighjvMnwqv1r_mmqjXyLyPQhHJKsZPUr0kReUbKhApbcbb2_/s1600-h/Thirtyone.jpg"target="_blank">Thirty-one Years On The Plains And In The Mountains</a> [I] </span><span style="font-size:100%;">includes his note "Sept 1, 1907 - entirely over 'Switzerland Trail of America' - Denver to (65 miles) Eldora, Colo." Perhaps he was visiting his father, who sold his steel mill to Andrew Carnegie and moved to Colorado to start a streetcar business. The details are unclear, but my great-great-grandfather's business failed and he lost his steel fortune. He died in Colorado in 1913 at the age of 62. His books suggest that Holliday wasn't doing very well, either. In 1908, his Aunt Mary presented him with <span style="font-style: italic;">Pushing to the Front or Success under Difficulties</span> [J].<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">A few years before his father's death, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kahala/1187507336/"target="_blank">Holliday married Ida Zeigler</a> and they had their first of six children in 1911. Ida died of cancer when their youngest child - my grandmother - was nine years old, and their oldest son Henry died five years later in a car accident. Despite Holliday's excellent education, he did not pursue a career in his field. He held a job in insurance, which is probably why he owned a lavishly illustrated book called <a style="font-style: italic;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYCXPWqqD-8jY2CJ0C7R35vlxKyGzNgPEA398kyRtz2gRH9fysDrRL64s-953CcQ6iOE0s6FyvT66uB4zRpNYfLRU_kiMy7BEVzD5RJKdX0SN9VpikVdfYy-71sHJgd12IUq2EH20IQqcQ/s1600-h/IMG_3580.JPG"target="_blank">The Conquest of Fire</a> [K] published by the New York Underwriters Agency. Holliday's uncle, Jesse Lee Hartman, paid the mortgage and utilities on Holliday's home. I can tell from the dates in his books that Holliday continued to read. My mom's cousins, who are older than my mother and remember their grandfather, say they called it "dreading": Grandpa Hartman got drunk and read. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kahala/3223720521/"target="_blank">Later in life</a>, Holliday seemed to read fewer novels and instead spent time with books such as <span style="font-style: italic;">The Divine Plan of the Ages</span> [L] (freemason theology) and <span style="font-style: italic;">The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson</span> [M] (a gift from his mother in 1914). An edition of <span style="font-style: italic;">Noble Deeds of the Great and Brave</span> [N] includes a fancy bookplate that reads, "Souvenir of Friendship / Presented to H. E. Hartman / By Himself."<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">After looking through Holliday Ellwood Hartman's books and learning more about his life, I understand the two opinions of the man - that he was intelligent and that he appeared to be on holiday. I wonder what it was like for him to grow up with a father who was so successful at such a young age then placed his bets in Colorado and lost everything. I wonder what it was like for him to lose his wife when he had six young children and then lose his oldest son. My grandma might be right that the brains in the family come from her daddy. I wonder if depression does, too. In 1907, and for most of his life, the attitude toward my great-grandfather seemed to be, "Wake, for thou hast long enough been silent." I published my research on Holliday Ellwood Hartman's book collection in a blog called "Judging By His Books" so that his passion for literature would not stay silent.<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div></div><span style="font-size:100%;"></span><div style="text-align: center;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------------------<br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Many thanks to everyone who's been reading this blog!<br />I really appreciate the e-mails and comments I've received.<br /><br /><br /></span></div>kahalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01431399294532432635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3189284079700246738.post-3180087865689776702010-03-30T23:00:00.002-04:002010-04-02T00:50:45.344-04:00An Ancestry In Books, Appendix AThis is my maternal grandmother's bibliographical family tree. It features books that belonged to each of my ancestors starting with Eleanor Ida Zeigler Wise - my grandma. I created the diagram using iFamily and submitted it to <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">The Lawrence G. Blackmon Student Book Collecting Contest sponsored by Boston University's <a href="http://www.bu.edu/dbin/archives/index.php">Howard Gotlieb Archival Reasearch Center</a>. I didn't win, but I thought it was worth posting.<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp2pxdQPv4aucRCpe0uYkEm9mMbDegwrBEAvaYxRlDqw4-g0kD1alQ_uXKScBOdyWPs1z2mO-8ru0_aoGnJg_zWOoEdiS1u4y_US9D88GOyFIye6UZZrSJpD9L73coDamMcsIy8B3YcwBn/s1600/BooksEleanor-1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 328px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp2pxdQPv4aucRCpe0uYkEm9mMbDegwrBEAvaYxRlDqw4-g0kD1alQ_uXKScBOdyWPs1z2mO-8ru0_aoGnJg_zWOoEdiS1u4y_US9D88GOyFIye6UZZrSJpD9L73coDamMcsIy8B3YcwBn/s400/BooksEleanor-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455397780609061746" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDyxNQiWDQ7WAWjYGTKwCKTiQy5AsRLX-yYaJDOaem7WuaYYLa7zovY6DQu1KBUY2qPDZ5nCFqa5P3eyU_K2SiyYaB4FGjEftRDFAI_zBXXeEZarOLkrvZO8davy_gtKgBpm5yIrXEN5tq/s1600/BooksEleanor-1.jpg"><br /></a>kahalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01431399294532432635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3189284079700246738.post-62666143634131207072010-03-30T22:50:00.000-04:002010-04-02T00:55:05.019-04:00An Ancestry In Books, Appendix BThis is my maternal grandfather's bibliographical family tree. It features books that belonged to each of my ancestors starting with John Harold Wise - my grandpa. I created the diagram using iFamily and submitted it to <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">The Lawrence G. Blackmon Student Book Collecting Contest sponsored by Boston University's <a href="http://www.bu.edu/dbin/archives/index.php">Howard Gotlieb Archival Reasearch Center</a>. I didn't win, but I thought it was worth posting.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicnslnPWw_7ZXSG_0V0GPN-t5JzxgsrkCu0GIUQZ2kqGOJHLqWePdEZBPWyVtjx8vpdlN6vo_fJqHHlEfmSa1lMb3f12gfsuLFIrx4HeQt44nxTnZG-bcpxVxF2Gj_d6BZfOs8Eo7vV93o/s1600/BooksJohn.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 376px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicnslnPWw_7ZXSG_0V0GPN-t5JzxgsrkCu0GIUQZ2kqGOJHLqWePdEZBPWyVtjx8vpdlN6vo_fJqHHlEfmSa1lMb3f12gfsuLFIrx4HeQt44nxTnZG-bcpxVxF2Gj_d6BZfOs8Eo7vV93o/s400/BooksJohn.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455398542943049650" border="0" /></a><br /></span></span>kahalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01431399294532432635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3189284079700246738.post-74230097452070036282009-02-19T14:01:00.007-05:002009-02-19T22:48:08.766-05:00Mission AccomplishedThe project I started on September 28, 2008, is almost complete. I looked through all twelve boxes of Holliday Ellwood Hartman's books and learned about my ancestors in the process. I recorded the information for each book in a database which now includes more than 200 titles. I took photos of the most interesting books and blogged about them so that my relatives can learn more about our family history. And then yesterday I packed them all up again in twelve new boxes organized by: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Textbooks, and Very Fragile Books.<br /><br />The last step in this project is to figure out what to do with all the books. I've started to give some to relatives, and I've also put aside the books that I would like to keep (e.g. family Bibles, H. E.'s notebooks, and a photography book). It would be really helpful if some book experts stumbled onto this blog and helped me answer the following questions:<br /><br /><ul><li>Are any of these books valuable? My oldest books are the <a href="http://judgingbyhisbooks.blogspot.com/2008/10/holy-crazy-family-bible.html">1841 Cottage Bible</a>, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiRjcQHwgRNOKWvvpjtnJ82dVmsjWUsnc0H1i_ue0NJHH7pJj7fU7-KeFEwUa9UBeVLg2ckgSmWtUfIzVp-LkZTkxSydJISUmt694IEJPFmulq7PgSbTugbwQcUuFFfKReF9M0uJVMcTKF/s1600-h/DorcasHillBook.jpg">"Lady Huntington and Her Friends" from 1853</a> and a <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8c-YxcODFj6n0pnKMgf8xq5Tza4-YL0XjWeD28RuixlzD2ha49OMHIjO0X7XIHnsZNzeSuZUC8jgl0IYeU9e97l8RNcAS1gIZdWuByWEO6Nc0h-cq-yurPV9A9SMfMGrDLC5fXx4zroRu/s1600-h/HannahBible.jpg">Bible from 1855</a>. Some books in the collection have beautiful illustrations, including <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh78MA1CgdIrqKgj7t82gPXJNQIh1Id6zeTinPR_xNdQvthyphenhyphenjsckz7-Wst_8NsDTmBAVvzHTE_krDbXLTiMkgOBvAMozrk4QArBib2OfUWKADPa6cDG1K8sQnC33DD81PuYs2V6f6TegQ62/s1600-h/treasury.jpg">"A Child's Garden of Verses"</a> and <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYCXPWqqD-8jY2CJ0C7R35vlxKyGzNgPEA398kyRtz2gRH9fysDrRL64s-953CcQ6iOE0s6FyvT66uB4zRpNYfLRU_kiMy7BEVzD5RJKdX0SN9VpikVdfYy-71sHJgd12IUq2EH20IQqcQ/s1600-h/IMG_3580.JPG">"The Conquest of Fire"</a>. The <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOpgm6MMFF-uZH4boEMyJKv1u0WB0haPX4ySAhYne_KEA9gm2YBsgrTuknYjD5_9COpIXD4n-B339w3EjA0hGZJODO12jiUAhM_9ReYR_tDbIKHZAZ3WTWwaXR5C8r3MS1f36eblKUAUKC/s1600-h/IMG_5579.JPG">textbooks</a> and <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimUao08Mlk3uIplCueQ11t35yUUO_8f7HWujFG05jgDNLZMdSJuN_miF1MmIPzl7CqGR1MaM09NdJV3r43ndG1EJuFkf1G226tlFJbyRtZNdQya-N6yDLHWvlfZC_LI7qmjp4iOubL4zsH/s1600-h/IMG_4612.JPG">encyclopedias</a> from the late 1800s and early 1900s might be interesting from an academic point of view. There's a copy of "Elbert Hubbard From East Aurora" by Felix Shay that I think is really cool because it still has many uncut pages. I don't know what this is called in printing terms, but you'd have to cut the outside edge of the page with a knife in order to read the two interior pages. There's also an enormous Bible published by A. J. Holman & Co. in 1893 that includes gorgeous illustrations and very thorough glossaries. I have a first edition of Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," but it turns out it's not the first printing of the first edition. I may have other first editions, but I haven't done enough research to know.<br /></li><li>Which books would be worth rebinding, and how do I go about doing that? The old Cottage Bible is in <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi064VoHX0-JqaKuZftN8rumVPrC04mVNrLFMMHa_XH53qaxlmP7F6St_t1qrMd8lZ8I32MX7r_Q-VjB8FVjaEriNgDd0sxUyei-G_E_ga4OyZQVuf9OPXW04bBo7a-v09dGaWc71f4bdEE/s1600-h/IMG_3769.JPG">pretty bad shape</a> but contains family history information. Could someone restore it for me, and would that process be expensive?<br /></li><li>If I decide to sell some of these books, would I be able to sell them on my own? Should I use an online service such as eBay or Alibris? Would it be better to sell to a bookstore?</li></ul>I'm going away for a while, so I'm putting this project on hold. I hope that while I'm gone, my relatives will have a chance to look through these posts and comment or ask questions. My next goal is to research other branches of the family tree, a project I started in my entries about the <a href="http://judgingbyhisbooks.blogspot.com/2009/02/missing-wise-link.html">Wises</a> and the <a href="http://judgingbyhisbooks.blogspot.com/2009/02/my-septuple-ancestor-christopher.html">Zieglers</a>. Eventually I would like to write a book about my ancestry: immigration, the founding of American cities, conflicts with Native Americans, farming and industry in Pennsylvania, religious communities, wars, and various victories and tragedies. It's a big subject, but I'm going to try to make it into a coherent narrative.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Thanks for reading my blog!<br /><br /></span>kahalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01431399294532432635noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3189284079700246738.post-88780396167887880582009-02-18T20:13:00.002-05:002009-02-19T22:45:27.013-05:00Miscellaneous NonfictionToday I went through the last few boxes of Holliday Ellwood Hartman's books. Most were nonfiction and provided insight into my great-grandfather's interests.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsNsSaZPu5VXBLciM3iSr5uph_V6mxkTiP1QK1cstAea8wq9QgCL6pB-05b87MtUAElu0HVWTJasf4GYN__0kI7FczFZq7nREr4X2L8xJ2OZNsf3C0ZMGPEXxI3LwMzGT07Ff8mQbk70tU/s1600-h/IMG_6230.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 156px; height: 175px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsNsSaZPu5VXBLciM3iSr5uph_V6mxkTiP1QK1cstAea8wq9QgCL6pB-05b87MtUAElu0HVWTJasf4GYN__0kI7FczFZq7nREr4X2L8xJ2OZNsf3C0ZMGPEXxI3LwMzGT07Ff8mQbk70tU/s320/IMG_6230.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304567468237123522" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">History</span><br />There are more books about history and government than about any other subject. Holliday received "The History of The United States Told In One Syllable Words" (see photo) for Christmas 1892, when he was eight years old. Two years later, his mother gave him "The Century Book For Young Americans: The Story Of The Government." In 1898, he received "Great Words From Great Americans" which includes speeches by Washington and Lincoln.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjocLuONd1SzmTxu4qAiYpXTt56B_Ba2fm_8ccWg5BUkTw0L8TCImr_VZUMoeHHA20nF4CXn0mRuCY9xwJnocQtgXLZVhFnFKSLSOWN18tE-O9Or2jSJScwLXBBkPPzMvEtS-8Ngd3mI9dI/s1600-h/IMG_6253.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10pt 10px 10px; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 201px; height: 149px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjocLuONd1SzmTxu4qAiYpXTt56B_Ba2fm_8ccWg5BUkTw0L8TCImr_VZUMoeHHA20nF4CXn0mRuCY9xwJnocQtgXLZVhFnFKSLSOWN18tE-O9Or2jSJScwLXBBkPPzMvEtS-8Ngd3mI9dI/s320/IMG_6253.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304567471262693122" border="0" /></a>H. E.'s interest in history continued into adulthood. He owned, for example, a three-volume history of the United States by Julian Hawthorne, Senator John Sherman's autobiography (which is a beautiful book - see photo), and a biography of Theodore Roosevelt called "Great-Heart." He also had a number of anthologies of stories about honorable men (only men) and great leaders (only men) - "Noble Deeds of the Great and Brave" and "Leaders of Men."<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwS6G4cjvP_i1pcUlT6WH6OhgVXHSZzjBcGbimmQKRtvMuBoxfUDK_5DmN0dr8v5yUmKiyzTH4iXDvxf5Pg7Xzh-75VyqIVFAe0z_ezEGbzK1pOLirdtVljt7IKcvRvAnxGKbndDgigo7P/s1600-h/IMG_6261.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 231px; height: 173px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwS6G4cjvP_i1pcUlT6WH6OhgVXHSZzjBcGbimmQKRtvMuBoxfUDK_5DmN0dr8v5yUmKiyzTH4iXDvxf5Pg7Xzh-75VyqIVFAe0z_ezEGbzK1pOLirdtVljt7IKcvRvAnxGKbndDgigo7P/s320/IMG_6261.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304361050885576498" border="0" /></a>There are a few books that branch out from American History and Government, including a book about South African history and "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon. I loved looking through the Gibbon book because it has notes on every single page - mostly subject headings and underlining (see photo) - through page 292. Dates are also recorded from time to time, ending in 1903. The book belonged to "H. Hartman," which could be my great-great-grandfather Henry Waters Hartman or my great-grandfather Holliday Ellwood Hartman. I'm leaning toward H. E. because most of the other books in the collection belonged to him and he was reading similar books in 1903 when he was 19 ... however H. E. always always signed his books "H. E. Hartman," not just "H. Hartman." I'll have to look at it more closely.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYCXPWqqD-8jY2CJ0C7R35vlxKyGzNgPEA398kyRtz2gRH9fysDrRL64s-953CcQ6iOE0s6FyvT66uB4zRpNYfLRU_kiMy7BEVzD5RJKdX0SN9VpikVdfYy-71sHJgd12IUq2EH20IQqcQ/s1600-h/IMG_3580.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 211px; height: 158px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYCXPWqqD-8jY2CJ0C7R35vlxKyGzNgPEA398kyRtz2gRH9fysDrRL64s-953CcQ6iOE0s6FyvT66uB4zRpNYfLRU_kiMy7BEVzD5RJKdX0SN9VpikVdfYy-71sHJgd12IUq2EH20IQqcQ/s320/IMG_3580.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304573038850647922" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Commemorative Books</span><br />There are a few souvenir books commemorating special events. One is called "The Book of the Yale Pageant" (1916) and is a sort of play written to commemorate the two hundredth anniversary of Yale - H. E.'s alma mater - moving to New Haven. There are three books about fire and fire insurance, books H. E. probably owned because he sold insurance. The most impressive is "Conquest of Fire" (see photo), published by the New York Underwriters Agency, A & JH Stoddard, to mark the 50th anniversary of their business. It includes two-page, full-color spreads of gorgeous paintings of fires throughout the ages. "27th Triennial Conclave" is a book about Pittsburgh prepared by the <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/13/70913-004-185CE3FF.jpg"><img style="margin: 10pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 175px; height: 263px;" src="http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/13/70913-004-185CE3FF.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Grand Encampment of Knights Templar in October of 1898. Apparently this military order was officially recognized by the Roman Catholic Church in 1129 and fought in the Crusades (thanks, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar">Wikipedia</a>). They are related to the Freemasons, which I guess is why they were still active in Pittsburgh a century ago. There's a <a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic-art/462222/96280/Parade-of-the-Knights-Templar-during-their-Triennial-Conclave-in">Library of Congress photo</a> (left) of their 1898 parade where they received this souvenir book. I think my great-grandfather H. E. was a Mason, and my grandmother belonged to the Order of Eastern Star when she was young. However, H. E. would have been just 14 years old when this event took place, so I wonder if his father Henry Waters Hartman was also a Mason and either went to the parade or received this book from friends.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Religion</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5JCuh7hg3sIkopvh3LwT1OZX-Ez-Wqkg9Zj7lo9-leidezHZDI1n1h5pje3S23fZJ8JFgjyBiOq2TTBHnpqu8Th04O5TZiFkb8lmPrDhhWPFOu2XXcuspSCxcb3J7gA2YgEHHaN6qsYc8/s1600-h/IMG_4641.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 144px; height: 169px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5JCuh7hg3sIkopvh3LwT1OZX-Ez-Wqkg9Zj7lo9-leidezHZDI1n1h5pje3S23fZJ8JFgjyBiOq2TTBHnpqu8Th04O5TZiFkb8lmPrDhhWPFOu2XXcuspSCxcb3J7gA2YgEHHaN6qsYc8/s320/IMG_4641.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304582175737097618" border="0" /></a><br />Besides the "27th Triennial Conclave" souvenir, I found a few other Freemasonry-related books. "History of the Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons and Concordant Masons" (The Fraternity Publishing Company, Boston, 1916) is in very fragile condition, so I didn't look through it very thoroughly. I did, however, notice in the Table of Contents that there's a whole chapter on "comprehensive history of the Knights Templars," so I can find out more about the group that met in Pittsburgh. I also found ten or twelve more Bibles and hymnals, some of which belonged to the Presbyterian Church in Zelienople or Grace Reformed Church in Harmony.kahalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01431399294532432635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3189284079700246738.post-37387947049534398392009-02-15T18:25:00.004-05:002009-02-16T01:17:53.813-05:00My Septuple Ancestor Christopher ZieglerBranches of my maternal grandfather's family make their way back to the Zieglers. In fact, my maternal <span style="font-style: italic;">grandmother's</span> family also descends from those same Zieglers. So my mom's parents are (distantly) related, both tracing their ancestry to Christopher Ziegler (1714-1804) and his father, Emigrant Michael Ziegler (1684-1765).<br /><br />This wouldn't be very shocking, except that my grandparents are actually related to <span style="font-style: italic;">four</span> of Christopher Ziegler's ten children through <span style="font-style: italic;">seven</span> of his many great-grandchildren. Here's how it works:<br /><br /><ul><li>First there's Christopher's daughter <span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">Catherine Ziegler Moyer (1736-1786)</span>. Her grandson Benjamin Moyer is my grandpa's great-great-grandpa. And her granddaughter Sarah Moyer Boyer is my grandma's great-grandma. </li><li>Then there's Christopher's daughter <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Hannah Ziegler Landis (1740-?)</span> who is my grandpa's great-great-great-great-grandma. </li><li>Next we have Christopher's son <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">John Ziegler (1744-1776)</span>. His grandson Andrew Heistand Ziegler is my grandpa's great-great-grandpa. And his grandson Joseph Heistand Ziegler is my grandma's great-grandpa. </li><li>And finally, Christopher's daughter <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Elizabeth Ziegler Bower (1746-1804)</span>. Her grandson George Bower Boyer is my grandma's great-great-grandpa. And her grandaughter Maria Boyer Moyer is my grandpa's great-great-grandma. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2unyceWvna2u-1rj8rqqnMHLiLdrFkt_NRgXx8rky0ZqcZT_g1Kl9fGnpDOeSm1R80C8olZfhuHWlnZfnUH5bOBJE7MwFlK5ZDzS9YN-313GB6q75U31xZ_paz-NJMLBPXmv-IuKVp-NK/s1600-h/SevenTimes.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2unyceWvna2u-1rj8rqqnMHLiLdrFkt_NRgXx8rky0ZqcZT_g1Kl9fGnpDOeSm1R80C8olZfhuHWlnZfnUH5bOBJE7MwFlK5ZDzS9YN-313GB6q75U31xZ_paz-NJMLBPXmv-IuKVp-NK/s400/SevenTimes.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303273700253882658" border="0" /></a></li></ul>I was having trouble wrapping my mind around that, so I drew a diagram. The four colors represent the four children of Christopher Ziegler my mom is related to. Some of them appear twice, and they all lead back to Christopher Ziegler, highlighted yellow, who appears septuply. <br /><br />This line of the family has been well documented by Gertrude Mohlin Ziegler in her book "The Ziegler Family and Related Families in Pennsylvania" (published 1970, revised 1978). She explains that Christopher Ziegler's father Michael Ziegler was the first Ziegler in our line to immigrate to America:<br /><br /><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">1684.</span> Michael Ziegler was born in 1684, probably in the Palatinate - a district of Germany west of the Rhine River. (There's a possibility he was born in Switzerland and moved to the Palatinate before emigrating from Europe.)<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">1709.</span> Seeking freedom from religious persecution, he immigrated to America in September 1709. I think he arrived in Germantown or Philadelphia, but I don't know the exact ship information.<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">1717.</span> Michael was one of seven trustees appointed by Matthias Van Bebber to build a meeting house and school in what are now Skippack and Perkiomen, PA. </li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">1718.</span> Michael purchased 100 acres for 25 pounds. He purchased 50 more acres in 1722.<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">1725.</span> Michael was one of about 35 men who <a href="http://www.skippack.org/skippackperkiomen.htm">signed a petition</a> that was sent to the Philadelphia Court asking that the township be laid out and surveyed. </li><li> <span style="font-weight: bold;">1727.</span> He purchased 100 more acres in 1727 for 100 pounds, and then 450 acres in the Goshenhoppen (Upper Hanover Township) in 1728. </li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">1728.</span> Michael was one of 75 signers of a petition requesting their Excellency for protection against the Indians. </li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">1729.</span> In 1729 or 1730, Michael Ziegler was naturalized and took an Oath of Allegiance to the Crown of Great Britain.<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">1742.</span> In 1742 and then again in 1745, Michael and others sent letters to Holland warning that war (the French and Indian War of 1754 to 1763) was imminent and asking for advice.<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">1763.</span> Michael made a will which is recorded in Will Book N, page 454 in Philadelphia and copied in Gertrude Ziegler's book.<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">1765.</span> Michael Ziegler died in 1765. He and his wife Catherine were buried in the cemetery of the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/road_less_trvled/sets/72157601144527546/">Lower Skippack Mennonite Church</a>, but no markers remain today.<br /></li></ul>Michael Ziegler and his wife Catherine had nine children: Andrew, Gertrude or Gertrauta, my ancestor Christopher, Barbara, Susannah, Margaret, Catherine II, Michael II, and William. Christopher inherited and purchased a large portion of the land that belonged to his father. He married Deborah Dewitt Pawling (1717 - abt. 1785), daughter of Lt. John Pawling and Aagje Dewitt Pawling. He worked as a weaver and lived in what is now Upper Hanover Township. He is buried in the same cemetery as his parents at Skippack Mennonite Church.<br /><br />On my recent trip to the Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center, I found a lot of information about Christopher Ziegler. I actually got to see and touch two copies of his will - one written in 1786 and one in 1796. (That means I was touching documents that are nearly as old as the Declaration of Independence of 1776!) The wills are transcribed in Gertrude Ziegler's book, but it was pretty cool to see the originals.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiccFjsMZKzwyie1X7PqURnZeyNl4pA3puhxaZl0JVn3yGex_VpfLuu__MgeM5cBO1NGipJ7xxrHT8-hrfA4iA5avoMrqrTHTdf8lFb8BQD3Qq544nQM2Hq-PFj43RY8WXRBLqR6FUCRjeY/s1600-h/IMG_6204.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiccFjsMZKzwyie1X7PqURnZeyNl4pA3puhxaZl0JVn3yGex_VpfLuu__MgeM5cBO1NGipJ7xxrHT8-hrfA4iA5avoMrqrTHTdf8lFb8BQD3Qq544nQM2Hq-PFj43RY8WXRBLqR6FUCRjeY/s400/IMG_6204.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303133496455112434" border="0" /></a><br />I wonder whether Christopher Ziegler spoke or wrote English. I'm pretty sure he spoke German at home because I'm pretty sure his son John Ziegler spoke German at home. And I'm pretty sure of that because John Ziegler's son Abraham wrote him two personal letters (which can be found at the Schwenkfelder Center) in German. Maybe they were all bilingual and Christopher wrote his will himself, but it is also possible that his will was translated and that this written document was prepared by a lawyer or government employee in Philadelphia. I wonder, then, when the Zieglers started speaking and writing English fluently, and when they started using English at home.kahalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01431399294532432635noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3189284079700246738.post-45151458620150078752009-02-13T19:39:00.015-05:002009-02-15T14:30:55.228-05:00Missing Wise LinkToday I visited the <a href="http://www.schwenkfelder.com/">Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center</a> in Pennsburg, PA. I was very impressed with their resources and grateful for the assistance of Mr. Hunt The Archivist. However, I left with more questions than answers ... which I guess is normal in genealogy research?<br /><br />In my <a href="http://judgingbyhisbooks.blogspot.com/2009/01/wises-and-schwenkfelders.html">last entry</a>, I wrote that my maternal grandfather's family - the Wises - descend from Rev. George Weiss, the first Schwenkfelder Minister in Pennsylvania. I had gotten this information from the family history book "The Ziegler Family and Related Families in Pennsylvania" by Gertrude Ziegler, and I'd seen the same names on <a href="http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?surname=WEISS&given=Killian">rootsweb.com family trees</a> as well as note pages in my family's files. I contacted the Schwenkfelder Center and told them that I was directly related to their founding minister and would like to come learn more about my heritage. They informed me that Rev. George Weiss of the Schwenkfelders had no descendants and so I could not be directly related to him. However, they told me there were a few other George Weisses in their records, and so perhaps I could find what I was looking for.<br /><br />One generation after (meaning younger than) the mysterious George Weiss is Killian Weiss, and I actually know a lot about him. He was born on Dec 15, 1751 in Pennsylvania. He died Feb 16, 1840 and is buried in a Mennonite cemetery in Bally in Berks County, PA. He married Catherine Ziegler Landis, daughter of Hannah Pawling Ziegler and Martin Landis. Catherine was born Sept 4, 1764 and died May 20, 1826. She is buried next to her husband, and as far as I know their tombstones are still there in Bally. I haven't gone to the cemetery yet, but the church records are available at the Schwenkfelder Library (see photo) and also <a href="http://herefordlist.blogspot.com/">online</a>. In the records, Killian is spelled <span style="font-style: italic;">Killion</span> and Catherine is spelled <span style="font-style: italic;">Catharine</span>, so perhaps I should go with these spellings until I can check them myself at the cemetery.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5OatpTHPNrCuh0jpRuiA0lxywTeByPkBg9uUZEf9UbB1BSw47x6tb1nDVGF2Uhcl_Rn4VMHuUiVrK3Hm7eJD30dCrJB7q4IvSBTAhPBzwTZuwWXCYrMAS2oJL95nDnuLpSFRG_rZdQRtH/s1600-h/IMG_6158_2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 143px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5OatpTHPNrCuh0jpRuiA0lxywTeByPkBg9uUZEf9UbB1BSw47x6tb1nDVGF2Uhcl_Rn4VMHuUiVrK3Hm7eJD30dCrJB7q4IvSBTAhPBzwTZuwWXCYrMAS2oJL95nDnuLpSFRG_rZdQRtH/s400/IMG_6158_2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302915228461517330" border="0" /></a><br />Their information is confirmed in the Ziegler book (which, however, gives Catharine a death date of July 10, 1859) and a book called "History of the Descendants of Jacob Funck Wise" prepared by my grandfather John H. Wise in 1962 (which only records Killion, spelled <span style="font-style: italic;">Kill</span><span style="font-style: italic;">ian Weisz</span>). My grandfather referenced a book called "Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County Pennsylvania" by Morton L. Montgomery, which I found in the Schwenkfeld<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMGh1vpevZ1m9OfWi19vW3GSbLMxVsd-FEDQxN-GUWtz5zm9rV_DifRsSGc2WxN3R40JLvF4ERZ4j0Or4XS4t-_6WBtgz-CGP-vn_xRa6ieaTnipNF8I6sXY-jY67VG8MYz5czkxn3RZTx/s1600-h/IMG_6154_2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 257px; height: 285px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMGh1vpevZ1m9OfWi19vW3GSbLMxVsd-FEDQxN-GUWtz5zm9rV_DifRsSGc2WxN3R40JLvF4ERZ4j0Or4XS4t-_6WBtgz-CGP-vn_xRa6ieaTnipNF8I6sXY-jY67VG8MYz5czkxn3RZTx/s320/IMG_6154_2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302916114278604130" border="0" /></a>er Library (see photo). Montgomery uses the spellings <span style="font-style: italic;">Killian Weis</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">Catharine Weis</span> and adds that in the 1790 federal census, Killion was listed as "a taxable resident of Upper Milford township, Northampton county."<br /><br />Both the Ziegler and Montgomery books list Killion and Catharine's nine children: Anna who married John Ehst, Killian Jr. who married Barbara Shelly and is buried in the <a href="http://berks.pa-roots.com/cemetery/BoyertownMennoniteCemetery.html">Boyertown Mennonite Cemetery</a>, my ancestor John Landis who married Mary Funk, Jacob who married Catherine Bauer Boyer, George who married Anna Weinberger, Samuel who married a Latshaw, Katherine called Kate who married Henry Shelly, Henry who married Susanna Weinberg of Quakertown, and Hannah who married Isaac Longacre. The Montgomery book adds that Killion had a brother named Jacob who owned a mill.<br /><br />So the problem is: Who were Killion (and Jacob?) Weiss's parents? The Ziegler book claims they were Rev. George Weiss of the Schwenkfelders and his wife Anna Meschter, but that can't be true. The Wise book also points to a George Weisz, explaining: "Four brothers landed at Philadelphia in 1725, first of the Weisz family to reach America. They were Kilyan, George, Rudolph and Jacob, settling in the upper part of Montgomery and lower Lehigh counties, and became the originators of the Mennonite church at or near Emause, about four miles from Allentown. Of these brothers, George had a son named Killian, born December 15, 1751, died February, 1840, at the age of 88." The source of this information is not listed, except for a note that says, "Most of the following was written in 1947." I'll have to ask my grandfather if he knows who wrote it and how they made the connection between Killion and George-Of-The-Four-Brothers-Who-Arrived-In-1725.<br /><br />I continued my search for George/Georg or Killion/Killian Weiss/Weisz/Weis in the Schwenkfelder Library's databases and archives. In a file cabinet, I found a manila envelope labeled "Weiss" that contained three packets of information. The first page (see photo) was incredibly interesting, as it listed some of the same information as the Wise book. It starts out, "The Weisz's originally were Hollanders. They were exiled from Holland, fled from Switzerland, and then came to the United States. They landed at Philadelphia about 1727-1728 or 1729. Four brothers came to this country - Rudolph (died March 26, 1783 age 55 yr 6 m buried at Upper Milford Mennonite Cemetery), Jacob, Kilyon, George (?)." It goes on to list some of the descendants of Jacob Weisz, then it reads, "Of the original forefathers who came to the United States one was a minister, one a doctor, one a military man, and one a free holder." The last paragraph on the page references "Record in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, by H. L. Weisz." It says, "A Mennonite meeting house was built a few miles from what is now called Allentown between 1735-40, members of whom were George and Rudolph." Then is says, "Col. Jacob Weisz was born in Philadelphia about 1750, died at Weissport 1839. His father was a respectable doctor, a native of Germany."<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg35_pvijPzeogJWyHzt3A6U7MAeFH_6l3eFNuv5TcbWFt_knGytMnLHwX-dDlFwsycIF3Bg1SxyVhCPV6PlzKycCV-cLMwUq-Yrwul_lSavkS79pgkpMqBLIXqL6zXfkQjzj7ewNaGjKUm/s1600-h/IMG_6160.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg35_pvijPzeogJWyHzt3A6U7MAeFH_6l3eFNuv5TcbWFt_knGytMnLHwX-dDlFwsycIF3Bg1SxyVhCPV6PlzKycCV-cLMwUq-Yrwul_lSavkS79pgkpMqBLIXqL6zXfkQjzj7ewNaGjKUm/s400/IMG_6160.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302938216907074258" border="0" /></a><br />So apparently these are the same four brothers who are listed in the Wise book. However, nowhere on this Random Page from the manila folder does it talk about George's wife or children. Maybe, as the Berks County Book claims, the Col. Jacob at the end of the page is my ancestor Killion's brother, and so their father is George who was a member of the Mennonite church and a doctor. But besides the missing link between George and Killion, there are a few problems with all of this:<br /><br /><ul><li>Rudolph's grave is listed in the Upper Milford Mennonite church's cemetery records, but George's is not. Maybe whoever made that list couldn't see or read George's grave? Maybe he moved and was buried somewhere else - like in Weissport with his son Jacob? He's not buried in Bally with his son Killion.<br /></li><li>If Rudolph's gravestone is correct (died March 1783 at the age of 55 1/2) then he was born in September 1727. The top of the Random Page says that four brothers sailed to Philadelphia in 1727, 1728, or 1729. If Rudolph was a tiny infant, wouldn't he be traveling with his parents? Why don't either of the sources - this random page and the Wise book - say anything about his parents?</li><li>I looked in two sources that list immigrants who arrived in Philadelphia starting in 1727 (based on ships' logs), and neither of them list four Weiss/Weisz/Weis brothers. There are a few George Weisses, but they arrived in the 1730's, 40's, and 50's. And I didn't see any Rudolphs or Kilyons. I guess it's possible their names are illegible on the ships' logs or their logs got lost?<br /></li></ul>The other two packets of information in the manila folder concern a Rev. George Michael Weiss. For a few brief moments I hoped that this would be the George Weisz from the Random Page and from the Wise Book, and that in these packets I would find the Missing Link. However, this Rev. George Michael Weiss (who is very well documented) was sent by the Reformed Church (not a Mennonite) and, most importantly, had no children.<br /><br />So I left the Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center knowing that Killion's father was not The Rev. George Weiss of the Schwenkfelders, nor was he The Rev. George Michael Weiss of the Reformed Church. He was perhaps George Weisz, one of Four Brothers, who was a Mennonite and maybe a Doctor and came from Germany in the 1720's ... but I'm not really sure about that yet. Fortunately, the trip to the Schwenkfelder Library gave me a few places to turn for more information:<br /><br /><ul><li>There's the Upper Milford Mennonite Church where George and Rudolph were members and where Rudolph is buried. It's still around and apparently published an updated history for its 250th anniversary, so I should contact them. I found a short history of the church in the book <a href="http://www.google.com/books?id=VHsXAAAAYAAJ&dq=Upper%20Milford%20Mennonite&lr=&pg=PA264&ci=72,287,835,691&source=bookclip">History of the Mennonites Historically and Biographically Arranged from the Time of the Reformation</a> which lists all four Weisz brothers as founding members (as well as Abraham Heistand who is another ancestor of mine!). Their family information still isn't clear, but this could be a great lead. <a href="http://www.google.com/books?id=VHsXAAAAYAAJ&dq=Upper%20Milford%20Mennonite&lr=&pg=PA264&ci=72,287,835,691&source=bookclip"><img style="width: 344px; height: 295px;" src="http://www.google.com/books?id=VHsXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA264&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U1Dolna_O3S57XicPBelhL0_m_H_g&ci=72%2C287%2C835%2C691&edge=1" alt="Mennonite Congregation in Upper Mil ford Lehigh County A Short Historical Sketch BY SAMUEL STAUFFER THE first Mennonite congregation in Upper Milford Lehigh County was founded and organized as near as can be ascertained between the years 1735 and 1760 The founders of this congregation were Ulrich Easier Heinrich Schleifer Johannes Schwartz Conrad Stamm David Jansen Benjamin Meyer Abraham Funk Heinrich Funk Johannes Mayer Samuel Mayer Conrad Mayer Michael Mayer Johannes Gehman George Weisz Kilian Weisz Rudolph Weisz Jacob Weisz Jacob Hie stand Abraham Hiestand Daniel Greber and others " border="0" /></a></li><li>Then there's the Mennonite Cemetery of the Hereford Congregation in Bally, PA, where Killion and Catharine are buried. I could try to visit there.</li><li>Jacob Weiss, who according to the Berks County Book was Killion's brother, ended up in <a href="http://www.delawareandlehigh.org/town.asp?townid=13">Weissport</a>. According to <a href="http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=15045">epodunk.com</a>, the town is actually named for Col. Jacob Weiss, described as a "wealthy Philadelphian who organized early coal company." So maybe that town has information on their namesake's parents.<br /></li><li>The Random Page references "Record in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, by H. L. Weisz," so I should try to find that.<br /></li><li>The bottom of the Random Page lists someone's name and address. Maybe it's the lady who provided the Random Page, so I guess if I got desperate I could try to contact her, Mrs. Narona Gebert. </li><li>Then of course, there's my grandpa who researched all of this for the Wise Book. He's still very sharp, but I can't expect him to remember all of his sources from a project he did 40 years ago. I probably won't remember all of this 40 years from now ... unless of course blogger is still around and I can look it up.<br /></li></ul>kahalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01431399294532432635noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3189284079700246738.post-32963201866668738542009-01-28T22:12:00.008-05:002009-01-29T09:17:51.231-05:00The Wises and The SchwenkfeldersTwo weeks ago I spent some time in Harmony, PA with my maternal grandma and grandpa. I scanned a lot of old photos, found some old letters, and heard a few stories. I've decided to compile all that I've learned learned so far - from H. E. Hartman's book collection, from my grandparents and other relatives, and from my own research. I'd like to publish a book, probably using the self-publishing company Blurb.<br /><br />Now I'm trying to figure out how I would organize my family's history. I think the first story is the story of the Wises (my mom's dad John H. Wise and his dad John L. Wise and his dad Israel M. Wise and his dad Jacob F. Wise and his dad John L. Weisz and his dad Killian Weiss and his dad George Weiss, Jr. and his dad the Rev. George Weiss).<br /><br />So far this blog has concentrated on my maternal grandmother's family - the Hartmans (since most of the books belonged to them). I've only written one post about "<a href="http://judgingbyhisbooks.blogspot.com/2008/11/other-side.html">The Other Side</a>," my maternal grandfather's family - the Wises.<br /><br />Gertrude Mohlin Ziegler wrote a very informative book called "The Ziegler Family and Related Families in Western Pennsylvania" (Charles Campbell Printing Company 1978). In it, she summarizes the Weiss-Weisz-Wise family's arrival in America:<br /><br /><blockquote>"The Weiss-Weisz-Wise Family in America traces its ancestry back to the Emigrant, George Weiss (1687-1740) who was married to Anna Meschter. George, son of Caspar Weiss, was born in Harpersdorf, Lower Silesia. He came to America in the early 1700's, settling first at Germantown. He was the first minister to be elected (November 9, 1735) of the Schwenkfelder Group. The Schwenkfelder Group takes its name from Caspar Schwenkfeld (1490-1562) of Silesia. 'He and Martin Luther sharply disagreed on the nature of Christ's presence in the Lord's Supper.' (See Wenger's "History of the Franconia Menonites.") They opposed war and oaths, advocating separation of church and state, like the Mennonites. They, too, were persecuted for their beliefs and fled to America between 1731-1737.<br /><br />Two sons of Rev. George Weiss were George Jr. and Killian. Killian and Sarah Weiss had no issue. George Jr. had two sons and five daughters. The sons were Jacob who married Sarah, and Killian (1751-1840) who married Catherine Ziegler Landis (1764-1826). The Weisz and Wise families who emigrated into Butler County, PA., and Ohio descend from Michael Ziegler and George Weiss through these lines."<br /><br /></blockquote>I've found a few other references to Rev. George Weiss, but they don't all agree. Pages 59 to 61 of "<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=0lwXAAAAYAAJ">The Schwenkfelders in Pennsylvania: A Historical Sketch</a>" by Howard Wiegner Kriebel (New Era Printing Company, 1904) describe how George Weiss became minister of the Schwenkfelders. Two pages of a <a href="http://freepages.books.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Ecwolfram/schwenkfelder/1.html">document copied to rootsweb.com</a> also talk about George Weiss, but claim he had no descendants. I'm hoping that a visit to the <a href="http://www.schwenkfelder.com/">Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center</a> will clear things up.<br /><br />I don't know much about George Weiss, Jr. Was he involved in the Schwenkfelder community? Did he stay in the Germantown area where his father lived? He had a son named Killian Weiss who was born in 1751 and died in 1840 in Montgomery County, which is still pretty close to Germantown. Killian's son John Landis Weisz made the move from Eastern to Western Pennsylvania. He was born in 1790 in Montgomery County and died in 1856 in Beaver County.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwtnRSJCyUmCxN9a8PMd0OGW9i4oinqdaDTW0m9lvz6jmovMJ2o165ihyphenhyphenyRqaym-gyreU9WJmT-RLCMVUqa6F6_dXPSiANsXEfoRhFt4IN01vhhtd6UqYfQKzdlZgVzwqZY8azQ5iZF7-x/s1600-h/IMG_5898.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 138px; height: 199px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwtnRSJCyUmCxN9a8PMd0OGW9i4oinqdaDTW0m9lvz6jmovMJ2o165ihyphenhyphenyRqaym-gyreU9WJmT-RLCMVUqa6F6_dXPSiANsXEfoRhFt4IN01vhhtd6UqYfQKzdlZgVzwqZY8azQ5iZF7-x/s320/IMG_5898.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296566756620888786" border="0" /></a>The story fills out with his son, my great-great-great-grandfather Jacob Funk Wise (pictured), who bought a farm in Harmony, PA (Butler County). There's a 50-page pamphlet that was published in 1962 called "History of the Descendants of Jacob Funk Wise." It describes Jacob Funk Wise as a farmer and drover. In 1886, he bought a farm called "<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kahala/tags/droversinn/">Drovers' Inn</a>" which is still in the family. My grandma and grandpa and aunt and uncle live on the farm now, which was operating as a dairy farm until about a decade ago.kahalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01431399294532432635noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3189284079700246738.post-19007356967633229622009-01-07T17:51:00.011-05:002009-01-28T23:53:29.410-05:00Back In The (School) DayMy next set of books are schoolbooks, including reading, arithmetic, geography, spelling, and science books. Some belonged to my great-grandfather Holliday Ellwood Hartman, and some belonged to his children - my grandmother Eleanor Hartman Wise and her siblings.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Most Beautiful Book</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsTd1wv3fn-ufvcy3lpxUWplNYjMdr2EnUauMmDdS7t3dMdPxpAlARSvXzvuNQYp2Fuv_tdeGQbhmkjDmq1IuOY6DEOCeoZ85YP93ZQa_grX8K5KjHurg3b8L5myJGernG6eAnjYI8zS8l/s1600-h/HolidaySport.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 180px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsTd1wv3fn-ufvcy3lpxUWplNYjMdr2EnUauMmDdS7t3dMdPxpAlARSvXzvuNQYp2Fuv_tdeGQbhmkjDmq1IuOY6DEOCeoZ85YP93ZQa_grX8K5KjHurg3b8L5myJGernG6eAnjYI8zS8l/s320/HolidaySport.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288734859213035218" border="0" /></a><br />"Holiday Sport," printed and bound by M. A. Donohue & Company in Chicago, is a beautiful reader. I can't tell when it was published, but antique book sellers estimate 1880 and say that this book is very rare. It includes sweet stories such as "How A Goose Did Love A Dog" and "How The Elephant Tried The Bridge" as well as poems such as "Learning To Walk" and "All For The Best." Unfortunately, this book is extremely delicate, and the first few pages are falling out. I don't want to completely open the book for fear of breaking more pages, but it looks like nearly all the stories and illustrations are completely intact.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Most Personal Book</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"Feltinum" Composition Book. Property of H. E. Hartman, Ellwood City, Pa., Betts Academy.</span> This was my great-grandfather H. E. Hartman's composition book while he was at a private high school called Betts Academy (see "<a href="http://judgingbyhisbooks.blogspot.com/2008/09/education-of-h-e-hartman.html">The Education of H. E. Hartman</a>"). The first page includes subtraction problems (484.2 - 29.1 = 455.1) and formulas ("The plastic amorphous is formed by pouring the melted sulphur into some water"). All 64 pages of his notebook continue in this manner, with formulas (Fe+2Hcl=Fecl2+2H) and descriptions ("Iron melts, but does not burn, and it does not decompose water. It dissolves in dil. hyd., nit., and sul. acids, and hydrogen is given off"). He received lots of blue checks, which I think are good.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI9n7qUNgL5rIVfya6D0__UtMOHnNjvUQIk2hNvlejt-kEnb_Z2Mv5DRHxdE0h8VzGmZskuCWmbm8pL80vb8GVZTNf2vTVQaUHY7vcnUubc9HzR6ZV6NFgGpkQzWgxhAAMNIvAyEUAkguz/s1600-h/journal.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 192px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI9n7qUNgL5rIVfya6D0__UtMOHnNjvUQIk2hNvlejt-kEnb_Z2Mv5DRHxdE0h8VzGmZskuCWmbm8pL80vb8GVZTNf2vTVQaUHY7vcnUubc9HzR6ZV6NFgGpkQzWgxhAAMNIvAyEUAkguz/s320/journal.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288738518809398338" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Historically Interesting Books</span><br />"Stoddard's American Intellectual Arithmetic" (published by Sheldon & Co., New York and Chicago, copyright 1866) belonged to my great-grandfather H. E. Hartman. It's signed "Holliday Ellwood Hartman / Ellwood City, Penna. / Lawrence County. May 8th, 1893" on the inside front cover. It then belonged to my grandmother Eleanor Hartman Wise. It's signed "Eleanor Ida Hartman" and then "Eleanor Millidred Hartman" - not sure why - on the first page.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOpgm6MMFF-uZH4boEMyJKv1u0WB0haPX4ySAhYne_KEA9gm2YBsgrTuknYjD5_9COpIXD4n-B339w3EjA0hGZJODO12jiUAhM_9ReYR_tDbIKHZAZ3WTWwaXR5C8r3MS1f36eblKUAUKC/s1600-h/IMG_5579.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 282px; height: 211px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOpgm6MMFF-uZH4boEMyJKv1u0WB0haPX4ySAhYne_KEA9gm2YBsgrTuknYjD5_9COpIXD4n-B339w3EjA0hGZJODO12jiUAhM_9ReYR_tDbIKHZAZ3WTWwaXR5C8r3MS1f36eblKUAUKC/s320/IMG_5579.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288746744950686370" border="0" /></a>The first lesson is basic addition and includes problems such as, "James killed 2 birds, and John killed 1 bird; how many birds did both kill?" and "A man had 2 cows, and he purchased 5 cows more; how many cows had he then?" By lesson five, the problems get more complicated: "A boy bought a pound of butter for 44 cents, a pound of meat for 20 cents, and a bunch of lettuce for 7 cents; how many cents did all cost?" In lesson nine, a duck costs 2 dimes, a candlestick is 12 cents, and a ton of hay goes for 13 dollars. Lesson 17 includes a "Table of Troy Weight" in which 24 grains make 1 pennyweight and 20 pennyweights make 1 ounce. Then there are lessons on partnership, fractions, algebraic questions, and interest.<br /><br />Overall, the book is in great condition and most pages have no writing on them. The back inside cover, however, has a list of names written in my grandmother's handwriting. I'm guessing these are classmates, but I'll ask if she remembers.<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Edgar - 7; Lillian - 2; Marella - 4; Mary V. - 6; George Hesse - 9; Evelyn - 14; Goldie - 15.</span></span> <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Bob - 2; Alberta - 5; Jack K - 1; Betty - 3; Billie - 8; Dorothy S. - 1.</span></span> <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">2 Jack H.; 4 Ruth Hollerman; 3 Herschel; 5 Devona; 6 Robert; 7 Helen; 9 Julia.</span></span> <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">2 Howard K.; 4 Jeane K.; 7 Louise M.; 6 Patricia M.; 3 Billie P.; 12 Lee Z.; 11 Mary L. Flower.</span></span><br /></div><br />"A Grammar School Geography: Descriptive, Industrial, and Commercial" by John N. Tilden and published by Leach, Shewell, & Sanborn (1894) was my great-grandfather's book, too, and is signed "Doc" (his nickname) in huge letters. It is also signed by his daughter Mary Hartman, who noted "Japan on page 190." I don't know why. The book includes illustrations and color maps.<br /><br />When the book was published, Philadelphia was the third largest city of the Union and Pittsburg (no h at the time) was the largest producer of iron, steel, and glass. All of New Jersey had a population about equal to that of New York City. (Actually, a quick Google search tells me that's still true, with 8.7 million people in NJ and 8.2 million people in NYC. That surprises me.)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Property of Zelienople Schools</span><br />A few of the books that were stored in my grandfather's attic actually belong to the public school system. A 1913 edition of "Wilhelm Tell" - in German, with English notes - is stamped "Zelienople Schools No. 5-14; Pupil held responsible for damage or loss of book." The same stamp is on the first page of a 1900 "Halleck's New English Literature" ... and on a 1920 "Hamilton's Essentials of Arithmetic" by Samuel Hamilton ... and on "The Winston Readers Second Reader," a cute storybook with color illustrations from 1918 ... and on the similar "Elson Primary School Reader: Book Two" from 1913. If Zelienople Public Schools would like to reclaim their books, I'd be happy to send them.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRGEPvuOqvH5ZyJhd1bxzpoWVWGy8Zvz3B5YEVXDGU7tASU2O3PubxQc-T7HU64wLOiSdyz3beMkURno6aj5nOHHpCW5WXhV3B7hczG6SYNpinpnVBlrjbBQ9n_WVh0PnT6-Ba4UrNliMg/s1600-h/IMG_5581.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRGEPvuOqvH5ZyJhd1bxzpoWVWGy8Zvz3B5YEVXDGU7tASU2O3PubxQc-T7HU64wLOiSdyz3beMkURno6aj5nOHHpCW5WXhV3B7hczG6SYNpinpnVBlrjbBQ9n_WVh0PnT6-Ba4UrNliMg/s320/IMG_5581.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288747308737111266" border="0" /></a><br />I also have a Monongahela City Public School District book - "Stories of Pennsylvania" by Joseph S. Walton and Martin G. Brumbaugh (copyright 1897).<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">My Hartman Textbook Collection</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Holiday Sport Reader from the Bright Eyes Series (c. 1880)<br />The Winston Readers: Second Reader (1918)<br />Appletons' School Readers: Third Reader (1877)<br />Elson Primary School Reader: Book Two (1913)<br />Town's New Speller and Definer (1896)<br />Halleck's New English Literature (1900)<br />Sheldon's Advanced Language Lessons (1895)<br />Stoddard's American Intellectual Arithmetic (c. 1890)<br />Hamilton's Essentials of Arithmetic: Higher Grader (1920)<br />H. E. Hartman's Science Composition Book (c. 1900)<br />A Grammar School Geography (1894)<br />Stories of Pennsylvania (1897)<br />Schiller's Wilhelm Tell (1913)</span>kahalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01431399294532432635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3189284079700246738.post-65747921040782508292008-11-25T19:21:00.000-05:002008-11-25T21:10:31.923-05:00Who Are These People?And why do I have their books?<br /><br />Maybe my ancestors bought used books that had other people's names in them. Or maybe these books are lost & found items that were never found. Maybe they belonged to friends and relatives that I don't know about. In any case, they were all stored in my grandparents' attic and may have been in my great-grandfather H. E. Hartman's library before that.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">aft. 1898</span><br />Someone whose name looks like Huson B M.Vay signs a copy of "The Latimers: A Tale of the Western Insurrection of 1794" by McCook<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">aft. 1898</span><br />Alice Woodward signs her copy of "The Pennsylvania Citizen" by Shimmell<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1900</span><br />Easter Day, Ida L-something receives "Daily Strength for Daily Needs" for her confirmation<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1902</span><br />The book "At Agincourt" by G. A. Henty is signed: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yours Truly" from Clarence Northwood Xmas 1902<br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKVcPVYR_kJr9rhVKnTH-DtSmnOVq2Wi3w6aX3wZLM3npkidJ3bKPzdGg5IucOIChE3sSrFQhVYAUnGcyLdmM6yZS-wLtC_a4T1IImxd7LCSxMPtzyWT-Xe0deq3FQ7cCagNNWMDyC01EH/s1600-h/IMG_4665.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 222px; height: 165px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKVcPVYR_kJr9rhVKnTH-DtSmnOVq2Wi3w6aX3wZLM3npkidJ3bKPzdGg5IucOIChE3sSrFQhVYAUnGcyLdmM6yZS-wLtC_a4T1IImxd7LCSxMPtzyWT-Xe0deq3FQ7cCagNNWMDyC01EH/s320/IMG_4665.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272776701540063474" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">aft. 1903</span><br />Helen Bastian receives a beautiful copy of "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" by Kate Douglas Wiggin<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1910</span><br />On June 2, Lucia gives H. E. Lelling(?) "The Garden of Allah" by Robert Hichens<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1911</span><br />Marea gives Joe the book "The Shepherd of the Hills" by Harold Bell Wright to celebrate his graduation on May 24.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">aft. 1926</span><br />Helen M. Cleary puts elegant nameplates in the books "The Twins At Home" and "The Twins' Wedding" by Dorothy Whitehall<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1930</span><br />A recent graduate receives "Byrd's Great Adventure" by Francis Trevelyan Miller from his or her affectionate uncle John P. Bauds.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">aft. 1946</span><br />Mrs. Charles A. Woods of Sewickley, Pennsylvania sticks her address label in the book "From the Top of the Stairs" by Gretchen Finletterkahalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01431399294532432635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3189284079700246738.post-66070831289007516602008-11-24T19:10:00.000-05:002008-11-25T20:33:45.608-05:00Found: M. Millen's BibleToday I found Miss M. Millen's family Bible - The Devotional Family Bible published by A. J. Holman & Co. in Philadelphia. Millen's name is written in pencil on the back inside cover page, and there are four newspaper clippings pasted into the front inside cover. Unfortunately, I don't know who Miss M. Millen is, nor do I know any of the names in the articles.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRTq2vRp8l-VpEOjW1bqNghr8087BMHCSdw-Sr0kbK0YAqlI1vxxShGUN5ifxjJh8lRfXCqLHuJzKx6L3d8iKiMPZ2AqQwKly-FaTBSgE0VnCKfve82hB5IzQLTLHXBP6hxW9VqVSNHv19/s1600-h/IMG_4591.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRTq2vRp8l-VpEOjW1bqNghr8087BMHCSdw-Sr0kbK0YAqlI1vxxShGUN5ifxjJh8lRfXCqLHuJzKx6L3d8iKiMPZ2AqQwKly-FaTBSgE0VnCKfve82hB5IzQLTLHXBP6hxW9VqVSNHv19/s320/IMG_4591.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272700523250418306" border="0" /></a><br />1. The first one is ripped, so all I can see is "<span style="font-weight: bold;">R. J. Arnold</span>, of ... celebrated ..."<br /><br />2. MILLEN. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Robert C. Millen</span> was born March 13, 1849,. and died March 11, 1908. He is survived by his widow and four children. He served his country for three years during the Civil War. In 1889 he enlisted under the banner of King Immanuel, and served him faithfully until the end. He was a tireless worker in the church at Nowrytown, Pa. Many miss him, for he was a kind and helpful neighbor, always ready to minister to those in want. He has gone to his reward. - J. F. D.<br /><br />3. Millen-Swartwout.<br />Quietly at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Merritt D. Swartwout, No. 39 Walton street, in the presence only of immediate relatives, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Miss Nina Isabella Swartwout and Harry H. Millen</span>, both of this village, were married at 7:30 o'clock this morning by the Rev. Dr. Bostwick Hawley.<br />Mr. and Mrs. Millen left on a morning train for a sojourn in the Adirondacks. Upon their return they will reside with the bride's parents.<br /><br />4. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mrs. Mary Arnold</span>, widow of the late Robt. J. Arnold, who died Mary 11, 1905, departed this life on Sabbath morning, Oct. 7, 1906, at 5 o'clock, aged 78 years. She has been an invalid for 9 years having been confined to bed all that time. Mrs. Arnold's name was Shirley and she was married in 1850.<br />She is survived by the following sons and daughters: Mrs. R. C. Millen, of Nowrytown; George W., of Girard, Ohio; James of Monessen; Emma B, John N., and J. S. Telford, of near Saltsburg; and Mrs. H. S. Eakman, of near Apollo.<br />Funeral was held Monday afternoon conducted by Rev. Huston.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNPEI3UF3UDEFeAiJjLvfEsnXEoKWUtaJElpV_XeZjzMzbLSni3fCjzM1qGjUKEMbkFqZTxX3c66FOb5Nt2TM9oM-LgUvZ0Ja4KrO1eeBkP0XKDAWOh8b657uY5AVKzMNaW_OKFo3-q8Xr/s1600-h/IMG_4597.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNPEI3UF3UDEFeAiJjLvfEsnXEoKWUtaJElpV_XeZjzMzbLSni3fCjzM1qGjUKEMbkFqZTxX3c66FOb5Nt2TM9oM-LgUvZ0Ja4KrO1eeBkP0XKDAWOh8b657uY5AVKzMNaW_OKFo3-q8Xr/s200/IMG_4597.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272703546444293266" border="0" /></a>Inside the Bible, I found an envelope from Universal Corporation Insurance in Pittsburgh, Pa. addressed to Mr. Joseph Young of Edri Penna. and postmarked the 28th of May 1925. Inside is a pinkish piece of paper titled "Fire, Theft and Transportation Certificate of Insurance / TRIANGLE AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY / Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania". The Assured is Duquesne Sales Company and/or Joseph Young, insured for a new 1925 Ford that cost $429.07.<br /><br />I also found a sheet of lined paper filled in with sermon notes, dated January 1914 and signed Maria C Millen. Phrases include the following: "I do not remember the books", "Do not think I ame [sic] trying to preach to you", "Jesus is the same yesterday to day and for ever."<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">If you have any information about the people related to this Bible, please comment or e-mail me. </span>kahalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01431399294532432635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3189284079700246738.post-74634510932845038982008-11-20T12:42:00.002-05:002009-02-06T23:39:40.410-05:00The Other SideHolliday Ellwood Hartman married Ida Zeigler. The youngest of their six children is my grandmother Eleanor Ida Hartman. She married John Harold Wise, my grandfather The Family Historian who filled in our family tree and who stored all these books for 50 years.<br /><br />The majority of the books belonged to his father-in-law Holliday Ellwood Hartman, but I found a box of Wise books mixed in. The books cover three generations of Wises (four if you count Levi) (five if you count me).<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">My great-grandfather John Loyal Wise</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> (1892-1983)</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWaXaO7wWyAsZtxh1zZbnZnD1r1cyhJJIl8PIic-ZKx-SJGw-i6hLEvGi3vOwk07h58Q9BGYMCQ8zCsoGtjnBTx_wenAL-7K3Ppkhdx-8vzHHdQYWZK6hIvx6OzglvgA8p65zReKEt3DfO/s1600-h/JohnL+copy.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272668911545548658" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 128px; cursor: pointer; height: 98px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWaXaO7wWyAsZtxh1zZbnZnD1r1cyhJJIl8PIic-ZKx-SJGw-i6hLEvGi3vOwk07h58Q9BGYMCQ8zCsoGtjnBTx_wenAL-7K3Ppkhdx-8vzHHdQYWZK6hIvx6OzglvgA8p65zReKEt3DfO/s200/JohnL+copy.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />I have your book "Peloubet’s Select Notes on the International Lessons for 1917" - Bible lessons for Christian living. You received the book for Christmas 1916 from your uncle Levi M. Wise. (Levi must have been your father Israel M. Wise's brother.) You went to Cornell and then worked as a farmer in Harmony, PA.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">My great-grandmother Estella Mickley Wise</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> (1890-1977)</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqp0XKwjl6KUTSGiV7mRnlGVsDAIHbkgqklkD0j8Yxf1cn3Hldq6SJxZK9LPfHNxDPamUBDpg4WiwobUCnivuGnzPnhrcK5vutYe2fBNPsrPvqT6c-WBD-0oml9yCRxCHFCVk-3m61d6gp/s1600-h/IMG_4660.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272482694555784434" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; width: 156px; cursor: pointer; height: 118px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqp0XKwjl6KUTSGiV7mRnlGVsDAIHbkgqklkD0j8Yxf1cn3Hldq6SJxZK9LPfHNxDPamUBDpg4WiwobUCnivuGnzPnhrcK5vutYe2fBNPsrPvqT6c-WBD-0oml9yCRxCHFCVk-3m61d6gp/s320/IMG_4660.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />I've heard a lot about you - 'Stella' stories always told with great love and admiration. (I love your name. And the stories about you.) I found a book you got from your friend Cora E. Flinner for Christmas 1904 (signed in incredibly neat handwriting). It's an illustrated version of Harriett Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin."<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">My grandfather John Harold Wise</span><br />I found two books that belonged to you and your brother Dave when you were young. The first is a beautiful 1926 edition of "A Child's Garden of Verses" by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was a gift from your Aunt Jo in 1929, when you were four-and-a-half and Dave was just two-and-a-half.<br /><br /><br /><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh78MA1CgdIrqKgj7t82gPXJNQIh1Id6zeTinPR_xNdQvthyphenhyphenjsckz7-Wst_8NsDTmBAVvzHTE_krDbXLTiMkgOBvAMozrk4QArBib2OfUWKADPa6cDG1K8sQnC33DD81PuYs2V6f6TegQ62/s1600-h/treasury.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272481397028853826" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 373px; cursor: pointer; height: 139px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh78MA1CgdIrqKgj7t82gPXJNQIh1Id6zeTinPR_xNdQvthyphenhyphenjsckz7-Wst_8NsDTmBAVvzHTE_krDbXLTiMkgOBvAMozrk4QArBib2OfUWKADPa6cDG1K8sQnC33DD81PuYs2V6f6TegQ62/s320/treasury.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />The second is "In His Steps" by Charles M. Sheldon, a gift from Aunt Clare in 1946. I also found four "Tuck-me-in Tales": Old Mr. Crow, Jolly Robin, Rusty Wren, and Solomon Owl. </p><p><strong>My grandfather's brother David Wise<br /></strong>I found a collection of cute little books that belonged to you - Big Little Books and Better Little Books, to be precise. They were published in the 1930s and 40s by Whitman Publishing Company and feature stories about popular comic strip characters and Disney characters.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">My mother Nancy Kay Wise Hala</span><br />I was disappointed to find bold orange Crayola scribblings that said "<span style="font-style: italic;">Nan"</span> in your father's gorgeous "Child's Book of Verses." I can't imagine that your mother would have allowed that. (She does say you were a bad child.) Ironically, I also found your "Aid to the Heidelberg Catechism" from 1964 to 65, when you would have been about 12 years old. You took lots of notes and it looks like you memorized the whole catechism.</p>kahalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01431399294532432635noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3189284079700246738.post-8861967847430822332008-11-19T22:58:00.012-05:002009-02-19T22:31:54.772-05:00Wisdom From 1880Holliday Ellwood Hartman married Ida Zeigler, the fifth of ten children born to Samuel Boyer Zeigler and Katherine Scheidemantel Rader. My great-great-grandfather Samuel Zeigler (1862-1915) was a milk delivery man, and so far the only other thing I know about him is that he owned "Webster's Encyclopedia of Useful Information and World's Atlas" published in 1880. On the inside cover, he wrote his name (twice ... spelled Ziegler and then Zeigler) and town (twice ... spelled Zelienopele and then Zelienople) and the date (once ... July 18, 1891). He also noted six page numbers: 470, 426, 94, 139, 422.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Page 470</span> - There's an arrow next to the brief article "Marking Tools," which explains how to engrave your name or some other mark on your steel or iron tools. First, cover the tool in a thin layer of beeswax and make your mark with a sharp object. "Clear with a feather, fill the letters with nitric acid, let it remain from one to ten minutes, then dip in water and run off, and the marks will be etched into the steel or iron<span style="font-style: italic;">.</span>"<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimUao08Mlk3uIplCueQ11t35yUUO_8f7HWujFG05jgDNLZMdSJuN_miF1MmIPzl7CqGR1MaM09NdJV3r43ndG1EJuFkf1G226tlFJbyRtZNdQya-N6yDLHWvlfZC_LI7qmjp4iOubL4zsH/s1600-h/IMG_4612.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 154px; height: 206px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimUao08Mlk3uIplCueQ11t35yUUO_8f7HWujFG05jgDNLZMdSJuN_miF1MmIPzl7CqGR1MaM09NdJV3r43ndG1EJuFkf1G226tlFJbyRtZNdQya-N6yDLHWvlfZC_LI7qmjp4iOubL4zsH/s320/IMG_4612.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270891606826985778" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Page 426</span> - There are arrows next to three articles on this page: "Superstitions Regarding Babies," "To Catch Fish," and "Ladies' Stamping Powder." My favorite was the baby one, which includes:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Born on Monday, fair in the face;</span> <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><br />Born on Tuesday, full of God's grace;</span> <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><br />Born on Wednesday, the best to be had;</span> <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><br />Born on Thursd</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >ay, merry and glad;</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Born on Friday, worthily given;</span> <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><br />Born on Saturday, work hard for a living;</span> <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><br />Born on Sunday, shall never know want.</span><br />I googled my birthday and found that I was born on the worst possible day of the week.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Page 94</span> - Between "Hive Syrup" and "How to Soften Hands," Samuel drew an arrow next to "How to Clean the Hair" :<br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >From the too frequent use of oils in the hair, many ladies destroy the tone and color of their tresses. The Hindoos have a way of remedying this. They take a hand basin filled with cold water, and have ready a small quantity of pea flour. The hair is in the firs</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >t place submitted to the operation of being washed in cold water, a handful of the pea flour is then applied to the head and rubbed into the hair for ten minutes at least, the servant adding fresh water at short intervals, until it becomes a perfect lather. The whole head is then washed quite clean with copious supplies of the aqueous fluid, combed, and afterwards rubbed dry by means of coarse towels. The hard and soft brush is then resorted to, when the hair will be found to be wholly free from all encumbering oils and other impurities, and assume a glossy softness, equal to the most delicate silk. This process tends to preserve the tone and natural color of the hair, which is so frequently destroyed by the too constant use of caustic cosmetics.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Page 139</span> - In the section "Choice Poems," my great-great-grandfather chose "The Murderer, an unpublished poem by Edgar Allen [sic] Poe." I don't really understand how it's unpublished when it appears here in the encyclopedia, but here's the first of seven stanzas:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Ye glittering stars ! how</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" > fair ye shine to-night,</span> <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><br />And O, thou beauteous moon ! thy fairy light</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Is peeping thro' those iron bars so near me.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >How silent is the night-how clear and bright !</span> <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><br />I nothing hear, nor aught there is to hear me.</span> <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><br />Shunned by all, asif the world did fear me;</span> <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><br />Alone in chains ! Ah, me ! the cursed spell</span> <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><br />That brought me here. Heaven could not cheer me</span> <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><br />Within these walls-within this dark cold cell,</span> <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><br />This gloomy, dreary, solitary hell. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Page 422</span> - Here, Samuel drew an arrow next to the article "Business Law" and circled "Signatures made with a lead pencil are good in law."<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Page 268</span> - Foreign and United States Patents<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm5DanmnYnZcp3jmCzC_6S0x1lQFBuGqgaQbHU2IJpp9tWAzb5eS-GA4DswiHXgu2PQ3igU-94P4S-zp3W8Tn3MhlyPNaTy7s9TCgK1uFKz13YdtMp_QBhCgHcHI7TEvWJOEH3EfttDSkd/s1600-h/newspaper.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 227px; height: 160px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm5DanmnYnZcp3jmCzC_6S0x1lQFBuGqgaQbHU2IJpp9tWAzb5eS-GA4DswiHXgu2PQ3igU-94P4S-zp3W8Tn3MhlyPNaTy7s9TCgK1uFKz13YdtMp_QBhCgHcHI7TEvWJOEH3EfttDSkd/s320/newspaper.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270893623118063474" border="0" /></a>A ripped and yellowed newspaper page fell out of the encyclopedia. I think it's from a Pittsburgh paper, but I don't know the date. Cremo Cigars were offered On Every Street for 5 cents, and Pittsburg [sic - it used to be spelled like that] beat Chicago 5 to 2 in the Federal League. Panama hats were popular, and a lady was offering a $25 reward for her lost diamond ring. My favorite ad is under SPECIAL NOTICES: "I WILL NOT be responsible for any debts contracted by my wife, Mrs. Bridget Warren, after this date, she having left my bed and board. John Warren, Sr."<br /><br />In conclusion, was my great-great-grandfather the milk delivery man possessive about his tools, superstitious about babies, meticulous about clean hair, interested in literature, protective of his rights, and an aspiring inventor? The only thing I know for sure is that he was a poor speller.kahalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01431399294532432635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3189284079700246738.post-15913382208401042912008-11-13T14:02:00.010-05:002009-02-20T12:23:14.389-05:00Hartman-Holliday Family BooksI found a number of books that were in Holliday Ellwood Hartman's library but belonged to his relatives: his grandmother, his mother, his father, his aunts, his uncle, his cousin, and his children. In order to figure out all the relationships, I've been working on the family tree. Here's what I have so far, thanks to research done by my grandfather (Holliday's son-in-law) John H. Wise, family trees submitted to RootsWeb.com, and a few Google Books. If you have any additions or corrections, feel free to comment or e-mail me at katherinehala@gmail.com.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCksvZuWxCfWdSsylm-5WlQxgXSCLrB71WWVLi2zvpiZobX66ctcJDNmOJKnLfZek8JE3dfagAMySW1bEwgo1FbktGg4uaAeaJpPTSczSiNiF4QkG5Bb2aItmXQBF7aR-JupM5ZTT8h3yu/s1600-h/HollidayTree.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 314px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCksvZuWxCfWdSsylm-5WlQxgXSCLrB71WWVLi2zvpiZobX66ctcJDNmOJKnLfZek8JE3dfagAMySW1bEwgo1FbktGg4uaAeaJpPTSczSiNiF4QkG5Bb2aItmXQBF7aR-JupM5ZTT8h3yu/s400/HollidayTree.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268221367342429138" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Holliday's Grandmother - Dorcas Hill - My Great-Great-Great-Grandmother:</span><br />You married Alexander Holliday, lived in Hollidaysburg, and had five children. I have a book that belonged to you: "Lady Huntington and Her Friends; or, The Revival of the Work of God in the Days of Wesley, Whitefield, Romaine, Venn, and Others in The Last Century" compiled by <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiRjcQHwgRNOKWvvpjtnJ82dVmsjWUsnc0H1i_ue0NJHH7pJj7fU7-KeFEwUa9UBeVLg2ckgSmWtUfIzVp-LkZTkxSydJISUmt694IEJPFmulq7PgSbTugbwQcUuFFfKReF9M0uJVMcTKF/s1600-h/DorcasHillBook.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 204px; height: 153px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiRjcQHwgRNOKWvvpjtnJ82dVmsjWUsnc0H1i_ue0NJHH7pJj7fU7-KeFEwUa9UBeVLg2ckgSmWtUfIzVp-LkZTkxSydJISUmt694IEJPFmulq7PgSbTugbwQcUuFFfKReF9M0uJVMcTKF/s320/DorcasHillBook.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268292541736857842" border="0" /></a>Mrs. Helen C. Knight. The inside page reads "Dorcas Hill Holliday, from her Aunt Hannah Copaley Lloyd, Hollidaysburg Pa, Apr. 17, 1854." Your father's last name was probably Hill. Therefore, your Aunt Hannah must be from your mother's side. So either your mom's last name was Lloyd and your Aunt Hannah didn't marry, or your mom's last name was Lloyd and your Aunt Hannah was your mom's brother's wife, or your mom's last name was Copaley and your Aunt Hannah, her sister, married a Lloyd.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Holliday's Father - Henry Waters Hartman - My Great-Great-Grandfather:</span><br />I find you fascinating, and I already wrote a <a href="http://judgingbyhisbooks.blogspot.com/2008/09/rise-of-henry-waters-hartman.html">whole post about you</a>, highlighting your business dealings with Andrew Carnegie and your book autographed by Carnegie. I have two other books that belonged to you: Carnegie's "An American Four-in-Hand in Britain," given to you by W. L. Abbott in 1884, and "The Great Boer War" by A. Conan Doyle, presented to you by W. Pilkington<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTDdrPLdJxuL6ESdBq9NXo_sl6Si-XyFpCPPCzrxeCMH2ygUnPY4022Y0wPrfe9j4gCGIh_ImNO8Eg60ZYAyNFEwpRexWnVoj2PVQo6wpDxaQJUBdQQ461vEyfWaGvbo-HPAEDiBm7wwKN/s1600-h/IMG_4031.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 286px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTDdrPLdJxuL6ESdBq9NXo_sl6Si-XyFpCPPCzrxeCMH2ygUnPY4022Y0wPrfe9j4gCGIh_ImNO8Eg60ZYAyNFEwpRexWnVoj2PVQo6wpDxaQJUBdQQ461vEyfWaGvbo-HPAEDiBm7wwKN/s320/IMG_4031.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268291096014977106" border="0" /></a> of England in 1900. I like the book from Pilkington because he wrote you two Shakespeare quotes in beautiful handwriting: "The friends thou hast and their adoption tried bind them to thy soul with hoops of steel" (especially fitting for a man in the steel industry) and "To thine own self be true And it must follow as the night the day thou canst not then be false to any man."<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Holliday's Uncle - Jesse Lee Hartman - My Great-Great-Grandfather's Brother:</span><br />You were one of seven children, although your brother Homer died before you were born. Your older brother Henry Waters Hartman is my great-great-grandfather. When H. W. Hartman moved to Colorado and his streetcar venture failed, you helped his son - your nephew - my great-grandfather - Holliday Ellwood Hartman. You provided him with a house and probably helped him when his wife died of cancer and he was left with six children, the youngest of whom was 9 (my grandmother). I have your book "The Life of Charles Sumner: with Choice Specimens of his Eloquence, a Delineation of his Oratorical Character, and his Great Speeches of Kansas" edited by D. A. Harsha and published in 1856. This book also has F. R. Hartman's name in the back cover - your little brother.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Holliday's Mother - Mary Holliday Hartman - My Great-Great-Grandmother:</span><br />You descended from Northern Irish immigrants who fought in the Revolutionary War and founded Hollidaysburg. You had four siblings, including a twin named Gilbert and a sister named Hannah who ended up at the same nursing home as you. You married Henry Waters Hartman and probably moved around a lot as a young married woman. You had two sons, and at one point you were fairly wealthy and lived in a beautiful home in Ellwood City.<br /><br />You gave your sons a lot of books, and you seem to have read a lot yourself. I have at least ten books that belonged to you: a Presbyterian hymnal given to "Mrs. Mary Hartman" from Waters in 1877, which means you got married in or before 1877; another Presbyterian hymnal you inscribed in 1900; "Laddie: A True Blue Story" by Gene Stratton-Porter from Eva Dillan for Christmas 1903; "Friendship Village" by Zona Fale, a Christmas gift from Eva Dillan in 1912; "A Far Country" by Churchill, a Christmas gift in 1915 from Donacheg(?); "The Major" by Ralph Connor, a Christmas gift in 1917 from Dorothea; "The American Government" by Frederic H. Haskin; "A Self-Denying Ordinance" by M. Hamilton; "Samuel Boyd of Catchpole Square: A Mystery" by B. L. Farjeon; and "Hazel of Heatherland" by Mabel Barnes-Grundy.<br /><br />I am puzzled by your relationship with your son. Apparently you spent the last nine years of your life in a Presbyterian home in Hollidaysburg. But my grandmother - your granddaughter - who would have been about 14 when you died - doesn't remember ever visiting you. She says it's because Hollidaysburg was quite far away and her father didn't have a car. My grandfather thinks maybe you and your son didn't have a good relationship. What happened? When did you stop seeing each other?<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Holliday's Aunt - Blanche Holliday Hastie - My Great-Great-Grandmother's Sister:<br /></span>You married Samuel Hastie and had a daughter named Helen. I have your book "The People's Bible History" published in 1896, which you either gave to your nephew Holliday or he adopted as his own. (His signature is under yours on the inside cover page.) You also gave Holliday his "Books I Have Read" journal. <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Holliday's Cousin - Helen Holliday Hastie (HHH):</span><br />You are Aunt Blanche's daughter, and you seem to have been very interested in literature. I have a book that belonged to you - "In Story-Land" by Elizabeth Harrison - along with several books you gave your cousin Holliday.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">*Update, February 2009 - There are two Helens ... Holliday's </span>cousin<span style="font-style: italic;"> Helen Holliday Hastie (daughter of Aunt Blanche and Uncle Samuel Hastie) and Holliday's </span>daughter<span style="font-style: italic;"> Helen Hastie Hartman who married Thomas North (see below). "In Story-Land" definitely belonged to </span>cousin<span style="font-style: italic;"> Helen Holliday Hastie, but I think I accidentally sent it to </span>daughter<span style="font-style: italic;"> Helen Hastie Hartman North's daughter Pam. Oops. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Holliday's Aunt - Hannah Holliday - My Great-Great-Grandmother's Sister:</span><br />I have your Bible, a tiny black book from 1885 with your name engraved on the cover. The second page is marked in pencil "Hannah L. Holliday, Presented by her Mother." The only thing I know about you is that you and your sister Mary, my great-great-grandmother, both died in the same Presbyterian home in Hollidaysburg, in 1934 and 1935.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Holliday's Son - Henry W. Hartman - My Grandmother's Brother:</span><br />You died in a car accident when you were only 23, six years after your mother died of cancer at the age of 45. I have two books that belonged to you: "Don Strong of the Wolf Patrol" that you got for Christmas in 1925 from your Aunt Jane, and a "Problems in American Democracy" textbook from Zelienople Public Schools that was purchased in September 1928. You used it after John Shaffer and Clyde Kauf. You scribbled '31, Speedy #16, and your initials throughout the book, plus an interesting pie chart called "Business Circle" that includes Prosperity, Panic, Depression, and Recovery. It seems like both your father and grandfather followed that model. Why is it in the inside cover of your textbook?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Holliday's Son - Samuel Hartman - My Grandmother's Brother:</span><br />I remember you and Aunt Marion very well. I have your book "The Young Financier" by W. O. Stoddard, given to you for Christmas in 1924 or 1926 by John E. Kocher.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Holliday's Daughter - Mary Holliday Hartman Meyers - My Grandmother's Sister:</span><br />I don't remember you very well, but I've met your two children Rick and Carole at various family reunions. I have your books "The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock, and Thistle" by Katherine Stokes, a gift from your mother, and "The Twins In The West" by Dorothy Whitehill. I also have "The Luck of the Bean-Rows: A Fairy-Tale for Lucky Children" by Claud Lovat Fraser from your Aunt Jane - your mother Ida's sister.<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">*Update, February 2009: There are two Mary Holliday Hartmans: Mary Holliday Hartman, H.E.'s mother (1846-1935), and then Mary Holliday Hartman who married a Meyers, H.E.'s daughter (1916-1996). Based on dates and notes in the front of the books, I believe I matched the books with their correct owner. I'm going to send Mary Holliday Hartman Meyers' books to her son Rick. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Holliday's Daughter - Helen Hastie Hartman North - My Grandmother's Sister:</span><br />You married Thomas North and had two children: Pam and Jack. I have four books that belonged to you, and I should probably send them to Pam. One is a lovely little illustrated edition of "Through The Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" by Lewis Carroll. (Paul Eastwood Hutchinson's name and address are also written inside. Paul was the name of your mother Ida's sister Lillian's husband ... your Uncle Paul ... and may also have been the name of his son, your cousin.) This same book is on sale for about $43 online, but I think I'll forego the profits and give the book to Pam. I also have "Jean's Winter With The Warners" by Christine Whiting Parmenter. This sells for between $25 and $30 online, but your copy is kind of moldy and has a page falling out, so I'll definitely send it to Pam. :) Then I have "Jack Morgan: A Boy of 1812" by W. O. Stoddard and "A Little Brother of the Rich" by Joseph Medill Patterson signed "Helen Dear Hartman, Nov. 19, 1927."<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">*Update, February 2009: I sent the books to Pam, even the moldy one and one that belonged to a different Helen ... see above.<br /></span></span>kahalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01431399294532432635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3189284079700246738.post-91753622015678767992008-11-11T23:34:00.011-05:002008-11-13T22:33:21.705-05:00H. E. Hartman's Childhood BooksI wonder how Holliday Ellwood Hartman would have described his childhood. His father Henry Waters Hartman led an exciting and unstable life. H. W. Hartman moved around a lot - operating a steel mill in Beaver Falls, PA, then founding Ellwood City, PA, then starting a streetcar between Denver and Littleton, CO, and at some point visiting Paris. He also took some major financial risks. In the late 1880s, at the beginning of his son's life (see photo of Baby Holliday), he was especially successful and sold his 900-employee steel mill to Andrew Carnegie (see <a href="http://judgingbyhisbooks.blogspot.com/2008/09/rise-of-henry-waters-hartman.html">The Rise Of Henry Waters Hartman</a>). Later he found himself at the opposite end of the wheel of fortune when his Colorado streetcar business went bankrupt.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4DenZa1xKCzL0cejZOGx5v3xoC5P-3BY8UdwgXKSSW2MwH3_SnyFALrwc6W0bgklN3i0yTjX-lHo2blHS-4LI0jo6LdGdQWUg8fb6MvG152qROOZ1ysZC1R_8nZtJAkmw241-EALCrSPP/s1600-h/BabyHolliday.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 237px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4DenZa1xKCzL0cejZOGx5v3xoC5P-3BY8UdwgXKSSW2MwH3_SnyFALrwc6W0bgklN3i0yTjX-lHo2blHS-4LI0jo6LdGdQWUg8fb6MvG152qROOZ1ysZC1R_8nZtJAkmw241-EALCrSPP/s320/BabyHolliday.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268123808978922962" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV53DwzsCQqTtUa3VzvNsC22QguzdfDcPCAgmlXiQyasCjpPVQrd44tvI5NQCMuf97wTpLlejsXsQz9Cxv2NozxispWVVuueQROZgiO-TSa6dqm6IZItPwIrH5U8S8NO9JDLtsxBncY926/s1600-h/Bookshelf.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 98px; height: 128px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV53DwzsCQqTtUa3VzvNsC22QguzdfDcPCAgmlXiQyasCjpPVQrd44tvI5NQCMuf97wTpLlejsXsQz9Cxv2NozxispWVVuueQROZgiO-TSa6dqm6IZItPwIrH5U8S8NO9JDLtsxBncY926/s320/Bookshelf.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268026812769624466" border="0" /></a>Judging by his books, my great-grandfather H. E. Hartman spent a lot of time during these tumultuous years reading and receiving an excellent education (see <a href="http://judgingbyhisbooks.blogspot.com/2008/09/education-of-h-e-hartman.html">The Education of H. E. Hartman</a>). His parents, his aunts and uncles, his friends, and his little brother all gave him books (see photo). In high school, he read a huge number of classics and recorded them in his journal "Books I Have Read." This is what I've pieced together concerning H. E. Hartman's formative years:<br /><br /><ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;">1883 (-1) His father opens the successful Beaver Falls steel mill<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">1884 (0) He is born on the 15th of December</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">1887 (2) His little brother 'Waters' is born</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">1890 (5) His father gives him the book "The Birds' Xmas Carol"; Helen (?) gives <span style="font-style: italic;">the dear boys Holliday and Waters</span> "Sarah Crewe"</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">1892 (7) His father founds Ellwood City, PA; His mother gives him 2 books in the "Five Little Pe</span><span style="font-size:85%;">ppers" series</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">1894 (9) Receives "Santa Claus' Christmas Book" from Walton (?) and "The Century Book for Young Americans" from his mother</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">1898 (13) Receives "Great Words From Great Americans" from H. P. Richardson (?)</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">1899 (14) Receives "Man in the Iron Mask" by Dumas from his brother and "Books I Have Read" journal from Aunt Blanche; Records reading "The Twin Lieutenants" by Alexander Dumas and "A Princetonian" by James Barnes, among others</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">1900 (15) Records reading "The White Company" by Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Last of The Mohicans" by James Fenimore Cooper, and "Richard Carvel" by Winston Churchill, among others<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">1902 (17) Receives "The Eternal City" by Hall Caine from his mother and "The Virginian" by Owen Wister from his brother</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS3JESZvBMuG6RFUXcT7lo5RpQlXAAvoT7MrNmsV9cKM-_TCVGK7_MscQMFbmlXDBzj_QSSEmfzj_EdvnEtw8Q-f71nywmighjvMnwqv1r_mmqjXyLyPQhHJKsZPUr0kReUbKhApbcbb2_/s1600-h/Thirtyone.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 241px; height: 181px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS3JESZvBMuG6RFUXcT7lo5RpQlXAAvoT7MrNmsV9cKM-_TCVGK7_MscQMFbmlXDBzj_QSSEmfzj_EdvnEtw8Q-f71nywmighjvMnwqv1r_mmqjXyLyPQhHJKsZPUr0kReUbKhApbcbb2_/s320/Thirtyone.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268030509835295058" border="0" /></a></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">1903 (18) At Betts Academy</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">1907 (22) Graduates from Yale</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">1907 (22) Reads "Thirty One Years On The Plains And In The Mountains" while traveling 65 miles along the "Switzerland Trail of America" in Colorado (see photo)<br /></span></li></ul>kahalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01431399294532432635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3189284079700246738.post-37676498901007446572008-10-02T02:00:00.004-04:002009-02-19T21:37:37.194-05:00Holy Crazy Family BibleI was thrilled to find an old family Bible today. The cover is in pretty bad condition and the pages are moldy, but I was expecting to find a treasure of family genealogy - records of births, deaths, and marriages. This is what I found instead ...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBUsTojw1yjW35Y403PD2bH8sU7ygz3N8KRoS65OQuLpd1_liZs8qIM7BY7FbKrvsnQ5o0X501AeGKiguauNvEhQQPqbgzrSZoZjEys2mRjw8nrjLQW8bX0O2hLjs1U31p3Hs-SEtDjFr3/s1600-h/IMG_3795.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBUsTojw1yjW35Y403PD2bH8sU7ygz3N8KRoS65OQuLpd1_liZs8qIM7BY7FbKrvsnQ5o0X501AeGKiguauNvEhQQPqbgzrSZoZjEys2mRjw8nrjLQW8bX0O2hLjs1U31p3Hs-SEtDjFr3/s320/IMG_3795.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252425058554368146" border="0" /></a><br />... several pages of random scribblings - names of people (Caroline, Thomas Henry, James R. Holliday) and places (Johnstown, California, Lidieingham) and lots of arithmetic problems (1865-1783=82 and 1300+2000+2000=5300+1500=6800). Some words are upside down and there's at least one math problem that seems to have the wrong solution. I have more questions than answers, but I did find some useful information:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB53jxHKLcJPDfaBq4z4EBSlSxrCYSw14yoMAvVFIdeE4QjKt-TQAVnHWpJPTDSH-B46qiZ-qsSHuy3zdAg-6WylnUAfWtzAuB7gJ4V3amCNIfViBhMrVqtlPVs_6tMTT1sgPXY1wykiyo/s1600-h/Cottage.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB53jxHKLcJPDfaBq4z4EBSlSxrCYSw14yoMAvVFIdeE4QjKt-TQAVnHWpJPTDSH-B46qiZ-qsSHuy3zdAg-6WylnUAfWtzAuB7gJ4V3amCNIfViBhMrVqtlPVs_6tMTT1sgPXY1wykiyo/s400/Cottage.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252408667476556258" border="0" /></a><br /><ol><li>Photo 1. It's The Cottage Bible, printed in Hartford in 1841 in two volumes (Genesis-Song of Solomon and Isaiah-Revelation). The notes are by Thomas Williams and references are from the Polyglott Bible.</li><li>Photo 2. Alexander Lowry Holliday's name appears on both the front and back endpapaers of Volume I. There's also a mention of his gold watch opposite the title page, above a picture of Jesus. So I'm guessing the Bible belonged to A. L. Holliday, my great-great-great-grandfather, the father of Mary Holliday (who was the wife of H. W. Hartman and mother of H. E. Hartman). Thomas O. Connor's name also appears quite often, but I don't know who he was.</li><li>Photo 3. The first page of Volume II features five names: Blanche Holliday, Hannah Holliday, Mary Holliday, Gilbert Holliday, John Holliday. I'm fairly certain that these are the children of A. L. Holliday and his wife Dorcas Hill, the third child being my great-great-grandmother Mary. This explains Aunt Blanche, the aunt who gave H. E. Hartman his Christmas present "Books I Have Read" (see post "<a href="http://judgingbyhisbooks.blogspot.com/2008/09/education-of-h-e-hartman.html">The Education of H. E. Hartman</a>").<br /></li></ol><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8c-YxcODFj6n0pnKMgf8xq5Tza4-YL0XjWeD28RuixlzD2ha49OMHIjO0X7XIHnsZNzeSuZUC8jgl0IYeU9e97l8RNcAS1gIZdWuByWEO6Nc0h-cq-yurPV9A9SMfMGrDLC5fXx4zroRu/s1600-h/HannahBible.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 144px; height: 109px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8c-YxcODFj6n0pnKMgf8xq5Tza4-YL0XjWeD28RuixlzD2ha49OMHIjO0X7XIHnsZNzeSuZUC8jgl0IYeU9e97l8RNcAS1gIZdWuByWEO6Nc0h-cq-yurPV9A9SMfMGrDLC5fXx4zroRu/s200/HannahBible.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252415040750143986" border="0" /></a>I also found a tiny Bible printed in London in 1855 "by His Majesty's special command." The name Hannah Holliday is engraved on the front cover, and the inscription reads, "Hannah L. Holliday / Presented by her Mother". I'm not sure why his aunt's Bible is in my great-grandfather H. E. Hartman's book collection. Was she ever married? What about the other Hollidays - did they have families?<br /><br />One question I'm considering - and one that led to the creation of this blog - is what I should do with these books. The two volumes of The Cottage Bible are in such bad condition that I'll probably have to get them rebound if I decide to sell them or even if I want to keep them in the <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi064VoHX0-JqaKuZftN8rumVPrC04mVNrLFMMHa_XH53qaxlmP7F6St_t1qrMd8lZ8I32MX7r_Q-VjB8FVjaEriNgDd0sxUyei-G_E_ga4OyZQVuf9OPXW04bBo7a-v09dGaWc71f4bdEE/s1600-h/IMG_3769.JPG"><img style="margin: 10pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 164px; height: 123px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi064VoHX0-JqaKuZftN8rumVPrC04mVNrLFMMHa_XH53qaxlmP7F6St_t1qrMd8lZ8I32MX7r_Q-VjB8FVjaEriNgDd0sxUyei-G_E_ga4OyZQVuf9OPXW04bBo7a-v09dGaWc71f4bdEE/s200/IMG_3769.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252424342076132962" border="0" /></a>family. I e-mailed two bookbinding companies in Philadelphia for estimates. Out of curiosity, I googled Cottage Bibles to see if any were for sale online. I found a leather bound 1855 edition on ebay for $550 and a 1835 edition being offered by the Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts Company for $450. I'm not convinced anyone would buy our family's Bible with so many scribbles on its endpapers ... but maybe it's of interest.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">*Update, February 2009: Neither bookbinding company got back to me with an estimate, so I still don't know how much it would cost to repair the Cottage Bible. That's another thing I'll have to look into when I get back. </span></span>kahalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01431399294532432635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3189284079700246738.post-12633972002625962012008-09-30T11:00:00.003-04:002008-10-02T02:30:26.680-04:00The Rise of Henry Waters HartmanToday I discovered a book that belonged to H. E. Hartman's father, my great-great-grandfather Henry Waters Hartman. I actually know a lot more about H. W. Hartman than I do about his son:<br /><br /><ul><li>He was born on December 21, 1850, <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> on Shavers Creek in Huntington County, Pennsylvania.</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp-HlFUCk18xZ9vWtxu0LOTau3pyjV5KfmE1QxPOneS1eYvqox29mgM3ONAlSOTXmSv0C9zsNRGFnSVjaaUuoyxNQ99_SJfRcoxPXlbXBI-BQUlj-lTl4Myx1e7KQUOrtD1xjfNO8uWlfy/s1600-h/HWHartman.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 225px; height: 256px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp-HlFUCk18xZ9vWtxu0LOTau3pyjV5KfmE1QxPOneS1eYvqox29mgM3ONAlSOTXmSv0C9zsNRGFnSVjaaUuoyxNQ99_SJfRcoxPXlbXBI-BQUlj-lTl4Myx1e7KQUOrtD1xjfNO8uWlfy/s320/HWHartman.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251801146154148882" border="0" /></a></li><li>When he was young, he worked for the Hollidaysburg Iron & Nail Company. </li><li>On October 12, 1876, he married Mary Holliday. </li><li>He and Mary had two sons: Holliday Ellwood Hartman (my great-grandfather) in 1884 and Henry Waters Hartman, Jr. (who went by his middle name Waters) in 1887 </li><li>He also worked f<span style="font-family:times new roman;">or t</span>he <span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >Pottstown</span> Iron Company and the Gaither Steel Works in Johnstown. </li><li>In 1883, he opened a steel mill in Beaver Falls (Hartman Steel Works) and employed 900 men for the production of various kinds of wire. He was chairman of The Hartman Steel Company Limited, which maintained branch offices in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, St. Louis, and Chicago. </li><li>In 1892, he founded Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, and moved his wire plant there.</li><li>When he was in his thirties or forties, he took a trip to Paris, where he had his photograph taken in a professional studio. </li></ul><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">Sources:</span> <span style="font-family:georgia;">"The History of Ellwood City, 1892-1942" edited by the Ellwood City Historical Association</span></span><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;">; "Union Drawn Steel Co." by Margaret Sherrill Cox; "History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania" by Joseph H. Bausman and John S. Duss; Interviews with my grandfather John H. Wise<br /></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">Being an important figure in the steel industry, H. W. Hartman was acquainted with the great industrialist and businessman Andrew Carnegie. </span></span>At one point, they were business partners. "It is believed that Carnegie was a principal investor in the [Beaver Falls] wire mill," reports the Ellwood City Historical Society. Then in 1888, Carnegie bought the Hartman Steel Works and took control of the Beaver Falls factory. I don't know the circumstances surrounding this transaction, whether it was a friendly deal or closer to a hostile takeover. Either way, the book I found - Carnegie's "The Triumph of Democracy" - leads me to believe that at some point in their relationship, Andrew Carnegie and my great-great-grandfather were friends. Carnegie presented his book to H. W. Hartman with the following inscription: "H W Hartman Esq / With regards of / Andrew Carnegie".<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyjG87dgGFw62nQM9SlSroGVdGmN8fGBJ6DdDEdCZyWdQlmnhYeGuAzt3O-FyxOy-EX2bXMZY69UZ6UwGJjqKCvFxgt9v6FEzJsElZI8wi2o0HZZgX26w3XpkdCZxwI5EX2YJIqKLayEmf/s1600-h/Carnegie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyjG87dgGFw62nQM9SlSroGVdGmN8fGBJ6DdDEdCZyWdQlmnhYeGuAzt3O-FyxOy-EX2bXMZY69UZ6UwGJjqKCvFxgt9v6FEzJsElZI8wi2o0HZZgX26w3XpkdCZxwI5EX2YJIqKLayEmf/s400/Carnegie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251809245775103586" border="0" /></a><br />While Carnegie went on to become the Second Richest Historical Figure After Rockefeller (according to Wikipedia), somehow my great-great-grandfather lost his fortune. It isn't as easy to find information on the Fall of H. W. Hartman as it is to read about his early success, but I'll start looking.kahalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01431399294532432635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3189284079700246738.post-48057086624862918982008-09-29T11:22:00.021-04:002009-02-20T12:00:28.424-05:00The Education of H. E. HartmanFor a long time, the only thing I knew about my great-grandfather H. E. Hartman was that he was smart. When I was little, I would tell my grandparents about my good report cards and academic prizes. "You take after me," my grandma would say. "That's from my side of the family. My daddy went to Yale."<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqV7I6HoOfWNHxEB8SZ9M860_WoBN_9AC7nvEP9f7vd-G9MezG_-oScALK3be7BhVgOR2H7JCt134TYyaU3SDtGHQiugfFB6tEJRnBUPB_rhSAkmst6kawFtByNW0WehAo2Xw_NzcllBUR/s1600-h/Yale.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 162px; height: 122px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqV7I6HoOfWNHxEB8SZ9M860_WoBN_9AC7nvEP9f7vd-G9MezG_-oScALK3be7BhVgOR2H7JCt134TYyaU3SDtGHQiugfFB6tEJRnBUPB_rhSAkmst6kawFtByNW0WehAo2Xw_NzcllBUR/s200/Yale.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251481486063607762" border="0" /></a>As I searched through the first box of my great-grandfather's book collection, I found a commemorative album called "The Book of the Yale Pageant: 1716-1916." The book was published in 1916, a number of years after H. E. Hartman graduated from Yale in 1907. I contacted the Association of Yale Alumni to see if they have any more information about my great-grandfather. I'm hoping to find some of his textbooks or a yearbook in the other boxes.<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">*Update, February 2009: I found some of H. E.'s textbooks from high school, but not from college. My cousin Ryan has his yearbook, which paints a very interesting picture of Holliday Ellwood Hartman as a young man. I'll have to blog about it when I get back to this project.</span></span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigC5dSii4ARZSBTqTvA2KOEPpzz1p97yfVlgvrtFHU4feq8uhq36rXxaDrBIwCto0UfMUOI9KSgEV01xZddjUq_TpFUvmLmUgq5bKsv-noaNMKDxBlfuJqD0HG7oTss_45IFJHOZ_CYHMj/s1600-h/IMG_3470.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 256px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigC5dSii4ARZSBTqTvA2KOEPpzz1p97yfVlgvrtFHU4feq8uhq36rXxaDrBIwCto0UfMUOI9KSgEV01xZddjUq_TpFUvmLmUgq5bKsv-noaNMKDxBlfuJqD0HG7oTss_45IFJHOZ_CYHMj/s320/IMG_3470.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251492091389465058" border="0" /></a>Before attending Yale, H. E. Hartman went to a preparatory school called Betts Academy in Stamford, Connecticut. My uncle has a photo of my great-grandfather on the Betts baseball team in 1903, when he was eighteen or nineteen years old and probably a senior. (I need to find his exact date of birth.) I searched for Betts Academy online and discovered that playwright Eugene O'Neill went to Betts in 1902 when he was fourteen years old. He studied there for three years and then went to Princeton in 1906. Since they were at Betts at the same time, it's possible that my great-grandfather knew Eugene O'Neill. The Nobel Prize-winning playwright died in 1953 in the hotel room where he was living at the time, Room 401 of a Sheraton Hotel on Bay State Road in Boston. The building is now a Boston University dormitory called Shelton Hall, and I lived on that same floor (The Writer's Corridor) my freshman and sophomore years of college.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">*Update, February 2009: H. E. Hartman was born on December 15, 1884, which means he was eighteen in the photo. </span></span><br /><br />H. E. Hartman's book collection shows that he was an avid reader well before prep school and university. I came across a really interesting journal called "Books I Have Read." H. E. Hartman received this journal from his Aunt Blanche for Christmas 1899, when he was fifteen. (I'm not sure yet who Aunt Blanche was. I <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3C-Xg3nFFNTZMy6anmh9dYB4dPuiAPLOsd__RkPNfuZd1__l8cMAKs2C32x8-TURO6rXT_OYYSYoRpFaTXn0uPRbFQl_E5z_mdhyphenhyphen3OsTZUlonzdS7-UkkblbZ4-9uC1ANN6c0UMP1m1in/s1600-h/BooksRead.jpg"><img style="margin: 10pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 210px; height: 158px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3C-Xg3nFFNTZMy6anmh9dYB4dPuiAPLOsd__RkPNfuZd1__l8cMAKs2C32x8-TURO6rXT_OYYSYoRpFaTXn0uPRbFQl_E5z_mdhyphenhyphen3OsTZUlonzdS7-UkkblbZ4-9uC1ANN6c0UMP1m1in/s320/BooksRead.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251519300422281250" border="0" /></a>added that to my list of questions at the bottom.) There are over 100 entries, and most of them include the title, author, publisher, place and year read, and genre of the book.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">*Update, February 2009: Aunt Blanche was Holliday's mother's sister. Holliday's mother Mary Holliday Hartman had two brothers, John and Gilbert, and two sisters, Blanche and Hannah. You can read more about this side of the family in the post </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://judgingbyhisbooks.blogspot.com/2008/11/hartman-holliday-family-books.html">Hartman-Holliday Family Books</a><span style="font-style: italic;">.) </span></span><br /><br />I think the first thing H. E. Hartman did after receiving his Christmas present was to record a lot of the books he had already read. The first thirty-one entries are in very similar handwriting and seem to be written with the same pen. About twenty of these have no "date read," and the last ten are marked 1899. Starting with the entries from 1900, the pen and ink change from page to page and the handwriting is not quite as consistent.<br /><br />I've already found a few of the books my great-grandfather read before 1900, including "The Swiss Family Robinson" (a gift from Helen - who's Helen? - in 1894) and "The Prisoner of Zenda" (a gift from his brother in 1899). He also read two books by Dumas, two by Robert Louis Stevenson, and two by Arthur Conan Doyle - books I hope to find in the other eleven boxes. I was amused to find titles of books that I also read as a child, including "Black Beauty" by Anna Sewell, "Five Little Peppers" by Margaret Sidney, and "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTqonjURDDmKg3bmFGL1YT3Ld1uiycDfBx-myicWKo4YzmSTzUkeXqYkdC9uc8Py9xFi_tkuiT-DiP7Dh01n8FuHiJaXTJk7sMRvVfr4CBchG-VQj4ufrmYasvSrnnDvmNy2g0oGOSpGkG/s1600-h/SwissFamily.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTqonjURDDmKg3bmFGL1YT3Ld1uiycDfBx-myicWKo4YzmSTzUkeXqYkdC9uc8Py9xFi_tkuiT-DiP7Dh01n8FuHiJaXTJk7sMRvVfr4CBchG-VQj4ufrmYasvSrnnDvmNy2g0oGOSpGkG/s320/SwissFamily.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251522097738052674" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">*Update, February 2009: I believe Helen was Holliday's cousin Helen Holliday Hastie, Aunt Blanche's daughter. </span></span>kahalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01431399294532432635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3189284079700246738.post-19463522261353190322008-09-28T23:51:00.006-04:002008-11-25T20:32:43.370-05:00My Great-Grandfather Holliday Ellwood Hartman<span>When my great-grandfather Holliday Ellwood Hartman (my mom's mom's dad) died in 1960, his library was boxed up and moved to my grandparents' attic</span>. <span>It remained there, probably untouched, until a month ago. </span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5BbPCyOjpEopic_51nsArxxLOLHmvr3rvAVi9rarNsRBBEW7ZJZtdErvYRjWCeo62H0vSHZZvum-yVzRXj59BGtKn_9x2K0azQ96To5ZfIAgu0mwCv6SwYS0igEnyvSQgDYxpMSRxAF5u/s1600-h/FamilyTree.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5BbPCyOjpEopic_51nsArxxLOLHmvr3rvAVi9rarNsRBBEW7ZJZtdErvYRjWCeo62H0vSHZZvum-yVzRXj59BGtKn_9x2K0azQ96To5ZfIAgu0mwCv6SwYS0igEnyvSQgDYxpMSRxAF5u/s400/FamilyTree.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251473508456853442" border="0" /></a><br /><span>Now twelve boxes of H. E. Hartman's books are sitting behind my parents' couch. I'm going through them, book by book, to discover more about my great-grandfather.</span><br /><br />If you are interested in any of my posts - or if can share information about book collecting, book restoration, book selling, book publishing at the turn of the century, or the Hartman family tree - please comment or e-mail me.kahalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01431399294532432635noreply@blogger.com0