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Graduated Roosevelt High School, Des Moines, Ia. Worked for Bankers Life Insurance Co about three years until married.
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Lived in Newport, Pa in 1897
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Died in World War II.
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Place given as Rack River Valley, Moline, Illinois by Middleton.
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7th son, moved to Rock Island county, Ill in 1835.
John Adam and Catharine (Bash) Hartzel are buried on the farm they owned overlooking the Rock River Valley, later owned by son Michael Bash Hartzell where he and his wife are also buried in a small plot. He moved with his parents to Westmoreland Co, PA. His parents then moved from Westmoreland Co, Pa to Rock River Valley near Moline, Illinois, about 1835 or 1836. Adam Hartzell Jr. stayed in Mount Pleasant. Among the notes of Dr. J. Culver Hartzell (1929) are found: "Luther's German Bible was used by the Hartzells and the one owned by Adam Hartzell is in the possession of Dr. J. Culver Hartzell. This copy contains the dates of marriage, birth, and death and other data of the family of Adam & Catherine Bash Hartzell, and were copied from the original records by Michael Bash Hartzell in 1838. This edition was published in 1798. The above is reported to be from the research of Helen Jackson Black in 1943.
"The cemetery began in 1840 as the private graveyard of the Hartzell family, one of the first pioneer families to come to the Rock River Valley. Called the Hartzell Graveyard, it was on the southern edge of the family farm on the bluff above the Rock River.
In 1870, it formally became the Hartzell Cemetery and began selling plots to non-relatives. In 1873, directors changed the name to the Rock River View Cemetery. The cemetery expanded four times between 1879 and 1934, adding more land mostly to the south and east.
In 1966, South Moline Township took over the cemetery and renamed it South Moline Township Cemetery.
Adam Hartzell, who arrived April 30, 1835 at what later became Rock Island, died on Aug 20, 1840, and became the first person buried in the hillside." from newspaper article entitled "Tiny Cemetery Home To Moline's Pioneers", by Sarah Larson, newspaper name and date unknown.
"On Sept. 7, 1727, a group of families from the Palatinate (a Rhine River province of Germany) landed in Pennsylvania.
In 1835, a family descended from one of the families of those early Pennsylvania pioneeers arrived in Moline and settled in Rock River Valley, near what is now the intersection of South 27th St. and Coaltown road. At one time, this family owned around 5,000 acres of land in the valley.
That we the Hartzell family. The family, that part which settled in Rock River Valley on the edge of Moline, consisted of Adam Hartzell and his wife, Catherine Bash Hartzell, and a number of his sons and daughters.
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Hartzell were the parents of 16 children, eight boys and eight girls. The records on how many came to Illinois are not very clear, some giving the figure as high as five sons and five daughters, not all of whom settled in this part of the state.
Unusually Large Families. Adam Hartzell himself was one of 18 children. One of his sons, Michael, who became the best known of the Hartzells in this community, was the father of 13 children.
Today, descendants of these pioneer Hartzells are to be found in all parts of the United States. Most of them, like those in Rock Island County and vicinity, bear some other name. Among the very few descendants bearing the name of Hartzell is the family of Clark Hartzell, superintendent of streets in Moline.
Adam Hartzell, whose father, Adam Hartzell, was a Revolutionary War soldier, was 55 years old when he ame to Rock River Valley in 1835 from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he had moved from the historic Bucks County on the Delaware River. (Some of the family accounts of the migratiton west declare that it was the son Michael, a prosperous, ambitious cabinet maker, who led the family from Pennsylvania to Moline.)
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Mark Hartzell cites "Historical Sketch and Alumni Record of Iowa Wesleyan College, 1917" as source.
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Went to college at Iowa Wesleyan College, graduated in 1863 after 5 years of attendance with a M. A. degree. Then married and moved to Grandview, Louisa County, Iowa where he was principal of the school. After the war, he spent 3 or 4 years in New Mexico and Arizona, leaving his wife and two children at his father's house. Upon his return in 1869, he and his family went to Ohio.
1860 Iowa Census (Franklin Twp/Des Moines Cty) gives occupation as student.
Middle name came from his grandfather Alexander McAllister, according to Mark Hartzell.
" JOHN ALEXANDER HARTZELL, A.B.- Born July
19, 1835. Perry County, Pa. Entered Iowa Wesleyan 1855.
A.M. 1863. For several years lived in Chicago. Merchant.
Married Beatrice E. Cosier September, 1860, Mt. Pleasant.
Children- Elmer E., born June 5, 1861.
Mattie P. Wright, November 30, 1862; died 1898.
Died April 6, 1900, at New Britain, Conn. "--https://archive.org/stream/historicalsketc0iowa/historicalsketc0iowa_djvu.txt
Returned After 53 Years Fifty three years ago, John A Hartzell left Newport for the west. He was a boy then and a son of Adam Hartzell. He has been paying his first visit to his relatives here during the past few days, as the guest of G. W. Zinn, Esq. They were intimate friends and both went to school in the little brick school house now situated in Mr. Keim's backyard. This is about the only landmark that Mr. Hartzell can recall. Nearly all of his early acquaintances are dead or have removed to other places. Not any of the children of his father's brothers, Michael and John Hartzell, and his sister, Mrs. Brown, were born when he resided here. He is now a prosperous ranch man and prominent citizen of Oklahoma territory. He resides at Hartzell, and is postmaster of the place, which was named for him when he was a county commissioner upon the organization of the territory.
"Chronicles of Oklahoma, Vol 7, No 4, December, 1929 The First Two Years: Governor George W. Steele arrived at Guthrie May 23, 1890. On the following day a great reception was given him and his party, which included the three judges and the other territorial officials. The newspapers of that city gave glowing accounts of this reception. They estimated there were fully ten thousand people in the long procession, headed by the "Guthrie Silver Cornet Band." They gave the address of welcome and the address of Governor Steele on this occasion. These papers tell of the reception in the "Spacious Hall," in the Herriott block, under the glow of electric lights and of the thousands of "Fair women and brave men," who were formally presented to the Governor, the United States Judges and other officials, by Hon. C. M. Barnes. Not a word was said about carpet baggers.
The Governor and other state officers visited Oklahoma City and all the other county seat towns and were given great receptions everywhere they went. At Oklahoma City the guests were shown every courtesy and the reception rivaled that given by Guthrie, the temporary capital. Governor Steele was looking the territory over and getting acquainted with its citizens. County officers were to be appointed and many applications were being made for the different offices to be appointed as provided in the Nebraska laws. The Governor did not wait long to appoint county officials and to organize county governments. And it can be said to his credit, he was fortunate in selecting the right men. In Oklahoma County, (or county number two) he appointed the following county officials: Capt. A. B. Hammer, County Judge; Henry Howard, County Attorney; John M. Martin, Clerk; Capt. C. H. DeFord, Sheriff; L. Bixler, Treasurer; W. F. Higgie, John A. Hartzell and Franklin Springer, Commissioners and W. M. Rust, Surveyor.
In all the years since that time it is doubtful whether Oklahoma County ever had better county officers than the first named by Governor Steele. There was not a man in the list that had been identified with the old Seminole Town Company, while Capt. A. B. Hammer had been one of the active Kickapoos. Steele appointed men of high character and standing in all the counties.
"Death of John A. Hartzell. John A. Hartzell died suddenly yesterday afternoon at his home, No. 22 West Main street. He was 64 years old and is survived by his wife and a son, Superintendent Hartzell of the American Hosiery Company. Mr. Hartzell formerly lived in Chicago for many years and the interment will take place in that city."--7 Apr 1900, The (Hartford CN) Daily Courant