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Was accidently shot.
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Jonas Hazard Hartzell, clergyman, author, poet, was born in 1830 in Pennsylvania. He was an episcopal clergyman of Waverly, N.Y., but prior to 1881 a noted clergyman in the universalist faith, for fourteen years a pastor in Buffalo. He was the author of "Wanderings on Parnassus", a collection of verse; and "Application and Achievement". He died in 1890. -- Herringshaw's.
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Jonas was a Glass Maker.
Alternate death place is Greensburg, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, per Find-a-grave.
"JONAS M. HARTZELL, aged 45 years, died yesterday morning at his residence in Greensburg, pf pneumonia, after a prolonged illness. He formerly resided on the South Side. He served in the army during the rebellion in Col. Alexander Hayes' Sixty-third Pennsylvania volunteers, and the last reunion of his company was held at his residence in Greensburg in September of last year. He was a glassworker and was well known in this city. He was a brother of Maj. W.M. Hartzell, formerly of the Commercial Gazette, but now of the pension agency. The funeral will take place this afternoon."--18 Jan 1892, The Pittsburgh (PA) Press
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Farm Laborer
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Noted Methodist missionary whose home town was Blue Ash, Ohio. Bishop Hartzell was the central figure in the book and motion picture "One Foot in Heaven" by Hartzell Spence. The author was named for the Bishop.
D.D., LL.D., bichop Methodist Episcopal Church, Missionary bishop of Africa, 1896-1916 (see Who's Who in America).
Following was extracted from an article which appeared in "The Daily Dispatch" of Moline, Il on 21 March 1983: A June 2,1952 article in The Dispatch compiled by a Hartzell family descendant gave this account of Joseph Crane Hartzell's early life---
Joseph Crane Hartzell was born June 1, 1842, son of Michael and Nancy Worman Stoffer Hartzel in a cabin just east of the intersection of 27th street and Coaltown Road, Moline.
Rock View Cemetery, once the Hartzell family cemetary, overlooks the cabin site.
Hartzell's grandparents, Adam and Catherine Hartzell, and his father, who was 25 at the time, settled in 1835 on 120 acres of the Rock River Valley.
Michael Hartzell was a cabinet maker in Pennsylvania before heading west and eventually owned a cabinet making shop.
Michael and Nancy had 13 children, daughter Margaret was first white child born in the county.
Joseph Hartzell married Jenny Culver, a Chicago native. Joseph was ordained a Methodist minister and was among the first volunteers of the Freedman's Aid Society (FAS) (formed by Methodist ministers) to go to the South and teach the freed slaves. At age 54 (1896), Hartzell was named Methodist Episcopal Missionary Bishop of Africa. He retired from that position in 1916.
Joseph Hartzell died 6 Sep 1928 in Cincinnati of injuries received at the hands of 2 young men who asked to use the telephone, then entered his apartment and beat him. This occured on his 86th birthday.
There is a Hartzell School at the foot of Hartzell Mountain in Zimbabwe, Africa.
Joseph Crane Hartzell, missionary, bishop,was born June 1, 1842 in Illinois. In 1896 he was elected missionary bishop to Africa; and has since labored in building up missions there. - Herringshaw's.
In 1873 Dr. Joseph C. Hartzell, later Bishop Hartzell, bought a block and a half of land on which stood an old Southern mansion on Saint Charles Avenue (in New Orleans), and secured a charter for "New Orleans University." To this location the Normal School was moved, and the development of the present institution began.
J. C. Hartzell served as Secretary OF THE FREEDMEN'S AID SOCIETY AND THE BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR NEGROES from 1888 through 1896.
Find-a-grave entry for father. -- Rev. Joseph C. Hartzell, D. D., attended the Northwestern University at Evanston, Ill., and graduated in 1860, at the Garrett Biblical Institute there. Thence he visited Bloomington, Ill, and graduated at the Illinois Wesleyan University there, spending seven years in those two institutions of learning; then joined the Central Illinois Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His first appointment was at Pekin, Ill., but was thence transferred to New Orleans, to take charge of Ames Chapel, when its pastor, Rev. J. P. Newman, was appointed Chaplain under Gen. Grant. During six years he edited the Southwestern Christian Advocate, after which the paper was turned over to the Methodist Book Concern, and Mr. Hartzell was appointed Presiding Elder for that district, which position he held until elected Assistant Secretary of the Freedmen's Aid Society, with headquarters at Cincinnati, where he still remains, an able, eloquent and energetic worker in the cause.
"...Son a Famous Bishop The fourth child, Joseph Crane Hartzell, became world famous as Bishop Hartzell. Joseph Crane Hartzell was born June 1, 1842, in Moline (that is, in the original Hartzell cabin on Coaltown road on the edge of the present Moline).
He attended a rural school near the Hartzell home, then Moling High School. After graduating from high school he tried to enlist for Civil War service, was rejected, and then went to Illinois Wesleyan College at Bloomington, from which he was graduated. He completed his formal school education at Garrett Biblical Institute at Evanston. In 1876, Jjoseph Crane Hartzell was ordained a minister in the Methodist Church and his first charge was at Pekin, Ill.
In 1879, having shown deep interest in the problems of the South, the Rev. Mr. Hartzell was assigned to the Ames Church of New Orleans, where he succeeded the famous John Philip Newman.
After three years in that church, the Rev. Mr. Hartzell was appointed superintendent of the educational department of the Methodist Church. From 1887 to 1896 he was secretary to the Freedmen's Aid and Education Society of the Methodist Church. In these two position, the Rev. Mr. Hartzell was active in promoting education among the freed men, the Negroes, in the South. He was at one time a trustee of 45 schools and colleges in the South."--2 Jun 1952, The (Moline, IL) Dispatch, part of a longer article entitled "Off the Beaten Path".