F Q Hartman Recreational Area

F. Q. HARTMAN, one of the well-to-do and influential citizens of Danville, Pa., who is the proprietor of the Nemoloton Silk Mills of that town, was born at Scranton, Pa., May 3, 1861, and is a son of John G. Hartman, deceased, who was a native of Germany and a mechanic by trade. F. Q. Hartman possesses a good education which he received in the public schools of Scranton. Leaving school when a mere lad he sought employment in the Sagnoit Silk Mills of Scranton remaining with that company many years during which time he became thoroughly familiar with the manufacture of silk. His wide experience in business affairs attracted the attention of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad Company officials who offered him a position as assistant-paymaster of the railroad, which position he accepted; not only did he fulfill his duties with great credit to himself but to his superior officers as well, and upon his resignation from that position of trust he was begged to reconsider his action, and as an inducement, he was offered an increase in salary, but our subject had determined to enter into business on his own account. He removed to Danville and erected a large two-story brick building 53 by 125 feet on Water street and engaged in the manufacture of silk. The mill is equipped with sixteen thousand spindles and gives employment to about three hundred hands who are kept constantly busy in order to keep up with the orders. In 1896 the mill was destroyed by a cyclone and our subject sustained a severe loss; he immediately re-built and enlarged the mill, which is equipped with the most modern machinery. The mill is lighted throughout by. electricity, which is supplied by its own dynamo. Our subject was united in the bonds of matrimony to Genevieve Atwood, a daughter of Eugene Atwood, a silk manufacturer of Stonington, Conn. Mr. Hartman is considered an important factor in the business and industrial interests of Danville, aiding materially in developing its resources. ( Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899), pg. 586 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

Exercise: Arm Twirls