The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-02-02
6. \. HARTMAN 5
) rise FR0H POVERTY
TO Great WEALTH
I oilroad Car Was Aided at
The Start by Young Stuy-
5esant Fish, Whom Later
lHe Depcssd from High
Z Position.
GRAPHIC PEN PICTURE
OF FINANCIAL KING
vslfshhess Is the Trait That Seems to
Stand out BoIdest In the Man.
For Hartman First and All the
Tlme-one Charity That May Be
said to Be Near His Heart.

For hartman fitoN 0''~ '"f -
TIme-one Charity That May Be
said to Be Near His Heart.
New York.-Fifty-nine years ago
this time st. Georges church was
looking out on Hampstead and the
rolling acres of Long Island for miles
around. as It had been doing since a
day nearly century and half be-
fore when the first Episcopal services
were held there and supplicauon was
made to God to preserve and succor
a king Of England and "Hys Gouvenor
Of thys Colony" It stood with that
placidness Of quaintness amid its sur
rounding that it wears to-day, and
about its old rectory was an air OF
peace which boded well for those 1t
sheltered.
But In this month Of January, 184S,
there was one within the shelter OF
st. Georges rectory whose peace was
sorely troubled. He was st. Georges
minister the Rev. Orlando Hartman,
Jr. For seven years he had been buff
feted around from one charge to an
other. with wife and a growing fam
ily on his hands. Living had been
serious problem. Among those to
whom he had preached the Gospel the
thought never seemed to have OBJ
truded itself that ministers must eat
and have clothes to wear just as other
mortals.
After Four Years al Hampstead.
Now he found himself beset by the
same poyerty-stricken condition that
he had known In all his former rector
ates. He had expected better from
ST. Georges, but IN this month Of
January he awoke to find that his sal
airy was far in arrears and also to the
unmistakable fact that in few weeks
there would be one more member Of
the family to feed and clothe and al
ways take into consideration.
The Rev. Orlando Hartman had not
long to wait for the addition to his
family. On February rs son was
born to him and be named him Ed
ward Henry Hartman.
Edward Henry Hartman could not
have entered the world at more In
opportune time in his fathers affairs,
but II he had been born earlier or
later. as the records would indicate,
Ne would not have found the family
any better of in the things OF the
earth. A year after Edward Henry's
birth the Rev Orlando Hartman Jr.,
unable to make the vestry Of St.
Georges see the absolute necessity Of
paying KS rector his salary, turned
his back upon Hampstead forever.
The year after that found him and
his family in Castleton, Staten Island.
He became the assistant rector Of st.
Paurs there and twelvemonth later
he was moving again.
A Noble Woman.
Mrs. Hartman was a woman ol
sterling character. aud TIE pride that
was in her was a bulwark against the
worlds unkIndness She was patient
and she bore Il ali without a word to
any beyond her threshold She could
not hide It from the children. The
children. too, must have drunk deeply
at the family well Of selfrestraint, but
none OF them more than the boy called
Edward Henry Hartman. the third
son. Besides him there we're two
elder brothers, Nelson and Orlando
and a younger named William. There
were two sisters TO make up the cir
Gle, Lily and Annie.
II was when Edward Henry Harri
man had Just turncd into his eleventh
year chat the Rev. Orlando Hartman
and his family set themselves and
their few household goods down ii
West Hoboken n. j, and the minis
ter entered upon the rectorate Of st
Johns church. It was his first per
manent charge since leaving Hemp
stead, and he engaged himself at Che
munifcent salary Of 5000 year
Most Of the elk years which lay be
tween the beginning Of the residence
in Hoboken and the departure from
Castleton, Staten Island, had beer
spent in Jersey City. with the head O.
the family going here and there wher
ever he could be a rector's assistant
or All a pulpit.
Il is said that while he was at Wes
Hoboken--seven years. all told-th.
Rev Orlando filled other pulpits when
ever the opportunity offered to add {
mite to his meager income. All tbs
while, however, he was doing the bes
he could, giving the boys and girls thI
education that bis poor purss coulI
buy. It was time that muIt have
put iron into the souls OF the boys
time when they were driven t
make a god Of selfdenial.
The good times came to the famil!
through Mrs. Hartman. A legacy wal
left her and the old days Of bitterness
and poverty passed away, but no
their discipline, As they had beer
suflcient unto themselves when the.
had little, SO the Harrlmans we're SUI
llcient unto themselves when the tldl
turned. It was not much that Mrs
HarrIman's ship brought in; about a
= dollar bill woula bs p the wealth 0