Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-01-12
E. H. HARRIMAN
The Beginnings of the Financier Are
 Stripped of Mystery

 street has been asking this question, savagely at times, for the past ten years The United States has begun to ask it, euriously, in the past two years. At this moment both are asking it, i'm portunately, fercely.
 Mir. Hartman, for some unknown req son, has always carefully concealed the early history of himself and his family. The writer knows many of his friends and most of his enemies in Wall street. Not one of them has been willing to tell the story. Most of them could not, Those of them who could, would not, be- cause of Mir. Hartman we'll known objection
 Down at Hampstead, l.. l., the visitor may find an ancient church, founded in l7O2. Today it is fashionable church. It stands in the midst of graveyard. If one enter, the guide will point out here the pew of the Fulton Cuttings; there the pew of the August Belmonts, here, again the pew of Theodore Have meyer Jr.--names great in the gilded list of the putoeracy. Perhaps one will stop to admire the simple beauty of the chancel.
 "That, says the guide, is Harri- man memorial. Mr. Edward Hartman and his brother paid for it because they were born here.
 The record of the church shows that Edward Henry Hartman was born on February 20, lS4s, in the rectory of this parish. His father, the Rev. Orlando Hartman Jr, was then in charge of the parish, which is Episcopalian.
 Edward Henry Hartman entered Wall street late in the sixties as a clerk At the same time he gave little indica- tion of his ability. Socially. he was well liked He is described as having been full of fun and fond of society in the best sense of the term. He was noted, however, for a mind of his own. What he wanted he generally got, but his desires were neither very sweeping nor very important.
 Many tales are told on Wall street of the way he came to be able to buy a seat on the New York stock exchange, which he did in August 13, 1870. One, for which l have been able to find no authority at all, is to the effect that he was plunging in the market for all he was worth during the celebrated "cor- ner in gold" engineered by Gould, Fisk, kimber and others of their kind, and that he took his profits on "Black Fri day. and invested the whole of his profits in seat on the exchange. This matter is not clear, but better authority seems to lie behind the statement that in this venture into the exchange he was assisted by relative, one of the Oliver Hartman branch of his father s family At any rate he went in, in 1870, as trader on the floor of the stock exchange.
 He married early in life, and married very well. His wife was Miss Amy Av- erell of Rochester, whose father was capitalist and successful railroad man. He is said to have made large sum of money in the Rome, Watertown Ogdensburg railroad. This marriage considerably strengthened the hands of Edward H. Hartman for the battle of life. IL has been in every way a very fortunate and happy marriage
 It was not until 1883 that he came actively into the railroad field. At that time he had come to be known as a a anniY nliat nt ha faxx ha hal cred together great fortune in the ten troubled years between 1870 and 1880. He was credited with having in his strong box fair list of stocks pick ed up at low prices in the various pan ies. Along in 1883 he was elected director in the Illinois Central railroad. He was at that time working in close friendship with Stuyvesant Fish, who was elected second vice president of the road in the same year. Mir. Fish had also been member of the stock ex- change from 1876 to 1879, and the two young men went into the Illinois Cen tral to work along together. In 1887 Mir Hartman became vice president, with Mir. Fish as president.
 Mir. Hartman was about forty years of age when he set his feet upon the path that was lead him to sovereign power. Many of the characteristics of his boyhood had fallen from him. The friends of his youth describe him as frank, open, fond of gayety and fun. The twentyodd years of the stock ex.
 
 change had eifectually removed his frankness and the openness. In their place he had studied reserve, care ful holding of himself in leash, fixed resolve and that no man could be able to guess the real thoughts and motives