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at West Hoboken, with salary ol S20O year. He remained in charV,
 or the parish seven and a half wears
 untll November, lS6. At that time his
 salary was S314 in arrears. which was
 compromised at $250 payable in si,
 months with interest But little is
 known of E. II. Hartman 's life durinp
 these years of poverty The family lived in small house on the meadows
 and it reuired no end of ingenuity and economy to make both ends meet.
 Edward H. Hartman received his ear. ! ly education at the district school and ! supplemented 1t by two years course
 m boys school under church ans pices, where the sons of clergymen paid ! practically nothing for their education. ! Edward 's oldest brother, John Nelson
 and his youngest brother, William Me. Curdy, died some years ago. His sec ond brother, Orlando, became real es. tate dealer in Brooklyn. Lily, one of his sisters, became the wife of Charles ID. simmons of Brown Brothers X Ca of New York, and Annie, the other sister, married Van Rensselaer,, of
 me old and aristocratic family of that
 Lame in New York. The father died in
 Agril, 1881, al Jacksonville, surround.
 cd by all the comforts that wealth could
 procure. He was 6S years old at the
 lime of his death and had suffered much 1 Tor nearly twenty years
 Edward Henry Hartman began his
 career as clerk in broker otiee 0n
 Wall street. He showed no unusual
 ability and for many years gave no promise of his later brilliant develop.
 ment. Socially he was well liked and
 those who knew him at that time des. cribed him as sociable young man.
 always full of fun. He was noted, how ever, for a mind of his own. What he wanted he generally obtained, but h,
 desires and ambitions were. at that time. at least, neither very sweeping nor particularly important
 How he obtained his start and the funds which enabled him to buy seat on the New York Stock Exchange. has never been clearly explained. The most widely accepted explanation, however, was to the effect that during the ia. nous "gold corner" engineered by Gould, Fisk and others, Edward H. liar. riman plunged with all his own money and some borrowed from his brother Orlando and cleared enough to buy fol himself in August, 1870, seat on the New York Stock Exchange.
 Young Hartman married early in life and married very well. His wife was Miss Mary Averell of Rochester, N. Y., whose father was capitalist and a successful railroad man. He was said to have made large amount of money in the Rome, Watertown X Og densburg railroad This marriage con siderably strengthened the hands of young Hartman for the battle of life. IL was in every way a very fortunate and happy alliance.
 For number of years the broker finn of F. II. Hartman & Co, did thriving business on Wall street, spec ulating with it's own funds and exc cutting commissions for the Vanderbilts and other wealthy clients. It was not until 1883 that F.. IF. Hartman came activley into the railroad field Att that time he had become known as capitalist, one of the few who had gathered together a great fortune in the ten troubled years between 1870 and 1880. He was credited with hay ing in his strong box fair list of stocks he had picked up at extremely low prices during the various panics Along in 1883 he was elected director of the Illinois Central railroad He was at that time working in close friendship with Stuyvestan Fish, who was electe second vice president in the same year Mir. Fish had also been member Of the Stock exchange from 1876 to 1879. and the two young men went into the Illinois Central to work along together In 1887 Mir. Hartman became vice pres ident and Mir. Fish was elected presi- dent. Mir. Hartman was then about forty years old. Whether Mr Harri- man entered the railroad field in accord ance with an already matured plan of his or whether his accidental acquain- tanee with railroad matters suggested to him the enormous possibilities of ac- quirlng the control of large railroad syS tems, is not definitely known. At all events, Mir. Hartman $ entry into the directorate of the Illinois Central rail road marked the beginning of his career as q manipulator of railroad stocks and reorganizer of railroad systems which. in the course of ten or fifteen years, made him one of the greatest railroad kings ever known in the United States ana placed him in control of more than 54, 900 miles of water transportation lines and of railroad lines of an est mated length of nearly 27 900 miles,
 During the panic preceding the cleo tion of President Mckinley q number of large western railroads had gone to smash, among them the Northern Pacific and the Union Pacific. The wreck of the latter was particularly bad and seemed perfectly hopeless. A Morgan syndicate made an attempt to rescue the ]