David Hartman was a former sheriff in Lancaster County . He was also instrumental in establishing what is now known as Millersville University and owned a lumber business. He lived, for most of his young years, in Clinton County , returning to Lancaster when he was 18. It was in Lancaster that he married Miss Miller. He died on 10 October 1881 at his home on North Queen Street . He was 79 years old. His obituary reads: David Hartman, ex-sheriff of Lancaster county, and one of our oldest and most highly respected citizens, died this forenoon at his residence No. 438 North Queen Street, in the 79 th year of his age, after an illness of about two weeks, brought on by overexertion during a long journey to the West, which he and E.M. Schaeffer made a few weeks ago in the interest of the estate of John S. Gable, deceased, of which they were executors. Messrs. Hartman and Schaeffer left Lancaster during the latter part of August and proceeded direct to Iow...
by Jeanne Ruczhak-Eckman