Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers.  "An
Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam,
Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties")  Spokane, WA: Western Historical
Publishing Co., 1905.  p. 622.
 
AMON HARTMAN

     Who resides about three miles northwest from Condon, is one of the
representative men of this county and is also one of the wealthy farmers and
stockmen who have won their success here.  He is to be commended on the record
which he made in fighting for his country in the time of fratricidal strife, and
especially so, when we consider the great dangers he had to undergo in getting
to a place where he could safely stand under the stars and stripes.  An account
of his life will be read with interest by all.
     Amon Hartman was born in Adams county, Illinois, on March 20, 1849.  Henry
Hartman, his father, was born in Ohio, and when fourteen came to Illinois where
he lived until he crossed the plains in 1852, with his family, by team, settling
in Oregon.  There he took a donation claim near Albany and for sic years gave
his attention to farming.  During this time he served in the Indian war of 1856.
Finally he sold out in Oregon and purchased a band of sheep which he took to
California and sold.  After that he went to Texas with a pack train, taking his
family, and made settlement in the western portion of that great state.  He gave
his attention to stock raising until the war broke out.  Then he wished to join
the union army, but the only way to get to union ground was to go through
Mexico, which he did, accompanied by our subject.  They made their way down
through Mexico, found an English schooner chartered by the United States going
to New Orleans and embarked and there enlisted in the First Texas Cavalry,
Company A, in 1863.  The father was killed while serving as a spy, but our
subject served on through his time.  Following the war, he returned to the old
home in Texas.  His mother was Eliza (Wells) Hartman, and she was born and
reared in Adams county, Illinois.  In 1873, Mr. Hartman removed from Texas to
Yuba county, California, whence ten years later, he came to what is now Gilliam
county.  Here he looked over the country and that adjacent for two years and in
1885 took a homestead where he is now located.  Since then he has purchased
other land, having now about five hundred acres.  Mr. Hartman has always lived
on the frontier and is a man of stability and endurance.
     In 1867, Mr. Hartman married Miss Laura Dunn.  She was born in Bossier
parish, Louisiana, and removed to Texas with her parents when a girl.  They are
George and Martha Dunn.  The father died when a young man.  Mr. and Mrs. Hartman
have three children, Henry W., farming near by; John E. and Ernest H.  Mr.
Hartman is a member of the I.O.O.F., and evinces a lively interest in political
matters and educational affairs.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in April 2006 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.