The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 875 

JOHN V. HARTMAN.

John V. Hartman, for more than sixteen years a resident of Yakima county, is now
the owner of thirty-seven acres near Grandview and in his ranching interests is
meeting with well deserved success. He has reached the western coast through
successive removals. He was born in Keokuk county, Iowa, June 17, 1872, a son of
Valentine and Christina (Prong) Hartman, the former a native of Switzerland,
while the latter was born in Germany. They came to the United States in early
life and were pioneer settlers of Iowa, their marriage being celebrated in
Burlington, that state, after which they drove seventy miles with an ox team to
the point where they settled in Keokuk county. They subsequently removed to
South Dakota, taking up their abode in Sully county, that state, in 1883,
although it was some years before the state was divided. The father there
obtained a homestead claim and became a successful farmer. Eventually, however,
he removed to Palouse, Washington, where he passed away in the year 1902, while
his wife survived only until 1904.

John V. Hartman acquired a public school education in Iowa and in South Dakota
and during vacation periods assisted his father in the farm work. He afterward
took up a homestead in South Dakota and from that state removed to Washington.
In May, 1902, he removed from the Palouse country to Yakima county, where he
made investment in thirty-seven acres near the present site of Grandview.
Through the intervening period he has devoted his attention and energies to the
further development of his place, which he has brought under a high state of
cultivation. He annually produces large crops of alfalfa, corn and potatoes and
he is also engaged in the raising of hogs and in the. conduct of a dairy
business. There have been no idle hours in his life. He has wisely used his time
and opportunities and the success which has come to him is the direct and just
reward of his perseverance and industry.

On the 26th of June, 1907, Mr. Hartman was married to Miss Carrie Eastman. a
daughter of H. E. Eastman, one of the early settlers of this part of Yakima
county, where he carried on ranching. Mr. and Mrs. Hartman have become parents
of five children but lost one, Dorothy, who was the third in order of birth and
died at the age of four years. The others are Mildred, Ralph, Harlan and Perla,
the last named in her first year.

Mr. Hartman is interested in the educational progress of the community and in an
early day served on the school board. He stands for all those forces which are
worth while as factors in the uplift of the individual and the welfare of the
community. He votes with the prohibition party, indicating his attitude upon the
temperance question, and both he and his wife are consistent members of the
Methodist Episcopal church. He is straightforward in all of his dealings, loyal
in citizenship, thoroughly reliable at all times and ever true to his
professions and his principles.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.