EDWARD HARTMAN was born in June of 1865. He served a a member of the Camden Fire Department in the 1890s. When Engine Company 4 was organized on June 1, 1890 at 320 Vine Street in North Camden, with a two-hitch, second class Button steam engine and a one-hitch Button hose carriage, he was the new unit's first driver. The charter members were as follows; Company Foreman, Amedee S. Middleton; engineer, Francis Turner; stoker C. Barney Harvey; driver, Edward Hartman; and hosemen Walter W. Browning and Charles Berry. The Philadelphia Inquirer published an article stating that Edward Hartman was appointed to the Fire Department with Edward Weston in August of 1891. This appears to be in Hartman's case an error, as he had been already serving for a year. By 1897 Edward Hartman had been appointed to the Police Department. That year's City Directory gives an address of 310 Mickle Street. The 1900 Census shows Edward Hartman living at 321 Mickle Street with his wife of fourteen years, Catherine, and their 10 year-old daughter Jennie. The 1906 City Directory states that Edward Hartman then resided at 47 Cooper Street. Edward Hartman was still with the police department as late as June of 1909. By December 1910, however, he had left the department. He testified before the grand jury in December of 1910 during the election fraud investigations that culminated in sending John Golden, Martin Carrigan, and Daniel Woods to jail for four months in 1911. Edward Hartman is not listed in the 1910 City Directory or the 1914 Camden City Directory. |
Philadelphia
Inquirer - August 9, 1891 |
Philadelphia
Inquirer - October 9, 1892 |
Edward Hartman - Walter Browning - Morris & Mathis' Ship Yard |
Camden Post - March 23, 1893 |
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First Ward Republican Club - John
L. Westcott - Robert Smith - George Barrett - Rev. A.G.
Lawson North Baptist Church - Engine Company 4 - Jesse Conley - James Dunn - Joseph Love Samuel Elfreth - Amedee Middleton - Frank Turner - Edward Hartman - Walter Browning Robert Steer - William Bogia - Charles Jefferson Kay - George Martin |
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Camden
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George
Kappel
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Harry
Curtis
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Stackhouse -
A.
Lincoln James
John Pratt - Samuel Bakley - Benjamin Middleton - William Harvey - J. Oscar Weaver - Harry Mines William Selby - Albert Myers - Edward Hartman - Caleb Williams - Richard Golden - Ralph Bond William Schregler - Jacob Woodside - Frank Matlack - Alfred Hayden - John Dall - Josiah Sage C. Henry Peters - Charles Lederman - William Butts Alexander Alcorn - Charles Lightenberg - Ferdinand Laird |
Philadelphia Inquirer - January 3, 1895 |
Here's Camden's Finest, With Whiskers, in 1898 |
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Camden Courier-Post - July 15, 1930 |
William
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Harry Mines, not named above, is in the first row between H. Frank Petttit and Edward Hartman. In the fifth row, at the far right, "John Barnett" was a guess on the part of A. Lincoln James. Another person guessed George Johnson. Both were wrong and it is not known who that policeman is. |
Philadelphia Inquirer May 10, 1898 Samuel
Dodd - Michael Fleming |
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Philadelphia
Inquirer William
Ilgenfritz |
Philadelphia Inquirer - July 29, 1902 | |
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Foster - F.
Morse Archer Joseph Nowrey - Eli Hunt John G. Helm - Henrietta V. Bland James Bland - Charles Wagner Harry Miller - Albert Keaser Robert Miller - F. Neil Robinson |
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South 3rd Street - Beckett Street - Locust Street - Liberty Street |
Camden Daily Courier * January 26, 1903 | |
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Charles Wagner
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Miller Frank T. Lloyd - Charles V.D. Joline Frederick A. Rex - William F. Rex Robert F. Miller - Albert Keaser George V. Murry - John Morrisey Harry Selby - William H. Selby Dr. George D. Grimes - William Laws John Cherry - John S. Smith Charles Cahill - Edward Hartman Owen McDonald - John Helm Albert Keaser - F. Morse Archer John Wagner - John C. Truitt Anna Hutner - William Ridgway Ogden |
Camden Daily Courier * January 26, 1903 | |
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George
V. Tucker - Charles V.D. Joline - Harry Shuster - Odd Fellows - Emmanuel
Baptist Church Robert F. Miller - Albert Keaser - George V. Murry - F. Morse Archer - John Wagner - Harry Miller Edward Hartman - John T. Rodan - William Laws - Spencer Moore - Howard Roberts Assemblyman John S. Roberts - Ike Toy - Daniel Ayres - Albert S. Shaw - William D. Hart Mrs. Abbie L. Widener - Thomas J. Cheeseman Sr. - Charles Wagner |
Philadelphia Inquirer January 1, 1908 |
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Charles
H. Ellis - Edward
S. Hyde - A. Lincoln
James - Elbridge
B. McClong |
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Frank
Ford Patterson Jr. - James Clay - George Cooper -
Fiore Troncone Edmund Pike - Walter Stanton - Oscar Weaver - Albert Shaw William Schregler - James Tatem - Edward Hartman |