Herman Gartner (1864 - 1952)

Born 20 Aug 1864 in Dortmund, Westphalia, Prussia, Germany,

Died 20 Feb 1952 at age 87 in Somerset, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography

From Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania:

In 1881 Herman Gartner came to the United States from Dortmund, a city of Prussia, in Westphalia, on the Emster river, twenty-seven miles from Arnsburg. Dortmund was a place of importance in the middle ages, became a free imperial city, and was one of the most active cities of the Hanseatic League. From this hive of industrial activity came Herman Gartner, a boy of seventeen years, and to a still greater manufacture center of iron and steel, situated in a greater coal field. The transition was not a startling one and in his new home little was strange except speech and customs.

He is a son of Herman and Fredericka (Von Oepen) Gartner, his father a manufacturer of vinegar until his death in 1878.

Herman (2) Gartner was born in Dortmund, Westphalia, Prussia, now a part of the great German Empire, August 20, 1864. He was well educated in the excellent city schools, and was attending the gymnasium, when in 1881 emigration to the United States was decided upon by his mother and stepfather. He accompanied the family to Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, but after one year left home and for twelve years worked in the coal mines of Somerset county. He then located in Pittsburgh, where for ten years he was engaged in the liquor business as an employee. In 1903 he opened his own hotel at the corner of Fifth avenue and Magee street, Pittsburgh, continuing there several years. In 1912 he purchased the Point View Hotel, on the Brownsville road, in Baldwin township, Allegheny county, a place of public entertainment for the past seventy-five years, situated about three quarters of a mile from the borough of Carrick.

Mr. Gartner is a Republican in politics, and with his family attends the Lutheran church. He married, in 1886, Cicelia, daughter of John W. Ringler, of Somerset county, Pennsylvania. Children: 1. Charles F., his father's assistant. 2. Frank Allen, married Grace Pbilson. 3. Harry, died infancy. 4. Osepha, died in infancy. 5. Alfaretta. 6. Esther Beatrice. 7. John Herman.

Sources

• Jordan, John W. Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1915, Vol 3, p 1201-1202)

• Find A Grave: Memorial #102242617