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HARTMAN Vol. 3, p. 1206 He whose name initiated this article was about seventeen years of age at the time of the family removal to what is now the State of Oklahoma, and his father became one of the pioneers that culturists and stock-growers of Payne County when that section of the state was still a part of Indian Territory, Mr. HARTMAN has proved himself one of the vital and progressive business men of Oklahoma, has been a pertinent and influential figure in banking activities and in connection with development and production in the oil fields of the Tulsa district, and now maintains his residence in the vigorous and thriving City of Tulsa, where he is identified with oil-producing business and when in the year 1915 he has effected the organization of a new bank. Thomas J. Hartman was born at Roaring Spring, Blair County, Pennsylvania, on the 23d of November 1874, and is the fourth in order of birth in a family of ten children, all of whom are living. He is a son of William A. and Mary A. (KAGARISE) HARTMAN, the former of whom was born at Hagerstown, Maryland, and the latter in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. In 1879 William A. HARTMAN came with his family from the old Keystone State to the West and located in, Mitchell County, Kansas. In 1881, removal was made to Cass County, Missouri, but in the following year he established the family home in Linn County, Kansas, where he continued his operations as a farmer and stock- grower until 1892, when he engaged in the same line of enterprise in what is now Payne County, Oklahoma having been one of the pioneer settlers in that county where he has improved a fine landed estate and is a prominent and influential citizen. He has always been a stalwart in the camp of the democratic party and has served in various township offices, including that as justice of the peace. He and his wife have a home in which peace and prosperity are in distinctive evidence and it is most pleasing to note that death has never yet entered the immediate family circle. The earlier educational discipline of Thomas J. HARTMAN was obtained principally in the public schools of Kansas, and after the removal of the family to Oklahoma he completed a course in the department of science of the Agricultural & Mechanical College at Stillwater, Payne County, this being now a state institution. He was graduated as a member of the class of 1898, with the B. S. degree, and in the following year he became cashier of the Grant County Bank, at Medford, Oklahoma, a position of which he continued the efficient incumbent until 1900, when he resigned and became the organizer of a bank at Deer Creek, in the same county. Of the latter institution he was cashier until 1906 when he sold his interest and organized the Bank of Commerce at Sulphur, the judicial center of Murray county. He was president of this institution from the time of its incorporation until 1912, when he disposed of his stock, after having made the enterprise notably successful as have been all other financial interests with which he has identified himself and which have felt the impress of his initiative and executive ability. In 1912, Mr. HARTMAN established his home in the city of Tulsa, where he has since been prominently concerned in the oil-producing business in the Tulsa fields, and where the year 1915 has shown another evidence of his business vitality and civic enterprise through his effective efforts in promoting the organization of the Producers State Bank, with a capital of $75,000, of which he is active vice president and in active control. Mr. HARTMAN is loyal and progressive as a citizen and man affairs, has unbounded faith in and appreciation of the state which has represented his home from his young manhood, and while he has manifested no predilection for political office he has been found aligned as a staunch supporter of the cause of the republican party. In 1912 he served as president of the Oklahoma State Bankers' Association, a preferment which indicates his ability and popularity as a financier. From 1903 to 1907 he served as regent and treasurer of the Oklahoma Agricultural & Mechanical College, his retirement having thus occurred in the year that marked the admission of Oklahoma as a state. At Sulphur Mr. HARTMAN still maintains his affiliation with the lodge of Ancient Free & Accepted Masons, and in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Masonry he has received the thirty-second degree, in the consistory in the City of Guthrie. In Tulsa he is affiliated with Akdar Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. On the 14th of November, 1903, Mr. HARTMAN wedded Miss Mary JARRELL, who was born and reared in Butler County, Kansas, and they have one son; Thomas Marshall, who is the first alumni baby, as both father and mother are graduates of the Agricultural & Mechanical College. Typed for OKGenWeb by Connie Ardrey 20 Oct 1998.