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History of the Great Lakes
Illustrated, In Two Volumes, Vol. II
Chicago, J. H. Beers & Co., 1899

        [175]

              FRED J. HARTMAN, of the fireboat Detroiter, is one of the
           younger engineers on the lakes, whose devotion to their work
           has been the foundation for their present success. He was born
           May 9, 1873, at Baltimore, Mich., a son of JOHN A. and PHILLIP-
           PINE (FORBER) HARTMAN, the former of whom has been connected
           with the lakes for about thirty-five years, twenty-seven of
           which he has held an engineer's license. GRANDFATHER HARTMAN was
           a soldier in the Civil war and gave up his life for his country.
           His maternal grandfather was a soldier in the Mexican war, and
           also in the war of the Rebellion, and when, in 1898, war was de-
           clared against Spain, he expressed his regret that his advanced
           years would prevent him again entering his country's service.
              FRED HARTMAN was but one year old when his parents moved to
           Detroit, and in the public school he obtained his literary
           training, but at the age of twelve years he left the school room
           and began to earn his own way. Previous to this he had carried
           daily papers. His first employment was in the hotels, and at the
           age of thirteen he went on board the City of Mackinaw as porter,
           and there remained one season. The next year he entered the
           employ of Alger, Smith & Co., going as stoker on the J. W.
           Wescott. He held similar positions on the T. W. Snook, Nellie,
           tug Parks, Orleans, Winslow and steamer Gettysburg. The summer
           he was eighteen he sailed on the Forest City, and the following
           year served as oiler on the steamer Fayette Brown. He held the
           same position on the Alex. Nimick, and at the age of twenty-one
           he took the government examination for engineer's license, on
           which he received 1,250 tons. He then went on the barge Toledo
           as assistant engineer, where he remained for one season, then
           going on the Henry Houghton for a like period. The C. H. Storkie
           was his next field of operations, and from there he passed to
           the fireboat Detroiter, where he still remains.

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