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Chas. N.Hart. 



CHARLES N. HART, ESQ. 



was born in Stillwater, Saratoga County, N. Y., Nov. 18, 1803. In 

 the year 1826 he came with his wife, Eliza Allen, to whom he had 

 been married May 1, 1824, and settled in that part of Hornellsville 

 known as Hartsville, and purchased the farm which still remains 

 in the hands of the family. At an early day he gave his attention 

 to lumbering, and was the first to send lumber from this place direct 

 to the Albany market. Soon after his settlement a new town was 

 formed, which by petition of the citizens to the county board was 

 named Hartsville, in honor of their much respected citizen. Mr. 

 Hart was the first supervisor of that town, and served the commu- 

 nity for years as postmaster and magistrate. He was one of a few 

 of his day who succeeded in the manufacturing and purchasing of 

 lumber. It was then so thoroughly impressed upon the minds of 

 the people that no one could succeed in this business, that at one 

 time when Mr. Hart had not the money to purchase a few articles 

 that he wanted, he asked the late Ira Davenport to give him a few 

 days' credit, when Mr. Davenport immediately replied, '' No sir I 

 No man can succeed who runs a saw-mill." In the year 1847 he 

 removed to this village, having purchased the fine property now 

 occupied by his sons on Main Street, and for the last few years 

 prior to his death was engaged with his sons in the care of his 

 farm, and in the purchase and sale of cattle for the market. His 

 finest property was a farm of some five hundred acres, situated 

 about two miles south of the village, which he used for raising 

 stock and hay, often cutting from three to five hundred tons, most 

 of which he sold here to go to an eastern or southern market. 



It may here be mentioned that Mr. Hart brought into the Can- 

 isteo Valley the first mowing machine in use here. He was a man 

 of remarkable business abilities, characterized especially for per- 

 sistent industry, energy, and sagacity. He met with a full measure 

 of success. He enjoyed always the fullest confidence of his neigh- 

 bors, the broadest trust of all with whom he had business relations, 

 the esteem of the public, and the warmest love of his more imme- 

 diate relatives. He was a man of strong convictions, impatient of 

 sham, despising pretension, and always sternly resisted whatever 

 he considered a public wrong, or an individual imposition. He 

 was a friend of temperance, a liberal supporter of religion, and 

 kind and helpful to the deserving. Mr. Hart was not much given 

 to office seeking, was identified originally with the old Whig party, 

 and a member of the Republican party since its formation. He 

 died Nov. 7, 1873. Mrs. Hart died Aug. 24, 1877. She was ft 

 native of Springfield, Otsego Co., N. Y. United with the Pres- 

 byterian Church in 1850, of which she remained a most active and 

 consistent member. During the war she was one of the most active 

 who took a part in procuring and forwarding supplies to our sick 

 and disabled soldiers, and in cases of distress was never appealed 

 to in vain. In her last days she took a deep interest in the temper- 

 ance movement. Their children are two sons, Reuben and Henry, 

 business men of Hornellsville; Mrs. Charles Hartshorn, Mrs. 

 Martin A. Tuttle, and Mrs. Scott Thatcher, of Hornellsville; Mrs. 

 Daniel Reed, of Hartsville ; and Mrs. W. H. Bloomingdale, of 

 Albany. 



