Galen C. Hartman, Esq. and Ada Blanche Taggart

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Husband Galen C. Hartman, Esq. ¹

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         Father: Dr. Robert L. Hartman (1828-      ) 1
         Mother: Rebecca J. Perrine (1865-      ) 1

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       Marriage: 16 Oct 1889 1

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Wife Ada Blanche Taggart ²

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           Born: 23 Jan 1863 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 3
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         Father: Robert Taggart (1831-1909) 4 5
         Mother: Angeline Smith (1836-1920) 6

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General Notes: Husband - Galen C. Hartman, Esq.

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He was educated under private tutors, at Bethany College, West Virginia, he studied engineering and graduated in law in 1885, from the University of Michigan. He entered the law office of J. Brewer Sommerville at Wellsburg, West Virginia, in 1885, and was admitted to the Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Bar in 1890, where he then practiced law.
He was a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh, the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, the Academy of Science and Art, the Bibliophile Society of Boston, the Union Club of Pittsburgh, the Izaak Walton League, the Somerset Golf and Country Club, was a charter member of the Stanton Heights Golf Club, and was a member of the Allegheny County and the American Bar Associations. During the first World War Mr. Hartman was a member of the Committee of Public Safety. He was also a member of the S. A. R.

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General Notes: Wife - Ada Blanche Taggart

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She was a charter member of the College Club of Pittsburgh, was a member of the Twentieth Century Club, the Scribblers Club, was corresponding secretary of the Pittsburgh Branch of the Poetry Society of Great Britain, Pennsylvania vice chairman of the Bookfellows Library Guild of America, was recording secretary of the Pittsburgh Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, was a member of the Dickens Fellowship and of the National League of American Pen Women.
In 1926 she was a member of the Women's Committee of the Sesqui-Centennial International Association.
During the first World War she received credentials from Washington as a Red Cross instructor and was associated with Preparedness Unit, the Pittsburgh Chapter, D. A. R., and the Twentieth Century Club, and served as treasurer, official instructor and inspector for the William Penn Auxiliary of the Red Cross.
She contributed to domestic and foreign magazines and was the compiler of a genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, and Taggart families.

1 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 191.

2 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 182.

3 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 190.

4 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 289.

5 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 88.

6 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 181.