John Samuel Artman and Margaret Heilman

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Husband John Samuel Artman ¹

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           Born: 3 Oct 1856 - Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: Michael Artman (      -Aft 1912) 1
         Mother: Rachel Hill (      -Aft 1912) 1

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       Marriage: 1878 1

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Wife Margaret Heilman ²

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           Born:  - Kittanning Twp, Armstrong Co, PA
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         Father: William Heilman (      -1900) 3
         Mother: Margaret Iseman (      -1881) 3

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Children

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1 F Edna B. Artman ^{1 4}

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         Spouse: Walter Hawkins Bowser (1881-      ) 1 4

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2 M Earl D. Artman ¹

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General Notes: Husband - John Samuel Artman

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He was given a common school education. At the age of fifteen years he commenced to learn to make grain cradles, with Matthew Miller, of Westmoreland County, PA, for whom he worked three years with­out wages, and another year for which he was paid. He was twenty when he started out on his own account, in 1876 coming to Armstrong County and settling in Manor town­ship, where Ford City now stands. For the next eighteen years he was in the employ of T. Montgomery, making cradles, and Mr. Montgomery retiring at the end of that period Mr. Artman continued the business at the old stand for a number of years. In 1907 he located in Ford City, and continued in the manufacture of grain cradles, selling his product entirely to the wholesale trade. However, this one interest by no means claimed all his attention. In 1900, in company with H. H. Heilman, he started a shoe store in Ford City under the name of Artman & Heilman, and their estab­lishment was not only the leading one in the borough but in all that section. For several years Mr. Artman was interested in the gas business, drilling, leasing and selling, and met with success in that line as he did in all his ventures. He also owned a valuable tract of land, 225 acres of the old William Heilman homestead in Bethel township, Armstrong County, and was kept busy with the management of his numerous con­cerns, though he has found time to do his share in the work of local government. He held the offices of school director, tax col­lector, overseer of the poor and constable, filling their duties with his customary ability and fidelity, and on political questions was iden­tified with the Democratic party. Fraternally he held membership in the Elks at Kittanning, and the Eagles and Knights of Pythias at Ford City.

1 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 631.

2 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 631, 637.

3 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 883.

4 Addison B. Bowser, A.M, The Bowser Family History (Chicago, IL: Excelsior Printing Co., 1922), Pg 210.