Hartranft, John

FREDERICK, soldier, was born in New Hanover township, Montgomery co., Pa., Dec. 16, 1830; graduated at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. (1853), studied law, and was admitted to the Montgomery co. (Pa.) bar in 1859. In 1861 he organized the 4th Penna. regiment and commanded it during its three months' service; then organized the 51st regiment, and took the field in November, 1861, for a 3 years' enlistment. He and his command served gallantly in all the principal battles of the Army of the Potomac; H. was made brigadier-general May 12, 1864, and commanded a division of the 9th army corps in 1865, receiving the brevet of major-general for gallantry at Fort Steadman. He was elected auditor-general of Penna. in 1865, and again in 1868; was governor of that State from 1872 to 1878, and subsequently postmaster and collector of the port of Philadelphia. Died Oct. 17, 1889. Hart's ells, in Alabama , a post-village of Morgan co., on L. & N. R.R. Pop . (1897) about 1,000. Hartshorne, EDWARD, physician, son of Dr. Joseph H. , was born in Philadelphia, May 14, 1818; graduated A.B. at Princeton (1887), and M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (1840); elected a istant physician to the insane department of the Pennsylvania Hospital, Jan. 1, 1841; made resident surgeon of that institution the same year; was subsequently physician to the State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania; one of the attending surgeons at Wills' Eye Hospital, and at the Pennsylvania Hospital; served as consulting surgeon throughout the Civil War; was secretary of the U. S. Sanitary Commi ion in Philadelphia, and for several years was secretary of the College of Physicians, Philadelphia. Edited two editions of Taylor's Manual of Medical Jurisprudence, and was a valued contributor to medical journals. Died June 22, 1885.