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Birth:          8 Jun 1862 Chicago, Ill.
Death:          17 Mar 1933 Chicago, Ill.
Burial:         Forest Park Cemetery, Forest Park, Cook Co., Ill.

Notes
rootsweb
1900 in Chicago, Ill. physician
with them is Margaret's half sister Tessora
1910 not with family (did they go to Col. for health?)
1920 in Chicago, Ill. physician and surgeon
Ill Deaths and Stillbirths on ancestry
"Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois with Commemorative Biographies" on archive. org
FREDERICK STEELE HARTMANN 
Dr. Frederick Steele Hartmann was born in Chicago, Illinois, June 8, 1862, 
and was destined to see the city he loved grow from a struggling inland city to a great 
metropolis. His parents, Theobald Hartmann and Charlotte Hingst Hartmann, were born 
in Germany. His mother came to America with her parents in 1840. They bought a 
piece of property on what is now State Street near Harrison, and erected a cottage 
there. Later their little home was torn down and a public building erected. This was 
burned in 1875 and then rebuilt. Dr. Hartmann's father was one of the "1848'ers" who 
were banished from Germany on account of student demonstrations against the 
government. Later amnesty was granted them. 

That Dr. Hartmann's parents wholeheartedly adopted the new country as their own 
was proven by the fact that the father served as colonel in an Arkansas regiment in 
the Civil War, under General Steele, in whose honor Frederick Steele Hartmann was 
named. 

Dr. Hartmann was one of a family of six children. His parents were able to give 
him a good education in public and private schools, but, when he reached young 
manhood the family fortunes had changed, and in order to realize his dream of 
becoming a physician he had to struggle hard to help pay his college expenses. He 
graduated from Rush Medical College in 1885, showing marked proficiency in 
chemistry. Later he became an associate professor of that subject. The 
onscientiousness and vast energy which marked his whole career were displayed 
during his student days. He served as interne at Cook County Hospital and came into 
contact with such great personalities as Fenger, Senn, Lee, and Murphy. 

Dr. Hartmann began the practice of his profession on the West Side of Chicago as the 
assistant, and later as junior partner, of Drs. E. W. Lee and John B. Murphy. 
This association continued for ten years. 

As the boundaries of the great West Side were pushed farther and farther out, his 
practice kept pace and it became necessary to move his office from the corner of 
Halsted, Harrison and Blue Island Avenue to Madison Street and Kilbourn Avenue, 
where he was located at the time of his death. 

In 1898 Dr. Hartmann became gynecologist at the West Side Hospital, and he so 
served throughout all the rest of his life. He had also served as surgeon at Cook 
County and St. Anthony de Padua hospitals, and for the New York, Chicago and St. 
Louis Railroad, and the St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad. 

Dr. Hartmann was married November 21, 1888, in Bellevue, Ohio, to Maggie Lovina 
Baker, daughter of Dr. Hiram Forbes Baker and Emily (Brown) Baker. Dr. Baker, who 
was a physician in earlier life, later became a newspaper publisher in Bellevue. Five 
daughters and three sons were born to Dr. and Mrs. Hartmann: Mrs. Bertha Atkinson, 
Mrs. Charlotte Dumelow (twins), Theo Hartmann (deceased), Mrs. Helen Baldwin, 
Herbert (deceased), Mrs. Constance Collins, Mrs. Emily Williams and Ralph Frederick 
Hartmann. Their family life was filled with devoted comradeship and love. 

Dr. Hartmann was a member of the American, Chicago, and Illinois State Medical 
associations, the Chicago Pathological Society, and the Society of Medical History. 

Dr. Frederick S. Hartmann passed away March 17, 1933. He was a man of highest 
ideals and he lived up to them with earnest and conscientious exactitude. His patients 
benefited almost as much from the influence of his fine character and personality as 
from his expert medical care. He was a splendid type of the old-time family physician; 
a loyal guide, counsellor and friend, and his kindly, fatherly understanding and 
sympathy, and his absolute trustworthiness, endeared him to 
all beyond measure. 

Parents
HARTMANN Theobald ()
HINGST Charlotte ()

Siblings
HARTMANN Frederick Steele (8 Jun 1862 - 17 Mar 1933)

Marriage To BAKER Margaret Lovina (12 Jun 1861 - 17 Feb 1940)
    m. 21 Nov 1888 Bellevue, Sandusky Co., Ohio

Notes

Parents
BAKER Hiram Forbes (12 Oct 1834 - 8 Dec 1885)
BROWN Emily Melissa (Apr 1838 - 17 Sep 1865)

Children by BAKER Margaret Lovina 12 Jun 1861 - 17 Feb 1940
HARTMANN Bertha Isabelle (2 Sep 1889 - 1968)
HARTMANN Charlotte Emily (2 Sep 1889 - 14 Sep 1970)
HARTMANN Theodore Frederick (22 Nov 1890 - 14 Dec 1891)
HARTMANN Helen (5 Oct 1892 - 25 Jan 1984)
HARTMANN Herbert (27 Oct 1895 - 6 Aug 1901)
HARTMANN Constance (1 Jun 1897 - May 1973)
HARTMANN Emily M. (19 Nov 1898 - )
HARTMANN Ralph Frederick (28 Jan 1901 - Jan 1972)

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