ABRAHAM ARTMAN
ABRAHAM ARTMAN, farmer, P. O. Olathe was born in Westmoreland County, Penn., February 11, 1839. At the age of nineteen years he went to Augusta, Ind., and learned the trade of wagon maker, and followed it for twelve years. In June, 1869, he came to Kansas and located in Olathe, opening a wagon shop, which business he ceased in the following March, moving onto his present farm at that time, consisting of 160 acres. He is quite extensively engaged in breeding cattle and horses. Has a fine orchard of about five acres, and a quarry from which is obtained a fine grade of building stone. He was married in Augusta, Ind., March 3, 1859, to Mary E. Shellhammer. They have four children: May, Byron P., John E. and Daisy.
From William G. Cutler, History of the State of Kansas, first published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL.
