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Note: QUESTIONS:
* Whay are George & Nancy missing from 1860 & 1870 Census Reports? At one time (1997, either at or on a Broderbund CD, found them. Listed Nancy's parents as immigrants)
* BURIAL - according to custodian of WV Collection, WVU, John Cuthbert, via Margaret Little, George's stele is located in ?Oakmont? Cemetery in Wheeling (poibably Greenwood). I am unable to locate such a cemetery and Phyllis (Hardman) Garrison was not either. It is supposed to be off Route 40. It is among a number of steles in a cluster. Also alleged to have owned land, perhaps later a women's academy, on Chapline Str, Wheeling.
* There is also mention in letter from Margaret Little to Phyllis of George and Nancy's children being buried in "Summers Church" near Clinton Furnace on Halleck Road.
INFORMATION
* Kurhessen, aka Hesse-Kassel, see notes in folder.
* Maintained a residence on Chapline Str, Wheeling even while operating furnaces elsewhere
* 1850 Census: Value of real estate was $45,000
* 1859-1865 Morton, Oren Frederic, "A History of Preston County, West Virginia". p. 200, "In 1859, George Hardman began a furnace at Irondale (now [sic] Victoria), but fell into financial embarassment." . . . "In 1872 Mr. Hardman begun [sic] work at Gladesville, and iron was made there until 1881." Extract in file. This was also referred to as Hardman's Furnace and Hardman's Corner (S.T.Wiley, "History of Preston County", 1882, copy of reprint extract in file). "Irondale Furnace was built about 1859 by George Hardman, and was known as "The Hardman Furnace". He ran it until 1865, when the Franklin Iron and Coal Company came in charge of it." (Wiley, Preston County, p. 497)
* 1871 Also was a stockholder in the Iron Valley Railroad in 1871 (Wiley, Preston County, p. 205)
* (1873) Operating Hardman's Iron Works, Preston County (Wiley, Preston County, p. 207) "Franklin (furnace) was principally built by the late enterprising George Hardman, for the accomodation of his hands at his furnace, known as Franklin Furnace." (Wiley, Preston County, p. 228)
* "George Hardman was the next leading characterin the iron business. He was a man of great energy and endowed with fine business qualifications, but unfortunately without sufficient capital. He built Hardman's Furnace (Irondale Furnace after 1869) in 1859, about two and a half miles from Independence. This furnace passing out of his hands, he went back a few miles, and in 1869 started Gladesville Furnace; but the fate of his first venture soon overtook him here, and the furnace passed to other hands." (Wiley, Preston County, p. 358)
* GH was an election commissioner for the 8th District of Ohio County in 1852 (County Order Books, Vol 32, p. 270)
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