My Genealogy Hound

LOUIS M. HATTMAN, upholsterer, post office McKee’s Rocks, son of Henry C. E. and Magdalena Hattman, was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1854. His father was born in Holstein, Germany, in 1814, and immigrated to America about 1840, first locating in Cincinnati, where he became the first foreman of Dr. Crampton’s Star candle-works, remaining until 1842. He then came to Pittsburgh, Pa., and was foreman of Sawyer’s soap and candle factory, which occupation he followed until his retirement in 1856. He and his wife still reside in Pittsburgh, the parents of ten children, eight of whom are now living, viz.: Henry B., Frederick A., William A., Louis M., Louisa D. (wife of J. H. Garrett), Sarah (wife of John A. M. Nagle), Albert R. (born on the day Richmond was taken, April 2, 1865), and Rebecca (wife of George McKee). During the civil war Henry C. E. and his sons, Henry B. and Frederick A., served three years in Co. A, 99th P. V. I., and participated in all the engagements of that regiment during the war. Mr. Hattman was the first to learn the process of making white glue out of bones. Louis M. learned the furniture-upholstering and car business, which he has followed since he was sixteen years old. He and his brother, Frederick A., some years ago, at an elevation in the East End of Pittsburgh, discovered a part of the remains of a mastodon, two teeth of which weighed jointly fifteen pounds, and a tusk was nearly nine feet long. One of the teeth was presented to the Burnell museum, and is now on exhibition in New Orleans.