[49-722] SAMUEL SEBRING HARTRANFT, b Oct. 30, 1855; d Feb. 2, 1921; s Gen. John F. and Sallie D. (Sebring) Hartranft [49-245]; m June 25, 1898, SALLIE DORAH SHULTZ, b Oct. 30, 1855; dau Frederick A. Shultz. Res. Norristown, Pa.
One child:
Marion Anna, b Oct. 7, 1901.
Samuel S. Hartranft was born in 1855, at Norristown, Pa., and was educated at Fremont Seminary, Norristown, and Lafayette College, at Easton, Pa., receiving the degrees of A. B. and M. S.
After leaving college he was chemist in the Pennsylvania State Geological Survey and the Philadelphia Mint. He left his profession to accept the position of cashier of the Philadelphia Custom House. On being relieved of the office by the Cleveland administration he returned to his profession, making a study of the Bessemer steel process and blast furnaces at the Edgar Thomson works, and then engaged in managing several furnace plants in the Pittsburgh region and Eastern Pa. He was a member of the Sons of the Revolution, American Society of Mining Engineers, and other organizations.
Being the son of a general of the Civil War, Samuel Hartranft also had a military career. In 1876 he enlisted in Gen. Frank Reeder’s Company in the Easton Grays, Company F, 4th Regiment, N. G. P. He afterward joined the Ist Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry; in 1880 he was appointed aide-de-camp with the rank of Major on the staff of his father, Major-General John F. Hartranft commanding the division of the N. G. P. In 1884 he was appointed division commissary with the rank of Lieutenant- Colonel, and division ordnance officer; in 1890 he was appointed division inspector of rifle practice which position he held for a number of years.
For several years, Mr. Hartranft was a member of the Valley Forge Park commission and was during the latter part of his life superintendent of the park. He died very suddenly on Feb. 2, 1921 at his home in Valley Forge.
Parents’ family: [49-245] John Frederick Hartranft and Sallie D. Sebring