Farmington Township, Trumbull, Ohio

Listed as Mathias Hashman in census in 1850, 1870

1850 Census Ohio/Geauga/Parkman
Mathias Hashman
In 1850, Mary Harshman, 25 and Eugenia, 1, were living with Mathias and Phoebe Harshman and their childre

Grace Winnagle Notse state he d 5 Dec 1876 in Parkman

RESIDENCE: Home Geauga Co., Ohio

BIOGRAPHY: (From The Harshman Family: also spelled Hershman and Hersman, a history and genealogy) p. 195 "[Matthias Harshman] was a carpenter, wagon maker and cabinet maker. He made the floor for the Western Reserve Seminary in West Farmington, Ohio, an important educational institution in that part of the state during the last two thirds of the nineteenth century. He lived in Parkman, Ohio, where he had a sawmill on the Grand River.
He also had extensive stone quarries, and he and his wife quarried blue limestone by building fires on the ledge of rock until it was heated and then pouring water on it to crack it. About 1870 they moved to Garrettsville, where he had a clothing store.
Four of their sons grew to manhood and all of them served in the Union Army of the Civil War."