Sacramento County
Biographies
WALTER SCOTT
HARTIN
WALTER SCOTT HARTIN.--Among the most popular of all headquarters calculated to give delight to the ambitious and particular housewife, the Isleton Meat Market, whose proprietor is the obliging Walter Scott Hartin, enjoys a vogue such as should spell prosperity, year after year. He was born at Parsons, Kans., on December 27, 1875, the son of John Henry Hartin, and his good wife, Indiana, the former born in Kansas, while the latter, as her name might indicate, hailed from the land of the Hoosiers. Grandfather Hartin was a frontiersman, on the Kansas plains; and the family stock evidenced all the sturdiness for which the old-time American pioneer was famous.
When Walter Scott Hartin was six months old, he was brought by his father to Rio Vista, where Mr. Hartin was active for years buying fruit for Libby, McNeil & Libby’s in the Delta section of the Sacramento River. Walter attended the Rio Vista schools, and when eighteen years old, began to learn the butcher’s trade, at that place. He then joined the Libby, McNeil & Libby service, and for six and one-half years was superintendent of the Isleton canning plant. After that, he conducted a butcher shop for ten years, having his headquarters in an old frame building where the Isleton barber shop is now located; but when the Gardiner Bros., erected a brick business block, and several persons had attempted to conduct a fresh meat store there, and failed, he tried his luck and won out there. This is really not to be wondered at, for Mr. Hartin thoroughly understands this line of trade, with all of its puzzling details.
Mr. Hartin also owns a tract of 120 acres in Inyo County, formerly school lands; and this tract is situated in Deep Spring Valley amid a fine stock-raising country. At present, Mr. Hartin is a member of the board of trustees of the Isleton school district, evidencing by his service to his fellow-citizens in that capacity his deep interest in the community in which he lives and prospers. He is a Republican, believing that the objects of the Republican party mean most to the capitalist and the wage-earner, and are conducive to increased trade.
While at San Francisco, on October 3, 1916, Mr. Hartin was married to Miss Mabel Mary O’Conner, a native of the bay city, with one living sister, Mrs. Viola Turner, of Modesto. Two children have blessed this union, Walter Scott, Jr., and Wayne Scott. Mr. Hartin belongs to the Isleton Lodge No. 108, I. O. O. F., and he and his popular wife are both members of the Rebekahs. He is a booster for this rapidly growing delta region and he is an enthusiastic member of the Isleton Chamber of Commerce. He was an active supporter for the incorporation of Isleton and was elected the first city treasurer.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 955.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.