From "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and 
Representative Citizens," by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, 1902. 

Contributed by Linda Fluharty.

Pages 708

G. F. HARTLIEB, who for many years was proprietor of the old stone
road-house located at Elm Grove, on the National Road, is now living
in retirement.  He was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, and is a son of
Jeremiah Hartlieb.  Mr. Hartlieb was four years of age when his
parents moved to this country, coming over in a sailing ship in
fifty-seven days.  He distinctly remembers in regard to this voyage
that the captain took a great interest in him, showing him over the
ship and explaining things.  These circumstances were indelibly
impressed upon his young mind.  They landed in Philadelphia, remained
there nine months, and then moved to Wheeling, where the father became
foreman in the gas works. Tiring of city life, Jeremiah Hartlieb rented
a farm in the country, near Benwood, on which he remained one year; he
then moved to Peter's Run, where he rented a farm for years.  He next
purchased a 93-acre farm and lived upon it until his death, in 1894,
at the age of seventy-five years.

G. F. Hartlieb attended the public schools, and remained with  his father
until he was twenty-three years of age.  He then worked as a gardner
one summer and the following year rented a farm for two years.  He then
purchased that farm and resided upon it for nine years.  He sold out and
purchased the stone road-house at Elm Grove, an historic old place which
was built in 1818, at the time the National Road was constructed through
this valley.  It has been kept as a hotel from that time to the present,
and is in an excellent state of repair.  Mr. Hartlieb, after making the
purchase, conducted the place for a period of seventeen years in a highly
successful manner.  He then concluded to retire from active business, and
rented the establishment in April, 1901.  He moved into a 10-room house
situated on three acres of land, which he had previously purchased for
that purpose, making a comfortable home in which he and his wife can
spend the remainder of their days in quiet enjoyment.

Mr. Hartlieb was united in marriage October 26, 1871, to Rosa Schrader, a
daughter of Nicholas Schrader, who was a farmer by occupation, and they
became the parents of seven children, as follows:  Mary R., born November
9, 1873; Elizabeth, born February 23, 1878; Rosa, born November 26, 1880;
Emma, born March 11, 1882; Frederick W., born September 26, 1883; Nellie
M., born May 20, 1885; and Nicholas J., born November 4, 1886.  The family
attend the Presbyterian church.  Fraternally Mr. Hartlieb is a member of
Humboldt Lodge, No. 2, Knights of Pythias, and of the German Pioneer
Society of Wheeling.