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Thomas Aaron and Alice Hartt

Thomas Aaron Hartt was born, on October 30, 1858, at Fredericton Junction, Sunbury County, NB, to Aaron and Margaret (Mary) Jane Alexander Hartt.  Aaron was a farmer; both Aaron and his wife were natives of New Brunswick.

The family had English Loyalist ancestry.  Actually the Hartt family had settled in the area before it became a refuge for Loyalists; they were considered pre-loyalists.

Thomas Aaron Hartt was educated at the Fredericton Junction Public School, and at the Provincial Normal School in Fredericton, NB, where he received a First Class Teacher's License.  Later, he attended a Business College in Saint John, NB.

Thomas Aaron Hartt taught school for a number of years, and finally located at St. Andrews, Charlotte County, NB, where he engaged in the mercantile business.

Thomas Aaron Hartt married Alice Maud Greenlaw on September 19, 1882.  Alice was born on September 19, 1861, and was the daughter of Moses Greenlaw, Esq., farmer, of Waweig, Charlotte County, NB.  Thomas Aaron and his wife raised a family of one son and one daughter.

He unsuccessfully contested Charlotte County for the House of Assembly of NB at the General Election of September 18, 1899.  He was first elected to the House of Assembly, as  one of the members for Charlotte County, at the General Election of February 28, 1903, and sat through that legislature.  He was re-elected at the General Election of March 3, 1908 and sat as a member until 1911, when he resigned his seat in order to contest Charlotte constituency for the House of Commons.

Thomas Aaron Hartt was first elected to the House of Commons, as member for the constituency of Charlotte, at the General Election of September 21, 1911.  He was re-elected at the General Election of November 17, 1917, and sat as member until the dissolution of Parliament, at which time, he retired from active political life.

Thomas Aaron Hartt died, July 13, 1930, at St. Andrews, New Brunswick, aged seventy-one years.  He was survived by one son and one daughter and is buried in the St. Andrews Rural Cemetery.

Alice Maud Greenlaw Hartt pre-deceased him; she died on May 6, 1927, aged sixty-five years.  She, too, is buried in the St. Andrews Rural Cemetery in New Brunswick.