Heinrich L Hartman was born in Kirchheim am Neckar, Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He was likely one of the Forty-Eighters, who emigrated to America in the aftermath of the failed Märzrevolution. He settled in Lebanon, Pennsylvania and in around 1856 and at age 32 established a brewery in that town. He ran the brewery until he died, on August 3rd, 1870, after which it was sold to John Yost, Jr. The brewery eventually became Lebanon Brewing Co., which was shut down in 1920 by Prohibition. After repeal it re-opened as the Lebanon Valley Brewing Company and slaked the thirst of valley residents until 1959.

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