Hartien had no name for a time, because his father was away on business when he got the news of his son's birth.  His father, Chris, created the name Hartien - a combination of his wife's names Harriet Ann.
The middle name, Sharp, was his mother's (Lucyetta Sharp) maiden name.

Hartien was known as Hartie until his teens, when his brother Hux began to call him 'Butch', which stayed with him permanently.

Butch was only 13 when his father died in 1931.  He became an emancipated minor at 15 to allow family debts to be settled.  He met the woman he would later marry, Charlotte Eloise Burtnett, in Junior High School; they didn't date until High School.

Butch and Charlotte attended Allen County Junior College for two years, and Butch went on to study Chemistry at the University of Kansas while Charlotte studied at the University of Nebraska.   He worked at many jobs to support himself, and endured illness with undulant fever.  He graduated in 1941 (?).

After marriage to Charlotte in 1941, they moved to Quincy, Illinois where he worked for ??

He later worked for Western Cartridge Company in Alton, Illinois.  Charlotte worked for the company library.  Butch was exempted from the military during World War II because of the undulant fever he suffered from earlier.  He got so far as reporting for duty and had a night at the barracks before he was sent home. 

Butch and Charlotte moved to Akron, Ohio in 1949 where Butch worked for Pittsburgh Plate Glass, later PPG industries.  They had two children, Harriet  Ann(1950) and Christopher Sharp (1954).

Butch returned to school at night at the University of Akron and earned a master' s degree in chemistry in 1954, and a Ph.D. in 1964.  He was a member of professional associations, and is listed in Who's Who of 19??.  He headed the TIO2 project (titanium dioxide) during his career at PPG.

Butch and Charlotte worked on genealogy, including interviewing family members and recording their stories, during their teens, and throughout their adult years.  They were both members and officers in the Ohio Genealogical Society.  Butch helped found, and served as president of First Families of Ohio.

Charlotte passed away on her 78th birthday and their 55th anniversary, on June 21, 1996.