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Herman Hartman

CTL-E-3962 · Person · businessperson · 20th century

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Father of Hermene Hartman; the first Black Pepsi-Cola distributor in the United States; from Houma, Louisiana, lived in Chicago from about age 12.

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RELP90 new entity (2026-10-06). Name-collision check clean.

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