Samuel Hartsel

{{short description|American rancher}}

{{Infobox person

|name = Samuel Hartsel

|birth_date = {{birth date|1834|11|22}}

|birth_place = Bucks County, Pennsylvania, U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|1918|11|20|1834|11|22}}

|death_place = Denver, Colorado, U.S.

|occupation = Rancher

|spouse = {{marriage|Nancy Hartsel|1877}}Laura King Van Dusen, "Samuel Hartsel: 1860s Pioneer Rancher, One of Colorado's First Cattlemen. Founded Town of Hartsel", Historic Tales from Park County: Parked in the Past (Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2013), {{ISBN|978-1-62619-161-7}}, pp. 21–27.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111278407/hartsel-started-as-a-cattle-ranch-to/|title=Hartsel Started as a Cattle Ranch to Become One of State's Favorite Spas|first=Rick|last=Hendren|work=Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph|location=Colorado Springs, Colorado|date=May 16, 1971|access-date=October 22, 2022|page=90|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}

|children = 4

}}

Samuel Hartsel (November 22, 1834 – November 20, 1918) was an American rancher.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LpCcDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT115|title=A Compendium of Curious Colorado Place Names|pages=115–116|first=Jim|last=Flynn|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|date=December 5, 2016|isbn=9781439658734|via=Google Books}} The town of Hartsel, Colorado was named after him.{{cite book|last=Dawson|first=John Frank|title=Place names in Colorado: why 700 communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015051116740;view=1up;seq=32|publisher=The J. Frank Dawson Publishing Co.|location=Denver, CO|page=26|access-date=October 22, 2022}}