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MILTON P. HAAS, of Allentown, was born Aug. 1, 1856, in Upper Macungie township, upon the Haas homestead, son of Henry and Maria (Semmel) Haas. At the age of eighteen years he learned the shoe-making trade, which he followed at various places until in 1880, then he came to Allentown to accept a position as shoe clerk with Koch, Haas, & Keck, located at No. 805 Hamilton street. He remained in their employ about five years; then accepted a posi- tion as traveling salesman with the Allentown Shoe Manufacturing Company, traveling over Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Eastern Ohio. He served this corporation for five years, when he resigned to accept a similar position with Philip Schneider, Shoe Manufacturer at Allentown, and he remained with this house for seven years. Afterward he became associated with his son, H. Ray Haas, in the printing business. Their large establishment is located at No. 312 North Jefferson street, Al- lentown.
Mr. Haas is prominently identified with the following lodges: Greenleaf Lodge No. 561, F. & A. M .; and Camp No. 406, P. O. S. of A.
Mr. Haas and his wife are charter members of Trinity Reformed church, which he has served as an elder for a number of years; and Mr. Haas has been a teacher in the Sunday school for almost a quarter of a century.
He was married on March 30, 1886, to Lena L. Flexer, daughter of the late David and Re- becca (Dorney) Flexer. Unto them is born an only son, H. Ray Haas.
H. RAY HAAS, a printer at Allentown, was born April 22, 1887, at Ashley, Luzerne county, Pa. He was educated in the public schools of Allentown and learned the printing trade at the age of fourteen years. When less than seventeen years old he engaged in the business for himself and he is now the head of the firm of H. Ray Haas & Co., which was built up by strict atten- tion to business. This house is one of the largest printing establishments in Allentown.
Mr. Haas has membership in the following lodges: Constantine Lodge No. 1113, I. O. O.
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F .; is Past Chief of Livingstone Castle, No. 258, K. G. E .; is Past Councellor, and Financial Sec- retary of Jordan Council No. 746, Fraternal Patriotic Americans; and Jordan Commandry No. 102, A. and I. O. K. of M.
He was married on Oct. 24, 1908, to Claudia C. Whitner, daughter of E. H. and Flora (Cher- rington) Whitner, of Allentown, formerly of Columbia county, Pa. Unto them is born a daughter-Lorene Evelyn Haas.
Jeremiah B. Haas, real estate dealer of Al- lentown, was born in Upper Macungie, Oct. I, 1851. Reared upon the farm, he after marriage, moved to Guthsville, where one year later he began the butcher business, which he conducted for three years. Moving to Allentown in 1881, he continued in the butcher business to 1907, when he turned his attention to the real estate business. His entire family are members of Trin- ity United Evangelical church, which he served for fifteen years in various capacities as trustee, steward, and class-leader. December 19, 1869, he married Telilah T. Heilman, b. Aug. 16, 1850; d. June 26, 1901. The children are: Charles, Lizzie J., b. 1874; d. 1875; Hattie R., m. to Charles C. Baus, butcher, of Allentown ; and Frederick W., m. to Edna Snyder. The lat- ter is a poultry raiser in Bucks county and has a daughter, Chrystal.
Manasses Israel Haas, son of Nathan Haas, was born July 31, 1849, in South Whitehall township. After acquiring his education in the public schools, he removed to Allentown and learned the machinist's trade, with the Barber Foundry & Machine Company. After he had become master of the business he was appointed foreman of the company, holding this position for twenty-two years, until his death. He superin- tended the building of the engine first used for printing a newspaper in Allentown. He was a member and choir leader of the Salem Reformed church and very active in church work. He was bass cornet player in the old Allentown City Band. He died Jan. 29, 1888, and was buried in West End cemetery.
Manasses Israel Haas married, Nov. 19, 1870, Martha Jane Rex, born Nov. 1, 1854, daughter of Archibald and Mary (Layton) Rex. They had six children: (1) Jennie Elmira, born Dec. 18, 1872; (2) Harvey O., of whom below; (3) Minerva Estella, born Sept. 2, 1877, died June 10, 1890; (4) Beulah Agnes, born Sept. 6, 1879; (5) Carrie Irene, born Oct. 8, 1881 ; (6) Annie Adelia, born Nov. 26, 1883; and (7) Lucy Ruth, born Dec. 18, 1885, died Nov. 18, 1908.
Jennie Elmira (1) married Leroy Ritter, an engineer on the L. V. R. R., residing at Lehigh- ton, Pa. Beulah Agnes (4) married Harvey H.
Lauer, of Allentown. Carrie Irene (5) married Edwin Arner, machinist. Annie Adelia (6) mar- ried Robert Dech, of Allentown.
HARVEY OSCAR HAAS, second child and only son of Manasses Israel and Martha Jane (Rex) Haas, was born March 29, 1874, in Allentown. His opportunities for acquiring an education were very limited, for at the age of twelve years his father dying, he was obliged to secure employ- ment. He first worked in a silk mill for three years for a mere pittance. He then entered the employ of the Yeager Furniture Company, re- maining about eighteen months. He next secured employment with the American Steel & Wire Company, where he succeeded in working him- self up to a fair position during the eleven years he continued with the company. On account of ill health he was obliged to resign the position he had worked so. faithfully to attain. He next took a position with J. W. Barner, as manager of the old Grand Central Hotel. In 1905 he purchased the property of Mr. Barner, changing the name to the Metropole Cafe (Trade Mark, "White Rabbit.") Mr. Haas organized the Gilt Edge Hunting & Fishing Club, of Allentown. He goes to the state of Maine each winter to hunt and fish and is an all around sportsman.
Mr. Haas is a member of the following named organizations: F. O. E., Owls, K. of Mystic Chain, Red Men, Clover Club, Jordan Lodge, No. 673, F. and A. M., and the Lutheran Church.
Harvey O. Haas married, June 24, 1909, Lena M. Bortz, daughter of Alvin and Angelina (Trexler) Bortz. They have one son: George Irwin Archibald Haas.
HACKMAN FAMILY.
Isaac Hackman was born in Forks township, Northampton county, Pa. He was a farmer and butcher in Bethlehem township. His wife was Margaret Koehler. They were Reformed members of the Hecktown church and there they are also buried. Their children were: Peter, Isaac, Abraham, Samuel and Eliza, wife of Wil- liam Kleppinger.
Isaac Hackman, son of Isaac, was born Nov. 17, 1817, in Bethlehem township. He died at Bethlehem, Pa., where he operated a grist mill for a number of years. He married Sophia H. Nagel, a daughter of Daniel and Maricha (Rockel) Nagel. She died Dec. 19, 1894, aged 72 years, 8 months and 10 days. He died March 5, 1864. Both are buried in the grave- yard at Shoenersville. Their children were: Owen, who died an infant; Thomas W., of Kansas City, Mo .; Amandes, of Allentown ; Benjamin (1847-1891) ; Erwin S .; David M.,
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who died and is buried at Kansas City, Mo .; and Mary Elemina ( 1857-1890) was married to Charles Becker. Abraham Hackman, son of Isaac, was born in 1820, and died in his 82nd year. He was married to Lovina Knauss, a daughter of John Knauss. She died about 1897. They were members of the Reformed church and are buried at Bethlehem, Pa. He was a butcher for some years at Rittersville, but later followed laboring and lived at what is now known as Manhattan, on the Allentown and Bethlehem pike. His homestead is now owned by John F. Horn, the florist, who built large green-houses there. Mr. Hackman originally was a Democrat but later became a Republican and he served in various township offices. His three sons served in the Civil War. Their children follow: Charles A., Martin H., Matilda (m. Owen H. Ott), John P., Ellen U. (became the second wife of Owen H. Ott, after her sister had died), and Sarah died aged thirteen years.
CHARLES A. HACKMAN, a retired citizen of Allentown, was born in Hanover township, Le- high county, December 10, 1839. When eigh- teen years old he learned the carpenter trade and on April 20, 1861, he entered the Union Army as a member of Company I, First Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, "Allen Rifles," and was mustered out, July 27, 1861. The First Penn- sylvania Infantry was organized at Harrisburg, Pa., April 20, 1861; served in the Second Bri- gade, Second Division, Patterson's Army, from June 5, to July 21, 1861, moved to near Cock- eysville, Md .; April 20, to York, Pa., and did duty there until May 4; duty on Northern Cen- tral Railroad until May 25; and at Catonville and Franklintown until June 3; duty near Funkstown, Md., June 7-21. Reconnoissance to Williamsport, June 16-17. Affair at Edwards Ferry, June 17; duty at Frederick, June 22 to July 5, and at Martinsburg, Va., July 8-16. Marched to Charlestown, July 16; to Harpers Ferry July 21 ; to Sandy Hook July 23; thence to Harrisburg, Pa. ; mustered out July 27, 1861 ; re-enlisted for service as a private in Company G, 47th Penn'a Vol. Infantry, Sept. 18, 1861 ; promoted to Sergeant; to first Sergeant March 2, 1862; to second lieutenant June 18, 1863, to rank from October 22, 1862; to Captain Nov. 30, 1864; was in command of Company E, from August to October, 1864. Honorably discharged Nov. 5, 1864, as a brevet captain. His brother, Martin H. Hackman, served in the same com- pany with him during the whole service.
After the war, Mr. Hackman worked at his trade in the Reading Car shops, until in De- cember, 1866, he was transferred to their shops at Thirteenth and Callowhill streets, Philadel-
phia, as car inspector, serving the company faith- fully for twenty years. In 1901, Mr. Hackman retired from active work; and in November of that year, settled at Allentown, and enjoys the comfort and blessings of a well-spent life. He is a member of the Odd Fellows.
He married in 1865, Amelia Weaver, a daughter of George and Miss ( Beidler) Weaver. His wife died on November 2, 1904, in her sixty-ninth year. She is buried on the family plot in West End cemetery, Allentown, where the "Hackman Monument" marks the grave. They were members of the Trinity Reformed church which he served as an elder for a number of years, but is now a member of St. John's Re- formed church.
Erwin S. Hackman, of Shoenersville, Pa., was born July 24, 1849,- and is a son of Isaac and Sophia H. Hackman, of Northampton county. He worked as a hired man until in 1872 he be- gan farming and continued two years. In 1876 he began farming again and has continued to this time. He has lived in Moore, East Allen and Hanover townships, in Northampton county ; and since 1897 he lives at Shoenersville, where he has a tract of forty acres of valuable land, and laid stress upon dairy farming until he re- tired in 1913. He is one of the elders of the Reformed congregation of Christ's church, since 1906 and has also been a deacon for seven years. In 1910 he helped to write the Shoenersville church history which was published in a volume of 74 pages. He was a school-director and super- visor.
On May 18, 1873 he married Ida L. A. Lesch, a daughter of Nathan and Catharine (Shoener) Lesch. Their children are: Maggie C. (1873- 1880) ; Camilla, married Harvey W. Heckman ; Sarah, married Thomas Gogel; Lizzie, married Steward Heller ; Charles ( 1883-1884), and Lulu married Jonas Young.
HAGENBUCH FAMILY.
The name originally was Bach Von Hagen, which finally was changed to Hagenbuch.
Among the pioneer settlers of Pennsylvania, was Andreas Hagenbuch, who with his wife, Magdalena, emigrated from Germany on the ship, "Charming Nancy," which landed at Phil- adelphia, Oct. 8, 1737, having aboard one hun- dred and five men, twenty-five boys, and one hundred and seven women and girls. That the journey was a rough and perilous one is proven by the ship's record of sickness. Where this pi- oneer had lived during the first years of his life in Pennsylvania's province is not known, but as early as 1743 he had already established him- self in Allemängel, or Albany township, Berks
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county, where his name appears upon the tax lists of 1752-56-57-59. In the latter year he is recorded as having paid a federal tax of seven pounds. The tax list of 1756 records not only the name of Andreas Hagenbuch but also that of Jacob Hagenbuch, who doubtless was a son. He was assessed as a single man. It is probable that some of the oldest children of Andreas and Magdalena Hagenbuch were born in Germany and came with their parents across the ocean in 1737.
The name Allemängel was applied to a large territory of land lying south along the Blue mountain. The present township of Albany, in Berks county, and Lynn township, in Lehigh county, include the territory of Allemängel, which meant "All Wants" and was given be- cause of the arid condition of the land.
During the French and Indian War, from 1755 to 1763 Allemängel was on the frontier and its sparsely settled inhabitants suffered in- describable cruelties from the hands of the sav- age Indians who killed, massacred, and carried away as captives about one hundred of its peo- ple. That Andreas Hagenbuch and family suf- fered anxiety and hardship cannot be doubted.
The Monthly Journal for July, 1757, of Colo- nel Jacob Morgan contains the following items:
July the Ist. Sent a corporal with eleven men on a scout to Allemaengel, who staid all night.
2d. The scout returned from Allemaengel and reported they had made no discovery of the en- emy.
3d. Sent party to range, to Allemaengel.
4th. Our men returned to Allemaengel, and reported that some of the inhabitants that were afraid near the mountain were moving down- ward.
5th, 6th, 7th. Was exceeding heavy rain and water very high.
8th. Being a day of Humiliation we applied ourselves thereto.
Owing to the massacres and depredations in Albany township the Hagenbuch family with- drew from that territory. Among the sons of the pioneer were: Henry, Christian, Jacob, and John. They all served in the Revolutionary War from Northampton county. Henry Hagen- buch had settled in Northampton Town (now Allentown) as early as 1773, being licensed in that year to keep a tavern which occupied the site of the present Bowen Grocery Company, on Hamilton street. This building was known as the Hagenbuch Opera House before it was used by the grocery company. He was commissioned a lieutenant on May 22, 1775 of the Salisbury Com- pany, with a total rank and file of one hundred men. On July 9, 1776, he was commissioned
captain of a company, which was a part of the flying camp of 10,000 men commanded by Colo- nel Hart. On Aug. 6, 1776, Captain Hagen- buch and company were encamped at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and on August 27th, of the same year, they participated in the battle of Long Island, in which some of Captain Hagenbuch's men were wounded. He continued to be active with the associators and militia of Northampton county as late as April 23, 1783. After the Rev- olutionary War he continued to live in Allen- town, being succeeded in the hotel business by his son, Jacob, and he by Jacob (second ), whose sons, Benjamin J. and Charles H., carried on the same house, the "Cross Keys" in later years. The hotel was conducted by members of the family for nearly one hundred years. Captain Henry Hagenbuch was born Jan. 20, 1736, died April 20, 1803, at Allentown, aged sixty-seven years and four months. His wife, Susanna (Wettsein) Hagenbuch, died June 82, 1823, aged eighty years, one month and eight days. They are buried in the old Allentown ceme- tery.
Christian Hagenbuch, son of the ancestor, Andreas Hagenbuch, tradition states, returned to Albany township after the close of the French and Indian War and continued to reside there until after 1790, when he settled in Allen town- ship, Northampton county, where he died be- tween the making of his will, Jan. 16, 1812, and the probating of it, Feb. 7, 1812. In the will he provides well for his beloved wife, Susan, and appointed Andrew Hagenbuch and John Weaver as his executors. Items of this interesting docu- ment follow :
"My sons, Andrew and Joseph, shall have the plantation, all farm stock and appurtenances where I now live.
"My daughter, Polly, shall have 166 pounds.
"My daughter, Mary, married to John Cole- man, shall have 166 pounds.
"My son, John, shall have 166 pounds.
"My daughter, Elizabeth, shall have 166 pounds.
"My son, Andrew, shall have the sum of 200 pounds annually."
Susan Hagenbuch, the wife, died early in 1825, in Allen township. She also had made a will, dated Dec. 29, 1824, and it was probated April 22, 1825. The executor of it was Jacob Deshler, the husband of her daughter, Elizabeth.
Jacob Hagenbuch, son of Captain Henry Hag- enbuch, made his last will and testament on Nov. 17, 1810. At that time he was an inn-keeper in the town of Northampton. The will refers to land situated in Salisbury township; to his be- loved wife, Margaret, whom he appoints with
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John Romig, "my friend and brother to my be- loved wife, as executor and guardian over my children." The will further states, "my sons shall be sent to school and shall be brought up in the Lutheran Church." The will, which was probated Nov. 11, 1811, mentions the following sons: Jacob, Joseph, John, and Daniel. Jacob succeeded his father to the hotel business; mar- ried Elizabeth Geeth; children: Benjamin, Charles, George, and John. Margaret (Romig) Hagenbuch, the mother of these sons, was born May 18, 1765, died March 30, 1845, aged nearly eighty years.
Daniel Hagenbuch, son of Jacob Hagenbuch, was a farmer in Moore township and one of the most prominent men in the northern part of Northampton county, having a farm of about 300 acres. He was a member of the Reformed Church. He died, aged seventy-three years, and his remains were interred in the cemetery at Moorestown. He married Hannah Steckel, who also died, aged seventy-three years. Children : John, married Catharine Heckman; Jacob, men- tioned below ; Mary, married David Heckman ; Peter, married Miss Hawk, of Nazareth, Pa .; Daniel, married Sophia Hoch, he died in Sep- tember, 1913, survived by his wife; Stephen. was killed on the homestead while building a new barn; he married Sarah Sholl, who now resides in Moorestown.
Jacob Hagenbuch, son of Daniel Hagenbuch, was born Sept. 15, 1830, died Sept. 22, 1893, at Bethlehem, Pa. He married Elizabeth A. Loehr, born Feb. 13, 1831, daughter of John and Eliza- beth A. (Bartholomew) Loehr, the former was born in Bedminster township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, Jan. 7, 1788, died Nov. II, 1877, and the latter named born April 22, 1792, died Oct. 28, 1877, both buried at Naza- reth, Pa. Children: Thomas H., born Sept. 17, 1851, married Ida Heist, Allentown, Pa .: chil- dren: Joseph J., born March 25, 1873, Ed- ward Allen, born Jan. 3, 1876; Frank, born May 15, 1879; Elizabeth, died, aged nine months. Lewis Benjamin, born July 15, 1853, died Aug. 29, 1855; Allen Wesley, mentioned below; Vic- tor Eugene, born Feb. 25, 1859, married Agnes Struthers, died Sept. 15, 1897, one child, Adell Virginia Hilda, born June 9, 1882; Wilson Jacob, born Dec. 31, 1863, died Aug. 28, 1864; Mary H., born April 7, 1865, married Harry Ludwig; Lizzie H., born April 23, 1868; mar- ried Charles Solt, Bethlehem; Hilda C., born Sept. 7, 1871, married Harry Jenkins, Bethle- hem, Pa .; John Daniel, born Jan. 24, 1873, Bethlehem, Pa .; married Katherine Blackwood, of Camden, New Jersey.
Dr. Allen Wesley Hagenbuch, who changed
his name to Hagenbach, son of Jacob Hagenbuch, was born June 14, 1856, in Moore township, Northampton county, Pennsylvania. He attend- ed the Rush Medical College, Chicago, and grad- uated with honors. He was a physician, an alienist of reputation, was for some years super- intendent of the Cook County Insane Asylum of Chicago, one of the largest institutions of its kind in the West, but his successful medical career was cut short at the age of thirty-three by death. A cut in a finger while demonstrating surgery before a clinic resulted in blood poison- ing which developed into lung trouble.
He went to Red Bluff, California, for his health, living there for three years with his fam- ily and died on a train near Cleveland, Tenn., in 1890, while returning home. His remains were interred in Nisky Hill cemetery, Bethle- hem, Pa. He married Agnes S. Hertzog, a na- tive of Alburtis, Lehigh county, Pa. Children : May Elizabeth, born May 1, 1879, at Chicago, Ill .; Allen Wesley, mentioned below ; Rush Em- ery, born Aug. 12, 1885.
ALLEN WESLEY HAGENBACH, son of Dr. Al- len Wesley Hagenbach, was born in Chicago, Illinois, December 29, 1880. Following the death of his father, Allen Wesley, who was then only ten years of age, went to Alburtis, Lehigh county, Pa., and lived with his maternal grand- parents for the following eight years. During that period he attended the public schools and later entered the Keystone State Normal School at Kutztown, from which institution he was graduated in 1896. After his graduation he taught school for a year. In 1898, when the Spanish-American War broke out, he enlisted in Company B, Fourth Regiment, Pa. Vol. Infant- ry, and took part in General Miles' Expedition to Porto Rico, enlisting from the City of Al- lentown, and at the end of the war received an honorable discharge. He then located at Beth- lehem, Pa., where he worked for two years in the offices of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. In 1900 he entered upon the study of law in the offices of Hon. M. C. L. Kline, in Allentown, and in 1903 he was admitted to practice in the courts of Lehigh county, and since that time to the higher courts of the state. He has followed the legal profession ever since his admission to the bar.
Mr. Hagenbach received the Republican nom- ination for district attorney in 1911. In 1913 he became a candidate for judge on the Progres- sive ticket, his opponents being Judge Trexler and Hon. C. A. Groman, the latter being the successful candidate. Upon the organization of the Spanish-American War Veterans, he was chosen, in 1904, their first department adjutant
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general, of Pennsylvania and was re-elected in 1905.
He was one of the organizers of the Bethle- hem Trust Company and has been its solicitor and trust officer since its incorporation.
He is a member of the Livingstone Club and other local organizations.
Mr. Hagenbach married, Nov. 29, 1911, Miriam L. Kleppinger, daughter of George H. Kleppinger, of Allentown, Pa. [See History of Kleppinger Family.]
HAHN FAMILY.
Among the early settlers in the upper section of Northampton county was the Hahn family. The progenitor was John Hahn, born about 1760, and married to Barbara Bender. They had seven children: Jacob, George, Philip, John, Frederick, Catharine, and Elizabeth.
Jacob, the eldest son, was born May 18, 1788, in Bushkill township, and died Aug. 25, 1862. He married Anna Heebner, born Feb. 9, 1791, and died March 24, 1872, and they had eight children: Charles; Jacob; Lydia, married Jos- eph Hagenbuch ; Abraham ; Mary, married Jacob Bender; Sophie, married Jonas Andrews; Susan, married Joseph Everett ; and Elias.
John, the fourth son named, was born Nov. 15, 1799, in Bushkill township, and followed the trade of a stone mason. He married Lydia Marsh, born Nov. 15, 1801, and they had seven children: Stephen, born 1822, died 1887; John, born 1827, died 1904; Richard, born 1829, died 1879; Catharine Ann, born 1832, married to Joseph Kennin; Jackson, born 1835; Freeman, born 1838, died 1842; and Reuben, born 1844.
Phaon Hahn was born March 21, 1831, in Bushkill township. He carried on farming there for a time, then conducted the Centre Hotel in that township, and the Clearfield Hotel (in con- nection with a wheelwright shop) until 1885, when he moved to Catasauqua, and conducted the American House until his decease, Dec. 16, 1887. In 1852 he married Mary Ann, daughter of Charles and Juliana (Winters) Fehr, and they had eight children: Alfred; Wiliam J .; Julia; Ella; Araminta; Granville; Emma; and Lillie, married Jeremiah F. Kern. They were mem- bers of the Reformed congregation at Mickley's church, where he was buried.
GRANVILLE HAHN, one of the sons of Phaon, and a prominent politician and official of North- ampton county, was born Sept. 9, 1861, in Bush- kill township. He attended the public schools until he became nineteen years old; then worked on the railroad and in a store until 1884, when he directed his attention to the slate industry, and, after working about quarries for five years
to familiarize himself with operations there, he associated with Thomas Zellner and Owen Kern in the slate business at Slatington. In 1898 he embarked in the business for himself and since then he has been successfully engaged in manu- facturing blackboards and structural slate prod- ucts, and giving employment to twenty men. He also identified himself with the Eureka Slate Company, a large and successful operation, and with the mercantile firm of Hahn & Griffith Brothers, at Walnutport, as the senior partner, and since 1906 with the Slatington National Bank as a director.
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