BIO: Adam J. HAAG, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 628 & 629.
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  ADAM J. HAAG, general merchant and a member of the borough council at DuBois, 
Pa., is a representative man of this place, of which he has been a resident 
since 1889.  He was born in Bavaria, Germany, and is a son of Christian and 
Catherine (Knarr) Haag.
  Christian Haag and his son Christian served in the German army before coming 
to the United States in 1867.  The family settled in Bell township, Clearfield 
county, on a wooded tract which they subsequently cleared and converted into a 
productive farm.  The log cabin that was built in the early days of their 
settlement was burned in 1881.  Eleven children were born to Christian and 
Catherine Haag, as follows:  Christian; Jacob; Henry; Louisa, wife of Jacob 
Faudie; Elizabeth (Mrs. Hartsfelt); Lewis; Frederick; Conrad D.; Catherine, wife 
of Lewis Hartsfelt; Adam J., and Margaret, wife of George Henry.
  Adam J. Haag attended the local schools and later the Normal School at 
Grampian.  He began to teach school when but sixteen years of age, spending six 
years at that work, in Penn, Bloom, Bell and Brady townships, where there are 
many of his old pupils still living.  When he came first to DuBois, he entered 
the employ of A. T. Sprankle, with whom he remained for three years, and then 
erected a store building on the corner of Olive and Brady Streets where he was 
engaged in merchandising for five years.  Mr. Haag then found that his 
increasing business demanded more commodious quarters, and he erected his 
present building, on the corner of Jared and Brady Streets, into which he moved 
in 1897.  It is of brick construction and is three stories in height.
  In March, 1889, Mr. Haag was married to Miss Emma J. Funk, a daughter of Jacob 
and Louisa (Sternberger) Funk.  Mrs. Haag was born in Brady township, Clearfield 
county, but her parents were natives of Germany.  They had four children, 
namely:  Louisa, who is the wife of C. D. Haag; Rudolph; Emma J., who is the 
wife of Adam J. Haag; and Ella, who is the wife of W. O. Smiley.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Haag have one daughter, Laura.  They are members of the German Reformed church.  
Mr. Haag is a prominent Mason, belonging to the Blue Lodge at DuBois; the 
Chapter at Brookville, and the Scottish Rite at Williamsport.  In politics a 
Republican, he has been a faithful party worker and as an active and interested 
citizen has accepted public responsibilities at times.  For twelve years he 
served as a member of the school board, and as a member of the borough council 
has furthered many public-spirited enterprises designed to benefit the whole 
community.