OBIT: DeHAAS, James  1916, Beech Creek, Clinton County, PA
  
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  James DeHaas
  
  James DeHaas, of Beech Creek, Pa., died suddenly Aug. 18th aged 78 years.
  
  The deceased, a native of France, was a veteran of the Civil War and served in a 
  company of the 45th Regiment Penna Volunteer Infantry, and had a splendid record 
  as a soldier.  He inherited that quality from his great-grandfather Major John 
  Phillip DeHaas, who settled in Beech Creek at the close of the Revolutionary War 
  on land granted to him as an officer in the Colonial Army.
  
  The deceased was the father of the first wife of our townsman Wm. F. Kintzing, 
  and the grandfather of Barnes Kintzing and Miss Mabel DeHaas Kintzing, a teacher 
  in the local schools.
  
  The Hanover Herald - Saturday, August 26, 1916