Northumberland-Berks County PA Archives Biographies.....Haas, John K 1842 - before 1899

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JOHN K. HAAS. Prominent among the active citizens of Shamokin was John K. Haas,

who recently died, a successful business man, who since 1895 had been proprietor

of the Shamokin Marble & Granite Works. Mr. Haas was born in Upper Mahanoy

township, Northumberland County, on the 66th anniversary of the independence of

our country, July 4, 1842. He had exceptional educational advantages, received

his primary education in the public schools, after which he attended the

academies of Freeburg, Allentown, and Kutztown, also taking a course at Franklin

and Marshall College, at Lancaster, Pa. After college life he followed teaching

for eight or nine years, teaching in Lehigh, Schuylkill and Northumberland

counties. In 1871 Mr. Haas engaged in mercantile business in Shamokin which he

followed uninterruptedly for a period of twenty-four years. In 1895 he sold out

his mercantile interests and engaged in the marble and granite business. Our

subject was a son of Nathan and Eliza (Knorr) Haas, and a grandson of George and

Elizabeth (Miller) Haas.



  George Haas was a native of Oley, Pa., but when a young married man removed to

Upper Mahanoy township, Northumberland County, where he followed the occupation

of a farmer and was one of the very early settlers in that section. After many

years of successful farming he died there and his remains lie in the old

churchyard in that vicinity. He was a lifelong Democrat. He was an active member

of the Reformed Church. Elizabeth Miller became his wife and among their family

were the following: Nathan, father of our subject; Henry; George; Levi, who died

young; Hettie; Elizabeth; Salome; Katherine; Lydia; and Caroline.



  Nathan Haas, father of our subject, was born in Lehigh County and was brought

to Northumberland County by his parents, at the tender age of three years. He

received the ordinary education of a farmer's boy and was reared on his father's

farm. When grown to manhood he very naturally became a farmer and followed that

calling throughout his life, passing away in 1890. He possessed the same

religious and political beliefs as his father. He was united in marriage with

Eliza Knorr, a native of Schuylkill County, Pa., and their family consisted of

twelve children: Catherine, now deceased, who was the wife of Samuel Paul;

Lydia, also deceased, who was the wife of J. Daniel, and after his death became

the wife of Nathan Stehle; Isaac, who died at the age of four years; John K.,

subject of this review; Henry K., a prosperous farmer of Schuylkill County, Pa.;

Joel K., a progressive farmer of Northumberland County; Mary, wife of A. A.

Smith of Shamokin; Elizabeth, wife of Henry Dunkelberger, a farmer of Schuylkill

County; Daniel K., a successful hotel-keeper in Snyder County, Pa.; Amelia, wife

of George Paul of Northumberland County; Nathan and Milton, both of whom died in

early childhood.



  On March 31, 1868, John K. Haas was united in marriage with Mary Seiler, a

sister of E. G. Seiler of Shamokin, whose sketch also appears in this book. Five

daughters were born to them: Rosa M., now the wife of A. R. Brubacher, who

graduated at Myerstown, Andover and Yale colleges, and is now professor of Greek

and Latin in the seminary of East Hampton, Mass.; Flora Ellen, now residing at

West Philadelphia, the wife of H. C. Shultz, a telegraph operator for the

Pennsylvania Company; Sadie E., bookkeeper for the Shamokin cracker factory;

Anna, who resides in Philadelphia and is engaged in clerking in the great

mercantile establishment of John Wanamaker; and Ruth Eveline. Our subject and

his family had long been members of the Reformed Church; he had served in the

office of elder, deacon and treasurer for many years. He enlisted in the Civil

War, August 8, 1862, being a member of Company C, 131st Reg., Pa. Vol. Inf., and

served until February, 1863.



  Mr. Haas was a stanch Democrat and served his party as delegate to county

conventions, as town councilman, and assessor for a number of years. Socially he

was a member of Eureka Lodge, No. 125, I. O. O. F., and Lincoln Post, No. 140,

G. A. R.





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Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District

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Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)





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