Northumberland-Schuylkill County PA Archives Biographies.....Haas, Frederick 1858 - living in 1899

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FREDERICK HAAS, a representative and influential citizen of Sunbury, and

register of wills, recorder of deeds, and clerk of the Orphans' Court of

Northumberland County, Pa., is a son of Capt. Jacob W. and Eliza (Jones) Haas,

and was born in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pa., May 3, 1858.



  The Haas family is of German stock and the original emigrant was Frederick

Haas, the great-great-grandfather of our subject, who came from Germany and

settled in Eastern Pennsylvania during the early colonial period. His son, also

named Frederick, and great-grandfather of our subject, was for many years a

resident of Sunbury.



  Frederick Haas, the grandfather of our subject, was born in Sunbury in 1800

and died in Shamokin in 1860, having moved there during his latter days. He was

one of the leading business men of the county, and in early life was engaged in

merchandising and tanning. Politically, he was a Whig, and served as treasurer

of the county from 1824 until 1827. He was united in the bonds of wedlock to

Elizabeth Swartz, a daughter of Michael Swartz, who came from Wurtemberg,

Germany, to America prior to the Revolution, in which war he was a soldier. In

1798 Mr. Swartz came to Sunbury and took up 600 acres of land in Beaver Meadows,

where he remained the rest of his active days. He was the father of Hon. John

Swartz, who represented the Seventh Congressional District of Pennsylvania in

Congress. Mr. and Mrs. Haas were the parents of six sons and four daughters, one

of whom was Jacob W., the father of our subject, who was born in Pottsville,

Pa., June 25, 1833, where he grew to manhood. He was employed as clerk and

bookkeeper up to the breaking out of the late war, and on September 21, 1861, he

enlisted in Company G, 96th Reg., Pa. Vol. Inf., and served throughout the war

as captain of his company. He participated in all the battles of the Army of the

Potomac from 1861 to 1863. After the war he spent two years in the oil fields of

Western Pennsylvania. In 1867 he went to Shamokin, Pa., and was connected with

various collieries in that vicinity; he was clerk and foreman until 1890, when

he took a tour through the Southern States, prospecting in the interests of the

Roanoke Iron Company. In 1895 he became deputy register and recorder of

Northumberland County, which office he still retains. Politically he is a strong

Republican. He was married to Eliza Jones, and they reared a family of children.



  Frederick Haas, the subject of this biographical sketch, at the age of nine

years went to Shamokin with his parents. He received his primary education in

the public schools of his native town, and later attended the high school at

Shamokin, taking a regular course. He then was admitted to the U. S. Military

Academy at West Point, N. Y., in 1878, and after studying part of the course

there he resigned on account of ill health and returned home, and the next

fourteen years were spent clerking at the Luke Fidler Colliery at Shamokin, Pa.,

and in the recorder's office at Sunbury. Entering politics as an active and

aggressive'Republican in 1894 he was elected register and recorder and clerk of

Orphans' Court of Northumberland County, which was at that time a strong

Democratic county. In 1897 he was re-elected, and holds that position at the

present time. In 1877 our subject became a member of Company B, 7th Reg., N. G.

Pa., and in 1880 he was promoted to lieutenant and four years later he resigned

from the company. He is a member of Rescue Hose Company of Shamokin; also a

member of Mount Tabor Lodge No. 125, I. O. O. F.; and Sunbury Lodge No. 22, F. &

A. M.



  In 1892 Mr. Haas was united in marriage to Nellie Murray of Shamokin, and two

children has blessed this union, namely: Frank M., and Frederick, Jr.





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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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