Northumberland County PA Archives Biographies.....Haas, Ambrose G. 1858 - 

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AMBROSE G. HAAS, the well known secretary of the Shamokin school district, has

taken unusual interest in the advancement of educational facilities during the

nine years he has served as director on the school board. At the age of

thirty-one he was elected a member of the school board by the voters of the

First Ward and has since served continuously to the entire satisfaction of his

constituents. The Washington and Lincoln school buildings were erected while he

was president of the board; subsequently he served one term as treasurer and

three terms as chairman of the building committee. He is secretary of the board

at the present time and is highly commended for the able and efficient manner in

which he performs the duties of the responsible office.



  Our subject is a son of Frederick S. and Sarah (Williamson) Haas, and was born

August 12, 1858, receiving his early education in the public schools of

Shamokin. At the age of fourteen years he learned the trade of a printer but did

not follow it. As a boy he was in the Northumberland National Bank, and

afterward accepted a position as clerk in a business house in Shamokin where he

was engaged for nine years. In 1886 the firm of Wagonseller & Haas was

established and the mercantile business occupied Mr. Haas' attention for a

number of years.



  Politically our subject is a Republican, and always has been an active worker

and party organizer and has done much to strengthen the party in his district;

he has been in attendance at every local convention as a delegate since he

attained his majority; has been frequently consulted by the congressional party

committees and usually attends the state conventions. Aside from being a noted

politician his life is linked and interwoven in the fraternal societies. He is

past master of Shamokin Lodge No. 255, F. & A. M.; past high priest of Shamokin

Chapter No. 264, R. A. M.; past commander of Prince of Peace Commandery No. 30,

K. T., and Caldwell Consistory, S. P. R. S., 32d Degree, Scottish Rite Masons,

at Bloomsburg; member of Rajah Temple, A. A. O. N. of Mystic Shrine, at Reading,

Pa.; is a past president of Camp No. 149, P. O. S. of A.; exalted ruler of

Shamokin Lodge, B. P. O. E.; and past commander of Anthony Wayne Commandery No.

13, P. O. S. of A.; and is past national inspector of the National Camp, which

honor was conferred on him at the meeting at Denver in 1885. Religiously our

subject is of the Presbyterian faith. He married Sallie Lewis April 26, 1882,

and has one son, Frederick S., born June 12, 1886.



  The grandfather of our subject on the paternal side was Frederick Haas. He was

a native of Sunbury, but left there and went into the coal regions of Schuylkill

County, Pa., where he engaged in the coal operating business; subsequently he

returned to Shamokin, Coal township, where he died. Politically he was an old

line Whig and had served his party as county treasurer. The maternal grandfather

was Samuel Williamson.



  Frederick S. Haas, father of our subject, was born in Sunbury in 1830, and was

reared and educated in that town. He was engaged in the service of the Northern

Central R. R. Co., being weighmaster and train dispatcher. In 1867, or

thereabout, he was made cashier of the First National Bank of Northumberland

County, and remained in that capacity until the bank closed. He always was

active in the work and organizations of his party, but never sought political

preferment, except as school director, in which capacity he served from 1860

until his death, which occurred in 1878. He was a prominent Odd Fellow. He was a

consistent Christian gentleman and a central figure in the Presbyterian Church

in which he was a trustee and an active worker. His family consisted of six

children: Samuel W., deceased; Frederick Potter Withington, who lives in

Shamokin, and is a patternmaker; holding the position of foreman in John Mullen

& Son's pattern shops; our subject; Bessie, who died at twenty-four years of

age; Caroline and Sarah, both unmarried.





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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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