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John 'Jacob' Houpt |
John "Jacob" Houpt was born on April 27, 1776 in or near Durham, Bucks County, PA, the son of John "Henry" Sebastian and Maria Catharina (Youngken) Haupt Jr.
He grew up as the son of stern taskmaster. He and his brothers "were kept so strictly and severely at work, that each of them, as he came of age, went out of the homestead to work for himself... [to] escape from parental control," recalled a descendant. "It is commonly said that the Bucks County Haupts went north, south, east and west." Jacob went on to impose the same harsh discipline on his own brood of children and showed little if any affection.
Jacob as a bachelor relocated to Philadelphia in 1791 and spent seven years engaged as an accountant and clerk. Then after his sister Sarah married Abraham Piesch, a ship-owner, Jacob went to work in the family business. Piesch owned several vessels which carried goods to and from China. But in 1798, during a period of hostility with France, all of the firm's vessels were captured or destroyed. When peace was negotiated in 1800, the French were absolved from any liability for American shipping losses. Piesch sued for restitution, but it took more than 100 years to resolve the claims, and, says the book That Man Haupt, "all the supporting papers had been lost."
Despite the financial disaster, Jacob kept faith in his brother-in-law's business acumen and used an inheritance from his late father's estate to invest more capital. Three of his brothers did likewise. The Piesch business resumed its shipping activity in the Far East. But during the War of 1812, some 15 of its ships near the Philadelphia port were captured in a British blockade, crushing the partners and ending their work together. Jacob found some way to earn a living after that as a merchant.
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| Old Philadelphia, including a stereoview of the Betsy Ross house - Library of Congress |
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Circa 1816, in Philadelphia, the 40-year-old Jacob married a Houpt cousin, 30-year-old Anna Margaretta (Wiall) Snyder (July 22, 1786-1857), daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Houpt) Wiall. She had been divorced the previous year from her husband, Andrew Snyder, on the complaint that he treated her excessively badly and with "gross infidelity."
Anna thus brought a stepson to the marriage, Charles Jacob Snyder, with the boy later taking on the Houpt name.
The children borne by this union were Gen. Herman Haupt (Lincoln's "Railroad Man"), Ellen Haupt, Henrietta Bennett Archambault, Thomas Jefferson Haupt, Jacob "Lewis" Leeds Haupt and Mary Elizabeth Haupt. Daughter Ellen passed away at the age of three.
Jacob as a family man found a position as a bookkeeper for a wholesale grocery in Philadelphia, and his bride operated a small dry goods business. Then in 1825 he and Henry D. Steever opened their own grocery together.
Similar accounts of the early married years have been published in a 2015 paper A General Chronology of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Its Predecessors and Successors, by Christopher T. Baer, and in an entry in American National Biography .
Jacob's behavior and temperament became increasingly difficult over time. Writes James A. Ward in That Man Haupt, the "family was dominated by a stern and exacting father who became increasingly irritable as his health deteriorated and his eyesight failed... Before classes [son] Herman was expected to shave his father, black his boots, and read him congressional speeches from the newspapers. Noon and after-school hours were reserved for waiting on customers in [the] grocery store."
As Jacob's eyesight continued to fail, he could no longer write without help, forcing him to dissolve his business partnership with Steever and move the family to a small farm near Woodville, NJ. Circa 1828, he owed money to his brother John so decided to seek a loan from their brother Samuel.
Brother Samuel at the time was living in Newville, Herkimer County, NY. Jacob tried to travel there to make his ask in person. But when he arrived in Albany on Sept. 17, 1828, on the steamboat Albany, he was "in an extremely debilitated situation [and was] found on the Pier," reported the Albany Daily Advertiser. Another account says that Jacob was unable to sit up or communicate verbally. The story was reprinted in the Oct. 7, 1828 edition of the Farmer's Herald of St. Johnsbury, VT and other American newspapers.
He was unable to speak, and appears somewhat deranged. He had come up the previous evening, in the steamboat Albany. -- He is genteelly dressed and has a trunk containing good clothes, and some money. He whistles often as if calling a dog. On being asked if his dog's name was "Bull, Rover," &c. he made no answer, but when the name "Watch" was mentioned, nodded his head, and with great difficulty muttered out "yes." On his trunk, is a label -- "Jacob Houpt, Utica County." Mr. [Peter] Vosburgh, a cartman of this city, humanely took him to his house, where he is now receiving the most kind treatment, and has medical assistance. It is desired that printers may give this circulation.
His wife received a letter about the matter within a few days, and with her son Herman traveled to be at his side, but it was too late, and they did not arrive on time. Jacob died in the Vosburgh residence on Sept. 30, 1828. All he left behind was a pocket watch and a small sheaf of papers. His burial place is not known.
The sad passing was kept quiet in the family. All that son Herman is known to have said was that the death "was not a source of profound regret to me, but rather brought a feeling of relief." Many decades later, in Herman's autobiography, all that the book's editor wrote in a foreword about the matter was that "His father, Jacob Haupt, died in 1828, leaving a widow and six children."
The widowed Anna Margaretta outlived her husband by several decades.
In 1840, the artist John Neagle (1796-1865) painted her portrait, a work on canvas measuring 27 inches by 23 inches. It was handed down in the family to a great-granddaughter, Marguerite (Archambault) Chenery Stewart. In 1963, Marguerite donated the portrait to the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC where it became part of the permanent collection [CGA 63.17]. The painting is referenced in Vol. 1 of the Corcoran's 1966 catalogue of American paintings, "Painters Born Before 1850." Circa 2018, the work of art was among 9,000 to be transferred to the newly established Corcoran Legacy Collection at American University, billed as "showcasing masterpieces from the 16th-century Italian painter Titian, American artists Ansel Adams and Helen Frankenthaler, and more."
Anna Margaretta passed away on Aug. 24, 1857. Her remains were laid to rest in East Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd. A notice of her death was published in the Gettysburg Adams Sentinel, saying she was the "mother of Mr. Herman Haupt, formerly of Gettysburg, in the 72d year of her age." In an irony, the day she died coincided with when the nation's financial panic "finally broke in full force," wrote a biographer.
~ Stepson Charles Jacob Snyder Haupt ~
Stepson Charles Jacob Snyder Haupt (1810-1851) was born on March 17, 1810.
Charles initially made a living as a stage actor. He "made his debut in 'Pizarro,' at the Washington Theatre," said the Brooklyn Eagle, and in 1834, he was a stage performer at the Warren Theatre in Boston.
On his 24th birthday on March 17, 1834, he tied the marital knot with widow Emily (Mestayer) Reed (1814-1882), daughter of Lewis/Louis and Maria Mestayer of Philadelphia and Boston. Rev. Sebastian Streeter officiated. Their friends Caleb S. Hobbs and Hannah W. Tyler also were wed that day. In announcing the two marriages, the Boston Post said that they were "all of the Warren Theatre."
The Houpts' brood of offspring included Emily Marie Houpt, Rosalie Houpt, Charles Henry Houpt Jr. and William Ayres Houpt Mestayer.
The family was shrouded in grief when daughters Emily died at age two and Rosalie at age one.
Charles also performed at one time in The Stranger. After he "retired from the stage," said the Eagle, he went on to a career as a dentist. Circa 1837, he advertised his services in providing "incorruptible porcelain teeth" to his patients from his office at Hanover Street, one door from Portland Street in Philadelphia. One customer from the south in 1839 was so happy with the outcome that, in additon to paying Charles' fee, gave him a silver pitcher, and shared the good word with Philadelphia newsmen.
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Advertising broadside, 1864 - Linda Applegate Brown |
Charles appears to have relocated to California, settled in Ringgold, El Dorado County, about 15 miles east of Sacramento. It's possible that he was attracted by the gold rush discovery in the region in 1849. The federal census enumeration of 1850 shows a "Charles Houp," born in 1815, living in the Ringgold household of David Allen, and with the occupation of "trader."
During this timeframe, Emily remained behind in New York and on Dec. 2, 1850, in the National Theatre, performed in Harry Watkins' play, Nature's Nobleman, the Mechanic; or the Ship's Carpenter of New York. She and the cast did not enjoy the assignment, and the authors Maud and Otis Skinner write in the 1938 book, One Man in His Time, that Emily "was dissatisfied with her part and merely walked through it."
Sadly, while in California, Charles died at the age of 40 on May 8, 1851. A terse obituary in the Sacramento Daily Union asked newspapers in Baltimore, Boston, New York and Philadelphia to reprint the notice. The New York Post complied. He is believed to sleep for all time in Ringgold Cemetery in Diamond Springs.
Emily outlived her husband by more than three decades. After raising four children, and losing two, she went back on the stage in New York. As of May 1852, she was in a show at Barnum's Broadway Museum. During her years with Barnum, writes author Rufus Rockwell Wilson, she was "then the most beautiful woman on the American stage, was long the shining light of the Barnum company, which was also the training-school of George Clarke, Milnes Levick, and other players destined to achieve distinction." At least twice she was part of a cast that included actor John Wilkes Booth, including Richard III, on May 13, 1862, in Boston -- Money!, on Jan. 27, 1863, with her as Lady Franklin -- and Othello, on May 2, 1864, at the Boston Museum, with her playing Emelia. She was a staple Hallack's and Purdy's National in New York in the late 1860s and early 1870s and further solidified her popularity with a variety of roles.
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The old National Theatre in Boston Courtesy Wikimedia Commons |
...large, red in the face, coifed in a tangle of small, fine, damp-looking short curls and clad in alight-blue garment edged with swans-down, shout at the top of her lungs that a "purr-r-se of gold" would be the fair duerdon of the minion who should start on the spot to do her bidding at some desperate crisis that I forget... [She] gave form to my conception of the tragic actress at her highest. She had a hooked nose, a great play of nostril, a vast protuberance of bosom and always the "crop" of close moist ringlets; I say always, for I was to see her often again, during a much later phase, the mid-most years of that Boston Museum which aimed at so vastly a distinction than the exploded lecture-room had really done, though in an age that snickered even abnormally low it still lacked the courage to call itself a theatre. She must have been in comedy, which I believe she also usefully and fearlessly practised, rather unimaginable; but there was no one like her in the Boston time for cursing queens and eagle-beaked mothers; the Shakespeare of the Booths and other such would have been unproducible without her; she had a rusty, rasping, heaving and tossing "authority" of which the bitterness is still in my ears.
Some think that Henry had been impressed by Emily's ample breastline when playing a mulatto woman in Barnum's version of Uncle Tom's Cabin in the early 1850s. In one notable scene, she dramatically fled across a river on ice fashioned from wood.
Many years later, when James saw an older and enfeebled Emily on a Boston street, he wrote that she was "the very image of mere sore histrionic habit and use, a worn and wear, a battered ... thing of the theatre, very much as an old infinitely-handled and greasy violincello of the orchestra might have been."
Another observer, Joseph Norton Ireland, writing in the 1866 book Records of the New York Stage, said that:
Miss Emily Mestayer possessed a form most symmetrically proportioned, features of rare loveliness, a complexion of dazzling fairness, a voice of mingled power and sweetness, and a willingness to assume any range of character, that rendered her at once one of the most useful and personally attractive actresses known to our Stage. With the ability to throw considerable feeling in certain serious characters, and a skill in vocalism that always pleased an uncultivated ear, Miss Mestayer long maintained a distinguished popularity with the frequenters of the minor theatres, and still commands their highest approbation. With a higher grade of auditors, she possessed powers of fascination not easily resisted, yet a sameness in her personations soon palled upon those who sought some diversity in the portrayal of an entirely opposite class of characters.
| A Selection of Emily Mestayer's Stage Venues and Characters |
New Bowery Theatre on Elizabeth Street, between New Canal and Hester Streets The Maid of Munster, Kate O'Brien, 1860 Boston Museum Doctor of Alcantara, Donna Lucrezia Paracelsus, April 7, 1862 Grover's Theatre, Washington, DC Warren Comedy Combination, Sept. 5, 1864 James W. Wallack's Theatre, Broadway and 13th Street, New York Dearer Than Life, Mrs. Garner, Sept. 23, 1868 Money, Lady Franklin, Dec. 28, 1868 Caste, Marquise de St. Maur, May 3, 1869 The School for Scandal, Mrs. Candour, Sept. 15, 1869 New Men and Old Acres, Lady Matilda Vavasour, 1870 The Lancers, Mme. d'Aplomb, May 9, 1870 |
Wallack's (continued) The Red Light, or the Signal of Danger, Mrs. Holmes, June 6, 1870 Minnie's Luck, or the Ups and Downs of City Life, Cleopatra, June 27, 1870 Fritz, Our Cousin German, Metzler, 1870 The Rivals, Mrs. Malaprop, 1870 and 1871 The Two Roses, Mrs. Jenkins, Oct. 10, 1870 Romance and Reality, Barbara, March 2, 1871 The Liar, Miss Godfrey, April 13, 1871 Randall's Thumb, Miss Spin, May 8, 1871 Rosedale, May 29, 1871, Tabitha Stork, May 29, 1871 Her last known performance at Hallack's was on Sept. 30, 1871, reprising the character of Mrs. Malaprop in The Rivals. Source: A History of the New York Stage, by T. Allston Brown, 1903. |
Her last appearance in New York was at the Union Square Theatre, Dec. 18, 1873, playing the baroness in Led Astray. Her final stage performance was at the California Theatre, San Francisco, Aug. 8, 1878, in Diplomacy.
Emily's final residence was with the Kline family at 45 Seventh Avenue in New York, who had provided lodgings for her over the span of 35 years. In September 1881 she went to see her son Charles in California and there caught a cold. Upon her return to New York in April 1882, her health plummeted. Suffering from congestive lung failure -- "dropsy" -- she died on April 25, 1882 in New York, surrounded by her son and two daughters-in-law. She was laid to rest in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery. Her grave is not marked.
In an obituary, a newspaper said that:
There are few theater-goers of the present generation who have not somewhere on this continent, seen at least one membeer of the family to which the following notice refers. The theatrical career of Emily Mestayer began in Boston, if we are not mistaken, where the family resided for many years, and where they all appeared at the old National Theatre, on Hay-Market Square, at different times... Emily Mestayer, the once favorite actress, died in New York one day last week, in her 68th year. She was of French descent, and her father was an actor of considerable repute. All through her theatrical career she reserved her maiden name, even after her marriage to Dr. Charles Houpt, a leading dentist in California, where he died some twenty years ago, leaving her with two sons and two daughters. Her prediliction for the stage seemed an inborn instinct, and at an early age she appeared behind the footlights... Miss Mestayer's versatility enabled her to assume a wide range of character. She was for years the leading actress at Barnum's Museum, New York. For two or three seasons she played at Wallack's and also at the Union Square Theatre, and for years was the principal actress at the Boston Museum. Her last appearance was about eight years ago in Led Astray.
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Elmhurst Cemetery - courtesy Lowell Pankake |
Son Dr. Charles Henry Houpt (1839-1894) was born on March 30, 1839. He entered into marriage with Harriet C. (1840-1892), an immigrant from England. They apparently did not reproduce. Charles was a physician, and the pair were in San Francisco circa 1880-1882. The federal census enumeration of 1880 shows the Houpts boarding in a San Francisco hotel kept by E.T. Stephenson. In December 1880, he was elected recording secretary of the Eclectic Medical Society of California at its annual meeting in the Palace Hotel. His mother is known to have spent the winter of 1881-1882 with them, only to catch a cold which led to her death back in New York. By 1883, the pair had relocated to St. Paul, MN where he continued to practice medicine in Brainerd. Sadly, Harriet passed away on July 2, 1892. A death notice in the St. Paul Globe said she was the "wife of Dr. C.H. Houpt of this city" and asked newspapers in Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington, DC to reprint the obituary. Charles survived his wife by two years. Death carried him away in Rochester, MN in 1894. The couple sleeps for the ages in St. Paul's Elmhurst Cemetery.
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William Mestayer - Wikimedia |
Theresa got her start at the age of 12 when singing in a Catholic church choir. It's said that the first stage role of importance was as a French maid, making "an instant hit," said the Boston Globe. She was fluent in German, French and Italian, with "a pure, rich and sweet contralto." Her first marriage, to Boston's Barney Hull, ended in divorce. One of her greatest performances was an old street ballad, "Annie Rooney," that she brought back to live in the German tongue.
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Finding his place with the California company, he remained until about 1878, starting as a subordinate and moving up to a "first low comedian," playing Mr. St. Paul in Baby. In about 1878, he went to San Francisco for a successful, 16-week role in E. Rice's Surprise Party. From that time on he regularly drew large audiences in gigs across the country. Among the hit shows in which he starred were Horrors by William Gill, Babes in the Woods by H.J. Byron, Robinson Crusoe and Revels. In 1879, he acted in a seven-week performance at New York's Union Square followed by a five-week engagement in Boston. He was extensively profiled in a July 27, 1879 Brooklyn Eagle article about the troupe in which he was performing under controversial manager John P. Smith. The story said that William "belongs to a family greatly celebrated as actors and actresses," and that his character, T. Henry Slum, was "a commercial traveler, the Train Guerilla, an old swell, with Mestayer's original song of 'Tum, Tum, Caper' and female impersonations... He is a large, finely built man, a capital burlesque actor and only needs a good character part to make a decided hit." William and Theresa traveled to London in 1890 where she was to sing under contract to D'Oyly Carte to sing in The Gondoliers at the Savoy Theater. He made news in the New York Times in 1895 when playing a part in Oliver Twist at the American Theatre with Elita Proctor Otis, Charles Barron and Katherine Dooling. William and Theresa maintained a home in New York and summered at Red Bank, NJ. Sadly, suffering from incurable kidney disease, William died in New York City on Nov. 21, 1896. Funeral services were conducted in the Little Church Around the Corner. One obituary appeared in the Red Bank Daily Register. Another, in the Harrisburg Telegraph, said that he:
...has made more people laugh than perhaps any other actor of this age... Some years ago, when Mestayer and his charming wife, Theresa Vaughn, were playing in this city, Mr. Mestayer remarked in the office of the Bolton House that he ought to be familiar with Harrisburg as he was born here and played in the vicinity of Second and Mulberry with the boys of the neighborhood. Mr. Mestayer was the author of the play of Tourists in a Pullman Car, the most original of all farce comedies, and which netted him a fortune. He was a remarkable character actor, ranking with Dixey in that respect, and his impromptu wit and the funny things he said in a play that were not in the text were simply inimitable. He was the inventor of more clever bits of slang than any man in the country. The expression "It's a cold day when I get left," which still has a vogue, was one of his inventions, and his contributions to picturesque and grotesque contortions of the American language were very large.
Theresa went to pieces after her husband's death. She tried to continue to act but, with her memory in decline, was unable to keep up with memorizing scripts and stage movements. She retired from the theatre in late 1899 and went to Chelsea, MA to live with her mother at 145 Cherry Street. Already deeply depressed, she received a further blow at the loss of her brother Joel Ott. Then in April 1901, at the age of 36, she was admitted to the Worcester Asylum for the Insane. In a related story the Boston Globe reported that:
The patient has not been violent at any time, and says she is only suffering from nervousness. She went to the institution willingly, and expects to return home improved in health before long. Her physicians, however, hold out little encouragement of her recovery. Her friends are not ready to believe that she will not be herself again. She has been melancholy, and has threatened to commit suicide. She was taken to the asylum last Thurday by officer Hutchinson of the Chelsea court... She had a prominent part in "1492" a few years ago, and was a favorite singer in light opera for a number of years.
The Pittsburgh Press also printed a story about her decline, saying she had:
...appeared in many notable productions, one of which was "The Grab Bag" at the Old Park theater (now the Herald square) New York, where she introduced her famous yodling song which was afterward introduced in Rice's "1492" and made the actress and piece famous. Probably the most widely known creation of Miss Vaughn's was her "Fiddle and I" song which was one of her earliest successes and many times she has rendered it as an encore after rendering songs of the day, while theater goers will remember with pleasure her rendition of the old song in German. Miss Vaugh's last starring tour, prior to her vaudeville debut, was under the management of Frank Connelly, the present business representative of the Grand Opera House, this city. About two years ago Miss Vaughn appeared with the Grand Opera House Stock company, essaying the leading roles in their productions, but was forced to quit on account of her mental collapse.
She stayed in the asylum for over two years and was considered to be a "mental wreck... incurably insane" and "fast failing," according to news reports published across the nation. Newspaper stories at the time said that after Mestayer's death, she had wed "Theodore Haupt" and that it was his death in 1898 that precipitated her decline. She succumbed to the spectre of death on Oct. 4, 1903. An obituary in the Fall River (MA) Globe said the cause of her death was "paresis" -- a loss of muscle control. It added that "If theatregoers who have poor memories for names will go back to the days when that light frivolity, '1492,' was a reigning attraction, they will probably remember a dark-haired girl who, with no other accompaniment than a mellow toned banjo, sang simple little ballads in a sweetly sympathetic contralto voice. That was Theresa Vaughn." She was pictured in an obituary in the Boston Globe, which noted that "Of the thousands who heard the ballad singing of Theresa Vaughn, probably not one in a hundred failed to appreciate her peculiar charm. She was the ballad singer without compare, within the limits of her chosen work. Brilliancy and technique in singing she left to others, for she had a more valuable attribute to the singer's art, the power to touch the hearts of her hearers with a direct appeal of her voice and manner to their tenderest sympathies."
She lies in eternal repose in an unmarked grave in Holy Cross Cemetery and Mausoleum in Malden, MA.
Today, Charles' name is included on an official California Historical Landmark plaque at 444 Bush Street in the Financial District, marking the site of the California Theatre, built 1869, demolished and rebuilt 1889, and ultimately destroyed in 1906 in the Great San Francisco Earthquake.
~ Son Gen. Herman Haupt - Lincoln's 'Railroad Man' ~
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| Above: At left, Herman inspects wreckage after the Second Battle of Fredericksburg, VA. Below: Herman overseeing construction of wartime excavations for the "Y" at Devereux Station along the Orange and Alexandria Railroad. Library of Congress. |
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Gen. Herman Haupt - Library of Congress |
In 1836, Herman first came to Gettysburg, PA to help identify a route for the Gettysburg Railroad across South Mountain and thence to Hagerstown, MD. He spent 10 years in the town, and took on additional duties as professor of mathematics and engineering at Pennsylvania College. He and Cecelia purchased a spacious home, named "Oakridge," and arranged for his brother Jacob to be hired onto the faculty of the local Oakridge Select Academy and his sister Mary to the teaching corps of the local Female Seminary.
Herman on Aug. 30, 1838 was united in matrimony with 17-year-old Ann "Cecelia" Keller ( ? -1891), daughter of his pastor Rev. Dr. Benjamin and Catharine Eliza (Craver/Schaeffer) Keller of Gettysburg, PA. At the time of the marriage, she was said by the Harrisburg Telegraph to be "the belle of Gettysburg. Her lovable disposition, constant cheerfulness and bright mind made her a great favorite in social circles, so that when [Herman] led her to the altar he was regarded as a most fortunate young man. She was then only 17, but together the happy couple started life and they traveled hand in hand..."
Together, the couple produced a brood of 11 children -- John Sterigere Haupt, Jacob Benjamin Haupt, Lewis Muhlenberg Haupt, Mary Cecelia Haupt, Ella Catherine Chapman, Adelaide Rosalind Haupt, Dr. Herman Haupt Jr., Charles Edgar Haupt, Frank Spangler Haupt, Alexander James Derbyshire Haupt and Grace Hermania Haupt.
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Herman at age 34 Courtesy Internet Archive |
Herman displayed an early aptitude for bridge design and construction based on the proper calculation of the strength of a trussed bridge. He deminstrated that he could create an iron arch counterbrace that would maintain upward stress in a force equal to heaviest of railroad loads.
From 1847 to 1861, he served as chief engineer and board director of the Pennsylvania Railroad. During that time he recognized an up-and-coming talent in Thomas Alexander Scott, promoting him to assistant superintendent. Scott later served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of War under President Lincoln and was named as president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Scott in turn mentored an immigrant teenage telegraph office boy Andrew Carnegie, and brought him into his private office as secretary/telegrapher. When Carnegie at age 17 met Herman for the first time, in 1853, the future steelmaker felt he was the "first 'great man' I ever knew."
For a time the Haupts resided in Harrisburg at Front and Locust Streets and also on Market Street. He was profiled in Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, which reads that in 1847, he
... became principal engineer of the Philadelphia and Columbia railroad, of which he was made superintendent in 1849. From 1856 till June, 1861, he was chief engineer of the Hoosac tunnel in Massachusetts. During the civil war he was aide to Gen. Irwin McDowell, with the rank of colonel, and chief of the bureau of U. S. military railways, in charge of construction and operation. In September, 1862, he declined the appointment of brigadier-general of volunteers. In 1875 he acted as general manager of the Piedmont air-line railway from Richmond, Va., to Atlanta, Ga. Since 1875 he has been chief engineer of the Tide-water pipe line company, and he has demonstrated the feasibility of transporting oil in pipes for long distances. He was also for several years general manager of the Northern Pacific railroad. Col. Haupt invented a drilling-engine, which took the highest prize of the Royal polytechnic society of Great Britain. He is the author of "Hints on Bridge Building " (1840); “General Theory of Bridge-Construction" (New York, 1852); "Plan for Improvement of the Ohio River" (1855); and "Military Bridges" (New York, 1864).
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| Above: Herman on his invention, a pontoon boat for scouting. Below: one of his bridges on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad line, the type of which Lincoln once said has "nothing in it but cornstalks and beanpoles." Library of Congress |
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The general's memoirs
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In the spring of 1857, he was engaged to complete construction of the Southern Vermont Railroad. He used his sons Jacob and Lewis on the project, and it was completed in early 1859.
The Haupts as a family relocated to Cambridge, MA in 1859 as the tunnel project was taking more and more of Herman's time. They rented a sizable, three-story, rambling frame house across the street from the home of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), widely popular for his works "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Song of Hiawatha" and "Evangeline," among others.
Herman gained fame during the Civil War as a railroad engineer and gained the nickname "Lincoln's railroad man" and "wonder worker" for an ability to reconstruct bridges over rivers and valleys in very short times so that railroads could safely cross. He was known for aggressively tearing down buildings and cutting trees if the wood could be used for bridge supports.
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Ward's biography
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After the Second Battle of Bull Run, in late August 1862, he was given the rank "brigadier general" for his remarkable use of the rails despite a Union loss. He used the title for the rest of his life. Among the learnings of that battle was that the "army made overwhelming demands on an ill-equipped single-tracked road," writes biographer James A. Ward. "Haupt was convinced that they could only be met by operating trains on a rigid schedule without the telegraph and absolutely free from the specious interference of military officers."
Herman was with Burnside during the disastrous Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862, watching the slaughter from the general's headquarters. He could not have known that at least 10 of his distant Younkin cousins from western Pennsylvania and beyond took part in that fight, with five wounded and injured.
Then as the Battle of Gettysburg loomed in late June 1863, Herman successfully predicted where the Confederate army under Robert E. Lee would select the site on which to fight. He also is known to have toured the battlefield days after the horrific bloodbath. He considered his greatest Civil War accomplishment his "interpretation of Lee's movements and his warnings of the concentration at Gettysburg," writes Ward.
But Herman's tenure with the military ended on Sept. 12, 1863. Refusing to sign his officer commission paperwork, not wanting to be locked into the formal rigid military structure, he was dismissed by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. He returned to Massachusetts during the war to try to salvage some of his lost investment in the Hoosac Tunnel project. He never returned to government service. His biographer Ward says that his chief wartime achievements were "his ability to create a workable organization, train it, then give it only general direction, allowing his subordinates leeway in method.. [He] proved the feasibility and the absolute necessity of rail transportation for highly mobile armies in the field."
Back in Massachusetts, Herman continued to face stonewalling in his attempts to be compensated for his tunnel work. In 1869, seeking other sources of income, he purchased a 108,000-acre tract in Giles County, VA, near Newport. The acreage included a hotel which he named the "Mountain Lake Hotel" and was where he installed his son Jacob to manage. But the son was inept as a business man, and the hotel ended up costing Herman thousands of dollars each year plus taxes.
He tried to bring his Massachusetts rail firm, the Troy and Greenfield Company, back to life. When it was reorganized, he named his son-in-law Frederick Chapman as clerk and treasurer and overall personal representative.
Herman ran out of patience and funds and in November 1872 used his connections with the Pennsylvania Railroad to be named to the management of Piedmont Air Line Railway, which commanded a salary. His mission to was to oversee completion of the rail line between Atlanta and Richmond, controlled by the Pennsy. He became dissatisfied with his role with the company and ended his term there the first of January 1876. He then was tapped by be chief engineer of the Producers Union to design and construct a 230-mile right of way from Butler, PA to Ann Arundel, MD. It became the world's very first long-distance pipeline carrying crude oil, creating a revolution in the industry that toppled the railroads' monopoly of the trade.
Then in 1881, he received another substantial opportunity as general manager of the Northern Pacific Railroad. The family relocated in April 1881 to St. Paul, MN, where the work was based. The line of 6,800 miles of main line and spurs ran from Wisconsin to Washington and Oregon and was completed in 1883. To mark the occasion, President Ulysses S. Grant hammered the final "golden spoke" on Sept. 8, 1883, in a ceremony attended by former President Chester A. Arthur, Civil War Gen. Philip Sheridan, Sioux warrior chief Sitting Bull, and President Lincoln's son Robert Todd Lincoln, among other VIPs. But the fallout was savage. Herman was heavily criticized by one of his senior partners for wasteful spending, and he duly resigned on Nov. 1, 1883.
Herman immediately accepted the presidency of the Dakota and Great Southern Railroad. The line ran from Grand Forks, ND in a southwesterly direction to Tower City, ND and thence southeast to Sioux City, IA. He left the position in June 1885, after about a year-and-a-half.
The Haupts marked their golden wedding anniversary in 1888 at their summer home at Spring Lake, Giles County, VA.
Recruited by Rev. Dr. J.G. Butler, they were influential donors to a legacy project, new Lutheran church erected at the corner of Maryland Avenue and Ninth Street Northeast in the District of Columbia.
Sadly, Cecelia died before the project could be completed. She passed away in April 1891, bringing to a close her and Herman's marital union of 53 years' duration. Burial was in Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery.
The church was was dedicated on Oct. 3, 1892, in memory of Cecelia's father and named "Keller Memorial Lutheran Church," located at 9th and Maryland Avenue, Northeast. The first pastor was Rev. Charles H. Butler. The church was pictured in a February 1922 edition of the Washington (DC) Herald along with the story of the Haupts' "splendid liberality."
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~ Brig. Gen. Herman Haupt's Military |
Assistant, Norristown and Valley Railroad, Pennsylvania, 1835. Principal Assistant, Pennsylvania State Works, Railroad Gettysburg to Potomac, 1836. On Construction of York and Wrightsville Railroad, Pennsylvania, 1840. Professor, Civil Engineering and Mathematics, Pennsylvania College, 1844-1847. Superintendent, Chief Engineer and Director, Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1847-1856. Chief Engineer, Southern Railroad, (Georgia-Mississippi), 1852-1853. Chief Engineer and Contractor, Troy and Greenfield Railroad and Hoosac Tunnel, 1856-1862. Director and Chief of Military Railroads, Rank of Brigadier General, 1862-1863. Chief Engineer, Shenandoah Valley Railroad, 1870. General Manager, Richmond and Danville Railroad, 1872-1876. Chief Engineer, Seaboard Pipe Line, (Pennsylvania-Maryland), 1876-1878. Consulting Engineer, Hydrogen Company of New York, 1880-1881. General Manager of Northern Pacific Railroad, 1881-1885. President, Dakota and Great Southern Railroad, 1884. President, General Compressed Air and Power Company, 1892. President, National Nutrient Company, 1899-1905. |
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Source: Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt/Google Books |
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Herman at age 84 Courtesy Internet Archive |
Herman outlived his bride by 14 years. He was the author of Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt, 1901, largely a recounting of his wartime experience based on his extensive collection of memories and military telegrams. During that time he made his home with his daughter M. Cecelia Haupt in the Concord Apartments in Washington, DC and endured heart disease. He suffered the untimely death of son Jacob Benjamin Haupt in 1903.
Sadly, while riding in a Pullman car on the Pennsylvania Railroad on Dec. 14, 1905, en route to his home in Washington, he was stricken at Jersey City. Word was telegraphed to his son Lewis in Philadelphia to meet him and take him home. Reported the Philadelphia Inquirer, "Speeding across the meadows to the Newark Station on the 8.29 train, the General sank back and very gently passed away. But a few minutes before he told Conductor Buckley he did not want to die on the train." He surrendered to the angel of death in his son's arms.
The remains were brought to Philadelphia for funeral services in the home of his son Lewis and possibly also at St. Stephen's Evangelical Lutheran Church at 40th Street and Powelton Avenue. The Inquirer said in an obituary that "Up to the time of his death the General was the oldest living graduate of the [U.S. Military] academy." Interment was beside his wife at Laurel Hill Cemetery.
Circa 1970, their granddaughter Susan (Haupt) Adamson cooperated with Dr. James A. Ward of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga who was writing a biography about Herman. Said the Gettysburg Times, "The bases for Ward's research are the approximately 9,000 personal papers of Haupt held in the archives of Yale University's library and a series of interviews with Haupt's granddaughter, an active octogenarian, who lives in Washington, DC. The granddaughter, Mrs. Susan Haupt Adamson, in her collection of Haupt's memorabilia has numerous photographs, scrapbooks and letters sent to her grandfather by such famous men as William Jennings Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie, and Booker T. Washington..."
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~ Brig. Gen. Herman Haupt's Publications ~ |
Hints on Bridge Construction, 1841. General Theory of Bridge Construction, 1846. Report on General Systems and Policy for the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1849. Plans for the Improvement of the Ohio River, 1855. Numerous Reports on Railroad Economics and State Tax. Military Bridges and Expedients for passing obstacles, 1864. Tunnelling by Machinery, 1867. Hydraulic and Mechanical Principles of Pipe Lines, 1876. Compressed Air and Street Railway Motors. 1879. The Holly System of Steam Heating, 1879. Plans for the Radical Improvement of the Ohio, 1880. Long Distance Transmission of Power, 1895. Compressed Air for Suburban Traction, Etc., 1897. Numerous reports on food products and processes, with balanced rations for Army and Navy services and for domestic and hospital uses, etc., 1899-1905. Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt, 1901. Numerous fiscal, scientific, economic and social publications for improving the conditions of the working classes. |
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Source: Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt/Google Books |
Son Jacob Benjamin Haupt (1842-1904) was born on April 20, 1842 in Gettysburg, PA. He was baptized in infancy 15 days later on May 5, 1842 in St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church of town. He was trained in his father's profession as a civil engineer and in the spring of 1857, with his father and brother Lewis, began a project to complete construction of the Southern Vermont Railroad. The work was finished in early 1859. Then in 1863, his father opened a machine shop in Philadelphia and installed Jacob as manager, including a contract to build a new type of rock-boring drill to be put into use at the father's Hoosac Tunnel project in Massachusetts. On Nov. 8, 1866, Jacob tied the knot with Mary Elizabeth Ziegler (May 18, 1846-1911), a native Philadelphian and the daughter of Charles and Catharine A. Ziegler. Four known children of this union were Charles Herman Haupt, Edward Haupt, Catharine "Katie" Sturdevant and Anna Cecelia Haupt. Unfortunately, the Philadelphia machine shop failed in the fall of 1868. The father again invested in Jacob's career in manufacturing "spiral furnaces" which also went belly up. James A. Ward, the biographer of Jacob's father, says Jacob was an "inept manager." Federal census records for 1870 and 1880 show the Haupts in Philadelphia, on 32nd Street, with Jacob engaged as a civil engineer. At some point the family relocated to Virginia, where Jacob's father owned a 108,000 acre mountain hotel resort called "Mountain Lake Hotel." Jacob ill-advisedly purchased a large quantity of oysters and threw them into a creek where they all disintegrated and rotted, leading to a large financial loss. The father then had him plant watermelons. In all, the father lost $10,000 in helping Jacob make a go of life and business. Jacob in his final years was plagued with what doctors called "acute mania" and "alcoholism" and in 1902 was admitted to the Western State Hospital. There, he died at the age of 62 on Oct. 13, 1904. The cause of death was ruled "paresis" -- a softening of the muscles. Interment was believed to have been made in the hospital's burying ground. No newspaper obituary has been found. Mary survived for another seven years, making her home at Fairview, NJ. She passed away at the age of 65, on July 31, 1911. Services were conducted in her home in Fairview and in Christ P.E. Church in town, with burial in Monument Cemetery in Beverly, NJ. A death notice in the Philadelphia Inquirer instructed mourners that "Carriages will meet the 12.10 train from Market St. Wharf, Philadelphia, at Riverside, N.J."
- Grandson Charles Herman Haupt (1867-1937), perhaps also using a middle name of "Ziegler," was born on Aug. 13, 1867 in Philadelphia. He was an alumnus of the Towne Scientific School at the University of Pennsylvania. Charles exchanged marital vows with Florence Carruthers Harkness (1870-1860). Three known children in their brood were Charles Harkness Haupt, Norris W. Harkness Haupt and Marjorie Apthorp Studerford. Charles for many years assisted his uncle Lewis Muhlenberg Haupt on the faculty of the Towne School. At the birth of their son Charles in 1898, the Haupts were in Cleveland, OH. Then in 1900, he was hired by the Atlantic Refining Company and rose to become chief engineer of the Standard Oil Development Company, a subsidiary of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. He is known to have assisted in the construction of Standard Oil's large Bayway Refinery. They made a home in Washington, DC in 1919 and later in Elizabeth, NJ at the address of 777 Salem Avenue. Charles retired in 1933 when the company mandated retirement at age 62. For the last 25 summers of their lives, the Haupts vacationed in Portland, ME. He served as chairman of the board of trustees of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, chairman of a fire prevention committee of the American Petroleum Institute and held memberships in the Suburban Golf League and Military Order of the Foreign Legion. Reported the Portland (ME) Press Herald, "He was also interested in art. He did some sketching himself and attended many art exhibits in New York and Philadelphia. He read much, although his subjects were mainly technical writings." Sadly, Charles died at home on April 10, 1937. His obituary in the Philadelphia Inquirer said that funeral rites would be held in the family church in Elizabeth followed by burial in Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery.
Great-grandson Charles Harkness Haupt (1898-1960) was born on July 26, 1898 in Cleveland, OH. He was 6 feet in height, weighed 175 lbs., and had black hair and eyes with olive skin and a noticeable droop in his eyelids. Charles was said to be "very popular in Washington [DC] society" and in May 1919 moved to Havana, Cuba in his employment with the West India Oil Company. On April 25, 1919, he entered into marriage with Josephine Cox ( ? - ? ), granddaughter of W.P. Richner of Champaign, IL, and reputedly a Ziegfeld Follies showgirl. Their nuptials were in Stanford, CT. By 1923, he was wed to Henrietta Swan ( ? - ? ), daughter of Edward St. Clair Swan, a coffee broker on the Pacific Coast. Together, the pair bore a son, Charles Harkness Haupt Jr. The Haupts lived in New York, but their union was troubled, and in March 1925 they separated, with her charging him with "mental cruelty" and for whipping their teething baby when crying. Their young son was sent to the home of his grandparents in Los Angeles, Frank S. Swan. Charles Sr. wished to prevent a divorce so in May 1925 roughly entered the Swan residence at 5251 Sunset Boulevard, "grabbed his 2-year-old son who was playing on the floor and fled from the house, flinging a parting warning to Mrs. Swan that it will be a 'long time before you see him again'," reported the Los Angeles Times. After an extensive manhunt, police called off the search. Former wife Henrietta married again to Reg V. Cayce and lived in California and New Rochelle, NY. Then on June 9, 1932, Charles was joined in wedlock with Dorothy Reed Snow (1906-1995), with the wedding held in Los Angeles. The newlyweds first lived in Glendale, CA. One daughter of this coupling was Charlene Harkness Mitchell. During World War II, their son Charles joined the U.S. Navy and trained as a radioman and was deployed overseas, flying combat missions over the Bay of Biscay. Their world was plunged into grief when, on Oct. 15, 1944, his airplane crashed and exploded in North African waters, with no survivors. Charles Sr. spent the majority of his career as a sales engineer for Rockwell Corporation in New York City. Having moved to Bennington, VT in late 1959, he passed away there at age 61 on Jan. 18, 1960. Funeral rites were conducted in the Dorset Congregational Church, by the hand of Rev. William Chace. Burial was in Maple Hill Cemetery in Dorset, VT. The Bennington Evening Banner produced an obituary. Daughter Charlene married Jack Mitchell III and in 1960 they were in Tallahassee, FL.
Great-grandson Norris W. Harkness Haupt ( ? - ? ) was born on (?). He appears to have been married twice, first in Sept. 1931 to Elizabeth Eldridge Gardiner ( ? - ? ), daughter of Edgar Stanley Gardiner of St. Davids, PA. As of 1933, the Haupts dwelled in Bluefield, WV and in 1934 in Lewisburg, WV. They transferred to New York in March 1935. His second spouse was Elinor Meyer ( ? - ? ), daughter of Hans J. and Maria Louisa (Ziques) Meyer of Summit, NJ. One known daughter in this family was Charlene Harkness Mitchell. During the 1950s, the Haupts dwelled in Summit and Elizabeth, NJ and in 1963 in West Nyack, NY. Daughter Charlene was employed with the Rockefeller Foundation in New York in 1959, and her husband Jacques A. Mitchell III ( ? -1991) by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). Jacques went on to become chairman and president of Houlihan Lawrence Inc., a real estate firm in Westchester and Putnam, NY. Their children were Jacques A. Mitchell IV and Rebecca McLeod.
Great-granddaughter Marjorie Haupt ( ? - ? ) was born on (?). She was an alumna of Dana Hall and furthered her studies in Paris. On June 23, 1928, she wed Harrison O. Apthorp ( ? - ? ), son of Harrison Apthorp. Harrison was a graduate of Harvard College and World War I Navy veteran who became a prominent real estate broker. They had met in Bermuda and were married a year later at her uncle's home in Elizabeth, NJ. The pair did not reproduce and were considered a prominent couple of Boston and Milton, MA. Marjorie was active with the Junior League. Their marriage was troubled, and she filed for divorce. In her complaint, she claimed he stayed away nights, drank heavily, was rude in his speech in front of others and was physically abusive, leaving her "very nervous and was taken sick," said the Boston Globe. The divorce was granted in Probate Court in Dedham, MA in 1936. Later, by 1960, she was the wife of Andrew Studeford ( ? - ? ). The couple's home in 1960 was in Chappaqua, NY.
- Grandson Edward Haupt (1869-1947) was born on March 24, 1869 in Philadelphia. In 1894, at the age of about 25, he wed Charlotte "Maud" Wistar (Sept. 22, 1869-1943), originally from Baltimore. They were the parents of Caspar Wister Haupt. As of 1937, their residence was in Chicago, and in 1943 in the Windy City's North Shore Hotel. Sadly, Maud surrendered to the angel of death in Evanston at age 73 on Sept. 3, 1943. An obituary in the Chicago Tribune said she "was a descendant of the Wistar family which established the glass industry in the United States at Salem, N.J." Edward passed away in Evanston, IL at the age of 77 on Feb. 6, 1947. Burial was in Monument Cemetery in Beverly, NJ.
Great-grandson Caspar Wister Haupt Sr. (1895-1965) was born on July 25, 1895 in Phoenixville, Chester County, PA. He served in both World War I and World War II, and bore the rank of major in 1943. Having pursued the profession of civil engineer, he was named chief of the price adjustment branch of the Ohio River Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during the war. On Nov. 18, 1929, in Roanoke, VA, he entered into marriage with Josephine Park Wentworth ( ? - ? ). The couple bore three children -- Martha Carter, Caspar Wister Haupt Jr. and Dr. Edward C. Haupt. Their longtime dwelling-place was in Chicago. There, he was president of Strobel Construction Company. Caspar was accepted into the Sons of the American Revolution on the service of his mother's ancestor Hartman Deitsh/Deutsch (1750-1815). In about May 1964, he relocated from Chicago to St. Joseph, MI, where he joined St. Paul's Episcopal Church. He made his home in St. Joseph at 1418 Lake Boulevard. Sadly, having been hospitalized at Mercy Hospital, he died at age 70 on Oct. 29, 1965. An obituary appeared in the St. Joseph Herald-Press. Funeral services were held at St. Paul's. As of 1965, daughter Martha was married to Harold Carter and lived in Chagrin Falls, OH -- son Caspar Jr. was in Montreal, Canada -- and son Edward in Benton Harbor, MI.
- Granddaughter Katherine "Katie" Haupt (1876-1967) was born on Oct. 23, 1876. She married Charles Sturdevant Jr. (Oct. 30, 1868-1943), son of Charles and Sarah (Stewart) Sturdevant. They put down roots in Philadelphia. Their final address was in Cobb Creek Nursing Home at 2747 South Muhlfeld Street in Southwest Philadelphia. Sadly, at the age of 75, Charles was stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage and respiratory failure and passed away in Philadelphia on Nov. 4, 1943. Interment was in West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd. Katharine lived on for another 24 years. She suffered from diabetes and a duodenal ulcer and, after it ruptured and peritonitis set in, she died on June 12, 1967. In the Philadelphia Inquirer, the family asked that any memorial gifts be made to St. Mary's Hall Scholarship in Burlington, NJ. Linton H. Studdiford was the informant for her official Pennsylvania certificate of death.
- Granddaughter Anna Cecelia "Anne" Haupt (1879-1961) was born in 1879. Evidence suggests that she was joined in wedlock with Alexander D. Robb (Oct. 4, 1878-1936), a native of Kimberton, PA. Two sons they bore together were Alexander D. Robb Jr. and Edward H. Robb. Alex was a graduate of Phoenixville High School followed by Lehigh University. He spent 33 years of employment in the field of electric power and light, joining the Canadian Niagra Power Company, Ltd. in 1903 as a mechanical inspector. Then in 1906, he was promoted to assistant superintendent and then in 1918 as superintendent of the company's Niagara plant. Continuing his career ascent, he was tapped to be assistant to the president in 1921 and after four years given the title of vice president. then in 1933, in the grip of the Great Depression, he was elevated VP and general manager of Buffalo, Niagara & Eastern Power Corporation. At the height of his working years, he also was president and director of Niagara, Lockport & Ontario Power Company, Canadian Niagara Power Company, Niagara Electric Service Corporation, Niagara Junction Railway and as VP and director of Niagra Falls Power Company, Buffalo General Electric Company and Tonawanda Power Company. He held memberships in the Buffalo Athletic Club, Buffalo Launch Club, Lotus Club of New York City and Niagara Club of Niagara Falls. The marriage is believed to have ended in divorce, with him marrying again to Marjory Hill ( ? - ? ). Anne Cecelia's homeplace for decades was in Buffalo, NY and then at 255 West Girard Boulevard in Kenmore, NY. She died on May 26, 1961. Her obituary appeared in the Buffalo Courier Express. Her funeral was conducted in the Episcopal Church of the Advent. Former husband Alex passed away in Niagara Falls Memorial Hospital at the age of 58 on Oct. 27, 1936. His funeral services were held at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, by the hands of his pastor, Rev. Charles N. Tyndell and Rev. Philip W. Mosher.
Great-grandson Alexander D. Robb Jr. ( ? -1973) was born on (?). He is believed to have been a veteran of World War II. Alexander wed Anne Marie Mueller ( ? - ? ). Death cleaved him away on Dec. 27, 1973.
Great-grandson Edward H. Robb ( ? -1996) was born on (?). He was united in matrimony with Annemarie M. ( ? - ? ). The two sons in this family were John Edward Robb and Alexander Frederick Robb. The Robbs made their homeplace in Kenmore, NY. Edward founded a number of businesses over the years, including Bisonite Paint Comopany in 1943. In time he launched and served as chairman of the board of Metal Cladding Inc. of Lockport, NY. He held memberships in the Niagara Falls Country Club, the Buffalo Club and Grand Island Rod and Gun Club. Sadly, Edward died five days before Christmas 1996. His obituary was published in the Buffalo News. A funeral service swas held at St. John's-Grace Episcopal Church in Buffalo. Son John settled in Durango, CO and son Alexander in Lockport.
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| Lewis M. Haupt, back row, left, surveyor's rodman on the Hoosac Tunnel construction in 1860-1861, working with, others, back row, L-R: Henry Harley and Cal Stephenson (state engineer). Front, L-R: William Robins/Robinson, Russel Sageur (level), Fred Rice, Sayles (chainman). Courtesy Google Books |
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Lewis M. Haupt - Google Books |
On June 26, 1873, at about age 29, he married Isabella Christina "Belle" Cromwell (1852-1912). Five offspring they bore together were Lewis H. Haupt, Bessie M. Haupt, Florence Urner, Susan Adamson and Mrs. A. Lodge Oliver. In sending out wedding cards, they included the editor of the newspaper in Austin, TX where he once had been stationed under the command of Gen. Canby. Lewis became employed by the University of Pennsylvania as a professor of civil engineering and authored many related textbooks. His profile in Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography states that Lewis:
...was educated at the Lawrence scientific school of Harvard, and at the U. S. military academy, where he was graduated in 1867. He was lieutenant of engineers in the lake surveys in 1868, and in 1869 engineer officer of the 5th military district, Texas. He resigned in August of that year, and was appointed engineer of Fairmount park, Philadelphia. In April, 1872, he became assistant examiner in the U. S. patent-office, and in September of that year he was chosen assistant professor of civil and mechanical engineering in the University of Pennsylvania, and soon thereafter professor of civil engineering, which chair he still (1887) fills. Prof. Haupt, in April, 1886, patented an automatic system for improving rivers and harbors, and of maintaining channels by an adjustable deflecting shield, suspended by buoys, floats, or barges. He is editor of the "American Engineering Register," and has published Engineering Specifications and Contracts (Philadelphia, 1878); "Working Drawings, and How to Make and Use Them" (Philadelphia, 1881); and "The Topographer-his Methods and Instruments" (Philadelphia, 1884).
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This website's founder, Hoosac Tunnel Courtesy the late William J. Boyd Jr. |
Professor Haupt's boyhood was spent in an atmosphere of science and engineering. He attended the Philadelphia public schools for a short time, and later the famous old Germantown Academy came in for a share of his educational training. Owing to his delicate health, out-of-door exercise was recommended for him in place of the schoolroom. At the age of fourteen his father removed to Massachusetts to survey and construct the Hoosac Tunnel Line, from Troy to Greenfield, and it was on this work that Professor Haupt began his practical experience as level rodman. During the severest winter weather his time was spent at the Greenfield and Cambridge High Schools, and later at the Lawrence Scientific School, where he began a course of studies preparatory to entering the University of Pennsylvania. After a short and special course at the latter institution he was appointed by President Lincoln to the cadetship at West Point, in the fall of 1863. Four years later Professor Haupt was graduated and immediately assigned to duty in the United States Corps of Engineers. His first work in the service was with a party then conducting the triangulation of Lake Superior. In February, 1869, he was transferred to the Mexican border to act as aid on the staff of Gen. E. R. S. Canby and his successor, General Reynolds. He resigned that position in September of the same year, and it was here the formative period may be said to have terminated and the application to the problems of civil life to have begun. He next accepted a position as Assistant Engineer and Topographer in charge of the survey of Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. He was engaged in this work for several years, collating the data for an elaborate contour map, and locating and constructing the drives, drains and other engineering features of this peerless pleasure-ground. In 1872 he again entered the public service, being appointed to the post of Assistant Examiner, United States Patent Office, Department of Engineering. He resigned his position in a few months, however, in order to accept the Professorship of Civil Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, and for twenty years he discharged the duties incident to that position with the same fidelity and ability that had always characterized his work. Up to the time of his joining that great institution of learning, his life had been spent in gaining experience. The position offered to him such opportunities that he could make good use of it, both as a student and as an instructor. His long summer vacations were spent in practical engineering work. He held the appointments of Engineer on the Fourth Lighthouse District in charge of surveys for range lights in the Delaware River, and Assistant in the United States Coast and Geodetic Surveys, being in charge of the geodesy of Pennsylvania. He was one of the Commissioners in the Lake Erie and Ohio River ship canal. He was also the Associate Judge to report on the transportation features of the Paris Exposition. While connected with the coast survey he made a critical examination of all the old maps and harbors with a view to noting the changes of channels and bars. This study resulted in the discovery of a law which governed the formation of ocean bars and led to suggestions for their prevention and removal and for the improvement of harbors. His discoveries in physical hydrography and his invention of a system of harbor improvements were esteemed of such moment that the American Philosophical Society awarded him the Gold Medal of the Magellanic Premium, an honor so rare that only twice in a century has any paper been submitted that has been considered worthy of it. Professor Haupt's interest in waterways and water transportation became so absorbing that, in 1893, he resigned from the University in order to devote all his time to the subject. He was the first President of the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia, and is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Philosophical Society, Franklin Institute, the Geographical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Consulting Engineer for the Trades League of Philadelphia, and Chairman of the Colombia-Cauca Arbitration Committee, selected by the State Department to settle the dispute as to the amount of indemnity between the contending parties. In July, 1897, he was appointed by the President one of the three members of the Nicaragua Canal Commission, to determine a proper route and the feasibility and cost of this important commercial highway for all nations. He is the author of many books, publications, serials and contributions to the scientific literature of the day.
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| Nicaragua Canal Commission building on the right in this image from Greytown, Nicaragua, 1900 - courtesy Library of Congress |
During his time in Nicaragua, his nephew Thomas Jefferson Haupt Archambault was chief engineer and also served as a member of the Nicaragua Canal Commission. Many years later, in 1949, Archambault's sister Anna "Margaretta" Archambault donated a set of 23 photographs, some damaged and faded, to the Library of Congress depicting the Commission's work in Nicaragua. Additional of his books were A Move for Better Roads (1891) and The Transportation Crisis (1907). Lewis also was interested in his Haupt genealogy. In 1925, he arranged for an entry in the book The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy by Frederick Adams Virkus. The note shows his lineage from 1738 immigrant Sebastian Haupt to their son Johann Henry married to Catharine Younken. He died in Bala Cynwyd at the age of 92 on March 10, 1937.
- Grandson Lewis Herman Haupt Sr. (1889-1956) was born in 1889 in Philadelphia. He was a 1909 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, receiving a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering. He then taught at his alma mater for two years. Lewis tied the marital cord with Margaret Sweeney ( ? -1979). Their brood of six offspring included Marjorie Lucas, Jane Keogh, twins John Edward and Lewis Herman Haupt Jr., Thomas F. Haupt and Isabelle M. Haupt. Sadly, twin son John died in infancy. At one time Lewis Sr. was employed in Palmerton, PA by the New Jersey Zinc Company. He went on to be a longtime project engineer with the design division of DuPont Company in Wilmington, DE. His memberships included Phi Delta Theta, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, DuPont Country Club, University Club and University of Pennsylvania Alumni Club. In about 1929, they relocated to Hillcrest and settled at 313 Springhill Avenue. The Haupts attended the Calvary Episcopal Church. After an illness of six years' duration, he passed away at home at the age of 66 on Feb. 24, 1956. Services were led by Rev. John W. Haynes in Calvary Episcopal Church in Hillcrest, with an obituary printed in the Wilmington Morning News. The family asked that any memorial gifts be made to the Delaware Heart Association. Margaret lived for another 23 years, with her final home at 1 Mahaffy Drive, Ridgewood near Wilmington. She died on May 28, 1979 at the age of 80. Her mass of Christian burial was conducted in St. Helena Roman Catholic Church in Bellefonte, with burial in the cathedral cemetery.
Great-granddaughter Marjorie Haupt ( ? -2004) was born on (?). She wed Edwin K. Lucas ( ? - ? ). Two daughters they produced together were Margaret LaBate and Mary Anne Anderson. Marjorie was in New Rochelle, NY in 1956 and in Larchmont, NY in 1997. She died at the age of 85 on Feb. 2, 2004. Her memorial mass was sung at St. Helena's Catholic Church in Bellefonte, DE.
Great-granddaughter Jane Margaret Haupt ( ? -1980) was born on (?). She married Grenville T. Keogh Jr. ( ? - ? ). They put down roots in Larchmont, NY, and later in Greenwich, CT. The known offspring of this union were Mary Breneman, Marian Northrop, Anthony Keogh, Timothy Keogh and Grenville T. Keogh III. Grief cascaded over the family at Jane Margaret's passing on Nov. 12, 1980. An obituary was printed in the New Rochelle Standard-Star. Her mass of Christian burial was held in Sts. John and Paul Church, Larchmont, with interment in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. Son Timothy, a master's degree graduate of the University of Chicago, was employed by IBM and wed Janet Avitabile in 1999 in New Rochelle, NY.
Great-grandson Lewis Herman Haupt Jr. ( ? -1997) was born in Palmerton, PA. He served in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, appointed in 1944 as a flight officer. In 1945, he was united in matrimony with Ann ( ? - ? ). Their union held firm over the ebbs and flows of a remarkable 52 years together. Their trio of sons were Lewis Herman Haupt III, James Steven Haupt and Jon Christopher Haupt. Lewis earned a degree from the University of Delaware. By 1948, the Haupts relocated to St. Louis, where they lived in the Crestwood and Des Peres communities. He was employed there in sales for the Amalgamated Leather Company for 16 years and the joined another leather business. In 1957, he helped found the Crestwood Khoury League, a baseball league of which he also served as inaugural president. Said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "His 22-year commitment to the sports program led to its success for thousands of children... He was a ranger for seven years at the Greenbriar Hills Country Club." Then in 1988, they pulled up stakes and moved to Clearwater, FL. Lewis Jr. died at the age of 72, in Columbia Largo Medical Center, on Sept. 29, 1997. The Tampa Bay Times ran an obituary.
Great-grandson Thomas Franklin "Ted" Haupt (1929-2013) was born on May 15, 1929 in Wilmington, DE. He was an alumnus of Archmere Academy and Loyola College of Maryland, while Judy was a graduate of Ursuline Academy and Milford Memorial Hospital School of Nursing who attended the University of Delaware. He went on to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean War, attaining the rank of lieutenant. He then earned a master's degree in Spanish from Middlebury College in Vermont, and spent a 35-year professional career teaching Spanish at Towson University in Maryland. He took additional courses at the University of Madrid and the University of MExico. On Aug. 14, 1965, Thomas wed Judy (Lyons) Johnson ( ? - ? ), daughter of Desmond A. Lyons and the widow of James. H. Johnson Jr. The nuptials were held in St. Helena's Church, led by Rev. Justin E. Diny of the Archmere Academy and Rev. Rudolph C. Miller. Four children in this family were Susan Haupt, Isabelle Brooks, Ann Louise Buttion and Scott Johnson. In his free time, he studied history and the Civil War and for five seasons was a guide at the Gettysburg Battlefield Park. Said a newspaper, "His passon for history and teaching led him to lecture on the Civil War and the Irish Troubles." They also were devout Catholics and members of St. Francis by the Sea Catholic Church, where he was a longtime usher. After retirement, the couple moved to Hilton Head, SC. There, he joned the Country Club of Hilton Head and was active playing golf, bridge, chess and dancing. He totaled seven holes-in-one in his golf career. The pair transferred their church membership to St. Gregory the Great after a 2008 move to Hardeeville, SC, with him volunteering his time to make weekly nursing home visits. Sadly, he died on Sept. 21, 2013, with his photograph accompanying his obituary in the Hilton Head (SC) Island Packet.
Great-granddaughter Isabelle Marie Haupt was an alumna of Ursuline Academy in Wilmington, DE and Immaculate College of Philadelphia. That summer, On Aug. 25, 1956, she tied the marital cord with Thomas Francis Lyden Jr. ( ? - ? ), son of Thomas Francis Lyden Sr. of Pelham Manor in White Plains, NY. The wedding was held in Wilmington, DE at St. Joseph's on the Brandywine, with Rev. Henry Dreyer officiating. Isabelle was pictured in a wedding announcement in the Mount Vernon (NY) Argus, which said she "wore a white swiss organdy gown with short train and long torso. The bodice of Italian lace matched lace insets on the skirt. White organdy petals surrounded her crown and she carried white gardenias stephanotis on a white prayer book." At the time, Isabelle was preparing to teach third grade that fall in the George M. Davis Elementary School of New Rochelle. Thomas was a graduate of Mount St. Michael Academy in the Bronx and a two-year military veteran who was employed by George H. Fennell and Company, Inc., with his own plans to attend Fordham University. Later, she was joined in wedlock with (?) Dudley ( ? - ? ). As of 1997, Isabelle dwelled in Westchester, PA.
- Granddaughter Bessie May Haupt (1879-1966) was born on Sept. 5, 1879. She never married and devoted her life to teaching piano. Her residence was at 238 Belmont Avenue in Bala Cynwyd, PA, and she had a cottage known as "Fagwood." With her health in decline, she was admitted to the Mary J. Drexel Home in nearby Lower Merion Township. At the age of 86, burdened with hardening of the arteries, she suffered a heart attack and succumbed to the spectre of death on May 11, 1966. The funeral was held at the Home, with a brief death notice appearing in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Her remains lie in eternal repose in West Laurel Hill Cemetery.
- Granddaughter Florence B. Haupt (1883-1957) was born in 1883. She wed Dr. Martin Harley Urner (Oct. 7, 1879-1963), son of Henry Clay and Maria (Harley) Urner of Cincinnati, OH. Two known daughters were Isabella Webster and Elizabeth Hufnal. Martin was a World War I veteran, having held the rank of major in the Air Force Medical Corps. The pair first lived in Cincinnati, where for 35 years he specialized in eye, ear, nose and throat care. He was president of the Advent Canoe Club and Walnut Hills YMCA and senior warden of the Church of the Advent. He also helped found the Murphy Memorial Clinic. Then in 1939, they retired and moved to Charlottesville, VA, making a dwelling-place in the early 1950s on Blue Ridge Road. Florence is known to have been a member of the Huguenot Society of Pennsylvania and Historical Society of Pennsylvania. She also enjoyed visiting gardens in Newtown, PA and Wilmington, DC. Martin served on the World War II draft board in Charlottesville, giving of his time as senior warden and vestryman of Christ Episcopal Church. He also held memberships in the Farmington County Club, English Speaking Club and Colonade Club. Sadly, at the age of 74, Florence died in a Charlottesville hospital on Dec. 8, 1957. An obituary was published in the Charlottesville Daily Progress and the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Funeral rites were conducted at Christ Church, Charlottesville, with the body transported to Bala Cynwyd to sleep for the ages in West Laurel Hill Cemetery. Martin survived her by six years with an address of 1613 Kenwood Lane. He died at age 83 on March 19, 1963. The Times-Dispatch ran an obituary.
Great-granddaughter Isabella Urner wed J. Gordon Webster. As of 1957, she was at Fort Eustis and in 1963 in Charlottesville.
Great-granddaughter Elizabeth Ursner studied at Centenary Junior College in Hackettstown, NJ in 1951. She married David H. Hufnal and dwelled in Devon, PA in 1957-1963.
- Granddaughter Susan Haupt (1885-1974) was born on April 26, 1885. On June 7, 1914, she tied the marital cord with Col. Keith Frazee Adamson (March 23, 1884-1979), son of Dr. H.K. Adamson. They exchanged their vows at the Church of the Holy Communion at Chestnut Street near 22nd Avenue. Keith was a 1905 graduate of the State College in Lexington, KY, obtaining his degree in mechanical engineering. He went on to a long career in the U.S. Army. The couple's dwelling-place in 1951-1956 was in Warrenton, VA and in 1970 in Washington, DC. Circa 1970, she cooperated with Dr. James A. Ward of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga who was writing a biography of her famed grandfather Gen. Herman Haupt, eventually entitled That Man Haupt. Said the Gettysburg Times, "The bases for Ward's research are the approximately 9,000 personal papers of Haupt held in the archives of Yale University's library and a series of interviews with Haupt's granddaughter, an active octogenarian, who lives in Washington, DC. The granddaughter, Mrs. Susan Haupt Adamson, in her collection of Haupt's memorabilia has numerous photographs, scrapbooks and letters sent to her grandfather by such famous men as William Jennings Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie, and Booker T. Washington... Mrs. Adamson's apartment house neighbor, until she died recently at the age of 91, was the daughter of General Philip Sheridan, the famed Union general." Sadly, Susan passed away on July 28, 1974. At the age of 94, Keith died on Jan. 20, 1979. Burial was in the hallowed soil of Arlington National Cemetery.
- Granddaughter Edna Haupt (1887-1968) was born on Aug. 28, 1887 in Philadelphia. She married Alfred "Lodge" Oliver (June 12, 1886-1945), a native Philadelphian whose parents were English immigrant Alfred Oliver and his American wife Elizabeth R. Lodge. The pair's only child was Anne MacCaughern. Lodge was engaged as a candy maker in the confectionary business over the years. They shared a home in Bala Cynwyd at 435 State Road. Edna was an active volunteer with the American Red Cross and in October 1935 was pictured in the Philadelphia Inquirer for her work with colleague Jean Crego to pack and ship hundreds of braille books to blind children across the nation. With his health plummeting due to hardening of the arteries, Lodge was admitted in 1943 to the Veterans Administration Hospital in Caln, Chester County and stayed for the remaining nearly 20 months of life. There, at the age of 60, he died on March 27, 1945. The remains were lowered under the sod of West Laurel Hill Cemetery. The widowed Edna outlived her husband by 23 years. Sadly, she contracted multiple sclerosis circa 1948 and endured the disease for the rest of her life. During that era she lived in Wayne, PA in 1951 and later in St. David's Park Apartments. Her final residence was in the Caley Nursing Home in Radnor. She surrendered to the angel of death on Jan. 25, 1968. Burial of the remains was in Old St. David's Church Cemetery. Her daughter signed the official Pennsylvania certificate of death. In a Philadelphia Inquirer obituary, the family requested that any memorial contributions be made to the Society for Crippled Children and Adults.
Great-granddaughter Anne Lodge (1923-2002) was born on Feb. 22, 1923. News of her birth was printed in the social columns of the Philadelphia Inquirer. She married Mark H. MacCaughern Jr. ( ? -1995). The couple did not reproduce. Mark was an alumnus of West Philadelphia High School, the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and the Rutgers University Graduate School of Banking. He served as a master sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, with deployment to Europe. He was employed by Philadelphia National Bank and rose to the executive position of senior vice president. Mark often was quoted in eastern Pennsylvania news in stories about banking and finance. Said the Inquirer, he "enjoyed traveling and gardening. He was a member of the Temple Lutheran Church of Brookline and attended the Wednesday Morning Men's Breakfast Club." The pair made their home in Strafford, PA. Mark died in Bryn Mawr Hospital on Sept. 21, 1995. His funeral rites were conducted in St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Wayne. Her home as a widow was in Wayne, PA. She passed away at age 79 on Dec. 7, 2002. An obituary in the Inquirer said she "devoted her life to her legion of friends and to her volunteer work at the Women's Exchange Gift Shop in Wayne."
Daughter Mary "Cecelia" Haupt (1846-1911) was born in 1846. She resided in Philadelphia and was single for her entire life. For some years in the 1890s and early 1900s, she and her father shared living space. They were building a house in St. Paul, MN in 1893 and then in 1905 dwelled in the Concord Apartments on K Street in Washington, DC. She is known to have traveled to the 1893 World's Fair. As her health failed, she was admitted to Lansdale Hospital in Montgomery Township. Montgomery County. There, having contracted gangrene of the lung which lingered for two months, she died on May 1, 1911. There was no informant on the death certificate, and thus no details about her life. Burial was in Philadelphia. Under the terms of her will, she bequeathed $500 to each of her nephews and nieces. In a dispute over a controversial codicil to the will, her estate was tied in up litigation for years in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.
Daughter Ella Catherine Haupt (1848-1918) was born on July 23, 1848. On Nov. 13, 1873, in Philadelphia, she entered into marriage with Civil War veteran Frederic Lord Chapman (May 23, 1848-1934), originally from Cambridge, MA and the son of Francis L. and Lucy A. Chapman. Officiating was Rev. Dr. Charles W. Schaeffer. Their wedding announcement in the Boston Globe asked that no cards of congratulation be sent. Their four children were Dr. Herman Haupt Chapman, Lucy Lord Chapman, Eleanor Hassel Relf and Marion Norton McQuade. Frederic stood 5 feet, 8˝ inches tall, and weighed 190 lbs., with a light complexion, hazel eyes and light hair. During the war, he served in Capt. Charles Walcott's 12th Unattended Company of Massachusetts Infantry, enlisting in Boston on May 16, 1864. He served for a term of three months and was honorably discharged on Aug. 15, 1864. In the years after the war, Fred was named by his father-in-law as clerk and treasurer of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company in Massachusetts in an attempt to recoup sizable compensation and expense reimbursements related to the construction of the Hoosac Tunnel. The Chapmans stayed in Cambridge until the first of the new year 1883, when they pulled up stakes and relocated to St. Paul, MN. There, he was employed as general agent for the Northern Pacific Coal Company, with his father-in-law serving as general manager and brother-in-law Herman Jr. also involved. Then in 1885, Fred and Herman Jr. jointly filed to incorporate the American Patent Rights Insurance Company in St. Paul to protect their inventions against infringement.
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| Letterhead of Frederic's employer in St. Paul - National Archives |
At one point he sold coal for the Holmes & Hallowell Coal Company, dealing in bituminous and anthracite products from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. In April 1926, he retired from the position. Frederick was awarded a soldier's pension on May 25, 1910. [Invalid App. #1.390.685 - Cert. 1.161.165 - C #2.468.063] Ella died in in or near St. Paul on Feb. 28, 1918. Burial was in the city's Oakland Cemetery. Frederic outlived his wife by 16-plus years and in May 1918 endured the heartbreak of the senseless death of daughter Lucy in a vehicle accident. In the late 1920s, Frederic is known to have spent part of the year in residence in the Ashland Hotel and then, when it closed, moved to the Commodore Hotel in St. Paul. For a time he stayed with his brother Frank in Minneapolis but "went all to pieces," his daughter Marion said. "He got so that he would shake his hands, and say, 'What will I do! What will I do!" He was so depressed there that at times he would not speak. As one of his daughters was in an insane asylum, it was feared he might be becoming mentally ill, but he pulled through. There was a dispute about that time over whether he was eligible for a pension increase from $72 to $90. A special investigator came to interview him and his daughter Marion who was his caregiver and power of attorney. The investigator wrote:
Pensioner was in bed at all times when I saw him, and no one knew of my coming when I went to interview im first time. It was then about 4:45 p.m., and he asked how long it would take, as he was tired and it was late. But I had spent all the afternoon seeking to locate him... [His] voice is low and weak, and one must give close heed to get what he says. He looks bloodless, and has more than appearance of a corpse than a living man. His limbs are thin in the extreme. As I was leaving something was said about his pension, and he remarked, "I do not care a continental whether I get it or not."
He was only able to sit up in a chair for no more than half-an-hour per day, and could no longer dress or cleanse himself. He was able to feed himself oatmeal and toast and drink tea, coffee or water. He passed away in or near St. Paul on July 17, 1934.
- Granddaughter Eleanor Hassall Chapman (1877-1946) was born in Oct. 1877 in Massachusetts. She married Herbert Kemper Relf Sr. ( ? - ? ) in St. Paul on June 6, 1900, with her uncle Rev. Edgar Haupt officiating in ceremonies held at St. John's Episcopal Church. The wedding was announced in the St. Paul Globe. Herbert was an 1899 graduate of the University of Minnesota. The pair went on to become the parents of Herbert "Kemper" Relf Jr., born in about 1901. Their marriage dissolved in divorce, and in 1910 Eleanor and son lived in her parents' household, with her earning income as a private duty nurse. In 1920, still under her father's roof, she had no occupation. The angel of death spirited her away in Kandiyohi County, MN two days after Christmas 1946. Funeral rites were held at St. Mark's Church, with burial following in St. Paul's Oakland Cemetery. The Minneapolis Star printed an obituary.
Great-grandson Herbert "Kemper" Relf (1901-1971) was born in about 1901 in Minnesota. He was employed at age 19 in 1920 as a clerk in a St. Paul railroad office. He wed Beulah R. Gessner (1908-1992). Together they produced a son, Kemper Frederick "Kay" Relf (1926-1999). They divorced within a few years. His second wife was Catherine W. ( ? - ? ). Known sons were Eugene K. Relf, Robert J. Relf and Frank H. Relf. In the 1940s, their address was 183 North Cleveland in St. Paul. Kemper worked in early years of his career with the Northern Pacific Railway, Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway, Union Transfer Company of Omaha and the St. Paul office of Dependable Freight Company of Milwaukee. He was employed in the early 1950s as chief rate analyst and office manager for the Minneapolis Traffic Association. Then in July 1956 he joined Osborne McMillan Elevator in the city as director of transportation. In announcing the Osborne move, with his photograph, the Minneapolis Star said he was a "licensed practitioner before the interstate commerce commission and the Minnesota railroad and warehouse commission, [and] a member of the National Association of ICC Practitioners." Sadly, Catherine died in April 1963, with an obituary appearing in the Star. He died on Nov. 25, 1971. He sleeps for the ages in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis.
- Granddaughter Lucy Lord Chapman (1876-1918) was born in June 1876 in Massachusetts. She moved to St. Paul, MN with her parents. Lucy is known to have graduated from a preparatory school in St. Paul in 1895 and the University of Minnesota in 1899. Then at age 23 in 1900, in St. Paul, she was marked as "at school" in the year's United States Census. She became a school teacher and worked in that occupation in 1910. As of 1918, she taught history at Humboldt High School in St. Paul and lived at 593 Holly Avenue. On the tragic day of May 7, 1918, she drove a group of high school students to an event in Northfield, MN. When her vehicle became stalled in mud near Rosemount, another driver "tied a rope from his machine to Miss Chapman's machine... Miss Chapman had alighted and was knocked down when the cars moved." She was rushed to St. Luke's Hospital where she died later in the day. An obituary appeared in the Los Angeles (CA) Evening Express with the headline, "Teacher Run Down by Own Auto Succumbs."
- Grandson Dr. Herman Haupt "Chappie" Chapman (1874- ? ) was born in Oct. 1874 in Massachusetts. He was an 1889 graduate of the University of Minnesota and then in 1904 obtained a master of forestry degree at Yale University. His first professional position was with the U.S. Forest Service. He joined Yale's forestry school in 1906 and then in 1911 was named Harriman professor of forest management, continuing for decades until retirement in 1943. Among his books were Forest Valuation (1914), Forest Mensuration (1921), Forest Finance (1926) and Forest Management (1931). Said the Hartford Courant, he "was an early supporter of the state park movement in Connecticut, and upon the creation of the State Park Commission in 1913 was appointed by the Governor as one of the original members. In 1921 he was influential in broadening the scope of the Commission to include forestry, which had formerly been under the Experiment Station in New Haven. He continued as a member of the reorganized Park and Forest Commission, succeeding Lucius Robinson as Chairman from 1938 until 1943; and serving as Vice-Chairman from 1943 to 1944, he completed his long and useful term as commissioner in 1947." Among his forestry interests were public recreation, camping and fishing, fire protection, and landowner education. He held terms as chairman of the Forests and Wild Life Commission and president of the Wild Life Federation of Connecticut. He is known to have helped create state parks such as Hammonasset, Sherwood Island and Rocky Neck. He also helped to conserve the forests of the Chippewa nation in support of Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot in the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt. Active in the public administration of forests, he opposed a move to transfer the Forest Service out of the Department of Agriculture, and fought the idea of moving large tracts such as the Olympic National Forest to the Parks Service, on the argument that "much of the area was better suited to timber production than to recreation," said the Courant. He has also taken a prominent part in the fight against the western stock men to gain possession a large areas in the national forests for their own selfish interests." The University of Minnesota awarded him with an honorary doctorate in 1947, saying he had "influenced the course of forest conservation in the United States as profoundly as any single man." In 1949, he received the Schlich Memorial Medal from the Society of American Foresters in recognition of his work, only the fifth man at the time to be so recognized. That same year, he chaired the 7th Pacific Science Congress held in New Zealand. He researched and collected his grandfather Haupt's business and personal correspondence, financial and legal papers, and writings, and then authored an unpublished biography. He donated these documents, photographs, additional family correspondence, diaries, and other papers to Yale University.
- Granddaughter Marion Norton Chapman (1879-1965) was born on April 18, 1879 in Cambridge, MA. She was a kindergarten teacher circa 1905-1908, living at 11 Story Street, Cambridge and in St. Paul, MN. On a passport, she was described as 5 feet, 7 inches tall, with a broad and high forehead, dark eyes, straight nose, firm mouth, square chin, black hair, clear complexion and oval face. She was single at age 41, in 1920, and lived with her father and sister and engaged as a social worker in St. Paul. Marion tied the marital cord with accountant John J. McQuade (Aug. 9, 1873-1944). As of the mid-1920s, she made a home at White Bear Lake, MN and had a room in the Commodore Hotel in St. Paul. There, she was employed in the county treasurer's office. At that time, she also was a caregiver for her elderly father, and in 1926 arranged for a special nurse to provide even more hands-on services. The couple is marked in the 1930 federal census enumeration in St. Paul and in the 1940 census in San Diego, CA. Sadly, John died in San Diego on Dec. 30, 1944. The widowed Marion made her home in 1946 was in LaJolla, CA. She passed away in San Diego on Sept. 25, 1965.
Son Dr. Herman H. Haupt Jr. (1852-1925) was born on May 7, 1852. He stood 5 feet, 6 inches tall, had a high forehead, blue-grey eyes and a strgith nose, fine straight mouth, pointed chin and oval face. Herman apparently was married, but to whom? He is known to have been the father of Herman H. Haupt Jr. Herman made a residence in Bala Cynwyd and served as assistant librarian at the University of Pennsylvania until 1890. His legal residence in 1895 was in Evanston, IL, at 1300 Davis Street. Circa 1896 he lived in Europe. Said the Philadelphia Inquirer, he "was also a lawyer and a mechanical engineer. He made his home chiefly on Long Island." At the death of Herman's father in 1905, the Philadelphia Inquirer said he was "practicing law in New York." Other sources state that he was a physician until retirement, when he moved to Miami in about 1913. Circa 1918, he kept an address in New York City of 122 West 11th Street. Herman is known to have taken several boat trips to Puerto Rico in 1918 and 1923 to "attend to legal business," he wrote. At the age of 73, in Miami, he was swept away by the grim reaper of death on July 23, 1925. An obituary was published in the Inquirer and the Miami News. The body was shipped back home for interment in West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd. He sleeps in the same plot as his parents.
- Grandson Herman H. Haupt Jr. dwelled at East Setauket, NY in 1925. He was named in his father's 1925 obituary in the Miami News.
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| Old St. Paul, 1870s - Library of Congress |
Son Rev. Dr. Charles "Edgar" Haupt (1854-1942) was born on Aug. 25, 1854 in Philadelphia. He migrated to Minnesota in 1882, at the age of 28. Charles was twice-wed. His first spouse was Mary Bell Griffith (April 1, 1855-1885). They bore an only daughter, Isabelle Griffiths Haupt. Sadly, Mary Bell died two days after giving birth, on Nov. 28, 1885, with the baby dying the day before, at age one day. Mother and child were laid to rest in Oakland Cemetery, St. Paul. His second bride was Alexandra V. Dougan ( ? -1931). The pair became the parents of Paul H. Haupt, Samuel E. Haupt, Rev. David R. Haupt, Theodore Haupt and Alma Cecelia Haupt. Edgar and his brother Frank launched the Haupt Lumber Company in 1883 and it enjoyed growth in the ensuing years. But he was called into Christian ministry, and became rector of the Church of the Messiah in St. Paul. Then from 1903 to 1907, he was vicar of St. Mark's Episcopal Church and then co-rector of the congregation to 1910. Also from 1908 to 1910, he served as superintendent of Wells Memorial Settlement House. In time Edgar was named archdeacon of the Minnesota Episcopal Church, where he is said to have "accomplished wonders" and a leader in religious education. In 1917, he opened the Breck School for boys in St. Anthony Park near Minneapolis. The school classes were first held in a private home and then moved to a new location at 2477 Como Avenue. He always was interested in the Church Home of Minnesota, a home for the aged connected with the Episcopal movement. Sadness cascaded over the family when Alexandra died at the age of 68, on Dec. 8, 1931, as a patient in St. Luke's Hospital. The widowed Charles lived for another 11 years. He and son Theodore traveled by car from St. Paul to Lincoln, NE in April 1932 to attend and officiate the marriage of son Samuel. resigned from the school in 1938. He died on June 10, 1942. Burial was in Oaklawn Cemetery, with funeral rites conducted in St. Matthew's Church. An obituary appeared in the Minneapolis Daily Times. In his memory, the Breck school established a scholarship program.
- Grandson John "Paul" H. Haupt (1895-1976) was born on March 31, 1895 in St. Paul, MN. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I. Paul does not appear to have married or reproduced. He lived in St. Paul, MN in 1931. He eventually established a longtime home in South Dakota. Paul was in Hot Springs, SD in 1956 and in Rapid City, SD as of 1970. He died in April 1976, at the age of 81. Funeral services were held in the Protestant Chapel of the Hot Springs Veterans Administration Center, presided by Chaplain William Wintz. The remains were interred in Black Hills National Cemetery. An obituary in the Rapid City (SD) Journal said he was "survived by a brother, Theodore Haupt, New York City."
- Grandson Samuel Edgar Haupt (1903-1970) was born on Nov. 27, 1903 in Minneapolis/St. Paul. He was a 1925 graduate of Carleton College in Northfield followed by an advanced degree from the Harvard College Graduate School of Business Administration. On April 8, 1932, in the bride's home in Lincoln, NE, he entered into marriage with Helen Miller Anderson (1906-1996), daughter of Charles Barney Anderson. In announcing the happy event, officiated by the groom's father, the Minneapolis Journal said that the bride "wore a gown of antique ivory satin. Cartridge pleating ornamented the gown at the shoulders and at the waistline. The long skirt extended into a four-yard court train finished in scallops." Helen was an alumna of the University of Nebraska and Prince School of Store Service Education in Boston. The newlyweds' first home was at 2259 Carter Avenue, St. Anthony Park in St. Paul. They became the parents of two sons, Charles H. Haupt and Samuel T. Haupt. Within a few years, the family relocated to Lincoln and stayed for good. There, in 1934, Samuel accepted a position with the Miller and Paine department store, launching a 34-year career in which he was elevated to vice president and secretary-treasurer. Active in the community, he was president of the Lincoln Better Business Bureau and in 1959 treasurer of the Lincoln Centennial Corporation. He also was secretary of the original Pershing Municipal Auditorium Advisory Board and a trustee of the YMCA in Lincoln, receiving an award of merit from the TMCA in 1952, and was active with the American Cancer Society's Lancaster County Chapter. His memberships included the St. Matthew Episcopal Church, Chamber of Commerce, University Club and Lincoln Country Club. In retirement, they moved to Sun City, AZ. At the age of 66, Samuel died on Oct. 5, 1970. An obituary was published in the Lincoln Star. The body was shipped in Lincoln to rest for all time in Wyuka Cemetery.
Great-grandson Charles Edgar Haupt ( ? - ? ) was a graduate of the University of Nebraska. He then became employed by Dayton's. He lived in Lincoln, NE in 1959, now working for the department store Miller and Paine where his father was employed. On June 13, 1959, he tied the marital cord with Janet Bell Nelson ( ? - ? ), daughter of Gen. Joseph E. Nelson of St. Paul. She was an alumna of the University of Colorado. A trio of known children in this family were Julie Haupt, Meredie Haupt and Laurie Haupt. As of 1967, the Haupts relocated from Dallas, TX to Metairie-Jefferson, LA. Then in 1970, they were in Jacksonville, FL.
Great-grandson Samuel T. Haupt moved by 1970 to Grand Junction, CO.
- Grandson Rev. David "Richard" Haupt (1897-1978) was born on April 3, 1897. Richard served as an artillery officer with the U.S. Army during World War I. He was a graduate of the University of Minnesota and Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, MA and entered the Episcopalian ministry. He served as director of the YMCA Boys Camp at Green Lake, Chisago City, MN in 1922 and held a lifelong interest in activities of the "Y.". In late 1924, he was ordained in St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in St. Paul at the corner of Carter and Chelmsford Avenues. By 1926, he was at the Gethsemane Episcopal Church and active in leading summer camping for the Minneapolis YMCA. He resigned in 1926 to join the staff of Calvary Episcopal Church in Columbia, MO with the additional assignment of student ministry at the University of Missouri. Richard married Pauline ( ? - ? ). They were the parents of Frederick Edgar Haupt. At some point the couple divorced, and she married again to Charles S. Finkelson, moving to Lakeland, FL. Richard remained in Columbia circa 1931, and often was quoted in news stories based on his sermons. He was elected to the Columbia YMCA board of directtors in 1928. At some point he moved back to Minnesota to lead St. Paul's Episcopal Chruch of Owatonna, MN and was there in the 1950s. In 1957, at the age of 59, he moved to Pittsburgh, PA, where he accepted the position as assistant rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Mount Lebanon, considered at the time "as the fastest growing Episcopal congregation in the country," said the Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph. Then in 1962, he was hired as associate rector of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh's Wilkinburg community. Over the next five years, he also served as pastor of Grace Church in Mount Washington and of St. Timothy Episcopal Church in McKees Rocks. He retired in 1967. His final eight years were spent at St. Barnabas Home in Richland Township. He died at age 80, in Suburban General Hospital, on Jan. 20 1978. An obituary was printed in the North Hills News Record. Interment was in Sewickey Cemetery, with Episcopal Bishop Rev. Robert B. Appleyard presiding over the funeral rites.
Great-grandson Frederick Edgar Haupt (1928-1994) was born in 1928. He was a graduate of the Breck School for Boys in St. Paul, MN and the University of Minnesota. He served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. He joined his father in a relocation to Pittsburgh's Mount Lebanon suburb circa 1957. In April 1960, Frederick wed Dorothy Carolyn Taylor ( ? - ? ), daughter of A. Russell Taylor of Mount Lebanon near Pittsburgh. She was an alumna of the University of Pittsburgh. The Haupts made their home for years along Camp Meeting Road in Sewickley near Pittsburgh. Four known offspring of this union were Christopher Paul Haupt (Nov. 17, 1964-1967), Rebecca Anne Haupt, James R. Haupt and Robert D. Haupt. They were plunged into mourning when young son Christopher was diagnosed with Tay-Sachs Disease, a genetic disorder that destroys nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, and his death 20 months later on July 23, 1967. Death swept Frederick away into the heavenly host at the age of 66 on Aug. 18, 1994. He too sleeps for the ages in Sewickley Cemetery.
- Grandson Theodore Gilbert Haupt (1902-1990) was born on Oct. 11, 1902 in St. Paul, MN. Interested in pursuing a career as an artist, he studied at the Minneapolis School of Art for two years and then accepted a scholarship to the Academie Julien in Paris under the tutelage of Andrew L'Hote. He moved to New York in the 1920s, renting an apartment on East 10th Street. He is known to have been a prolific artist for The New Yorker magazine, generating 45 cover designs between 1927 and 1933. Said the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, he "has had several one man shows in New York and other cities, and has exhibited in many museums and group shows throughout the U.S., including the Chicago Art Institute and Whitney Museums. He also is represented in a number of public and private collections." Arts Magazine once said that he "obviously makes up his images from his own head, and they are just about as imaginative as they possibly could be." The Great Neck (NY) Tribune observed that his "merit is more than originality. These forms have compelling power, with erotic, surrealistic suggestions." In 1942, he was joined in marriage with Miriam Diehl ( ? - ? ), a school teacher. Two adopted children in this family were Gloria Haupt and Maricella "Mari" Haupt. They lived at Lake Peekskill, NY until 1948 when they relocated to a Mexican artist's community known as San Miguel de Allende. Sadly, Miriam passed away in the 1960s. The widowed Theodore and the girls moved to Hawaii in about 1969, and he often exhibited there at the Foundry Gallery. A later migration was to New York's Westbeth Artist's Community in Greenwich Village. He died in Indianapolis from heart disease on June 13, 1990. Today his artworks are preserved in the collections of the Museum of the City of New York, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Finch College Museum, New York University, University of Pennsylvania and University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Great-granddaughter Gloria Haupt ( ? -? )
Great-granddaughter Maricella "Mari" Haupt ( ? - ? )
- Granddaughter Alma Cecelia Haupt (1893-1956) was born on March 19, 1893 in St. Paul, MN. She was a 1911 graduate of West High School in Minneapolis. She went on to earn a degree in 1919 from the University of Minnesota School of Nursing and furthered her post-graduate studies at Johns Hopkins. For three years, from about 1921 to 1924, she was superintendent of the Visiting Nurse Association. Then in September 1924, she began a position in Austria as director of public nursing. The Minneapolis Star Tribune said that in moving to Europe, "Miss Haupt's headquarters will be in Vienna, from which point she will supervise 100 public health nursing stations. The work is under the general direction of the Commonwealth fund of New York and is an outgrowth of the American Relief Administration organization." By 1931, she returned to the United States and settled in New York where her brother Theodore, an artist, was living. She is known to have attended her brother Samuel's wedding in Lincoln, NE in 1932. Alma devoted her career to nursing and was employed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company as director of nursing services. In 1948, she published the 26-page book Two Pioneers of the Haupt Family. Her final residence was in San Francisco. At the age of 62, she passed away on March 16, 1956. Burial was in Oakland Cemetery in her hometown of St. Paul. An obituary appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
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Son Frank Spangler Haupt (1856-1914) was born on Dec. 3, 1856 at Chestnut Hill, PA. His birthday erroneously also has been given as June 1, 1859. He was an 1882 graduate of Harvard College, having taken an eight-year course, and excelling at hurdle-racing. He established himself in 1881 in St. Paul, MN. On June 25, 1885, in the home of her parents on Summit Avenue in St. Paul, Frank was joined in wedlock with Carol Nichols Dean (1861-1930), a St. Paul native and the daughter of pioneering railroad man William Blake Dean, considered a founder of St. Paul. Rev. David R. Breed presided, and the happy event was announced on the pages of the St. Paul Globe, which said "It was a quiet, family wedding, but extremely elegant. The bride, richly attired, stood with the groom, and Miss Lelia Dean and Mr. Frank Chapman before a massive bank of brilliant blooms during the ceremony, and fragrant flowers throughout the apartments." The known offspring of the couple were John Nichols Haupt, Dorothea Haupt, William Dean Haupt Sr., Herman Haupt and Frederic Chapman Haupt. Carol was an alumna of Wellesley College. The Haupts spent the first 10 years of their lives in Minnesota in the Albert Lea community. In 1883, Frank and his brother Edgar jointly opened a retail lumber company at 251 University Avenue, Haupt Lumber Company. A news article noted that it maintained three lumberyards in town, including one on the line of the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railroad. "There are extensive sheds and buildings necessary to the business," said the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "The company deals in soft pine lumber of all grades, sash, doors, blinds, windows, shingles, lath, building paper and all material usually kept in stock in the business. The yards employ 10 men. Business is good and shows a very satisfactory increase over last year's trade." He and a number of others incorporated the Northwestern Building of St. Paul in 1888. In 1902, they relocated to Redlands, CA, operating an orange plantation there as of 1905. Their address in 1914 was on Terracina Avenue. Having become seriously ill, Frank pursued treatments at several sanatoriums, but without relief. So in the summer of 1914, he decided to take his own life. And on Aug. 16, 1914, during dinner at home with his wife and family, said the Los Angeles Times, he "left the table, went to his room upstairs, and shot himself through the heart with a shotgun. Death was instantaneous, and when the family, disturbed by the report, reached him a minute later, he had breathed his last." The body was shipped to St. Paul to sleep under the sod of Oakland Cemetery. A brief notice of his death was printed in the Boston Evening Transcript. Caroline outlived her husband by 16 years and lived at 461 West Avenue 56. Then in 1917, she endured the death of 13-year-old son John at California Hospital. The boy's remains were transported to St. Paul for interment. Carol remained in the Los Angeles area, moving to Highland Park, with a final address of 134 South Avenue. She held memberships in the Los Angeles Wellesley Club and Highland Park Presbyterian Church and widely known as a biblical scholar. Sadly, she passed away on Oct. 31, 1930. An obituary in the Redlands Daily Facts reported that she had been "a resident of Redlands for many years and owned the Jensen ranch on Terracina boulevard. She was active while here in the work of the Presbyterian church and her husband passed away while they lived here." The Highland Park News-Herald added that she had been a "resident of California for 28 years" with death occurring "after an illness of two years. She had been confined to her bed the last six months." His pastor, Rev. Earle Pierce Cochran, presided over the funeral.
- Grandson John Nichols Haupt ( ? -1917) died at the age of 13 on April 23, 1917 at California Hospital. A brief death notice in the Los Angeles Evening Express called him the "youngest son of Mrs. Carol Dean Haupt and the late Frank S. Haupt..." The body was shipped to St. Paul for burial.
- Granddaughter Dorothea Haupt (1897-1974) was born in 1897. She was a graduate of Occidental College. Dorothea lived with her mother in Highland Park, CA in 1920 and in Alhambra, CA in 1930. Circa 1935, she taught at the John Adams Junior High School in Highland Park. On July 30, 1935, in a ceremony in Reno, NV, Dorothea tied the knot with John W. Comfort ( ? - ? ). An announcement of the wedding, in the Highland Park News-Herald, said the groom "received his education in Minnesota." The Comforts were in Los Angeles as of 1939 and in New York in 1964, likely the town of Glen Head, Long Island. She was a longtime school teacher. Sadly, she passed away suddenly in San Diego on May 30, 1974. Burial was in Roslyn (NY) Cemetery in Nassau County. A brief death notice appeared in print in the San Francisco Examiner.
- Grandson William Dean Haupt ( ? -1964) was born on (?). He came to California in 1916. William lived in Eagle Rock, CA in 1939 and later put down roots in Alhambra, CA. He married and produced three children -- Barbara Wilson, William D. Haupt and Sidney B. Haupt. William was active in the community as a master of the South Pasadena lodge of the Masons, South Pasadena Commandery, South Pasadena Order of Eastren Star, Mark T. Lee Chapter of the Royal Arch Masons, and Al Mainikah Shrine Temple. Their home in the early 1960s was 5912 Monte Vista Street, Los Angeles. William died on Feb. 27, 1964, with an obituary appearing in the Los Angeles Times.
Great-granddaughter Barbara Haupt wed (?) Wilson. She was in Lakewood, CA in 1964.
Great-grandson William Dean Haupt Jr. settled in Pasadena, CA.
Great-grandson Sidney B. Haupt also made a home in Pasadena, CA.
- Grandson Herman Haupt Sr. ( ? -1939) was born in Albert Lee, MN. He relocated to California in his youth, and attended Redlands College and Occidental College. He made his dwelling-place in Hollywood, CA circa 1930. A newspaper once referred to him as a "clubman and investment broker." He wed Florence Koller ( ? - ? ). They dwelled at 747 North Orange Drive and were the parents of a son, Herman Haupt Jr. Herman Sr. was an elder of Immanuel Presbyterian Church and belonged to the Hollywood Kiwanis Club, Sons of the Revolution and the Royal Legion. Sadly, he passed into the arms of the angels on April 29, 1939 in Good Samaritan Hospital. Rev. Herbert Booth Smith preached the funeral sermon, held in the family church, with an obituary appearing in the Los Angeles Evening Citizen News. Burial was in Ontario, CA.
Great-grandson Herman Haupt Jr. ( ? - ? ) grew up in Hollywood, CA.
- Grandson Frederic Chapman Haupt (1896-1968) was born on March 6, 1896 in Albert Lea Township near St. Paul, MN. The local Times-Enterprise announced the birth, saying "He has a lusty pair of lungs and tipped the scale at 9 pounds. May he live long and prosper." In the autumn of 1919, he was united in matrimony with Hollis Mae Nix ( ? - ? ), daughter of E.J. Nix of Tacoma, WA. One known daughter in this family was Jacquelin Pegg. They put down roots in Vista, San Diego County, CA by 1934, with him elected as a trustee of the Oceanside-Carlsbad Union High School District. He moved up to the District's presidency but resigned in January 1936. He operated some sort of orchard and in 1936 made news when installing an overhead irrigation system in his grove. He was a partner with John R. Pegg in the Vista Service Station and Pegg Bros at Vista, and when that dissolved in March 1940, he took over the entire business operation. Later, they lived in Eagle Rock near Los Angeles and in 1964 in San Diego. He died in 1968. The remains were lowered under the sod of El Camino Memorial Park, San Diego.
Great-granddaughter Jacquelin Haupt ( ? - ? ) grew up in Vista, San Diego County, CA. She studied in a junior college in Ventura, CA and was a graduate of Oceanside Junior College. On Feb. 6, 1937, she was joined in wedlock with John Russell Pegg ( ? - ? ), son of M.M. Pegg of Vista. They exchanged their vows at her parents' ranch home on Alta Drive in Vista in front of 160 guests. The Escondido Daily Times-Advocate announced the marriage, saying that the "spacious living room was decorated appropriately with its candelabra at one end where the ceremony was performed. The bride gowned in white satin, carried a boquet of white roses and 'Lilies of the Valley'." The newlyweds first lived on the corner of Citrus Avenue and Washington in Vista.
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He passed through the whole public school course, graduating from the Boys' Central High school, Feb. 14, 1874, standing seventh in a class of twenty-six, of which he was chosen the Valedictorian. From this institution he received as a reward by the high average attained at the final examination, a certificate of distinguished scholarship and also a certificate to teach as a principal in any of the public schools of Philadelphia. Five years after graduation this institution also conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts. During the last two years of his high school course, his spare moments were engaged in studying Latin and Greek, preparatory to entering college, and his whole time from Feb. 14 to June 12, 1878, was similarly occupied. Then followed a four years' course in the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated June 15, 1882, among the second honors, ranking nine in a class of twenty-six; but having taken during his last years at college, also during his first year at the seminary, besides having had fourteen of his fellow pupils to tutor in mathematical physics and astronomy. He also had the honor of being one of the orators of the class at Commencement, which, strange to say, took place just fifty years after that of his uncle, Rev. C. W. Schaeffer, the same institution. Two years later, June, 1884, he graduated from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, thus completing his preparatory course of studies; and was ordained at Reading, Pa., Jan. 10, 1884, from whence he departed a few days later, to the field his future labors in St. Paul, Minn. When only three years old he was stricken with a dangerous disease from which his parents never expected him to recover. At the age of twelve he was suddenly taken down with typhoid pneumonia and for one whole week was unconscious. But the good Lord spared him, and as strength returned his pious father said to him one day, "my son, God has spared your life in a marvelous way, now these two times in answer to your mother's prayers mine; do you not think that He intends you for some grand and noble work?” This was the beginning of very serious thought on his part of preparing for the ministry. His confirmation under Rev. J. A. Kunkelman in St. Mark's, Philadelphia, strengthened the conviction. Still there was a doubt and a looking back with longing to the money making opportunities of the world, until he heard an aged disciple of the Lord preach in Richmond, Va., from the text, “Whoso putteth his hand to the plow and looketh back is not fit for the kingdom of heave.” From that day his face was turned toward the gospel ministry, with ten years of preparation before him. At another time, the Lord, in a direct answer to a special prayer, made known to him his call and promised blessing. Moreover, the Lord had all these years been preparing him for his future work. While yet a mere boy, he was trained in the use of tools, and assisted in the erection of a number of buildings. At the age of seventeen he was called upon to begin mission work among the poor whites in the mountains of Virginia in the vicinity of his summer home. In this work he was several times called upon to make extemporaneous addresses; a great strain upon him at the time, but the value of these experiences to his later work cannot be overestimated. At the same time he was compelled to keep a country store, and thus became acquainted with the keeping of books and finances. In 1881 his father was called to St. Paul, Minn., as general manager of the Northern Pacific railroad. In 1882, Rev. Haupt, then graduating from the University, paid his parents a visit at St. Paul. He was impressed with the great need of English Lutheran mission work, for as yet there was not a single English Lutheran Mission in the North West, Rev. Trabert not having started his work in Minneapolis until January of the following year. The following summer, 1883, Mr. Haupt, being a senior student in the seminary, came again to St. Paul, and spent the whole summer assisting Rev. Tabert to establish a mission in St. Paul. The influence of his father was a great aid in this undertaking, by which he was enabled to secure nearly $1900 in three months. The rest of the needed amount having been donated by friends in the east through Rev. G. H. Tabert. Rev. Haupt was installed as the English Lutheran minister to St. Paul, July 6, 1884, on a salary from the Mission Committee of $400, and $100 from the congregation. Had it not been that his parents kindly gave him his room and board, he never could have lived upon the sum in those days. Since that time until the present, (Jan. 1, 1891) he has built three churches, and saved the missions a considerable sum by drawing his own plans and personally supervising the work of building. Over $12,000 have been raised for the work in St. Paul, some $10,000 of which were raised through his persistent efforts. The three missions have received in all a total membership of 220 souls, and the Sunday schools some 500 scholars, the present membership being about 180 communicants and 250 scholars. To carry on and keep alive this work has required a great strain on the part of the missionary. He has been compelled to be his own janitor, organist, choir master, and preacher, and, at times, almost his own congregation. He has had to hold four and five services on Sundays, and, including catechetical classes, the same number during the week; has had a tedious drive of sixteen miles every Sunday afternoon during the winter in the severe cold with the thermometer twenty to thirty degrees below zero, and many times almost frozen stiff; or during the heat and dust of the dry summer months weary and worn. It may be interesting to the reader to know that the early days of this pastor were spent in the Episcopal Church, there being no English Lutheran church that the family could attend, but that a gracious Providence led him back into the noble faith of his fathers. Rev. Haupt was for many years the bosom friend of the Rev. Horace G.B. Artman, who died in the mission field of India.
From 1884 to 1907, he was pastor of the first Lutheran mission in St. Paul, MN. He then spent three years in Pittsburgh as superintendent of Luther Inner Mission. During that time, in 1907, he received a doctor of divinity degree from Pennsylvania College of Gettysburg in recognition of his accomplishments as a clergyman, social servant and inner mission worker. In 1910, he went to Albert Lea, MN to lead the Salem English Evangelical Lutheran Church. His career continued to evolve in 1914, when he accepted a position as social service director of the League of Protestant Women in St. Paul and in 1917 when tapped to be head of the church federation. Then in 1921, he was named executive secretary of the Home Protective Association of St. Paul, serving until a move to Grand Forks, becoming secretary of the Lutheran Colony of Mercy and special probation officer of the juvenile court. The Grand Forks Herald once reported that:
During pastorate at St. Paul, [he] organized three other missions and planned and built five churches and one chapel; one of the organizers and for two years president of the Synod of the Northwest; member of the National and Minnesota State conferences of social work, National Divorce commission of Minn., National Probation association, Lutheran Brotherhood of America, Northwest Alumni associatiin of the University of Pennsylvania, life member of Minnesota Historical society, St. Paul; Institute delegate to American and International Prison Congress, Omaha, in 1911, delegate to International Purity Congress, Minneapolis, in 1913... author of "History of the Synod of the Northwest" in 1901.
Alexander's final assignment was in 1927 to pastor the Zion Lutheran Church of Horicon, WI. There, he died in Sept. 1934 from the effects of double pneumonia. Funeral services were held in St. Paul. Ida Louise outlived her spouse by many years. In 1944, she suffered the tragic death of her daughter Margaret from burns in a freak accident. She died in 1951.
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Granddaughter Margaret Cecilia Haupt (1890-1944) was born on July 14, 1890 in St. Paul, MN and grew up in Albert Lea Township, MN. She became familiar with the work of Christian missionaries through her father's dear friendship with Rev. Horace G.B. Artman, who died in the field in India. Margaret was a 1907 graduate of Mechanic Arts High School and the Kindergarten College of Pittsburgh. She focused her life's work as a missionary, and in 1910 was "called by the general council board of foreign missions to take up work among the girls and women of India," said a newspaper. In September 1911, in company with Rev. and Mrs. E. Neudoerffer, Agatha Tatge, Rev. Frederick W. Schaeffer and Rev. Oscar Victor Carl Werner Sr., she sailed for India on the North German Lloyd passenger ship George Washington to begin "their future field of work at Rajahmundry, Madras Presidency," reported the Albert Lea Tribune. "The best wishes of many of our towns people go with this young missionary." At the time, Oscar was pastor of a church in Freeport, RI. A year later, in October 1912, she and Oscar were wed, possibly in Rajahmundry. Oscar was a native of Brooklyn, NY who had spent part of his childhood in Germany. He attended Wagner College, graduated from Philadelphia's Lutheran Theological Seminary, and obtained his bachelor of science from Columbia University. He was ordained in 1909 and served as pastor of a church in Freeport before receiving the call to venture overseas.
For the first 17 years of their marriage, until 1929, they worked as missionaries in Guntur, India. The six known offspring in this family were Oscar Victor Carl Werner Jr., Louise Hintz, John Kenneth Werner, Beatrice Pearl Jensen, Marjorie Anne Werner and David L. Werner. At least one of the children was born in the A.E.L. Mission Compound in Jeypure, Vizag District. They returned stateside from time to time, with Oscar making speaking engagements to update his audiences. He is known to have given an address in 1920 to the Men's Club of the English Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Brooklyn, NY, giving "an interesting account of the present conditions in India" and dwelling upon "the great opportunity of the Christian Church in the wonderful mass movement of today," reported the Brooklyn Eagle. Circa 1924, the Werners were in Ranchi, India. Tragedy befell the family on May 6, 1924 when their eight-year-old son Oscar Jr. drowned in the Levinge Stream in Kodaikanal in India's Madura District. The body was laid to rest in the government cemetery in Kodaikanal. While they may have wanted the remains to be shipped to the United States, the local regulations forbade the grave of someone under 12 years of age to be opened before eight years had passed. Adding to their horror, just 22 days later, their 15-month-old daughter Marjorie Anne died of pneumonia in Faulkner Lodge in Kodaikanal. Interment was in the local St. Peter's Church Cemetery. When Margaret came home on a furlough in August 1929 she was honored at a reception by her father's former congregation, the Salem English Lutheran church. In a related story, the Tribune said she "is driving east with her family by automobile from the Pacific coast. She will visit with her sister Edith at St. Paul and with her parents Rev. and Mrs. Haupt at Horicon, Wis., before leaving for New York in September. This is a very pleasant surprise and happy occasion for her many friends in Albert Lea..." Among their stops on that 1929 trip were in Livingston, MT followed by a tour of western national parks. After completing their India mission, they returned to the states for good in 1931 when Oscar accepted the pastorate of St. John's Lutheran Church in New Britain, CT. They remained in New Britain for the final 13 years of their lives together. Their address in the early 1940s was 133 Bassett Street.
On the tragic day of Feb. 27, 1944, while "tending the furnace in the basement of her home," reported the Hartford Courant, "her dress became ignited." She was rushed to New Britain General Hospital and died of her burns later in the day. Burial was in New Britain's Fairview Cemetery. Many years later, the "Margaret Haupt Circle" was named in her memory at the Salem Lutheran Church in Albert Lea. The widowed Oscar married again on May 27, 1945 in Scott, IA to Hilma Eugenia Levine (1891- ? ), a nurse in the India mission field. Their union was only of four years' duration. During that time, in 1947, they returned to India where he accepted a role on the faculty of a theological college. "He was proficient in Indian languages," said the Hartford Courant. While living in Luthergiri, Hilma died at the age of 58, on Dec. 29, 1949, in the United Lutheran Church Mission Hospital in Rajahmundry, having succumbed to respiratory failure caused by lympathic blockage and swelling. She was laid to rest in the Church Missionary Society Cemetery in Rajahmundry. Oscar outlived his second bride by 23 years. He stayed in India until 1954 when he came back to Connecticut and semi-retired. He served the St. John's Parish on a part-time schedule, with assignments as interim or supply pastor at Immanuel Lutheran Church of Meriden, First Lutheran Church of Southington, Emmanuel Lutheran Church of Hartford, St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Wethersfield, Bethany Lutheran Church of Cromwell, Zion Lutheran Church of Portland, and St. Paul's Lutheran Church and Christ Lutheran Church of Middletown. On his 86th birthday, on Nov. 9, 1972, he passed away in Middlesex Memorial Hospital. His obituary appeared in the Courant. His cremains were placed into well-deserved sleep in Fairview Cemetery.Great-granddaughter Louise Werner (1916-2011) was born on Nov. 22, 1916. On May 28, 1944, at age 28, she tied the marital cord with Rev. Waldemar "Wally" Hintz (April 13, 1917-2007). It was a double wedding, with Louise's sister Beatrice and husband Everett Jensen. The Hintzes lived in Honolulu circa 1953. They eventually settled in Spokane, WA and were there for decades, with him leading the congregation of Messiah Lutheran Church. Waldemar is known to have served as Civil Air Patrol chaplain in the early 1950s. He also was alcoholism project coordinator for the Spokane County United Crusade and Council from 1968 to 1971. At the age of 90, Waldemar died on June 26, 2007. Louise survived for another four years, staying in Seattle. She passed away on May 4, 2011.
Great-granddaughter Beatrice Pearl "Bea" Werner (1920-2022) was born on March 5, 1920 in Rajahmundry, India. She spent the first nine years of her life with her missionary parents in Indiana and came to the United States with them in 1931. She was a 1937 graduate of New Britain High School and a 1941 graduate of Wagner College on Staten Island, NY. While at Wagner, she met her future husband. Then in 1944, she obtained her master's degree in nursing from Yale University. On May 28, 1944, at age 24, Beatrice entered into marriage with Rev. Everett J. Jensen ( ? -1995). It was a double wedding, with her sister Louise and husband Waldemar "Wally" Hintz. The Jensens' union endured the ebbs and flows of a remarkable 51 years together. Together, they bore four daughters -- Karen Kingery, Margaret Sackett, Katherine Marambe and Elizabeth "Beth" Jensen. Everett devoted his career to the mission field and Christian ministry and was ordained in 1943. He began his work with the Board of American Missions of the United Lutheran Church. Said the Corvalis (OR) Gazette-Times, he "organized a congregation on Long Island in New York and was then sent to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands to do mission work there. Returning to the United States to marry Miss Beatrice Werner of New Britain, Connecticut, they were loaned to the National Lutheran Council to do war housing ministry in Vancouver, Washington, at McLoughlin Heights. Rev. Jensen was recalled to New York to assist in the promotion of Lutheran World Action, the worldwide relief and rehabilitation program of the Lutheran churches in the United States and Canada. While serving as the assistant to the director of this program, he helped raise over $14,000,000 dollars. Returning to the services of the Board of American Missions, he was sent to begin a mission program in the Hawaiian Islands for the Lutheran church. After serving there, he was reassigned to Virginia." After serving a congregation in Arlington, VA, he was transferred to Oregon and installed as pastor of Grace Lutheran Church of Corvallis in July 1952. Added the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, he also was an "administrator for a church nursing home in Seattle." He also was associate chaplain at Kamehameha Schools and an officer for the Washington State Council of Churches. Their home in 1972 was in Seattle. In 1989, he was tapped to be interim minister at the Iao Congregational Chruch in Wailuku, HI. Said an obituary, Beatrice "was a wonderful mother and loving, caring and compassionate friend to people of all walks of life. She stayed at home raising her daughters while Ev ministered in various churches in different locations. Later on, she returned to work as a registered nurse and greatly enjoyed her time working in the operating room at University of Washington Hospital in Seattle... Bea was always an active member and supportive pastor's wife of each church that Ev pastored. She also loved singing alto in the choir. Her last church membership was at Gethsemane Lutheran Church in downtown Seattle, where Ev had been a pastor from 1956-1964." Then in retirement, they became tour organizers and led a number of groups traveling around the globe. With the exception of Antarctica, she set foot on every continent. Everett died in Seattle on May 17, 1995. Funeral rites were conducted at Gethsemane Lutheran Church, Seattle, with an obituary appearing in the Corvallis (OR) Gazette-Times. The widowed Beatrice maintained a home in Seattle and reached her 100th birthday in 2020. She died at the age of 102 years and nine months on Dec. 3, 2022. Daughter Karen married Pete Mann and put down roots in East Helena, MT -- daughter Margaret wed Robert Sackett and settled in Burien, WA -- daughter Katherine (1949-2019) married Hemapala Marambe, led an active life and died on March 30,, 2019 -- and daughter Elizabeth has resided in Shoreline, WA.
Great-grandson David L. Werner was born in Ranchi, Indiana. He came to the United States with his family when still a boy and grew up in New Britain, CT. He twice graduated from Trinity College, first with a bachelor of science and later with a master of arts. During World War II, he joined the U.S. Navy and trained at Floyd Bennett Field in New York, later holding the rank of captain with the Air Force Reserves. On Nov. 10, 1946, he tied the marital cord with Gladys Elizabeth Robertson ( ? - ? ). They settled after the war in Portland, CT and were the parents of Paul Werner, Carl Werner, Ruth Hubert and Robert Werner. Sadly, son Robert died in infancy. The couple eventually divorced. For four years, David taught chemistry and mathematics at Portland High School, and in 1957 the student body dedicated that year's yearbook to him. He went to work as a chemist for the Connecticut State Highway Laboratory in Rocky Hill, retiring in 1985. They were members of the Zion Lutheran Church. Said the Hartford Courant, David "liked gardening, hiking, camping and canoeing, and he loved making a joyful noise with his music. He played trombone and many other instruments, and he could coax a tune from bottles, spoons, glasses, and almost anything else. In later years, he acquired an extensive collection of chromatic harmonicas in different keys, and he enjoyed entertaining around the area with various musical groups." As of 2010, he was in Middletown, CT. His final years were burdened with Parkinson's Disease. Sadly, he died at age 88, in Portland, on May 6, 2013. His funeral rites were led by Rev. James Reemts in the family church, with burial in the Swedish Cemetery following. Son Paul married Christine and has lived in Boise, ID -- son Carl settled in Cromwell, CT and may have married Harriett Jones -- and daughter Ruth married James Hubert and has dwelled in Franklin, MA.
Great-grandson John Kenneth Werner (1918- ? ) was born on Dec. 12, 1918 in Rajahmundry, India. John and his family moved back to the United States in 1931 when John was an early teen. He graduated from New Britain High School and Trinity College and went on to receive his doctorate in physical chemistry form Michigan State College. John was united in matrimony with R. Mary Kane ( ? - ? ). Their brood of two sons were Andrew J. Werner and Matthew J. Werner. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army. The Werners lived in Hartford, CT in 1944 and Emmaus, PA in 1972-2010. John built a career as a technical staff chemist with AT&T and Bell Laboratories. He passed away in Lehigh Commons in Emmaus on Dec. 7, 2010, with interment in West Lane Cemetery. His funeral was conducted in St. Margarets Episcopal Church in Emmaus. In an obituary in the Allentown Morning Call, the family asked that any memorial contributions be made to the Swain School Library in Allentown. Son Andrew wed Maggie, and they have lived in Emmaus while son Matthew married Mary Beth and have dwelled in Tremonton, UT.
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Granddaughter Edith A. Haupt (1888-1943) was born in May 1888 in Albert Lea Township near St. Paul, MN. At the age of about 27, on Nov. 4 1915, she was joined in marital union with Harold A. Bossart (1880-1974) of Pittsburgh. The ceremony took place in the home of Edith's parents, with her father leading the exchange of vows. News of the marriage was printed in the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Albert Lea Tribune, which said that "The wedding gown was fashioned on simple lines and the bodice was cut decollete and with short sleeves. The girdle was of white satin. Her long tulle veil was caught with a bandeau of silver, she carried a shower bouquet of bride's roses [and] wore a bracelet of sapphires set in platinum, a gift from the bridegroom." The newlyweds' first home was at 138 East Winifred Street. Their three known children were Margaret Elizabeth Spaniol, Theodore Herman Bossart and an unnamed infant son. The Bossarts made a dwelling-place in St. Paul at 856 Deppe Street. Grief cascaded over the family in 1924 when their son Theodore and unnamed infant both died. Sadly, Edith she died at the age of 55 in late December 1943. Her remains sleep for the ages in St. Paul's Oakland Cemetery. Harold outlived her by more than three decades and remained in their longtime residence. He passed away in mid-December 1974 at the age of 94.
Great-granddaughter Margaret Elizabeth Bossart (1916-2010) was born on Aug. 2, 1916 in St. Paul, MN. She was joined in wedlock with John T. Spaniol Jr. (Dec. 8, 1911-1993). Together, they produced these children -- John T. Spaniol, Jeanne Morrow, Merry Lovelace, Margery Williams and Dr. Robert Spaniol. "Her focus in life was on family and friends; she was a homemaker and excellent cook," said the Kansas City Star. "She especially enjoyed square and round dancing and loved her grandchildren." Sadly, John died on April 26, 1993. She lived on for another 27 years in Leawood, KS. The spirit of death whisked her away at age 94 on Dec. 13, 2020, as a resident of Villa St. Francis Nursing Home. Her funeral liturgy was sung at the Cure of Ars Catholic Church. Burial was in the Resurrection Catholic Cemetery in Lenexa. She was survied by 17 grandchildren, soon-to-be 29 great-grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren. Son John married Kay and has lived in Overland Park, KS -- daughter Jeanne wed Dr. Stephen Morrow and moved to Neosho, MO -- daughter Merry entered into marriage with Rick Lovelace and settled in Collinsville, OK -- daughter Margery tied the knot with Gary Williams and moved to Shawnee, KS -- and son Dr. Robert exchanged marital vows with Sally and put down roots in Overland Park.
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Grandson John Boyer Haupt (1895-1961) was born in April 1895 in St. Paul. He was a World War I veteran. John dwelled in Minneapolis in 1944 and for 33 years in Edina, MN at 5209 Halifax Avenue South. He married Mabel ( ? - ? ). The two sons in this family were John Haupt and Charles Haupt. Sadly, at the age of 65, he died on Jan. 16, 1961. The remains were lowered into honored rest in Fort Snelling National Cemetery, with an obituary appearing in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Great-grandson John Haupt ( ? - ? ). On June 25, 1955, he entered into the bonds of marriage with Shirley Lee Anderson ( ? - ? ), daughter of Mrs. Lloyd Reno. The wedding was held at Holy Name Church in Minneapolis. Their first home was at 7015 Xerxes Avenue South. They remained in the city as of 1961, at 901 83rd Avenue North. They became the parent of Sandra Lee Haupt and Sharon Kay Haupt. The family was blanketed in mourning when daughter Sandra died at age 21 months on March 26, 1961, with the tender remains laid to rest at St. Vincent De Paul Cemetery, and an obituary appearing in the Minneapolis Star.
Great-grandson Charles Haupt resided in 1961 in Minneapolis.
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Granddaughter Ida L. Haupt (1896- ? ) was born in March 1896. Nothing more is known.
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Grandson George Edward Haupt Sr. (1896-1965) was born on March 20, 1896 in St. Paul, MN. He studied at the University of Minnesota where he had two years of military infantry experience. At the age of 21, when registering for the military draft during World War I, he disclosed that he was living in St. Paul and employed as a chainman by the Northern Pacific Railway Company in Montana. Circa the fall of 1923, he wed Nebraska native Gladys Marie Larson (1900- ? ), daughter of Harry C. Larson. Their two sons were George Edward Haupt Jr. and Gary Haupt. They lived in Omaha, NE in the 1921-1926 timeframe. As of 1940-1942, George Sr. was employed as an organist by the Third Church of Christ Scientist, and had a home address of 2522 Foster Avenue. When the federal census enumeration was made in 1950, George was now working as secretary of the local YMCA. He is believed to have died in New Haven, CT on May 7, 1965.
Great-grandson George Edward Haupt Jr. (1921- ? ) was born on Sept. 8, 1921 in Omaha. Circa the mid-1940s, he lived in Brooklyn, NY. On April 4, 1947, at age 25, he wed 24-year-old Ruth Elizabeth Williams, a resident of Wilmington, DE and daughter of Isaac and Mary Edna Williams.
Great-grandson Gary E. Haupt (1934- ? ) was born in about 1934 in New York.
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Grandson Henry Harpster "Hiene" Haupt (1903-1970) was born in 1903 in St. Paul, MN. His wife was Katharine Rose "Kay" Magers (1913-1986). She brought a stepson to the union, Dudley Mudge Ryan. The couple's two children of their own were James B. Haupt and Barbara Nacol. As of 1944, their home was in Minneapolis -- later in Kenworth near Chicago -- and in 1958 relocated to Arizona. He was a longtime director and Chicago branch office of the advertising giant Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn (BBDO). He also was a director of the First National Bank of Arizona and held memberships in the Arizona State University Foundation and Paradise Valley Country Club. He died in Scottsdale, AZ at the age of 66 on Sept. 4, 1970. Burial was in Scottsdale's Green Acres Memorial Park, with an obituary appearing in the Arizona Republic. Son James moved to Seattle -- son Dudley to White Bear Lake, MN -- and Barbara married (?) Nacol and settled in Blytheville, AR.
Step-great-grandson Dudley Mudge Ryan (1931-1999) was born on July 23, 1931. Death carried him away on Sept. 26, 1999.
Great-grandson James Bruce Haupt (1941-2024) was born on April 22, 1941 in Minneapolis. He grew up in Chicago and Scottsdale, AZ and then relocated in 1970 to Montana. He called Flathead County, MN his home for the balance of his years. Said an obituary, "Said an obituary, "In his youth, he wanted to be a cowboy and a police officer. He took a great deal of pride in his entire work career and resulting adventures and spoke of them often. From 1963-1970, he worked for United Airlines at the Seattle/Tacoma airport in various positions and enjoyed telling stories about the people he had met. From 1970-1974, he worked as a part time cowboy and freelance photographer, fulfilling his goal of being a cowboy, and spent a year living on a ranch within Glacier Park in Polebridge, MT. He worked as a still photographer for the movie Winterhawk and The Winds of Autumn." From 1975 to 2004, he was employed with the county sheriff's office as a deputy, communications officer and supervisor, and coroner from 1983 to 2004. He married Sandra Luckey. She brought these stepchildren into her union with James -- Tanya Ford, Jerry Donald Luckey and Larry Luckey. Sadly, at age 83, he died in Kalispell on July 10, 2024. His remains were cremated.
Great-granddaughter Barbara Haupt Nacol
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Grandson James Alexander "Jimmie" Haupt (1891-1970) was born in 1891 in St. Paul. Showing an early aptitude for vocal and instrumental music, he sang alto in a boy's choir at age 11 and studied organ and piano. He moved to New York City in young manhood where, from 1924 to 1957, he was "a pioneer announcer for Graham McNamee, one of the early leaders in the field of radio," said the Orlando (FL) Sentinel. "He was conductor of the NBC Concert Hour and Oratorio Society. He was also production director of the American Album of Familiar Music and General Motors Symphony with Arturo Toscanini conducting." He had an excellent tenor voice and at one point was a soloist for churches in Birmingham, AL and was founder of the city's University Glee Club. James first was united in matrimony in 1921 with Chicago native Eleanor Gage (Aug. 22, 1901-1930). They bore two children together -- Shirley Jean Picerno and Norman J. Haupt. James and Eleanor may have separated or divorced as she was living in Maywood, IL at the time of her untimely death on Feb. 22, 1930. Later, he tied the knot with Ruth ( ? - ? ). By 1957, him having left or retired from NBC, they made a homeplace in Ormond Beach near Daytona, FL. The angel of death spirited him away in Ormond on Dec. 6, 1970. The remains were shipped to Maryland for burial in Suitland's Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Great-granddaughter Shirley Jean Haupt (1922-2013) was born on Aug. 23, 1922 in Oak Park near Chicago. She entered into marriage with Robert Picerno Jr. (Aug. 7, 1924-2014). Their union held firm over an extraordinary 63 years. Two children of this coupling were Susan Davis and Kenneth Picerno. Robert was a World War II veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. The family settled in Westchesteer, IL. Robert was a longtime "brick mason who loved challenges, and enjoyed helping others with their home projects," said an obituary. "He liked to fish and especially looked forward to his Canadian trips. His fondness of classical music, especially piano pieces, was shared with his wife Shirley... His love of cooking and baking he inherited from his mother and passed those recipes along to his grandchildren." Shirley, said the Chicago Tribune, was a "member of the Chicago Symphony Chorus, organist and soloist at several community churches and avid gardener." Sadly, Shirley passed away in Hinsdale, IL on June 5, 2013. Robert joined her in death 11 months later at age 89 on May 13, 2014. They rest for all time in Memorial Washington Church Cemetery in Elgin.
Great-grandson Norman James Haupt (1924-2020) was born on May 17, 1924 in Oak Park near Chicago. He joined the U.S. Navy and served during World War II. Later, the Navy arranged for him to earn a degree in business administration from Tulane University. Norman married Johanna ( ? - ? ). They stayed together over an extraordinary 68 years. The four children they bore together were Karen Haupt, David Haupt, Eric Haupt and Steven Haupt. He went on to a lengthy career as an accountant with Parmalee Transportation in Chicago and Checker Motors in Kalamazoo, MI, becoming controller of his company. In an obituary, the Kalamazoo Gazette reported that Norman "retained his love of automobiles throughout his life and gifted his prized 1980 Checker Marathon to his grandsons. It has been restored and resides in Minnesota. Norm had an amazing sense of humor, dry at times, punny at others, and this has been handed down to several children in the family. Many who met him would comment on his sense of humor. He loved to travel, and there were many family car trips across the US and Canada. He was an avid golfer and continued playing into his late 80's. He also loved Duplicate Bridge, earning his Life Master." He surrendered to the angel of death in Kalamazoo on Sept. 25, 2020.
~ Daughter Henrietta Bennett (Haupt) Archambault ~
Daughter Henrietta Bennett Haupt (1821-1913) was born on April 6, 1821.
On Dec. 6, 1848, she married Achille Lucien Archambault ( ? -1908), son of Joseph Oliver Victor Senez Archambault of Newtown, Bucks County. Achille's father is said to have been an aide to French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and accompanied him to St. Helena, said the Philadelphia Inquirer, "and it was he who broke his sword over his knee and threw the pieces into the sea to prevent his British captors getting it."
Five offspring born to the pair were Joseph Lucian Archambault, Thomas Jefferson Haupt Archambault, Charles Victor Archambault, Anna "Margaretta" Archambault and Achille Lucian Archambault. They grieved when their eldest son Joseph died in 1851 at the age of under two.
Achille founded the Kensington Iron Works Company and Kensington Engine Works. He is widely credited with having invented the first portable engine in the United States and in designing the first steam yacht in action in American waters.
When the couple marked their golden wedding anniversary on Dec. 6, 1948, they held a reception at their home at 426 South 40th Street, with a notice published in the Inquirer. Among those helping in receiving guests were Isabel M. Harrison, Bessie Haupt, Florence Haupt and Susie Haupt. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. B.K. Jamison, Mr. and Mrs. Norton, Mrs. Ash Shaffer, Mrs. Lewis M. Haupt, Professor and Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Henry Heyl, Mr. and Mrs. E.S. Levy, Mrs. Barrett, Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. George Jenks and Mrs. Howard.
The celebration was short-lived, as Achille died 22 days later, on Dec. 28, 1908. His death created headlines in newspapers across the nation.
Henrietta lived on for another five years. Burdened with hardening of the arteries, she passed away at the age of 92 on Sept. 16, 1913. Burial was in Woodlands Cemetery. A miniature portrait of Henrietta, by the painter Thomas E. Barratt, was loaded by daughter Margaretta to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts for an exhibition celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters.
Son Thomas Jefferson Haupt Archambault (1852-1941) was born on April 6, 1852. He did not marry or reproduce. He assisted his father in the operation of the Kensington Iron Works Company. Circa 1899-1900 he served as commissioner of the Nicaragua Canal and director of irrigation projects in Arizona. His final residence in the City of Brotherly Love was with his sister 426 South 40th Street. He died at the age of 89 at home in Philadelphia on April 14, 1941. An obituary in the Philadelphia Inquirer confirmed his father's relationship to Napoleon. Interment was in Woodlands Cemetery.
Son Charles Victor Archambault Sr. (1854-1943) was born on March 11, 1854. In 1895, he married Julia Virginia Richardson (1873-1953). the ceremony was led by Rev. Thomas J. Kenny of the St. Mary's Star of the Sea Church, held in the home of the bride in Baltimore. Together, they produced a family of four -- Virginia Parrott (1896-1999), Winifred Border (1897-1976), Charles Victor Archambault, Jr. (1899-1973) and Thomas Julian Archambault (1901-1986) . He spent his career as a marine designer. The Archambaults dwelled in Baltimore in 1940-1941. Charles died in Rhode Island at the age of 89 on Aug. 24, 1943. Burial was in Baltimore's New Cathedral Cemetery, following a requiem mass at St. William's Church, with an obituary appearing in the Baltimore Sun.
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Son Achille Lucian Archambault (1866-1940) was born on Jan. 18, 1866. He was wed twice. His first marriage, on Oct. 8, 1890, to Mountain Lake Angel ( ? -1891) only lasted a little more than a year. She was spirited away by death on Nov. 8, 1891. On Feb. 1, 1895, he wed a second time to Margaret Chapman Angel ( ? - ? ). The second union resulted in five children, among them Achille Lucien Archambault III and Marguerite Chenery Stewart. He held memberships in the Pleasant lodge of the Masons and Elks, the United Commercial Travelers, the Benevolent League TPA and was secretary-treasurer of the Travelers Protective Association. Achille made a home in 1916 in Ashland, VA and in 1940 at 430 Mountain Avenue Southwest in Roanoke, VA. He died on March 9, 1940, with the body shipped to Philadelphia for burial. An obituary was published in the Roanoke World-News. Their son Achille III (1896-1974) wed Louise Josephine Belcher (1897-1981). Their daughter Marguerite (1894-1994) was twice-wed, first to Charles Morris Chenery ( ? -1948). They did not reproduce. Charles was an executive with New York Water Service Company, Western New York Water Company of Buffalo, South Ban Consolidated Water Company of Long Island and Rochester and Lake Ontario Water Service Corporation of Rochester, NY. Circa 1948, the Chenerys dwelled in Upperville, VA, and he served as a vestryman for Emmanuel Church of Middleburg. Charles died at the age of 59, from a heart attack, on March 1, 1948. Then on Feb. 16, 1952, in Clearwater, FL, Marguerite married again to James "Frederick" Martin Stewart (1879- ? ) of Toronto. Their nuptials were held in the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, by the hand of Rev. Robert M. Man, with her hand given by Joseph T. Lykes, and announced in the Tampa Tribune. The Philadelphia Inquirer announced the marriage and said the pair would "spend most of the winter and spring" in Florida and "then make their home in Toronto." Their address in Clearwater was 1617 Drew Street and Toronton at 7 Beaumont Road. Frederick was the son of James Archibld Stewart of Harriston, Ontario, an alumnus of the University of Toronto and president of J.F.M. Stewart and Company, Ltd. A collector of fine art, Marguerite made a number of donations over the years to the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Among these were John Neagle's oil portrait of her great-grandmother Anna Margaretta Haupt as well as William E. Winner's Landscape and Self-Portrait and Frederick Judd Waugh's The Open Sea. and a plaster bust of her brother Achille III, fashioned by Alexander Sirling Calder, all today part of the National Gallery of Art. Funds she provided to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts were used to help purchase Charles Hoguet's Shepherds and Their Flock Resting Under a Tree. She is known to have spent the winter of 1974 at Aiken, SC, a place which her friends persuaded here was the "direst spot east of the Rocky Mountains" with "crisp, clean air," said the Aiken Standard. During that holiday, she stayed at Hankinson Cottage and then moved to Charleston. She told the Standard that she "has no connection with the horse industry; she is in the cattle business, raising black Aberdeen Angus steer. Her [first husband's] niece, however, is Helen 'Penny' Tweedy, the former owner of Secretariat." Marguerite died on July 11, 1994, just 11 days shy of her 100th birthday. Her remains are in eternal sleep in Woodland Cemetery in Ashland, VA.
~ Son Dr. Thomas Jefferson Haupt ~
Son Dr. Thomas Jefferson Haupt (1823-1856) was born on the Fourth of July 1823 and apparently named for the author of the Declaration of Independence who was still living at the time.
He was a medical doctor and practiced dentistry. Circa 1844-1845, at the age of 21, he was based in Philadelphia at 201 North Sixth Street, between Callowhill and Wood, and advertised daily in the local newspaper, the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
By 1846, he had an office at 148 Lexington Street in Baltimore, MD, and was planning to travel to Gettysburg, where he brother Herman was residing, to provide dental services there. As of 1850-1851, his practice had moved to 308 Broadway, and he advertised in the New-York Daily Tribune that the "Dental operations performed at this office are characterised by elegance, permance and excellence of materials; charges barely remunerating and much below the usual rates. A visit from those whose limited incomes have heretofore prevented them from employing a competent Dentist is respectfully solicited."
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| Above: Dr. T.J. Haupt was on the George Law when he drowned at sea in 1856. Library of Congress. Below: His memorial in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Courtesy Russ Dodge |
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He is known in May 1856 to have sailed aboard the steamer George Law, carrying U.S. postal mail and millions of dollars in gold, en route from San Francisco to New York via Aspinwall, Panama. Tragically, on May 13, 1856, at the age of 33, he drowned while on that trip, three days before the ship was to have arrived in New York. His body was not recovered, and no newspaper coverage or obituary have been found.
His death may have been overshadowed by a far greater tragedy on that voyage. While docked in Panama, a week earlier, a number of George Law passengers boarded a Panama Railroad express train and some 30 to 40 were killed when the locomotive derailed at the Obispo Bridge, generating worldwide reportage. A cenotaph tablet was erected in Thomas' memory on his mother's grave in Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery.
~ Son Jacob "Lewis" Leeds Haupt ~
Son Jacob "Lewis" Leeds Haupt (1826-1898) was born on April 20, 1826 in "old Philadelphia" and was said to have been of English, German and Huguenot bloodlines.
He was a graduate of Boys' High School in the city. When his brother Herman was named professor of mathematics and engineering at Pennsylvania College in Gettysburg, and founded the Oakridge Select Academy in town, he hired Jacob as as teacher in the school, perhaps also known as the Oak Ridge Seminary for girls. Not long afterward, said the Lancaster (PA) Semi-Weekly New Era, "during the presidency of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company of Mr. John Edgar Thompson, he was appointed the general passenger and ticket agent of the newly organized enterprise, with headquarters first at Harrisburg and afterwward at Philadelphia; and was well acquainted with all the workers, officers and conductors of the passenger department of the entire road, which he brought to a state of splendid efficiency. He was largely the originator and promoter of that great convenience to all modern travelers, the 'coupon' ticket, and was a conscientious, steady worker, traveling incessantly for the road. So important an officer was he to the system that when he was 'drafted' during the Rebellion, near the close of the fifteen years of his service, his fine was promptly paid by the railway in order to retain him at his post of duty, and secure the faithful transfer and forwarding of the troops, from the West and North, over this great system. The work over which he then presided has now become three great departments of the road. Mr. Haupt subsequently entered upon a mercantile life and was interested in the mining, shipping and delivery of coal. He was also President of the North American Life and Accident Insurance Company of Philadelphia."
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| Philadelphia: A History of the City and Its People, by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer Courtesy Internet Archive |
On April 1, 1885, he accepted a new position as superintendent of the Visitation Agency of the Glen Mills School or House of Refuge, located at the corner of Parrish and 23rd Streets in the city, and maintained that position for the balance of his years. Said the New Era, "And it it safe to say that the thousands of his 'boys' and 'girls' of this great charity were the better for having come into contact with his noble character and self-denying care."
For decades, both in Philadelphia and Harrisburg, he was active in eldership and Sunday School roles and in time was named president and treasurer of the church council of St. Mark's Lutheran Church in the city of brotherly love. He also held posts as secretary of the Lutheran Orphans' Home at Mount Airy and helped to organize the city's Lutheran Theological Seminary, where he sat on its board from 1867 to 1885 during a time when the school produced five Lutheran pastors who went on to serve pulpits in Lancaster.
The New Era said that "Of a quiet, unassuming nature, he never sought or held public office, yet he ever lived for others and was a most self-denying, useful man. He was always ready when called upon to lend a helping hand. The entire ticket system of the great Sanitary Fair was under his supervision and management. Always at his post of duty, honorable, chaste, reliable, thorough in all he undertook, careful, but fixed in his convictions, a ready writer, with a rich vein of wit and a keen sense of humor, earnestly, deeply spiritual and morally devout, systematic, patient and persevering, the enemy of all that looked like tyranny, cant, or hypocrisy, he stood as the embodiment of a true Christian and American churchman and civilian... In person Mr. Haupt was small and of gentle winning manners."
In 1849, he wed Louisa Caroline Keller (July 30, 1828-1918), daughter of Rev. Dr. Benjamin Keller. (Lewis' brother Herman wed Louisa's sister Ann Cecilia.) Their family of five children included Rev. Charles "Elvin" Haupt, Henry Eugene Haupt, William Keller Haupt, Fanny Gertrude Haupt snd Mary Louise Conarroe.
While on a visit to the home of his son Elvin in Lancaster, PA in late August/early September 1898, his health failed due to what a newspaper called a cause of "a scirrhous nature." He passed away at the age of 72 on Sept. 17, 1898. The Semi-Weekly New Era reported that "As midnight approached on saturday last the spirit of Mr. Lewis L. Haupt passed from its earthly state and found peace." The remains were brought back to Philadelphia for funeral rites at the family home at 1724 Park Avenue. Delivering the funeral oration was Rev. J.L. Sibole, assisted by Rev. Ashmead Schaffer. Pallbearers were Richard A. Leweis, Amos Bonsall, W.W. Kurtz and Benjamin N. Faires. The remains were interred in Laurel Hill Cemetery.
Louisa outlived her spouse by two decades. Toward the end she became senile and developed heart disease. She remained in Philadelphia at 1724 North Park Avenue and died there at the age of 90 on Sept. 30, 1918. An obituary in the Lancaster (PA) Intelligencer said she "was a most active Christian woman in her day and was well known here." Burial was in Laurel Hill Cemetery.
Son Rev. Dr. Charles "Elvin" Haupt (1852-1920) was born on Oct. 6, 1852 in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA. He grew up in Philadelphia, graduated from its public school system and attended a private academy. In 1868, at the age of 16, he enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with a classical degree in 1872. Elvin made the decision to enter Christian ministry and graduated in 1875 from the Lutheran Theological Seminary on Franklin Square. On Jan. 15, 1878, he wed Mary Martha Geissinger (Sept. 22, 1846-1920), daughter of John Geissinger of Huntingdon County. The couple's duo of known children were Charles Elvin Haupt Jr. and Gerald Lewis Haupt. They quickly established their permanent residence in Lancaster, PA, where he launched his career at Christ Lutheran Church, at that time a mission of Old Trinity, as an assistant under Rev. Dr. Greenwald. For many years he was a principal at Franklin and Marshall College and a professor of mental and moral philosophy. He and his cousins Rev. Alexander James Derbyshire Haupt and Rev. Lewis Muhlenberg Haupt were profiled in Rev. J.C. Jensson's book American Lutheran Biographies (Milwaukee, 1890).
Since he entered on his residence in Lancaster, Pa., Sept. 1, 1875, as Dr. Greenwald's assistant, the Rev. Charles Elvin Haupt has seemed a vital part of Lancaster and its Lutheranism... His youth was spent in Philadelphia. After graduation at the University of Pennsylvania of that city and the Philadelphia Theological Seminary, he was ordained by the Ministerium of Pennsylvania at Norristown, May 26, 1875. His duties as assistant to Dr. Greenwald lay especially in that portion of Holy Trinity parish where Christ Church had been erected. He was a man exactly to the Doctor's mind – in many things a copy of the mild, engaging old pastor, and has since succeeded to his local popularity among people of every rank, notably among the poor and distressed. In January, 1880, he became pastor of Grace Church, in the northern part of the city. Fruits of his work there are a small parish school, quite a rarity in English churches, and the Greenwald memorial mission, called "The Evangelical Lutheran Sunday School of Emmanuel.” He is the author of "Stories from Bible History," and a biography of Rev. Dr. Greenwald. His skill in music and drawing, and his acquaintance with most of the natural sciences, added to a ready flow of genial humor and an abundant store of apt anecdotes and illustrations, make him a valuable adjunct at Sunday School institutes and wherever children or youth are to be interested in the affairs of God's Kingdom.
He also was known as a witty user of puns, and widely known as a workaholic. The Lancaster Examiner once said that "For many years he persistently refused to take a vacation, until several years ago, he was sent on a Western strip to the Pacific coast, and he returned greatly refreshed. Whenever the subject of vacation was broached, he emphatically declared that the church must be kept open." Elvin was named in 1880 as the second pastor of Lancaster's Grace Lutheran Church and held that post for four decades to the end of his life. All told, he performed 3,500 weddings and more than 4,000 funerals. He received a doctoral degree in 1900 from Franklin and Marshall. During his pastorship at Grace, when a new building was constructed in 1908, a "singing tower" of a 15-bell chime was installed and still functioning as of 2000. During the 1908 construction era, the members worshipped at the Temple Shaarai Shomayim on the same block, having always had a cordial relationship, including a "joint Thanksgiving service at the temple for which some of Haupt's colleagues roundly criticized him," said the Intelligencer Journal. He was a founder of Lancaster General Hospital and Madame Cotta College, later reorganized into the Shippen School for girls and renamed the Lancaster Country Day School. The Journal said that the Lemon Street Public School, later the Lancaster General Hospital School of Nursing, was renamed the Haupt School and stayed that way until the 1990s. At the death of his mother in 1918, in Philadelphia, he traveled to attend the rites and had to forego leading his usual midweek services. His address in 1920 was 21 East James Street in Lancaster, a residence known as "Grace Place." Suffering from chronic heart disease and acute kidney failure, death swept him away just eight days after his 68th birthday on Oct. 14, 1920. Charles E. Haupt Jr. of Washington, DC signed the official state death certificate. Burial was in Woodward Hill, also known today as Greenwood Cemetery. The city is said to have paid for a prominent marker at his grave. Inscribed on its face is this epitaph: "A fervent preacher of God, a loving disciple of Jesus Christ, a faithful servant of his fellow-men, came not to be ministered unto but to minister." Today, the carved letter "H" is in his honor remains in a rectangular stone as part of an old three "carriage-steps" platform in front of the church parsonage at 21 East James Street, Lancaster.
- Grandson Charles Elvin Haupt Jr. moved to Washington, DC where he was an architect.
Son Henry Eugene Haupt (1855-1925) was born on June 30, 1855. On April 15, 1880, he wed his cousin, Mary Ella Witte (1849-1921), daughter of William H. and Mary Ann (Haupt) Witte of Bucks County. The couple did not reproduce. Circa 1898, when named in his father's newspaper obituary, he worked as a scales manufacturer. Their address in the early 1920s was 225 South 40th Street. Sadly, Mary Ella died at home on March 25, 1921. An obituary in the Philadelphia Inquirer said she was "well known in musical circles in this city... [She] was an alumna of the Moravian Seminary at Bethlehem, a charter member of the Philadelphia Choral Society, the Philadellphia Music Club, associate member of the Fortnightly Club and connected with other musical interests here." Her funeral rites, conducted in the residence, were presided by Rev. J. Henry Harms, of the Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion. The widowed Henry then went to live at 4521 Spruce Street. On March 22, 1925, at the age of 69, he died from the effects of pulmonary tuberculosis. The body was laid to rest in Laurel Hill Cemetery. No obituary has been found in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Son William Keller Haupt (1857-1939) was born on Oct. 11, 1857. He was married three times during his lifetime and is not known to have reproduced. His first marriage was with Rachel Sweetman ( ? -1904). William was employed in the bankfield field for more than 50 years. In 1887, he joined the employ of the Union National Bank. By 1898, he had moved to the Fourth Street National Bank, remaining until 1900. He then was tapped to be vice president of Colonial Trust Company, a position he held in 1905 when mentioned in the Philadelphia Inquirer obituary of his famed uncle, Brig. Gen. Herman Haupt. He became a partner in Altemus and Haupt, brokers. For five years, reported the Inquirer, he was the Philadelphia representative of the commercial paper brokerage firm of Lahey, Fargo and Company of New York. He also was "widely known as a singer" and performed solos as a tenor at the North Broad Street Presbyterian Church and the First Unitarian Church. William held memberships in the vaunted Union League, Bachelors Barge Club, Orpheus Club, Symphony Society, Melody Club and Matrinee Musical Society. He also served a term as treasurer of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia. Sadly, Rachel died on Dec. 7, 1904. His second spouse was Sarah Lombaert (1857-1921). He is known to have signed his mother's death certificate in 1918 and at the time lived at 119 South Fourth Street. Then on June 19, 1922, he tied the marital knot with Anna (Thompson) Wood (1886-1957). The couple shared a home at 2112 Spruce Street. In November 1937, William was stricken by a severe cerebral hemorrhage but did not die. He lingered for about 16 months. During that time, at Christmas 1937, some 37 members of his Orpheus Club came to his home to serenade him with holiday carols. Said the Inquirer, "The affair attracted so much attention the police roped off the space in front of the Haupt home and the Orpheus then delighted the neighborhood with an outdoor concert. Mr. Haupt became a membere of this top-ranking Philadelphia singing club about 50 years ago." Death mercifully carried him away at the age of 81 on Feb. 21, 1939. He succumbed to the spectre of death in Philadelphia on Feb. 21, 1939. The remains were interred in Laurel Hill Cemetery.
Daughter Fanny Gertrude Haupt (1862-1947) was born on June 20, 1862. She did not marry over her long life. In the 1940s, she dwelled at 270 West Walnut Lane in Philadelphia. As her health declined she was admitted to resided in the Conner Convalescent Home. Diagnosed with cancer of the lung and a leasion on the right breast, which spread, she surrendered to the angel of death on April 24, 1947. Her mortal remains were lowered under the sod of Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.
Daughter Mary Louise Haupt (1864-1906) was born on Jan, 24, 1864 or 1865. At the age of 28, on Oct. 19, 1892, she wed Richard Riley Conarroe (1863-1930), also commonly spelled "Connaroe" and "Conarrol," the son of John L. and Margaret (Hamm) Conarroe. Their nuptials were held in St. Luke's Evangelical Church in Philadelphia, officiated by Mary Louise's brother Rev. C. Elvin Haupt, assisted by Rev. J. Luther Sibole. In announcing the marriage, the Philadelphia Inquirer said that the "bride was attired in white crepe de chene, en train, trimmed with embroidered chiffon. She wore diamond ornaments, a tuile veil, with orange blossoms and white kid gloves and bore a bouquet of bridal roses." Afterward, the wedding banquet was held at the home of her parents at 1724 Park Avenue. Six children were produced by this union -- Elvin Hamm Conarroe (1896-1953), Richard Riley Conarroe Jr., Margaret Louise Conarroe (1893-1966) and triplets Louis Conarroe, John Conarroe and Elizabeth Conarroe. The Conarroes lived in Philadelphia where Richard earned a living as a hardware store merchant. He is known to have become a partner of the hardware firm James M. Vance & Co. in January 1902 along with H. Vance Peters and Edmund L. Wunder. Their homeplace was at the address of 2033 North 22nd Street. Tragically, while expecting a baby in late 1905, Mary Louise developed kidney problems which plagued her for the remaining six months of her existence. Then, after giving birth to not one baby but three, in mid-March 1906, her health plummeted. A week after birth, death spirited her away at the age of 41 years, two months and two days on March 26, 1906. Adding to the family's overwhelming grief, one of the triplets, Elizabeth, was stillborn. Funeral services were held in the family home, with burial for Mary Louise taking place in South Laurel Hill Cemetery and baby Elizabeth in the Odd Fellows Cemetery. A very brief notice of her death was printed in the Philadelphia Inquirer. The widowed Richard outlived his bride by nearly a quarter of a century. He wed a second time circa 1907 to Pansy D. Ottwell (1884-1946), daughter of Mary Ottwell. His final employer was Charles M. Ghriskey's Sons. Their home in 1930 was the Chelton Arms Apartments in Germantown. He passed away in Germantown Hospital at the age of 66 on Feb. 2, 1930. An obituary appeared in the Inquirer. Daughter Margaret Louise did not marry. She lived in Bryn Mawr, PA where she was employed as an executive secretary, and died from colon cancer on April 7, 1966.
~ Daughter Mary Elizabeth Haupt ~
Daughter Mary Elizabeth Haupt (1828-1867) was born on Aug. 3, 1828.
She never married but devoted her life to her career. When her brother Herman was named professor of mathematics and engineering at Pennsylvania College in Gettysburg, he arranged to have Mary hired to a faculty of three at the Female Seminary. The faculty's focus was on religion, health, social and domestic responsibilities and cultivation of the intellect.
The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph said Mary was "One of the first teachers in the Girls' High and Normal School, when that institution was reorganized on its present basis, [and] was placed in charge of the department of Mental and Moral Philosophy. As a teacher she had few equals and no superiors, and in the latter branch exemplified her teachings by her daily walk and conversation."
Circa 1866, she dwelled at 2029 Green Street, Philadelphia. When in her 30s, she left the high school to join Mary E. Tazewell as principals of the West Penn Square Seminary for Young Ladies at 5 South Merrick Street, on West Penn Square below Market. The Evening Telegraph said the seminar "bid fair to become one of the best and most popular of its character in the city." They are known to have placed advertising in the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1866 and 1867 announcing when the next terms would begin and instructing parents on deadlines for applications. Mary also was a member of St. Philip's Protestant Episcopal Church.
In July 1867, she and Mary, in company with Josiah W. Harmer, Mr. and Mrs. Clark and Rev. Robert G. Chase and his wife, took a holiday to the coast of Maine. At the time, Chase was rector of St. Matthias Episcopal Church of Philadelphia, while Harmer was an up-and-coming lawyer and Clark was the cashier of the Framingham National Bank of Massachusetts. On the tragic day of July 24, 1867, while yachting together in Bar Harbor near Mount Desert, all but one in their immediate party drowned when their vessel capsized in a sudden burst of wind. The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph said that on the day of the outing:
They were a pleasant and happy company, and were enjoying themselves to the utmost. The last words spoken were by Mr. Chase, who stood upon the mast, "On, this is glorious." In a moment the squall struck them, and they were buried in the ocean depths. Verily, "in the midst of life we are in death." Those who were in the other boat saw the disaster with feelings that can better be imagined than described, but they were two miles and more to leeward, and could in no way reach the spot. Miss Blake, of Framingham, who was rescued, has recovered, but is still here. Her life was saved by an oar which she clutched, and by which she was buoyed up till help could reach her. Other bodies were seen floating on or just below the surface, but it was impossible to reach them. The boat went down stern foremost, dragging the smaller boat in tow with her, and disappeared almost instantly. The most strenuous efforts have since bee nmade to recover the bodies, but without success. The water is forty or fifty fathoms deep, and the current is very strong. It is hardly probable they will ever be recovered till the sea shall be compelled to give up its dead.
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| Mary E. Haupt and friends drowned off the coast of Mt. Desert Islane, Maine |
A special report to the Portland Daily Press in Maine gave more details --
A party came in from Southwest Harbor about half past eleven in the sail boat Telegraph, owned by Mr. Freeman of Southwest Harbor, and piloted by one Robinson... They remained about an hour and put out again with another boar that had accompanied them, in charge of Mr. John Freeman. Two other boats started out soon after, one in charge of a Capt. Higgins, and the yacht Maggie Mitchell. We were badly baffled by flaws in getting out of the harbor. The Telegraph and her companion boat, however, were getting on well. All the boats were separated by the distance of a mile or more. When the Telegraph was about four miles out squalls began to strike us. The Telegraph was seen to careen, but then righted again, partially, at least. Another squall, and she was seen to go over, and in three or four minutes she went down. Capt. Higgins, who was nearest and had the best course, reached the spot first. It may have been 15 or 20 minutes. Four persons were seen floating upon the surface. Not a trace of the boat was seen. She had gone down so rapidly that no on seems to have had time to loose and launch the small boat, the and pilot had gone with her.
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Lewiston Journal, 1867 Courtesy Google Books |
In its own analysis of the accident, the Philadelphia Inquirer observed that the:
...sad catastrophe... continues to be the subject of much comment and regret... These ladies were the companions of Mr. and Mrs. Chase upon their summer excursion. Miss Houpt was a sister of Lewis L. Houpt, Esq., the former General Ticket Agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad and at the present time President of the North American Accidental Insurance Company. He will feel the blow sadly... This calamity should be a warning to that class of careless persons who, forgetting or not realizing their ignorance and inexperience in such matters, will bathe, boat and sail in the most reckless manner. Accidents of this kind frequently occur, and though for a time they have some slight influence in checking the method of seeking dangerous pleasure. The caution is soon forgotten. A disaster, however, as severe as this, and one which has caused a deep gloom to settle not only on the immediate friends of the unfortunates, but also on many others, cannot fail to produce a full and good effect.
The news was published as far away as Pittsburgh, PA and Lawrence, KS. A cenotaph in Mary Elizabeth's memory was placed in Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery on the same marker as a similar tablet for her brother Thomas Jefferson Houpt, lost at sea in 1856, and their mother.
The operation of the school continued under the leadership of Mary S. Mitchell and Renee N. Townsend. Agnes Irwin became its head in 1869 and changed its name to the Agnes Irwin School, and then in 1875 moved it to her home at the southeast corner of Spruce and 19th Streets. In October 1898 -- 30-plus years after the tragedy -- a tablet to the memory of the two Marys was on exhibition at the Thackera & Co. on Chestnut Street during Jubilee Week.
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