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John 'Jacob' Haupt |
John "Jacob" Haupt 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.
Circa 1816, in Philadelphia, the 40-year-old Jacob married a Haupt cousin, 30-year-old Anna Margaretta (Wiall) Snyder (July 22, 1786-1857), daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Haupt) Wiall.
Anna brought a stepson to the marriage, Charles Jacob Snyder, with the boy later taking on the Haupt name.
The couple settled in "old Philadelphia," where Jacob earned a living as a merchant.
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| Old Philadelphia, including a stereoview of the Betsy Ross house - Library of Congress |
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The children borne by this union were Gen. Hermann 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.
He is said to have "lost his business in the War of 1812 and been forced to work as a bookkeeper in a wholesale grocery," according to a 2015 paper A General Chronology of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Its Predecessors and Successors, by Christopher T. Baer. A similar entry in American National Biography says that Jacob was "a businessman of modest attainments, and Anna Margaretta Wiall, the proprietor of a small dry goods store. [Then] in 1827 [Jacob], suffering from poor health, gave up the grocery store he then owned and moved to Woodville, New Jersey. Jacob Haupt died the next year, leaving his widow in straitened circumstances."
Sadly, Jacob met his end in or near Albany, NY, said while to have been en route to see his brother Samuel of Newville, Herkimer County, NY. It appears that he arrived in Albany in late September 1828 "in an extremely debilitated situation [and] found on the Pier," reported the Albany Daily Advertiser, as reprinted in the Oct. 7, 1828 edition of the Farmer's Herald of St. Johnsbury, VT.
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. 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.
No recovery was to be, and Jacob died shortly afterward on Sept. 30, 1828. His burial place is not known.
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 Laurel Hill Cemetery. 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."
~ Son Gen. Hermann 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 |
Son Gen. Hermann Haupt (1817-1905) -- later spelled "Herman" -- was born on March 26, 1817 in Philadelphia. He was 12 years of age at his father's untimely death and went to work to support his widowed mother and siblings.
At the age of 14, he was appointed to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point by President Andrew Jackson. Upon graduation, with high honors, he was named professor of engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
Herman on Aug. 30, 1838 was united in matrimony with 17-year-old Ann "Cecelia" Keller ( ? -1891), daughter of 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 Stenger 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.
Grief cascaded over the family when three of the offspring died young -- John at age three in 1843, Adelaide Rosalind in 1851 at age one and Grace Hermania at age one.
For a time they resided in Harrisburg at Front and Locust Streets and also on Market Street. 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 span rivers in a single night for armies to cross. He was the author of Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt, 1901. He was profiled in Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, which reads:
He was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1835, and entered the 2d infantry, but resigned on 30 Sept. following, and was assistant engineer on the public works of Pennsylvania until 1839. He was appointed in 1844 professor of civil engineering and mathematics in Pennsylvania college, Gettysburg, and filled that chair until 1847, when 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 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. It was dedicated on Oct. 3, 1892, in memory of Cecelia's father and named "Keller Memorial Lutheran Church." 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."
As a measure of Herman's standing, he is named on several pages of the great multi-volume biography by Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. The list of their children is spelled out in William Henry Egle's 1896 book Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg Publishing Company).
Son Jacob Benjamin Haupt (1842-1903) was born on April 20, 1842. He was baptized in infancy 15 days later on May 5, 1842 in St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church of Gettysburg. On Nov. 8, 1866, he tied the knot with Mary Elizabeth Ziegler (May 18, 1846-1911). Four known children of this union were Charles Ziegler Haupt (born 1867), Edward Haupt (1869), Catharine "Katie" Sturdevant (1876-1967) and Anna Cecelia Haupt (1879). Federal census records for 1870 and 1880 show the Haupts in Philadelphia, on 32nd Street, with Jacob engaged as a civil engineer. Jacob died in Manhattan, NY on May 8, 1903. A handwritten record of his death, in German, was made in the papers of the East 68th Street Church of Manhattan. Son Edward wed Charlotte Maud Wistar ( ? - ? ), and in turn their son Caspar Wistar Haupt was accepted into the Sons of the American Revolution on the service of his mother's ancestor Hartman Deitsh/Deutsch (1750-1815).
Son Lewis Muhlenberg Haupt (1844-1937) was born on March 21, 1844 in Gettysburg, PA. He also became an engineer of renown. In 1873, Lewis married Isabella Christina "Belle" Cromwell (1852-1912). Five offspring they bore together were Lewis H. Haupt (1889-1956), Bessie M. Haupt (1879-1966), Florence Urner (1883-1957), Susan Adamson (1885-1974) 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. Their wedding was held on June 26, 1873. Lewis was 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).
Lewis' profile in the 1898 book Prominent and Progressive Pennsylvanians of the Nineteenth Century, Vol. III, reads as follows:
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.
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 Virkush. 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.
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| Brothers Rev. Lewis M. Haupt (left) and Rev. Alexander J.D. Haupt Courtesy Google Books |
Daughter Mary Cecelia Haupt (1846-1911) was born in 1846. She resided in Philadelphia and was single for her entire life. 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.
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, 8½ 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. Circa 1876, Fred was employed as clerk and treasurer of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company in Massachusetts. 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. In the late 1920s, he is known to have spent part of the year in residence in the Ashland Hotel and then, when it closed, he 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 per parents and graduated from a preparatory school in St. Paul in 1895. 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. She died on May 7, 1918.
- 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." 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.
Son Rev. 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 ( ? -1885). Sadly, she died on Nov. 28, 1885. His second bride was Alexandra V. Dougan ( ? - ? ). He was the father of Rev. David R. Haupt. He 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. He 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.
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). 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." One known son of the couple was John Nichols Haupt. The Haupts spent their lives in Minnesota. In 1883, Frank and his brothre 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. 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 in 1917 endured the death of 13-year-old son John at California Hospital. The boy's remains were transported to St. Paul for interment. Carol passed away in 1930.
Son Rev. Alexander James Derbyshire Haupt (1858-1934) was born on June 1, 1858/1859 in Greenfield, MA when his father was there overseeing construction of the famed Hoosac Tunnel. He was united in matrimony with Ida Louise Boyer (Oct. 25, 1861- ? ). Together, they produced six children -- Edith A. Haupt, Margaret C. Haupt, John Boyer Haupt (1895-1961), George Edward Haupt, Henry Harpster Haupt (1903-1970) and Rev. James Alexander Haupt (1903-1970). Alexander was a Lutheran Church pastor in St. Paul, MN and described as "a great lecturer who commands attention not only in religion as such but on the family life, eugenics." His credentials were published in Who's Who in America. He was profiled extensively in Rev. J.C. Jensson's book American Lutheran Biographies (Milwaukee, 1890).
At the age of seven years he began attending the public school at Chestnut Hill, near Philadelphia, Pa. When nine years old the family moved to Philadelphia where his studies were continued and completed, after eighteen years of school life. 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.
~ 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 and then became employed as a teacher at the Oak Ridge Seminary for girls in Gettysburg, PA. 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 Intelligencer Journal said that the Lemon Street Public School, later the Lancaster General Hospital School of Nursing, ws 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. Their son Gerald died at the age of six, and their son Charles 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. He became a partner in Altemus and Haupt, brokers. For five years, reported the Philadelphia 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. H 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. The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph said she 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.
~ Stepson Charles Jacob Snyder Haupt ~
Stepson Charles Jacob Snyder Haupt (1810-1851) was born on March 17, 1810.
On his 24th birthday in 1834, he tied the marital knot with Emily Mestayer ( ? - ? ), daughter of Lewis and Maria Mestayer of Boston.
Their family of offspring included Emily Marie Haupt, Rosalie Haupt, Charles Henry Haupt and William Ayres Haupt.
The family was shrouded in grief when daughters Emily died at age two and Rosalie at age one. Charles died on May 8, 1851.
Son Dr. Charles Henry Haupt (1839-1894) was born on March 30, 1839. He planted himself in St. Paul, MN where he practiced as a physician. Death carried him away in 1894.
Son William Ayres Haupt (1844-1896) -- stage name "William Mestayer" -- was born on June 8, 1844. He was twice-wed, first to Ida Riddle ( ? - ? ). His second marriage was with Theresa Rose Ott ( ? - ? ), stage name "Theresa Vaughn." They both were stage actors.
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