John Haas    

JOHN HAAS, butcher, Meadville, was born in the town of Mergentheim, Wurtemberg, Germany, August 12, 1848, and is a son of John Andrew and Barbara (Keitel) Haas, natives of Germany. John Haas received a good education in Germany, and early learned the trade of his father, that of a butcher, at which he has worked all his life, with the exception of three months when he first came to Meadville, at which time he worked in a brick yard. In 1873 he came from Germany, and remained in New York for a time working at his trade. His health failing, he went to England but returned as soon as he recovered and settled in Meadville in 1875, working five years here for Harry Peirson, in the butchering business. Since 1880 he has been in business, and since 1882 he has carried on the industry alone. He was married in 1873 to Sophia Hofman, a native of Germany, by whom he has three children, Matilda, Charles and Sophia. Mr. and Mrs. Haas are members of the German Lutheran Church. He is a member of the A. 0. U. W.; in politics a Democrat.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 742

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