- G. E. Haas, senior member of the well-known hardware firm of Haas & Breier, Kaukauna, was born in 1858, in Buchanan township, Outagaine Co., Wis., a son of George and Rose (Bowvers) Haas. George Haas was a native of Baden, Germany, and at the age of twenty-two years imnmigrated to Syracuse, N. Y. His wife, Rose (Bowers) HIaas, was born in Saxony, and at the age of nine years became a resident of the same county (Onondaga) in New York State. There they were married, and subsequently they removed to Wisconsin, locating first ib Brown county, then in 1855 at Little Chute, finally on a farm in Buchanan township. Ontagamie county, in what was then dense woods. He assisted in building the canal, aided in the construction of the first railroad in Kaukauna, built the first bridges across the river at that place and Little Chute, rebuilt one of them twice, built the first float bridge across the canal, and cut the timber to open the first road on the Island. He enlisted in the Thirty-second Wisconsin Volenteer Infantry in 1862, but was rejected upon reaching Oshkosh, on account of disability. After remaining six weeks at that point he returned home. With his wife he now resides in South Kaukauna, which he has seen grow out of the wilderness covering the region upon his arrival nearly forty years ago. Aside from the son whose name opens this sketch, the children of Mr. and Mrs. Haas are: Mary, wife of Henry Blancher, of Neenah; Elizabeth, wife of John Myers, of Rock Creek, Pine Co., Minn. ; William and Henry, residents of South Kaukauna Margaret, wife of William Alger, South Kaukauna; Emma, wife of William Doran, of Rock Creek, Minn. ; Delia, wife of Williamn Smith, of Montana.
Our Subject wvas reared a farmer, and was educated in the schools of the locality of his birth. He learned the carpenter's trade, and at the age of eighteen years built a barn and launched out into the business of contractor and builder, which he still continues. Among the buildings erected by him are the public school, Kuehn block, Mulford, Mulloy's livery, Jacobs block, and many of the edifices on the South side. In addition to his other business he engaged in the hardware trade in 1889. In 1890 he came to Kaukauna, and is at present the senior mnember of the firm of Haas & Breier, carring a complete stock of hardware, buggies and lumber.
Mr. Haas was married in Buchanan township, Outagamie county, in 1882, to Augusta Abel, a native of Saxony, Germany, whose father, Ernst Abel, located in Kewaunee county, Wis., in 1870, removing subsequently to Menasha, thence to Little Chute, and finally to Antigo, whcre he now resides. Three children have been given them: Erma, Edmond and Martha. In political matters Mr. Haas convictions are those of the Republican party. He is a member of Ledyard Lodge, A. 0. U. W., also of Kaukauna Lodge No. 297, L. 0. 0. F, and is one of the representative young men of his city and county with years full of promise before him.
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1858 - 1945 (86 years)
1860 Census
