The Evening Sun (Hanover, Pa) Wed Oct 31, 1962 Col. Malhon Nathaniel Haines, York's most colorful and certainly its best publicized citizen, dies today at the York Hospital. He would have been 88 next March 5.
"The Shoe Wizard" made a fortune with a chain of retail shoe stores and real estate investments, and then gave much of it away.
He underwent a successful operation on Saturday but collapsed with a heart ailment and was under intensive care.
He is survived by his wife of a 1957 marriage, the former Miss Grace Marianne Churchill, of London, England.
His son, from a previous marriage, Stanley Emerson Haines, both of "The Hermitage", Hallam. Also surviving are three grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews.
A man with a variety of interests, he was an ardent Methodist and promoted good health and physical fitness.
Born in Old Washington, Guernsey County, Ohio, his father died when he was an infant and the family moved to Washington, DC in 1896. He was born John Morrison Haines, but his mother changed his name so it was the same as his fathers, he always said.
He was educated in the District of Columbia and graduated from the University of Maryland.
He married June Brown Irwin of Union county in 1909 and they had three children. A daughter who died in 1917, and a son Mahlon Nathaniel Haines the 2nd, was president of the Haines Shoe Co. when he died in January 1960.
Col. Haines gave his entire shoe business to the Haines Shoe Company's 28 key employees. After selling his 4000 acre cattle ranch in South Dakota in 1960, he gave substantial gifts to farmers who operated farms he owned as well as gifts to the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, YMCA, YWCA, the First Methodist Church, York and the York Hospital.
In 1948 he built a shoe house located in Hallam, PA. It was completed in 1949. In 2015 it is located at 195 Shoe House Lane, Hallam, York County, Pa off route 462 East.
Audrey Lerew kindly contributed Information for this entry.
She recalls her parents buying shoes from his store in York.
Complete article can be found in The Evening Sun, Hanover, Pa Oct 31, 1962
"The Shoe Wizard" made a fortune with a chain of retail shoe stores and real estate investments, and then gave much of it away.
He underwent a successful operation on Saturday but collapsed with a heart ailment and was under intensive care.
He is survived by his wife of a 1957 marriage, the former Miss Grace Marianne Churchill, of London, England.
His son, from a previous marriage, Stanley Emerson Haines, both of "The Hermitage", Hallam. Also surviving are three grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews.
A man with a variety of interests, he was an ardent Methodist and promoted good health and physical fitness.
Born in Old Washington, Guernsey County, Ohio, his father died when he was an infant and the family moved to Washington, DC in 1896. He was born John Morrison Haines, but his mother changed his name so it was the same as his fathers, he always said.
He was educated in the District of Columbia and graduated from the University of Maryland.
He married June Brown Irwin of Union county in 1909 and they had three children. A daughter who died in 1917, and a son Mahlon Nathaniel Haines the 2nd, was president of the Haines Shoe Co. when he died in January 1960.
Col. Haines gave his entire shoe business to the Haines Shoe Company's 28 key employees. After selling his 4000 acre cattle ranch in South Dakota in 1960, he gave substantial gifts to farmers who operated farms he owned as well as gifts to the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, YMCA, YWCA, the First Methodist Church, York and the York Hospital.
In 1948 he built a shoe house located in Hallam, PA. It was completed in 1949. In 2015 it is located at 195 Shoe House Lane, Hallam, York County, Pa off route 462 East.
Audrey Lerew kindly contributed Information for this entry.
She recalls her parents buying shoes from his store in York.
Complete article can be found in The Evening Sun, Hanover, Pa Oct 31, 1962
The Evening Sun (Hanover, Pa) Wed Oct 31, 1962 Col. Malhon Nathaniel Haines, York's most colorful and certainly its best publicized citizen, dies today at the York Hospital. He would have been 88 next March 5.
"The Shoe Wizard" made a fortune with a chain of retail shoe stores and real estate investments, and then gave much of it away.
He underwent a successful operation on Saturday but collapsed with a heart ailment and was under intensive care.
He is survived by his wife of a 1957 marriage, the former Miss Grace Marianne Churchill, of London, England.
His son, from a previous marriage, Stanley Emerson Haines, both of "The Hermitage", Hallam. Also surviving are three grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews.
A man with a variety of interests, he was an ardent Methodist and promoted good health and physical fitness.
Born in Old Washington, Guernsey County, Ohio, his father died when he was an infant and the family moved to Washington, DC in 1896. He was born John Morrison Haines, but his mother changed his name so it was the same as his fathers, he always said.
He was educated in the District of Columbia and graduated from the University of Maryland.
He married June Brown Irwin of Union county in 1909 and they had three children. A daughter who died in 1917, and a son Mahlon Nathaniel Haines the 2nd, was president of the Haines Shoe Co. when he died in January 1960.
Col. Haines gave his entire shoe business to the Haines Shoe Company's 28 key employees. After selling his 4000 acre cattle ranch in South Dakota in 1960, he gave substantial gifts to farmers who operated farms he owned as well as gifts to the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, YMCA, YWCA, the First Methodist Church, York and the York Hospital.
In 1948 he built a shoe house located in Hallam, PA. It was completed in 1949. In 2015 it is located at 195 Shoe House Lane, Hallam, York County, Pa off route 462 East.
Audrey Lerew kindly contributed Information for this entry.
She recalls her parents buying shoes from his store in York.
Complete article can be found in The Evening Sun, Hanover, Pa Oct 31, 1962
"The Shoe Wizard" made a fortune with a chain of retail shoe stores and real estate investments, and then gave much of it away.
He underwent a successful operation on Saturday but collapsed with a heart ailment and was under intensive care.
He is survived by his wife of a 1957 marriage, the former Miss Grace Marianne Churchill, of London, England.
His son, from a previous marriage, Stanley Emerson Haines, both of "The Hermitage", Hallam. Also surviving are three grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews.
A man with a variety of interests, he was an ardent Methodist and promoted good health and physical fitness.
Born in Old Washington, Guernsey County, Ohio, his father died when he was an infant and the family moved to Washington, DC in 1896. He was born John Morrison Haines, but his mother changed his name so it was the same as his fathers, he always said.
He was educated in the District of Columbia and graduated from the University of Maryland.
He married June Brown Irwin of Union county in 1909 and they had three children. A daughter who died in 1917, and a son Mahlon Nathaniel Haines the 2nd, was president of the Haines Shoe Co. when he died in January 1960.
Col. Haines gave his entire shoe business to the Haines Shoe Company's 28 key employees. After selling his 4000 acre cattle ranch in South Dakota in 1960, he gave substantial gifts to farmers who operated farms he owned as well as gifts to the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, YMCA, YWCA, the First Methodist Church, York and the York Hospital.
In 1948 he built a shoe house located in Hallam, PA. It was completed in 1949. In 2015 it is located at 195 Shoe House Lane, Hallam, York County, Pa off route 462 East.
Audrey Lerew kindly contributed Information for this entry.
She recalls her parents buying shoes from his store in York.
Complete article can be found in The Evening Sun, Hanover, Pa Oct 31, 1962
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