Jonas Haag, a retired farmer, who in former years was closely associated with agricultural interests but is now making his home in Tyner, where he is successfully conducting a hotel, was born in Stark County, Ohio, July 2, 1845.
His father, Jacob F Haag, now deceased, was an agriculturist of Ohio. He was born, reared and married, however, in Germany, and his wife bore the maiden name of Barbara Zeigler, also a native of the fatherland. They became the parents of twelve children, eight sons and four daughters of whom one was born ere their emigration to the new world. The father died in June 1856, having for about three years survived his wife, who died in May 1853.
Jonas Haag was the sixth son and the eighth child in his father's family. He was reared in the usual manner of farm lads, early taking his place in the fields and assisting in the labors of the farm until after the outbreak of the Civil war.
He was but seventeen years of age when on the 3rd of August 1862, he enlisted as a member of Company B, One Hundred and Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, continuing with that regiment until mustered out at the close of the war. With his command he went to the front and saw active duty upon the battlefields of the south, also participating in the long, hard marches and the monotonous waits that came in the winter season. He was on active duty in the battles of Covington, Kentucky; Knoxville, Tennessee; Buzzards' Roost, Dallas, Resaca, Atlanta, Lovejoy Station, Columbia, Franklin, Nashville, the battle of Fort Anderson and of Old Town Creek. He participated in the entire Georgia Campaign, was with Sherman on the march from Atlanta and was also at Wilmington. When the war was over he was mustered out at Cleveland, Ohio, in J line, 1865, and returned with a most creditable military record.
When the country no longer needed his aid Mr Haag went to Stark County, Ohio, where he resided until 1874.
Not long after his return home on the 23d of November 1865 he was united in marriage to Miss Susan E Scheafer, who was born in Ohio and was there reared. Her parents were of Pennsylvania Dutch descent.
Unto Mr and Mrs Haag have been born four children: Nettie I, Cordie A, Clara E and Ira E, but the youngest daughter is now deceased.
Mr Haag and his family continued to make their home in the Buckeye state until November, 1874, when they removed to Marshall county, Indiana, settling in Polk township, near Tyner.
There he cultivated a rented farm for some time and in 1881 took charge of the county farm, of which he was in control for four years. Carefully saving his earnings, he then purchased a farm in Polk township of fifty-one acres and improved most of that tract, continuing its cultivation and development until 1901, when he sold the property and removed to Tyner, where he has since opened the hotel that he now conducts. He also carries on a livery and feed stable and both branches of his business are proving profitable. He keeps a well-appointed hostelry and is a popular, host, doing everything in his power for the comfort and convenience of his guests.
In his political views Mr Haag is an earnest Republican, thoroughly in sympathy with the party and its principles, but at local elections where no issue is involved he casts an independent ballot, regarding only the capability of the candidates. Fraternally he is connected with the Grand Army of the Republic, and religiously with the United Brethren church.
He takes much interest in his association with his old army comrades and in recalling the scenes of tented fields at their campfires, and he is today as loyal and devoted to his country as when he followed the old flag upon southern battlefields.
A Twentieth Century History of Marshall County, Indiana
Volume 2
Daniel McDonald
1908
His father, Jacob F Haag, now deceased, was an agriculturist of Ohio. He was born, reared and married, however, in Germany, and his wife bore the maiden name of Barbara Zeigler, also a native of the fatherland. They became the parents of twelve children, eight sons and four daughters of whom one was born ere their emigration to the new world. The father died in June 1856, having for about three years survived his wife, who died in May 1853.
Jonas Haag was the sixth son and the eighth child in his father's family. He was reared in the usual manner of farm lads, early taking his place in the fields and assisting in the labors of the farm until after the outbreak of the Civil war.
He was but seventeen years of age when on the 3rd of August 1862, he enlisted as a member of Company B, One Hundred and Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, continuing with that regiment until mustered out at the close of the war. With his command he went to the front and saw active duty upon the battlefields of the south, also participating in the long, hard marches and the monotonous waits that came in the winter season. He was on active duty in the battles of Covington, Kentucky; Knoxville, Tennessee; Buzzards' Roost, Dallas, Resaca, Atlanta, Lovejoy Station, Columbia, Franklin, Nashville, the battle of Fort Anderson and of Old Town Creek. He participated in the entire Georgia Campaign, was with Sherman on the march from Atlanta and was also at Wilmington. When the war was over he was mustered out at Cleveland, Ohio, in J line, 1865, and returned with a most creditable military record.
When the country no longer needed his aid Mr Haag went to Stark County, Ohio, where he resided until 1874.
Not long after his return home on the 23d of November 1865 he was united in marriage to Miss Susan E Scheafer, who was born in Ohio and was there reared. Her parents were of Pennsylvania Dutch descent.
Unto Mr and Mrs Haag have been born four children: Nettie I, Cordie A, Clara E and Ira E, but the youngest daughter is now deceased.
Mr Haag and his family continued to make their home in the Buckeye state until November, 1874, when they removed to Marshall county, Indiana, settling in Polk township, near Tyner.
There he cultivated a rented farm for some time and in 1881 took charge of the county farm, of which he was in control for four years. Carefully saving his earnings, he then purchased a farm in Polk township of fifty-one acres and improved most of that tract, continuing its cultivation and development until 1901, when he sold the property and removed to Tyner, where he has since opened the hotel that he now conducts. He also carries on a livery and feed stable and both branches of his business are proving profitable. He keeps a well-appointed hostelry and is a popular, host, doing everything in his power for the comfort and convenience of his guests.
In his political views Mr Haag is an earnest Republican, thoroughly in sympathy with the party and its principles, but at local elections where no issue is involved he casts an independent ballot, regarding only the capability of the candidates. Fraternally he is connected with the Grand Army of the Republic, and religiously with the United Brethren church.
He takes much interest in his association with his old army comrades and in recalling the scenes of tented fields at their campfires, and he is today as loyal and devoted to his country as when he followed the old flag upon southern battlefields.
A Twentieth Century History of Marshall County, Indiana
Volume 2
Daniel McDonald
1908
Jonas Haag, a retired farmer, who in former years was closely associated with agricultural interests but is now making his home in Tyner, where he is successfully conducting a hotel, was born in Stark County, Ohio, July 2, 1845.
His father, Jacob F Haag, now deceased, was an agriculturist of Ohio. He was born, reared and married, however, in Germany, and his wife bore the maiden name of Barbara Zeigler, also a native of the fatherland. They became the parents of twelve children, eight sons and four daughters of whom one was born ere their emigration to the new world. The father died in June 1856, having for about three years survived his wife, who died in May 1853.
Jonas Haag was the sixth son and the eighth child in his father's family. He was reared in the usual manner of farm lads, early taking his place in the fields and assisting in the labors of the farm until after the outbreak of the Civil war.
He was but seventeen years of age when on the 3rd of August 1862, he enlisted as a member of Company B, One Hundred and Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, continuing with that regiment until mustered out at the close of the war. With his command he went to the front and saw active duty upon the battlefields of the south, also participating in the long, hard marches and the monotonous waits that came in the winter season. He was on active duty in the battles of Covington, Kentucky; Knoxville, Tennessee; Buzzards' Roost, Dallas, Resaca, Atlanta, Lovejoy Station, Columbia, Franklin, Nashville, the battle of Fort Anderson and of Old Town Creek. He participated in the entire Georgia Campaign, was with Sherman on the march from Atlanta and was also at Wilmington. When the war was over he was mustered out at Cleveland, Ohio, in J line, 1865, and returned with a most creditable military record.
When the country no longer needed his aid Mr Haag went to Stark County, Ohio, where he resided until 1874.
Not long after his return home on the 23d of November 1865 he was united in marriage to Miss Susan E Scheafer, who was born in Ohio and was there reared. Her parents were of Pennsylvania Dutch descent.
Unto Mr and Mrs Haag have been born four children: Nettie I, Cordie A, Clara E and Ira E, but the youngest daughter is now deceased.
Mr Haag and his family continued to make their home in the Buckeye state until November, 1874, when they removed to Marshall county, Indiana, settling in Polk township, near Tyner.
There he cultivated a rented farm for some time and in 1881 took charge of the county farm, of which he was in control for four years. Carefully saving his earnings, he then purchased a farm in Polk township of fifty-one acres and improved most of that tract, continuing its cultivation and development until 1901, when he sold the property and removed to Tyner, where he has since opened the hotel that he now conducts. He also carries on a livery and feed stable and both branches of his business are proving profitable. He keeps a well-appointed hostelry and is a popular, host, doing everything in his power for the comfort and convenience of his guests.
In his political views Mr Haag is an earnest Republican, thoroughly in sympathy with the party and its principles, but at local elections where no issue is involved he casts an independent ballot, regarding only the capability of the candidates. Fraternally he is connected with the Grand Army of the Republic, and religiously with the United Brethren church.
He takes much interest in his association with his old army comrades and in recalling the scenes of tented fields at their campfires, and he is today as loyal and devoted to his country as when he followed the old flag upon southern battlefields.
A Twentieth Century History of Marshall County, Indiana
Volume 2
Daniel McDonald
1908
His father, Jacob F Haag, now deceased, was an agriculturist of Ohio. He was born, reared and married, however, in Germany, and his wife bore the maiden name of Barbara Zeigler, also a native of the fatherland. They became the parents of twelve children, eight sons and four daughters of whom one was born ere their emigration to the new world. The father died in June 1856, having for about three years survived his wife, who died in May 1853.
Jonas Haag was the sixth son and the eighth child in his father's family. He was reared in the usual manner of farm lads, early taking his place in the fields and assisting in the labors of the farm until after the outbreak of the Civil war.
He was but seventeen years of age when on the 3rd of August 1862, he enlisted as a member of Company B, One Hundred and Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, continuing with that regiment until mustered out at the close of the war. With his command he went to the front and saw active duty upon the battlefields of the south, also participating in the long, hard marches and the monotonous waits that came in the winter season. He was on active duty in the battles of Covington, Kentucky; Knoxville, Tennessee; Buzzards' Roost, Dallas, Resaca, Atlanta, Lovejoy Station, Columbia, Franklin, Nashville, the battle of Fort Anderson and of Old Town Creek. He participated in the entire Georgia Campaign, was with Sherman on the march from Atlanta and was also at Wilmington. When the war was over he was mustered out at Cleveland, Ohio, in J line, 1865, and returned with a most creditable military record.
When the country no longer needed his aid Mr Haag went to Stark County, Ohio, where he resided until 1874.
Not long after his return home on the 23d of November 1865 he was united in marriage to Miss Susan E Scheafer, who was born in Ohio and was there reared. Her parents were of Pennsylvania Dutch descent.
Unto Mr and Mrs Haag have been born four children: Nettie I, Cordie A, Clara E and Ira E, but the youngest daughter is now deceased.
Mr Haag and his family continued to make their home in the Buckeye state until November, 1874, when they removed to Marshall county, Indiana, settling in Polk township, near Tyner.
There he cultivated a rented farm for some time and in 1881 took charge of the county farm, of which he was in control for four years. Carefully saving his earnings, he then purchased a farm in Polk township of fifty-one acres and improved most of that tract, continuing its cultivation and development until 1901, when he sold the property and removed to Tyner, where he has since opened the hotel that he now conducts. He also carries on a livery and feed stable and both branches of his business are proving profitable. He keeps a well-appointed hostelry and is a popular, host, doing everything in his power for the comfort and convenience of his guests.
In his political views Mr Haag is an earnest Republican, thoroughly in sympathy with the party and its principles, but at local elections where no issue is involved he casts an independent ballot, regarding only the capability of the candidates. Fraternally he is connected with the Grand Army of the Republic, and religiously with the United Brethren church.
He takes much interest in his association with his old army comrades and in recalling the scenes of tented fields at their campfires, and he is today as loyal and devoted to his country as when he followed the old flag upon southern battlefields.
A Twentieth Century History of Marshall County, Indiana
Volume 2
Daniel McDonald
1908
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