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Elisabeth "Libby" Maas
Graduated 1st grade of elementary school
Katherine M. Kaufmann
1880
Chaska, Carver, Minnesota
Farmer, later was in the hotel and livery business
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John Haaf Elisabeth "Libby" Maas Graduated 1st grade of elementary school Katherine M. Kaufmann 1880 Chaska, Carver, Minnesota Farmer, later was in the hotel and livery business |
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| Children: | Magdalena Otilia | Aug. 25, 1881 | † July 12, 1934 |
| Elizabeth M. | Apr. 1883 | † Nov. 21, 1947 | |
| Charles N. | Dec. 6, 1884 | † Feb. 16, 1960 | |
| Mary A. | Sept. 1886 | † 1928 | |
| Sophia J. | July 1889 | ||
| Frances J. | June 1891 | ||
| Gilbert James | Oct. 20, 1893 | † Mar. 6, 1971 | |
| Rose Clara | Apr. 25, 1896 | † Aug. 5, 1955 | |
| Philip A. | Nov. 1899 | † Sept. 22, 1958 | |
| George H. | Nov. 11, 1903 | † Feb. 3, 1977 | |
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John Haaf was born in Lancaster, Erie, New York, in 1850. At the age of 29 he came to Chaska where he married Katherine Kaufmann (sister of John). They moved to Clear Lake in the early 1880's where they raised a family of ten children. Mr. Haaf managed the Clear Lake Hotel from 1899 to 1909. The Haafs later moved to St. Cloud. Church of St. Marcus: Story of a Community, by Patricia K. Witte, p. 23At the time of the May 1st, 1885 Minnesota state census, John was 31 years old and living with his wife Kate and their three young children in Big Lake, Sherburne, Minnesota. At the time of the 1895 Minnesota state census, John was 39 years old and living with his wife and their seven children in Clear Lake, Sherburne, Minnesota. At the time of the June 12, 1900 U.S. Federal Census, John was 50 years old and living with his wife, their nine children, Lavenia Skinner (an 18-year-old servant), and ten boarders in Clear Lake, Sherburne, Minnesota. John was a hotel proprietor. At the time of the June 13, 1905 Minnesota state census, John was 54 years old and living with his wife and their seven children in Clear Lake, Sherburne, Minnesota. At the time of the April 16, 1910 U.S. Federal Census, John was 61 years old and living with his wife Katherine and their five children in Clear Lake, Sherburne County, Minnesota. He was the proprietor of a livery stable, and he and Katherine had been married 24 years. [Source: 1910 U.S. Census, Roll T624-710, E.D. 123, p. 2B] At the time of the Jan. 8, 1920 U.S. federal census, John and his wife and their two youngest sons, Philip and George, were living together at 364 Pleasant in St. Paul Ward 7, Ramsey, Minnesota. John was 68 years old and working as a nightman in a garage. At the time of the Apr. 2, 1930 U.S. federal census, John resided at St. Joseph's Home for the Aged in Haven, Sherburne, Minnesota; he was 78 years old. At the time of the Apr. 10, 1940 U.S. census, John was 88 years old, widowed and living as a guest at St Joseph's Home For The Aged located at 1824 Minnesota Boulevard South East in St. Cloud, Sherburne, Minnesota. He told the census enumerator that the highest grade that he had completed was the 1st grade of elementary school. John died at Clear Lake, Sherburne, Minnesota on May 31, 1943 at the age of 91. |
| Ancestry: | The Stimmler/Stimler Line [through marriage] |
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