Godfried Haag (1799
Worked: Carlisle: c. 1830-1835+
Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, PA: c. 1840-c. 1845
Dublin, Franklin County, Ohio c. 1845-death
Godfried Haag was born in Welzheim, Wurtemberg, Germany on April 17, 1799. He emigrated from Amsterdam on July 6, 1829, and arrived in Baltimore on August 23, 1829. He settled first in Carlisle. He declared his intention to be naturalized in January, 1833, but he was not naturalized until August 16, 1837. His sponsors were Peter Weibley and Samuel F. Gaenslen of Carlisle. Haag’s signature can be seen on his naturalization paper.
Before moving to Mechanicsburg, Haag worked as a cabinetmaker in Carlisle where he is listed as “Godfrey Heck” on the 1835 Septennial Census.
Haag is listed as Hagg on the 1840 U. S. Census of Mechanicsburg with two males under five years old, three males 15-20 years old, one male 40-50 years old, and also a female 10-15 and one 20-30 years old. He lived two doors away from cabinetmaker Samuel Worst.
Haag first appeared on the 1841 Triennial tax assessment of Mechanicsburg as a cabinetmaker with a two-story weather-boarded house, shop and stable on a “front” lot. On the 1844 Triennial tax assessment, his property is listed as a two-story frame house, a two-story frame shop and a frame stable on a lot.
Haag moved to Ohio in the 1840s, settling in Franklin County where he worked as a cabinetmaker.
In 1870 Haag was 71-years old and living and working as a cabinetmaker in Dublin, Washington Township, Franklin County, Ohio with 34-year-old John Haag and 22-year-old Lucinda Haag. Haag died on September 14, 1878 and is buried in Dublin Cemetery.