Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-25
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES,
Natives Of Lancaster County.

NauVeS Oh J-anca6tef County,.
w. II. Egle has been publishing in the
Harrisburg Telegraph some sketches Of
former citizens of DauphinL county OF
which the following have a local interest
for people of Lancaster county:
HALDEMAN, JACOB NJ, the second son of
John Haldeman and Maria Brenneman,
was born in Donegal township, Lancaster
county, March 4, 1881. His grandfather,
Jacob Haldeman, a native of German
Switzerland. emigrated at an early period
The former received good English and
German education, and, about 1906, pur-
chasing the water power and forge at the
mouth of Yellow Breeches creek, Cumber-
land county. established himself in the iron
| business. lie added rolling and Sitting
mill, and by his energy and industry soon
became one of the foremost iron manufac-
turers in the state. His superior
iron found steady market, and
upon the establishment Of the arsenal at
Harper S Ferry, he supplied the govern
ment for several years. About the year
1914, Mr.. Haldeman laid out the town of
New Cumberland. He greatly aided in
the building of the bridge over the Susaue-
hanna, and in other enterprises of the day.
lie was large stakeholder of the Harris
burg bank, and on the death of Mr. Elder
IN 1893, chosen president thereof, posi-
ton he Lsld at the time of his death.
From the period when Mr.. Haldeman
made Harrisburg his permanent residence,
he was largely interested in it's local enter |
prises. lie died at Harrisburg on the 18th |
of December, 1856, aged seventy-five
years, and is inferred in the cemetery |
there. He married, May 18th, 1910, Eliza |
Ina lac ii ,,,rl,t ,tn, c., T.
OfCOebrook furnace, who survives. Mr..
Haldeman was very successful in all his
business'transactiOns and left handsome
estate. He was leading citizen, and
aided largel in the prosperity of our city.
kEAGY, JOHN NJ, was born in Martic
township, Lancaster county. Penna, about
the year 1875. He was Of German descent
Oh the the maternal side, the name of his
mothers family being Litzenberg. He
received classical education, studied
medicine and graduated in 1917. In 1919
he published series of educational articles
in the Baltimore Chronicle, which were re-
printed at Harrisburg in 1924, in an octave
pamphlet of thirty eight pages. In 1927
DIR. keagy became principal of the IIar-
risburS academy, and during the same
year published his s. Pestallozian Primer,''
Il work made up largely of the more
modern OBJECT lessons, but under
the name of "Thinking Lessons, and
Lessons in Generalization By this
method, rs soon rs the child knows a
vowel and 4 consonant, he is taught to
spell and read the syllable which they
form. In the introduction, the author ad-
vocated the teaching of a child to read
words, 'as if they were Chinese syllables,"
and without a previous knowledge of the
letters, practicable mode which avoids
the absur'lity of telling child that see a !
tea (Which should spell sea) spells cat. lie I
at Harrisburg about two years I
when he went to Philadelphia to take
charge of the Friends high school. Short
y before his death, which occurred at
Philadelphia in the winter of 1861, DIR.
keagy was elected professor of the Ian
,uages in Dickinson college, but did not live
% act. Besides being 4 classical scholar
,hc doctor knew Hebrew, German and I
French he knew the principles of mechan- !,
cs, and insisted that boilers should have
more fire surface. Had he been brought 4.
Up as a machiniSt, he would have invented f
tubular boilers, having constructed a cop v
'er model composed partly of tubes. q