1837 - 1908
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Born |
18 Aug 1837 |
Rothbach, Alsace, France [2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11] |
Gender |
Male |
Immigration |
Jul 1856 |
Died |
24 Feb 1908 |
Bunkie, Avoyelles, Louisiana [6, 7, 8, 9] |
Buried |
Thomas Douglas Marshall Cemetery near Greenwood, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana |
Person ID |
I21 |
Levey-Dannenbaum |
Last Modified |
17 Feb 2013 |
Father |
Samuel HAAS, b. 6 Oct 1798, Rothbach, Alsace, France , d. 22 Mar 1879, Ingwiller, Alsace, France |
Mother |
HĂĽnel, Jeanne, Henriette UHRY, b. 3 Sep 1802, Ingwiller, Alsace, France , d. 29 Jul 1841, Ingwiller, Alsace, France |
Family ID |
F206 |
Group Sheet |
Family 1 |
Hannah POKORNY, b. 6 Apr 1858, New York, New York , d. 11 Apr 1935, New Orleans, Louisiana |
Married |
10 Aug 1879 |
New Orleans, Louisiana [2, 4] |
Children |
| 1. Alice Rosalind HAAS, b. 17 Feb 1882, Haasville, Avoyelles, Lousiana , d. 18 Jun 1963, New Orleans, Louisiana  |
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Family ID |
F29 |
Group Sheet |
Family 2 |
Mary Maccie MARSHALL, b. 20 Sep 1846, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana , d. 19 Sep 1876, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana |
Married |
12 Jul 1866 |
Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana |
Children |
| 1. William David HAAS, b. 9 May 1867, Cheneyville, Rapides, Louisiana , d. 26 Aug 1940, Bunkie, Louisiana  |
| 2. Nanie HAAS, b. 5 Mar 1869, Cheneyville, Louisiana , d. 3 May 1930, San Mateo, San Mateo, California  |
| 3. Mary Maccie "Bunkie" HAAS, b. 28 Aug 1871, Evergreen, Avoyelles, Louisiana , d. 14 Nov 1959, New Orleans, Louisiana  |
| 4. Alexander Marshall HAAS, b. 20 Dec 1873, Evergreen, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana , d. 13 Dec 1934, Evergreen, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana  |
| 5. Samuel HAAS, b. 19 Sep 1876, Haasville, Avoyelles, Louisiana , d. 17 Oct 1876, Haasville, Avoyelles, Louisiana  |
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Family ID |
F30 |
Group Sheet |
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Photos |
 | San Francisco Fire Viewed From Alta Plaza Local Pacific Heights residents watched the city burn from Alta Plaza. The view is looking east towards Pacific Heights. Beyond is the smoke and fire which ravaged all areas east of Van Ness towards downtown. The road in the middle is Washington street where Aaron and Phina Loupe Kahn lived. Since many Loupe and Dannenbaum family resided in this neighborhood, they likely would have seen this same view. Alta Plaza is also where Col. Alex Haas (father of Alice Haas Dannenbaum) began to organize refugees on his horse. The dome to the right is Congregation Sherith Israel. The Bier home, which faces Alta Plaza, would be in the lower far right but is just out of range in this photo. |
Histories
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 | Alex and Hannah Haas Move to San Francisco Alex and Hannah Pokorny Haas were probably already separated during this time. |
 | Alex Haas and San Francisco Earthquake This news article corroborates a family story about Alex Haas. According to Connie Dannenbaum Levey (Haas' granddaughter) the relief camp mentioned in this article was at Alta Plaza in the Pacific Heights neighborhood. Immediately following the earthquake, Alex hopped on a horse just like his cavalry officer days from the Civil War and began organizing the refugees. . . or so the story goes. |
 | Alex Haas Horse Transactions and Dispute with Moses Family Horse trading was a tradition in the Haas family going back generations to Alsace. The difficulty with the Moses family was with Gustave Moses, of the famous photography studio in New Orleans and his brother, Bernard, a well regarded painter of the age. As Carol Mills-Nichol states in her book "The Forgotten Jews of Avoyelles Parish: "... Publically humiliating a successful member of the Jewish community over fifty dollars would not have been in the Moses Brother’s interest. Many prominent Hebrew citizens of New Orleans had been their clients, the most well-known being Fire Captain Samuel Levy, whom Bernard had painted in his ceremonial uniform."
The paintings referenced in the dispute remain unknown, and I hope they still exist somewhere. |
 | Alex Haas Obituary
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 | Alex Haas' Remedy for Charbon Posthumous retelling of remedy |
 | Alex Haas: Brief Bio Sketch
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 | Anti-Semitic Attack in Avoyelles Parish The following rebuke concerns an anti-Semitic attack on the Kahn Bros. store in Evergreen, and Felix Bauer's store in Cottonport. There is a family story that one of the Kahn brothers lived with a woman of color, which might have contributed to some consternation. Felix Bauer left Cottonport for Alexandria some time before 1890, and by 1895 was back in France for good. Six months after this attack Aaron Kahn married Phina Loupe in San Francisco and returned to Evergreen for a few more years before the couple moved to California. The investigation of this incident was financed by Alexander M Haas, whose daughter, Alice Haas, would eventually marry Phina Loupe Kahn's nephew, Arthur Dannenbaum. Coverage of the incident in the New Orleans Picayune eventually referred to the incident as the Avoyelles "matter" and seems to have stopped after an initial perpetrator was found. |
 | Naming of the Town Bunkie There has been much misinformation in articles about the founding and naming of Bunkie. In 1878 Captain Alexander Haas (not his brother, Samuel) purchased much of the land in this part of Avoyelles Parish, which was then called Irion. In l882 the Texas and Pacific Railway sought the right of way across Haas’ land. In exchange for permission to build the railroad, Haas was given the privilege of naming the train station. Through the encouragement of a railroad official, he named the city after his daughter, Maccie’s nickname, Bunkie. She received this nickname when Capt. Haas had bought his small daughter a toy monkey (not a real one). Maccie mispronounced the word "monkey" with "Bunkie" in her excitement. From then on she was called "Bunkie".
The following letters to the editor provide a breadth of views surrounding the establishment of the town. The first is from a local booster. The second, in contrast, shows that not everyone shared the excitement of Bunkie’s new name. This is followed by Capt. A. M. Haas' perturbed rebuttal. |
 | History and Destruction of Tiger Bend/Haasville Plantation Home The Plantation House in Tiger Bend (alternatively called Eola and Haasville) appears to extend back to Roger Banks Marshall before the 1840s. Roger's son, T. Douglas Marshall, lived with his family there in the 1840s. After the Civil War, his daughter and son-in-law, Maccie and Alex Haas, lived in the house. When Alex and his second wife moved to New Orleans in the 1890s, Alex’s son, A. Marshall Haas and his family, lived in the home. By the 1910s the family only spent summers in the house and eventually it was abandoned and destroyed sometime in the 1970s.
The name Northup referred to in this article was Solomon Northup, a free-born black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery and wrote the book “Twelve Years a Slave” which recounted his experience at various plantations in Avoyelles Parish before being freed in 1853. |
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