Emanuel Hause

As printed in 1881

EMANUEL HAUSE, blacksmith, Lawrenceville; born in York Co., Pennsylvania, Aug. 24, 1832. Is a son of John and Margaret (Hartman) Hause, natives of Pennsylvania. The paternal grandparents were natives of Germany, the material of Pennsylvania. John and family emigrated to Ohio and located in German Township in the spring of 1848, where, in about six months after, he died. His wife died in

July, 1877. From an issue of five children, four now survive—Lydia, Aarabel B., Emanuel and Peter J. The mother was married the second time to Emanuel Circle, by whom she had one child—William C. Our subject, at the death of his father, was 6 years of age. The family were left in quite limited circumstances, and the children obtained homes wherever they could be found. Emanuel worked here and there through the summer months, and in the winters remained at home with his mother and attended the district school. In May, 1855, he sought and obtained a position with Joseph Peters, of Springfield, to learn the blacksmith trade; continued with him two and a half years, thence he took a trip West, working at his trade at various points in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana for one year; thence in 1860, he and his brother commenced business on their own account in Lawrenceville, where they carried on blacksmithing fourteen years, when his brother retired from the firm, and Mr. E. continued the business till April, 1880, when he sold out and bought a farm two and a half miles north of Lawrenceville. He was married, Oct. 3, 1861, to Elizabeth, daughter of John and Christena Brest, natives of Virginia; issue, eight children; six now survive —lLaura A., Clark C., Otilla J., Kit C., Omer P. and Stephen S. Mr. Hause started out a poor boy; obtained but a limited education; learned his trade, and, by industry and economy, has, besides raising his family and meeting the expenses of much sickness, and the death of two children, accumulated a good property; owns 100 acres of good land, mostly in cultivation, with good buildings and improvements, and all paid for but $1,650. He has been a hard-working, energetic man, and is one of those who knows no such word as * fail."

As printed in The History of Clark County Ohio, (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.