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Godfrey Haga (born in Isingen, Duchy of Württemberg, 30 November 1745; died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 5 February 1825) was a United States merchant, politician and philanthropist.
Biography
After emigrating to the United States, he settled in Philadelphia, where he became a merchant, and was connected with the principal charitable and mercantile institutions of the city. He was a member of the Philadelphia City Council in 1797-1800, and of the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1800-01. He was a director of the Insurance Company of North America, 1800-1825. He bequeathed an estate valued at $350,000 to charitable purposes. Notably, he sold 5,500 acres of land to the Christian sect, The Separatist Society, led by John Baumeler, that had emigrated from Wurtemberg to Philadelphia. The land, in northeastern Ohio, in present day Tuscarawas County, would later become the village of Zoar, a communistic society ( eine Guter Gemeinschaft / a community of goods).
Notes
- Now the village of Ising in the French department of Moselle. See German exonyms (Moselle).
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- "Oil on canvas portrait of Godfrey Haga, Director of the Insurance Company of North America, 1800-1825, 30 x 25". liveauctioneers.com. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1892). "Haga, Godfrey" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
External links
- "Legacy of Godfrey Haga, Esq". The American Baptist Magazine. 5: 123. 1825.
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- Members of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly
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