Julius Hauser (1853 - 1920)

Born 7 Aug 1853 in Rust, Ettenheim, Baden, Germany

Died 26 Mar 1920 at age 66 in Sayville, Suffolk, New York, United States

Julius Hauser is Notable.

Biography

Julius Hauser (1853-1920) was an American businessman and politician. ^[1]

Youth and emigration

Julius Hauser was born in 1853^[2] to Roman catholic parents Pius Hauser and Maria Eva Schwarz from Rust, Ettenheim, Baden, Germany,^[3] as the seventh of nine children. His father was a turner (Drexler).^[4]

Julius visited the public and normal schools in Ettenheim. He graduated from normal school in 1869.^[5] Soon after leaving school, he emigrated from Germany.^[6] Julius travelled via Le Havre and London, on bord of the SS Bellona, arriving in New York on 29 November 1869.^[7] He learned the baker's trade in New York City, and opened his own shop in Sayville, Suffolk County, in 1878.^[8] The business operated until December 1906.^[5]

Two of Julius' siblings also emigrated to the United States: His older sister Sophia, who travelled with him in 1869 and who married in Manhattan, New York in 1871,^[9] and the younger sister Luise, who in 1880 was living in Sayville in the household of her brother.^[10]

Private life

Julius married twice. His first wife Dora Jedlicka,^[11][12] born in New York in 1865, was of Bohemian descent.^[13] The two got married around 1881, and stayed together until her death in 1906.^[14] The couple had no children.^[15] In 1907, Julius got married a second time, to Adella Maude Anthony, nee Blansett, the widow of famous Spanish American War veteran William "Brave Bill" Anthony.^[16] She brought a 7-year-old son into the marriage. Julius and Adella had three children together (two sons and a daughter).

In 1907, a few months after he had closed his bakery, a fire destroyed Julius Hauser's huckleberry farm north of Sayville.^[17]

A fierce forest fire, swept by a brisk wind through the dense pines north of Sayville yesterday, spread to a fifty-acre woodland tract belonging to State Treasurer Julius Hauser, which was destroyed. The destruction included Mr. Hauser's famous huckleberry farm, which he utilized to great profit when he was Sayville's baker and piemaker. Mr. Hauser will now have to buy huckleberries for his pies elsewhere.
The New York Times, 25 May 1907

In 1918, Julius fell ill with stomach cancer.^[8] He passed away in 1920, at his home on Greene Avenue, Sayville,^[8] and was buried at Saint Anns Cemetary in Sayville, in the grave of his first wife.^[18] His widow Adella Maude survived him by 19 years. She is buried in Penn Yan, Yates County, New York.

Political career

Julius Hauser served several terms as Islip, New York Town Clerk. ^[1] In 1902 he was the Chairman of the Democratic Committee of Suffolk County, New York. ^[1] In 1903 he was elected Supervisor of the Town of Islip and in 1906, while still in office, he was nominated to run for New York State Treasurer on the Democratic and Independence League ticket. ^[1] He served as the state treasurer in 1907 and 1908, but was defeated for re-election by Republican Thomas B. Dunn. ^[1]

Research notes

• For unknown reasons, the birth date listed on his tombstone and in other contemporary accounts published after 1900 is off by exactly one year. His age is correctly given as 16 in the 1869 passenger list,^[7] but he was later said to have been 15 at the time.^[8] His age is 26 in the 1880 census,^[10] but that is consistent with a birth in either 1853 or 1854. The first known record that definitely gives an incorrect date is the 1900 census, claiming "August 1854".^[10]
• The 1900 census states that Julius' wife Dora arrived from Germany in 1869, and that both of her parents were of German descent. This is in disagreement with all other records, which give her origin as Bohemia, and state that she was born in New York.
• Wolmershäuser mentions more Hauser from Rust who emigrated between 1841 and 1869: Landolin, Leopold, Gregor, Abraham "Jung", Auguste, Heinrich, Wilhelm and Stephan
• Sourced family tree on Family Search: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GM23-R4S

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Wikipedia contributors, "Julius Hauser," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julius_Hauser&oldid=1099524022 : accessed September 4, 2022).
2. ↑ "Deutschland, Baden, Kirchenbuchduplikate, 1804-1877," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2D2-Q6R2 : 9 January 2020), Julius Hauser, 7 Aug 1853; citing p. 340, volume {record.getField('SOURCE_VOLUME')}, Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg (Provincial Archives), Freiburg, Germany.
3. ↑ Peter Ross: "History of Long Island: from its earliest settlement to the present time", New York, 1903, p.221-222 https://archive.org/details/historyoflongisl00ross_1/page/n356/mode/1up
4. ↑ Church book Rust, Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Staatsarchiv Freiburg, Badische Standesbücher (Geburts-, Ehe- und Sterbeeinträge), L 10 Nr. 1426, 1 Bd., Rust OG; Katholische Gemeinde: Geburtenbuch 1843-1870 image 168
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Frederick S. Hills: "New York State Men - Biographic Studies and Character Portraits", The Angus Company, Albany, New York, 1910. https://archive.org/details/NewYorkStateMenBiographicStudiesAn/page/n135/mode/2up
6. ↑ "Auswanderung: Julius Hauser, Rust, nach Amerika", in: Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Abt. Staatsarchiv Freiburg, B 701/1 Nr. 2225 https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/CXJOAN5MWJS6QUKAZS3AANQA5ARUQ4YU
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} "United States Germans to America Index, 1850-1897," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KD31-LWK : 27 December 2014), Julius Hauser, 29 Nov 1869; citing Germans to America Passenger Data file, 1850-1897, Ship Bellona, departed from Havre & London, arrived in New York, New York, New York, United States, NAID identifier 1746067, National Archives at College Park, Maryland.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3} "Julius Hauser Dead", obituary in The New York Times, 27 March 1920 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1920/03/27/102388846.pdf
9. ↑ "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24MJ-37J : 19 August 2022), George Meyer and Sophia Hauser, 1871.
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1 10.2} "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZNM-CVT : 14 January 2022), Julius Hauser, Sayville, Islip, Suffolk, New York, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm
11. ↑ Pittston Gazette (Pittston, Pennsylvania); digital images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/51336065 : accessed 3 September 2022); citing Thursday, 13 June 1907, page 4, col. 1.
12. ↑ The Carbondale Leader (Carbondale, Pennsylvania); digital images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/638708898 : accessed 3 September 2022); citing 13 Thursday, 13 June 1907, page 8, col. 4.
13. ↑ "United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSGN-PDP : 1 December 2021), Dora Hauser in entry for Julius Hauser, 1900.
14. ↑ Suffolk County News – Friday, February 16, 1906 ---- Obituary – Mrs. Julius Hauser https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/15071802/person/18024114014/media/8efb019b-62af-488f-8db3-62cd5771f325?src=search
15. ↑ United States Census, 1900, New York, Suffolk, ED 768 Islip Township, Election District 5, image 27, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6775-2R?i=26&cc=1325221&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AMSGN-PDP
16. ↑ "New York, Yates County, Swann Vital Records Collection, 1723-2009," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJ8B-82XT : 1 March 2021), Julius Hauser and Adella M Anthony, 12 Jun 1907; citing Marriage, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States, Yates County Genealogical and Historical Society and Oliver Museum and Underwood Museum, Yates.
17. ↑ "Treasurer Hauser's Loss. State Official's Huckleberry Farm on Long Island Burned Over.", in: The New York Times, 25 May 1907, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/05/25/106708074.pdf
18. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #137128869

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M59N-KVZ : accessed 21 June 2019), Julius Hauser, Islip, Suffolk, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 1372, sheet 9B, family 238, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1082; FHL microfilm 1,375,095.
• "New York State Census, 1915", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9PG-1N6 : 1 June 2022), Julius Hauser, 1915.
• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVSG-X2S : accessed 21 June 2019), Julius Hauser, Islip, Suffolk, New York, United States; citing ED 124, sheet 11B, line 97, family 272, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1269; FHL microfilm 1,821,269.

See also

• Wikipedia: Julius Hauser
• Wikidata: Item Q6309847, en:Wikipedia