My Uncle Charles: Now I Know You Better
To begin this last in the series on my Uncle Charles, I want to thank my first cousin, Leon Hagenbuch, for looking through the attic-found box and realizing it’s importance. I suppose to many...
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John D. Hagenbuch Testifies Before Congress and Meets Samuel Gompers
On Tuesday, June 24, 1902, twenty-eight-year-old John D. Hagenbuch (b. 1874) sat before the United States Senate Committee on Education and Labor in Washington, D.C. A series of hearings had been convened to listen...
Merry Christmas in Photos
The final article in the series “My Uncle Charles” will take a brief hiatus as we celebrate Christmas with some vintage photos from the archives. Andrew and I are forever touting to save your...
My Uncle Charles: Advice from Cousin John
As mentioned in the previous article in this series, Charles Hagenbuch’s first cousin, John, wrote to Charles sometime after he came home from Chicago. There he had attended the DeForest’s Training two-week course on...
Finding Twin Sisters Through Collaborative Genealogy
Genealogy is a collaborative process, as demonstrated by my father, Mark, and I working together on this site. Teamwork enables us to bounce ideas off of each other and check our findings. It lets...
My Uncle Charles: Letters From Home to Chicago
My Uncle Charles was interested in furthering his education. He was not engrossed in farming as many of our Hagenbuch clan in the early 1900s. His story brings to mind the popular World War...
Bringing Together Family: The Children of Conrad Hagenbuch
As the Thanksgiving holiday nears, I am reminded of a classic American scene: a family, coming together around the table, preparing to dig into a mouthwatering dinner of stuffed turkey, all the side dishes,...
My Uncle Charles: I Hardly Knew You
Many of you, like me, probably have an uncle, aunt, cousin, grandfather, or grandmother whom we wish we would have taken the time to sit with and visit. I don’t mean to quiz them...
The Grisly Demise of Henry Hagenbuch
As a warning to our readers, this article describes the unsettling details of a suicide during the 19th century. Henry Hagenbuch was born on February 23, 1812 in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania to Joseph and...
A Family in Photos
As we head into our eighth year of Hagenbuch family historical articles, I find that Andrew has taken the lead on more and more research and knowledge of the family. Our articles are planned...
