Meet the “Charming” Captain
A ship at sea is its own world. To be the captain of a ship is to be the unquestioned ruler of that world and requires all of the leadership skills of a prince...
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Article Updates and Corrections
With some regularity, my father, Mark Hagenbuch, and I stumble upon new information or other corrections to our articles. Sometimes these are substantial enough to warrant writing an entirely new piece. However, more often...
Andreas Hagenbuch’s “Charming” Shipmates
Andreas and his wife Magdalena left Plymouth, England aboard the ship, Charming Nancy, on July 17, 1737. We are not sure how long it took them to arrive in Plymouth from their home north...
Civil War Brothers and Cousins: Part 2
In part two, the final part in this series, we continue to follow the stories of Solomon, Samuel, and Henry W. Hagenbuch. Click here to view part one. Solomon and his cousin Henry W....
Remembering the Cross Keys Hotel
In 1771, Henry Hagenbuch (b. 1737, d. 1805), purchased a lot 60 feet wide by 230 feet deep at the corner of James and Hamilton Streets within the newly formed city of Northampton Town,...
A Deitschy Day in PA
The deepest roots of our Hagenbuch family tree stretch into Switzerland and Germany. However, for those Hagenbuchs living in the United States, it is an oversimplification to refer to ourselves only as Swiss-German. After...
Photos from the Hagenbuch Family Archives
Many of our readers are fond of seeing the numerous old photographs found in the Hagenbuch Family Archives. Noting this, here is a collection of unrelated photos and information about these: Henry W. Hagenbuch...
Planning the 2020 Hagenbuch Reunion
Several readers have written asking for information about the next Hagenbuch Family Reunion, since one was not planned for 2019. Currently, a date and a location have been set for a family reunion in...
Family Matriarch: Catherine (Messersmith) Lindner
The Hagenbuch archives contain three photographs depicting Catherine (Messersmith/Messerschmidt) Lindner. Catherine was the mother of Mary Ann (Lindner) Hagenbuch who was born in 1853 in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Mary Ann married Hiram Hagenbuch (b....
The Tragic Death of Flora Hagenbuch
In the first part of the Gold Fever series of articles, we were introduced to Flora Jane Brooks (b. 1867) who married John “Jack” Andrew Hagenbuch (b. 1857). According to their marriage certificate, the...
