Family/Spouse: Charles HAAS. Charles was born in 1847 in Pennsylvania; died in 1929; was buried in South Heigh Cemetery, Sapulpa, Creek, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1900, Hillsgrove, Sullivan, Pennsylvania
• Military Service: 1917, Sapulpa, Creek, Oklahoma; World War I - Registration Card
• Census: 1920, Creek, Oklahoma
• Census: 1930, Sapulpa, Creek, Oklahoma
• Census: 1940, Sapulpa, Creek, Oklahoma
• Military Service: 1942, Sapulpa, Creek, Oklahoma; World War II - Registration Card

Notes:

See Sapulpa Historic Preservation Commission: The Home of Dr. Harry R. Haas and his wife Rose.
Dr. Harry Haas was the first eye, ear, nose and throat specialist in Sapulpa. He bought this property in 1923 and had the house build soon afterwards. In addition to being a physician, he was the first commercial manufacturer of bass fishing plugs in Oklahoma. His pattent for “LIV-MINNOW” was granted on July 16, 1935. HAAS TACKLE COMPANY was located in a building in the back yard. His plugs, marketed nationwide from 1933-1939 are now collectors items. In his retirement years, Dr. Haas experimented making plugs frome peanuts, almonds, Pennsylvania butter nuts, native pecans and English walnuts. Dr. Haas died in 1964 and is buried in Sapulpa’s South Heights Cemetery.

Harry married Rose B. FITZPATRICK before 1917. Rose (daughter of John H. FITZPATRICK and Mary Elizabeth DOOLIN) was born in Jul 1889 in Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois; died in 1952 in Oklahoma; was buried in South Heigh Cemetery, Sapulpa, Creek, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]