Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Haines, Edward R. May 9, 1847 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

EDWARD R. HAINES,
a Union soldier of the late Civil War, and now an active and successful
builder and contractor of Altoona, is a son of Reuben and Mary E. (Mitchell)
Haines and was born in Buffalo township, Perry county, Pennsylvania, on the
9th of May, 1847.  His paternal grandfather, Lawrence Haines, was of German
descent, and came from the eastern part of Pennsylvania to Perry county at an
early day in the present century.  He was a wagon maker by trade, and died in
Perry county.  His son, Reuben Haines (father), was born in Perry county,
where he died in March, 1874, when in the fifty-third year of his age.  He
was a wagon maker by trade, a democrat in politics, and a Lutheran in
religious faith and church membership.  He owned a good farm, which he
cultivated in addition to following the wagon making business.  He married
Mary E. Mitchell, who was a native of Perry county, where she died in March,
1866, when in the fortieth year of her age.  Mr. and Mrs. Haines were the
parents of several children.
      Edward R. Haines was reared on his father's farm in Perry county, and
received his education in the common schools.  He assisted his father on the
farm and in the carpenter shop until March, 1865, when he enlisted in Co. B,
77th Pennsylvania infantry.  He served until January, 1866, when he was
honorably discharged from the United States service at Victoria, Texas, but
was not paid off till he arrived at Philadelphia on his way home.  After
returning from the army to Perry county, he learned the trade of carpenter
with his father, for whom he worked until the autumn of 1872, when he engaged
with a canal company, and worked during the winter on the repair of a canal
which they owned and operated.  In 1873 he came to Altoona, where he worked
at carpentering until 1874, when his father died, and he returned to Perry
county.  He then assumed charge of his father's shop, in which he conducted
the wagon making business until 1881, when he sold the shop and removed to
Mifflintown, Juniata county, where he engaged in the bottling business for a
few months, after which he went to Roanoke, Virginia, and worked at house
carpentering and in the machine shops of that place until 1885.  In that year
he returned to Mifflintown, and the next fall came to Altoona, where he
followed carpentering until February, 1891, when he formed a partnership with
D. J. Orner, under the firm name of Orner & Haines, and they followed
contracting and building up to March 1, 1892.  Mr. Haines then purchased his
partner's interest, and is still engaged in the contracting and building
business.
      In 1870 Mr. Haines was united in marriage with Mary E., daughter of
Joel Orner, of Perry county, this State.  To Mr. and Mrs. Haines have been
born three children:  Howard H., Joel W., and William H.
      Edward R. Haines in political matters is independent, and supports
measures and votes for men without regard to party.  Active, energetic, and
reliable in whatever he undertakes, he is now in the midst of a very
successful business career.

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