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Born at 5:15 A.M. in Princeton, Illinois. He was baptized by Rev. Austmann in Princeton. Johannes was confirmed on 16 April 1882 at Friedens Church in Milwaukee, by his father, Christian Gottlieb Haack. Census 1930 Lancaster, Grant County, Wisconsin Haack, John L age 62 born 1867 Illinois Haack, C Allin age 58 born 1871 wife He went into a coma the night before he died. Monroe Evening Times: 18 Sept 1949 Browntown Plans Tribute Service Sunday To Fete Retiring 60-Year Pastor A special observance commemorating 60 years of service in the ministry by Rev. J. L. Haack, Browntown, will be held in his Browntown parish, the Evangelical and Reformed Peace Church, tomorrow evening at 8. The congregation and associate ministers of the area will attend and Rev. John C. Gieser of Grace Church, Mil-waukee, will present the anniversary address. In the course of his service, Rev. Haack has resided in nine different church areas, beginning with his first parish at Hales Corners, near Milwaukee, in 1889, and continuing through his present church were he has been since November, 1939. In 1939, he resigned from the ministry after 50 years' service. He said farewell to the con-gregation at Lancaster where he then was preaching, his intention being to retire from active work. Near the end of that year, he received a call from the church at Browntown. The call to serve came just after Rev. Haack and his wife had bought a home in Monroe and were preparing to move here. The Haacks accepted the call at Browntown, but again in 1946 they made plans for his retire-ment that they might move to Monroe. The plans failed to materialize for Mrs. Haack died Sept. 28, 1946. Now, the chronic heart ailment which had prompted his previous retirements, again has made retirement a necessity. But 60 years of ministering have totaled a record of a useful life: his first parish at Hales Corners; the organization of two churches at Marinette, Wis., and Menominee, Mich., from 1892 to 1898; service with the Milwaukee Friedens Church which his father, the late Rev. C. G. Haack, had served for 28 years. From 1903 to 1910, Rev. Haack was a pastor in San Antonio, Tex., where the Haacks moved for reasons of health. Upon Mrs. Haack's recovery, they moved to St. Cloud, Minn., where he served until 1916 when called to the superintendence of the Evangelical Deaconess hospital in Milwaukee, a position he held until 1920. The next three years he held the pastorate at Lancaster after which he responded to an urgent call from the congregation at Rochester, Minn., which had organized a large convalescent home to serve patients from the clinics and hospitals and which was in need of a pastor with institutional experience. He returned to his charge at Lancaster in 1926, remaining there until 1939 when he first retired. Another 10 years have passed. This retirement, says Rev. Haack, is for keeps. He plans to move to Webster Groves, near St. Louis, where he will live with his son, Arno J. Haack, director of student affairs and dean of men at Wash-ington University, St. Louis. In his place at Browntown will be Rev. Walter H. Waeckerle who will be ordained tomorrow in his home town, St. Louis, fol-lowing graduation from the seminary at Mission House, Plymouth, Wis. A native of Princeton, Ill., Rev. Haack was born on Jan. 5, 1868, the son of Rev, and Mrs. Christian Gottlieb Haack. He has one brother, Theodore, Colum-bus, 0.; a sister, Mrs. Martha Mysch, Quincy, Ill.; two step-sisters, one in Fort Sumner, N. M., the other in San Francisco, and a step-brother in Columbus, 0hio. He attended Elmhurst College in Illinois before going to Eden Seminary, Webster Grove, St. Louis. Eden Home for the Aged inc. 631 Lakeview Blvd., New Braunfels, Texas 78130 625-6291 (area code 512) Kenneth A. TRIESCH MAY May 2, 1969 Administrator Mr. and Mrs. David A. Haack10714 Triola LaneHouston, Texas 77072 Dear Friends: We were pleased to have your pastor and the confirmation class visit our Eden Home last week, and it was a joy to learnto know you personally. It was so interesting to meet someone so closely related to Pastor Haack who had so much to do with the founding of Eden Home. Enclosed is a bit of History in which you were interested. Come to see us again. Sincerely, R, F. KuretschChaplain RFK/lw "The doorway to Security and Purposeful living for the aging." The Eden Home for the Aged of Texas Synod had its origin in 1906when Pastor J. L. Haack of Bethany Evangelical and Reformed Church(Friedens Evangelical Church) reported to the Texas District Conferencethat Mr. and Mrs. Martin Schmidt had offered ten thousand dollars ($10,000)for the establishment of a benevolent institution near San Antonio, TheTexas District accepted the challenge and gathered other large gifts sothat by July, 1910 our Eden Home for the Aged could be dedicated to aministry of love. A Diakonie Verein was organized to foster this benevo-lent work in the churches of Texas Synod. Even though the facilities were not always adequate to meet the needs,the service rendered was such that State Inspectors repeatedly rated theEden Home as among the best in Texas. Mr. Olin W. LeBaron, ExecutiveSecretary of the Community Welfare Council of San Antonio wrote in 1952,"The opinion which I get from people in the field (of Social Welfare)here in San Antonio is that the Eden Home is one of the best, if not thebest, of its kind in our County (Bexar) and is certainly meeting a very definite need for the people who are cared for there It is very much a program that should be continued." However, just how to continue this kind of a program had become avery real problem, inasmuch as the antiquated buildings and facilitieswere declared inadequate and unsafe by City Health authorities andgranted only a temporary license for operating the Eden Home. At the Conference of Texas Synod in 1953, the Board of Directorsof the Eden Home for the Aged, Inc. was authorized to finalize buildingplans for facilities to accommodate fifty people at an approximate costof two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) and to initiate acampaign in Texas Synod to make the necessary resources available tostart construction at an early date. Many special meetings of the Board of Directors were held for thepurpose of making further studies of the property and building plans.Mr. Marvin Eickenroht, architect, who had drawn preliminary studies, waschosen as the architect. He gave the Board valuable council in the re-study and in making surveys, bringing property lines up to date andappraising the property. From a restudy it became evident that relocatingthe Home would be advisable. A special Committee was appointed to make acareful study of the whole question of relocating the Home. The Boardof Directors was greatly encouraged in its planning by the news that onMay 19, 1953 the special Bill (No. 641) supported and guided throughproper legislation by Joseph H. Foster, Julius Schleyer, Neil Beaton,Senator R. A. Weinert, Representative Marshall Bell and Frates Seeligson,passed the House. This Bill gave Synod the permission to sell the EdenHome property and to use the money thus acquired for the purchase of newproperty or making improvements. The Synod left the matter of relocationin the hands of the Board of Directors and Synod Council. The Board of Directors also gave much time and study to the matterof the financial campaign. After various Fund Raising Bureaus had beencontacted, in a joint meeting of the Synod Council and a special Committee,the Frederic Peter Hanley Associates were chosen to guide Texas synodthrough that important phase of the building program. With the ringingof the Church bells, the Eden Home Building Fund Campaign got under wayin the churches of Texas Synod in June, 1954. The Campaign was good,but not good enough, so at the Synod Conference in 1955 Texas Synod "urgedthe Board of Directors of the Eden Home to renew its effort to raise thebalance of the funds necessary, aimed at enlisting the support of allcongregations so that construction may begin at an early date." After careful consideration of a few sites, the Board of Directorsand the Synodical Council agreed that the 6.75 acre tract of land onLakeview Blvd. offered as a gift by the City of New Braunfels, Texaswas the most desirable upon which to erect the new Home. An additional53.5 acre tract was purchased from Rochette R. Coreth, Lina A. Windwehenand Agnes A. Altgelt for the sum of sixteen thousand dollars ($16,000).Here the Eden Home family would be able to enjoy the facilities andadvantages of city life on a plot of land overlooking the Guadalupeand Comal valleys. In order that construction could begin "at an early date" a bondissue was authorized by the Board of Directors up to three hundredthousand dollars ($300,000), with the understanding that only as manybonds be sold as were necessary to finish the construction and furnishthe Home. The Service of Breaking the Ground for the new Eden Home for theAged was conducted on Sunday, September 18, 1955, and a year later, onSunday, October 14, 1956 the beautiful new Home was dedicated amid muchrejoicing and with deep gratitude to God who had led us through manyanxious days. The Messenger: November 8, 1949 Rev. J. L. Haack, retired, passed away October 9, 1949, in WebsterGroves, Missouri, at the age of eighty-one. A graduate of Elmhurst College and Eden Seminary, he was, ordained by his father, the late Rev. C. G.Haack, in 1889, and for a period ofsixty years served churches in Wis-consin, Michigan, Texas and Minnesota, until his retirement in June,1949. From 1916 to 1920 he was superintendent of the Deaconess Hospitalin Milwaukee, during which period anew building was erected and the institution modernized. He is survivedby one son. Mrs. Haack died in 1946. WAYNE UNIVERSITY BOARD OF EDUCATION OFFICE OF THE DEAN OF STUDENT AFFAIRS November 14, 1949 Dr. Arno Haack Dean of Students Washington University St. Louis, Missouri Dear Arno: While reading "The Messenger" this morning at breakfast,I came upon the note which reported the passing of your father.Meeting the facts of life in these situations is, I know, mostdifficult arid expressions of regret and sympathy are often seeminglyempty phrases. Somehow or other the report of the passing of onewho has reached end exceeded a life span of eighty years strikes mewith a feeling that has, should I say, a warm differentness. Tobe privileged to reach those years in moderately good health andreasonable activity seems to me to be a kind of reward in livingthat makes ones passing a natural development not unwanted by himso privileged and not misunderstood and rebelled against by thoseremaining. The extra years above those one can normally expect areindeed a bounty of the Lord which gives life an unusual richness forall to whom its impact reaches. The particular great privilege ofyour father to remain in active capacity so near to the last is onefor which, as a fitting end to a most fruitful career, you shouldindeed be grateful. My best wishes. Sincerely, Victor F. Spathelf Dean of Student Affairs VFS:gw Johannes kept an autograph book, in which the first entry was inscribed by his father, in German script, written 24 August 1887 when Johannes was due to leave for seminary. Johannes had already been to Elmhurst Pre-Theological College. "Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition which you have made unto him. (I Samuel 1:17) Yes, He who loves unspeakably never hears the timid heart plead without giving him the hope: Amen, so be it! Our God, dear Johannes, is a God who answers prayer. If the prayer is earnest and persistent, then God comes, He will see to it, and allow much good to happen. May the Lord always allow you to have the experience, that such words are pure, genuine truth. That wishes from the heart,Your Papa C.G. Haack Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the 24th of August 1887." The following is an autobiography written by Rev. J.L. Haack: "The following is a sketch of my life, written on the birthday of my beloved wife, Clara Alice Isely Haack, on October 30,1946, one month after her death on September 28th. I was born at Princeton, Illinois on January 5, 1868, and was the fifth child of father's first marriage. Two children of the first marriage, Gottlieb and Samuel, died in infancy, and four, Marie, Martha, Johannes and Gustav survived when we moved from Princeton, Illinois to Milwaukee on November 2, 1871, soon after the historic Chicago fire. Mother died in 1872 during a smallpox epidemic, and about one and one half years later father married Helene Becker on 5 November 1873. This second marriage was blessed with eight children, viz. Christian, Emma, Lydia, Pauline Friederike,Lucie, Pauline Johanne, Theophil and Helene. Christian died in infancy and during a scarlet fever and diptheria epidemic in the fall of 1880 all the living seven children were seriously ill, and three of them died within two weeks, viz. Pauline of the second marriage at the age of two years, and Marie and Gustav of the first marriage, 16 and 11 years old respectively, leaving only four children to celebrate Christmas with father and mother one month later that fatal year. Sister Martha and I of the first marriage and Emma and Lydia of the second marriage survived. I continued attending the parochial school of Friedens Church, which father served, until I was 14 years old, after which I attended Markham Academy in Milwaukee two years. After I decided to study for the Christian ministry, in 1884 I entered Elmhurst College, which at the time was preseminary, or the preparatory school for the theological seminary. In September 1886 I entered Eden Theological Seminary, near St. Louis, and graduated in June, 1889. My ordination took place at Frieden's Church in Milwaukee on July 28, 1889. My first field of labor was Hales Corners, near Milwaukee, where I served the nearby organized Emmanuel Church from July, 1889, until September 1893. A near mission field having been opened at Marinette, Wisc, I was sent there by the Mission Board in September, 1893, and succeeded in organizing Friedens Church in Marinette and Trinity Church, across the Menominee River in Menominee, Michigan. Both congregations, with commendable vision immediately built a very fine brick church. After I had been in Marinette about three years, and in the ministry almost seven years, God's grace and providence led me to find in the person of Miss Clara Alice Isely of Milwaukee, formerly of Monroe, Wisconsin, an ideal life companion and a wonderful help in my ministry. I met her for the first time on January 4, 1895 at the home of Rev. Wm. Koch in Milwaukee, who had confirmed her during his pastorate in Monroe. On August 21, 1895 we were engaged, and on January 8, 1896 we were married by father at Friedens Church in Milwaukee. Late in the evening on that day we boarded the train for Marinette. Early in the morning we arrived at Menominee, where we were met and greeted by a special committee, who had ordered a carriage to take us to our home in Marinette. Here we spent our honeymoon, lived ideally happy and worked together harmoniously in Church, Sunday School, and society. Here our first child was born on November 13, 1897, and we named her Doris Alice. After father's death, November 26, 1897, the choice and election of a successor caused considerable excitement and some controversy. After I had been elected, we moved to Milwaukee, in May, 1898, when I began my service in the church, the character of which had been established during the 26 years of my father's faithful ministry. Due to a very hot and trying summer of that year, we experienced the tragedy and heartache of our sweet child, Doris, through untimely death on August 28th, in consequence of a cruel attack of "summer complaint." More trial was in store for us during our Milwaukee ministry. In 1901 my good wife was attacked by a serious throat trouble, which had the symptoms of tuberculosis. This condition aroused because of her weakened condition in consequence of a long siege of typhoid fever. Upon the urgent advice of her physician she went south and spent about nine months, from September, 1901, to May, 1902 in San Antonio, Texas. Due to the wonderful climate and the daily treatment of her physician, she was, with God's help wonderfully improved, and, when she returned to Milwaukee in May, she seemed to have overcome the threatening TB tendency. When, however, she was again threatened with the arrival of winter, she went back to San Antonio in January, 1903, and I resigned my position in Milwaukee to follow her after Easter in March 1903. In San Antonio I organized the new Friedens Church. Soon after the organization, the congregation bought a property and built a neat frame church, and I undertook to build the parsonage on my own responsibility, with borrowed money. On July 31, 1903 our son, Arno, was born, and although we spent some happy years in San Antonio, and were successful in our church work, a disagreeable situation arose in connection with the turning over of the personally owned parsonage to the congregation, and led to my resignation as pastor of the church and as president of the Texas District of the Evangelical Synod of North America. By this time, my dear wife's trouble had been perfectly cured, and we were glad to go back north. Providentially, just at this time an opening presented itself to us at St. Cloud, Minn., where we served another Friedens Church from September 1, 1910 until March 1916. During this time, in the year 1914, my dear Alice was obliged to submit to a major operation. This operation was successfully performed at the Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago by the noted specialist, Dr. Webster. The following letter was written by the Frieden's Church Council, for Johannes Haack, following his resignation. LETTER OF DISMISSAL (RELEASE) In the name and upon the request of the Evangelical Friedens Congregation we herewith testify that Pastor J.L. Haack served our congregation for five years as pastor and curate of souls with all energy and satisfaction and left us on his own initiative, since the condition of his dear wife's health made it necessary for him to move to a southern climate. It furnishes us great pleasure to give him a testimony of his competence and uprightness. We can recommend him to everyone as a true and honorable curate of souls who will exercise his office in the sense and spirit of the congregation and according to the specification of the Holy Scripture. And for his loyal services to our congregation we a thankful to him from our heart and wish him for his continued activity God's rich blessing. The Council (board) of the Evangelical Friedens congregation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 27, 1903. (signed) Fr. Ohm, president Rud. Reinke Charles Gerber Frederick Westfahl Carl Wendorf William Buelow Secretary SEAL (upside down) In the spring of the year 1916 I was called to take charge of the Deaconess Hospital in Milwaukee, as its superintendent. After a small beginning and a number of years of slow progress, the Deaconess work began to spread, and the foundation of a new hospital building was in course of construction. My first duty in my new position was to canvass many of our Wisconsin churches for the purpose of raising funds for the new hospital. After the new building was finished and dedicated, the task of introducing modern equipment, arranging the interior properly, improving management and methods, and establishing a recognized training school for nurses caused much headache and heartache, disappointments and worries, until the hospital became accredited, having met the requirements of a modern hospital. After these valuable attainments, I resigned as superintendent in order to go back to the congregational ministry. In December, 1920 we moved to Lancaster where we served the Bethlehem Evangelical Church until May 1, 1923 when I was urged to become pastor of the Church of Peace in Rochester, Minn., mainly because of my institutional experience, which the 90 bed Samaritan, a convalescent home, owned by the incorporated brotherhood of the congregation, made desirable. On May 1, 1923 we moved to Rochester, where strenuous work and some adverse experiences more than counterbalanced the pleasure and joy of successful co-operation. The serious goiter operation of dear Alice on Thanksgiving Day in the year of 1925 caused some anxious days but also gave us much reason for thanksgiving. Richer in valuable experience because of the Rochester ministry we, by mutual agreement, and with the consent of the respective churches, changed positions with my successor at Lancaster, the Rev. Emanual Crusius, who willingly undertook the work at Rochester, and we moved back to Lancaster on 1 November 1926. During the following thirteen years we were granted a satisfactory and successful ministry. In 1927 the congregation entertained the spring conference of the Wisconsin District, celebrated its 50th anniversary, and remodeled the altar and pulpit platform of the church auditorium in connection with the purchase installation of a modern electro-pneumatic pipe organ. These were three memorable historic events in the history of the congregation. While we lived at Lancaster, I was obliged to submit to two hernia operations and spent a few weeks at the Monroe Deaconess Hospital. In June of the year 1939 the congregation celebrated the 50th anniversary of my ordination, to which celebration the president of our denomination was invited and came from St. Louis with our son, Arno. In a special afternoon service all the ministers of the city and the Rev. Karl Koch of St. Paul, Minn., my seminary classmate, took an active part. In August of the same year I resigned with the intention of moving to Monroe and to occupy the house, which we had purchased for the purpose of living there quietly in retirement. Our plans, however, were completely changed for the following reason. Due to the gross mismanagement in pastoral leadership the three churches of the Browntown charge, near Monroe, were in a sad condition of discouragement and uncertainty. In order to avert more trouble, and to regain the confidence and good will of the people, and to make amends for the damage done to the churches, I was officially requested to go to Browntown for a limited time, until normal conditions again prevailed. Thus, the Lord of the Church showed us the way to continue our service in His cause. We moved to Browntown on November 1, 1939, and our work there was signally blessed. Order and harmony was restored, and the co-operation between the three churches and with the pastor is ideal. During the seven years of our service in the Browntown charge we experienced much joy and some personal sorrow. Due to a bad ear infection and prostate trouble I was twice obliged to resort to surgery and hospital treatment in Monroe and Madison, in February, 1941 and in July, 1944 respectively, but the help received and the perfect recovery experienced gave us much reason for joy and thanksgiving. In the month of January, 1946, our churches had planned to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary with a grand reception at St. John's Church in Monroe. However, due to a serious heart ailment of dear Alice, and upon the advice of her physician, this plan was cancelled, and reluctantly a quiet celebration at home was substituted. Personal congratulations, a number of gifts from the Browntown and Lancaster charges, many beautiful floral tributes, and almost numberless congratulatory cards and letters from near and far, made the occasion a memorable one. Unfortunately dear Alice's heart ailment did not yield, in spite of regular competent treatment of her physician. Her condition grew gradually worse and made intermittent hospital treatment and care imperative. (May 30- June 2; August 26- September 3; September 8- September 11; and finally from Thursday, September 19th to Saturday, September 28th when she was mercifully relieved of her suffering and passed away peacefully at 4;20 o'clock in the afternoon while Arno, who had arrived from St. Louis at noon, and I were at her bedside. She reached the age of 73 years and 11 months. Although our long cherished plans to move to our house in Monroe during October had to be cancelled because my dearly beloved wife, faithful companion and efficient helper is not with me anymore to share it and make it a happy home, I am confident and glad she is at rest and needs not to be mourned. Ever grateful to God, our heavenly Father, who granted us the priviledge of sharing the joys and sorrows of a very happy married life for almost 51 years, I am convinced that He will help me to cheerfully carry on alone, and to do my duty faithfully as long as I can continue in active ministry; and my sincere prayer is that my life, to the end of of my days, may be a useful life and never a burden to anyone. Trusting in the mercy and grace of God, as revealed in Jesus Christ, my Saviour and Redeemer, and in the guidance of the Holy Spirit, I pray that all my sins and failures be forgiven, and that my mistakes be overruled and mended, so that I may face death without fear and with the conscious thought and the prayer of my Lord, "Father into Thy hands I commend my spirit."
Robert
Haack
