California Biographies

Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


DAVID L. HAAS.  Was born in Germany, October 7, 1842, and is the son of Leopold and Caroline 
Gassdorfer Haas. He resided in Germany until 1859, receiving his education in the meantime at the 
mercantile college at Offenbach. In 1859 he came to America, and shortly after came by way of the 
Isthmus to California, in the ill-fated steamer "North Star." He came at once to Napa City and in 
connection with his brother Martin L. he began his present business of bookseller, newsdealer and 
stationer. He was married March 31,1868, to Miss Frances May Squibb, a native of Indiana, who was 
born September 12, 1842. By this union they have Leopold, born March 11, 1869, and Munson, born 
April 1, 1871.