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1801 Jacob Gottlieb Faatz


Born: Oct. 16, 1801 in Leipzig, Upper Saxony, Germany

Died: Dec.  4, 1855 at Edenvale, near Prompton, Wayne County, Penn.

Christened: Oct. 19, 1801 at Neuhaus am Rennweg, Sonneberg, 
Thuringen, Germany

N.B. Another source showed a birthdate of Nov. 4, 1801 but I think
the October 16 date is correct as it is confirmed by the Oct. 19 
date of his christening.

His father was 1771 Johann Christoph Faatz.

His mother was 1772 Elizabetha Margaretha Heintz (Hinds).


He married 1799 Christiana J. Greiner about 1825 in Woodstock, Ulster, NY

He was buried in Old Glass Factory Cemetery, Bethany, Wayne County, 
Pennsylvania.  

N.B. there are several "Glass Factory Cemetery" listings in Penn.

He was listed as a 48-year-old laborer on the 1850 U.S. census for 
Dyberry Township, Wayne County, PA.  


Jacob may have had these children before his marriage to Christiana:

  1822 Maria Melissa Faatz  (1822 - 1906) born in Wayne, PA
  1824 Euphemia S. Faatz    (1824 - 1910) born in Dubold, PA


Children of Christiana (Christine) Greiner and Jacob Faatz are:

  1826  Henry G. Faatz       born Oct. 20, 1826 
  1829  William Greely Faatz born Oct. 1829 in Germansville, PA (died 1917)
  1832  Anna Eliza Faatz     born 1832, and died 11 Oct 1833.
  1835  Franklin L. Faatz    born about 1835 in Penn., died 1922
  1836  Malissa Faatz        born about 1836 in Penn. 
  1831  Augustus G. Faatz    born about 1831, died 1914 

Lulu Pulis Morley said the Faatz's were the first glassmakers in America. 
While that does not appear to be the case according to my research, I did
find this mention of Jacob Faatz at the website for the Wayne County, PA
Historical Society:


Jacob Faatz opened the Honesdale Glass Company at the mouth of Carley Brook
in the area know at Tracyville in East Honesdale.  The factory failed after
three years and went through several owners before James Brookfield in 1849
made it a success.  At one point this factory was named the Anthracite Glass
Company because it was the first to use anthracite coal to make glass in the
County.  But in 1861 the dam on one of the feeder ponds for the D & H Canal
gave way and the water rushed down Carley Brook and destroyed the factory.

  
I have a hand-written note by my grandmother, Norma Rose Pulis, to
the effect that her great-grandfather and family migrated from 
Upper Leipzig, Germany in 1802.  No other corroborating information.
Norma's great-grandfather Faatz was 1801 Jacob Gottlieb Faatz, who
would have been one year old when the family emigrated from Germany.

JAS   jsherman@datapro.net