A Life Remembered ~ James Smith Haring Jr.

The following information was contributed by his great granddaughter, Carole Nurmi Cummings

1860 United States Census: Orangetown, Rockland, New York

• Francis {James} S Haring, 39, Male, Farmer, Real Estate $8000, Personal $3000, Born in New York
• Rachel Haring, 40, Female, Born in New York
• James Haring, 5, Male, Born in New York
• Anna Haring, 85, Female, Born in New York
• Anna Henry, 18, Female, Servant, Born in Scotland
• John Bell {Brother to Rachel Haring}, 47, Male, Naturalist, Real Estate $8000, Personal Estate $500, Born in New York

1870 United States Census – Orangetown, Rockland, New York – 30 July 1870

• James S Haring, 49, Male, White, Civil Engineer, Real Estate Value $30,000, Personal Estate Value $2500, Born in New York
• Rachel, 51, Female, White, Keeping house, Born in New York
• James, 15, Male, White, Attended School Within Year
• Anna, 97, Female, White, Born in New York
• Sarah E. Bell, 17, Female, White, Born in New York
• Matilda Hannigan, 21, Female, White, Domestic Servant, Born in Ireland, Father/Mother Foreign Born
• Daniel Toomey, 43, Male, White, Farmhand, Born in Ireland, Father/Mother Foreign Born

New York Episcopal Diocese Archives::

• Baptism Date: 7 July 1872
• Christ Church [Episcopal] - Sparkill, Rockland, New York, United States
• Name: James Smith Haring
• Age: 17 years & 5 days
• Parents: James S. & Rachel Haring
• Place of Nativity: Orangeburg.

1875 New York Census – Orangetown, Rockland, New York – 21 June 1875

• Jas. S. Haring, 54, Male, Born Rockland County, Married, Occupation: Civil Engineer, Native Voter, Owner of Land.
• Rachel Haring, 55, Female, Wife, Born Rockland County, Married.
• Jas. S. Haring Jr, 19, Male, Born Rockland County, Occupation: Civil Engineer
• Daniel Tornay, 45, Male, Servant, Born Ireland, Single, Occupation: Labourer.

1878-1892 - Rockland County, New York – Position Held

• Clerk Board of Supervisors

1880 United States Census – Orangeburgh, Rockland, New York – 21 June 1880

• Haring, James S, White, Male, 26, Son, Single, Post Master, Self and Parents Born in New York
• Haring, Rachal, White, Female, 62, Mother, Widowed, Housekeeping, Self and Parents Born in New York
• Crispell, Elizabeth, White, Female, 16, Single, Self and Parents Born in New York
• Moor, Leanaza, White, Female, 74, Single, Self and Parents Born in New York
• Toney, Daniel, White, Male, 60, Widowed, Laborer, Self and Parents Born in Ireland

Haring Grocery Ad - Rockland County Journal – Orangeburg, New York - 24 June 1880 – Page 3 – Column 2

HARING'S NEW GROCERY - AT ORANGEBURG
• New Stand-New Goods-Low Prices
• CHOICE GROCERIES,
• Teas, Coffees, Sugars, Syrups, Molasses
• CANNED GOODS-Spices
• Butter, Cheese, Lard, Fish, Etc.

JAMES S. HARING

Marriage Information:

• Marriage Date: Tuesday, 7 October 1884
• Groom: James Smith Haring, Jr
• Bride: Elizabeth Barrow Wylde
• Place: Bride's Home
• Current Location: 80 Kings Highway, New City, New York

Wedding Announcement:

On Tuesday, Mr. James Haring was married to Miss Elizabeth Barrow Wylde, at Nanuet. Mr. Haring is the worthy Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of Rockland County.
After the wedding Mr. Haring took a trip to Dover, Delaware to attend the wedding of Mr. Cyrus Crum on Wednesday. The happy couples then started for Niagara Falls via the West Shore road.

~ Source: Rockland County Messenger - Thursday, 9 October 1884 - Nanuet, Rockland, New York

From James S Haring Diary:

Wedding Day: Tuesday, October 7, 1884

Drove to Mosestown [Where the Wylde family lived – now New City, New York] in buggy with Dan leaving home at 8:30 a.m. Ma and Aunt Eliza came by carriage hired from Edwin Blauvelt. Mrs. Roberts assisted us dressing both Bessie and I. Were married at 11 o'clock sharp by Rev. Mr. Mansfield. All the girls acted as bridesmaids, Mrs. Roberts, Miss …., Aunt Eliza, Ma, Mrs. Wylde, Robert and all the …. Present. After a collation, we went to West Haverstraw depot. Took the train at [a time is given] for Jersey City, then by Pa. R. R. to Philadelphia. Stopped at Hotel Lafayette, attended Arch Street Theater – Blue Beard at night. Had trouble getting valises to hotel. Had a very comfortable room – a fine hotel.

Marriage to Emma Pollock:

James S. Haring, of Suffern, and Miss Emma Pollock, of Pollock Station, Pennsylvania, were married at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on April 10. Mr. Haring is a former Clerk of the Board of Supervisors.

~ Source: The Rockland County Times - Haverstraw, Rockland, New York - Saturday, April 21, 1894 - Page: 1 - Column: 7

Visit from Crafton, Pennsylvania

Mr. James S. Haring, of Crafton, Pa., called upon some of his friends in Nyack on Monday.

~ Source: The Rockland County Journal - Nyack, Rockland, New York - Saturday, 23 September 1899 - Page: 5 - Column: 1

Who's Who in Engineering - 1922

Haring, James Smith, Jr., Chamber of Commerce Building, Pittsburgh; residence: 35 Bradford Avenue, Crafton, Pa.

Civil Engineer; born Orangeburg, NY; son and only child of Colonel James Smith and Rachel (Bell) Haring; ancestors came from Holland, 1663, paternal great-grandfather killed in the Revolutionary war (officer); educated common and private schools, technical and practical study under father, a civil engineer; married 1st, Rockland County, 1884, Elizabeth Barrow Wylde (died January 27, 1887); 2nd, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1894, Emma Mehaffey Pollock; children:(1st wife) Grace Andrews, James Smith III, (2nd wife) Dr. S. G. Pollock, Graham Bell, Emma Mary, Theodore Blauvelt. Private practice with father, 15 years; after his death, 1878, in practice alone; Clerk Board of Supervisors of Rockland County, 1878-1892; residential engineer and supt. Tuxedo Pk, NY, 1888-1892, asst. chief engr. American Debenture Co., Chicago, Ill., and chief engr., O.& C. Railroad, 1892-1893, engr in charge, U. S. Glass Co, Glassport Pa, then in cons. practice, Rockland County, designed and constructed hydraulic and sanitary systems, 1893-1898; came to Pittsburgh Rys Co, 1911-1914; on valuation of property, N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R., 1915; eng, dept, Pittsburgh Rys Co., since 1916. Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers; formerly member of the American and New England Water Works Association Recreation: Literature. Republican. Episcopalian.

Source: Who's Who in Engineering Authors: John William Leonard, Winfield Scott Downs, M. Lewis – 1922 – Volume 1 – Page 558

Three Generations of Civil Engineers

James Smith Haring was a Civil Engineer. He attended Carnegie Tech. There were three generations of Civil Engineers in this family. He was well published in several engineering journals. He lost his first wife in child birth giving birth to my grandfather, James Smith Haring III. James Smith Haring Jr. did remarry ten years after her death to a woman fifteen years younger than himself. The woman he married from his first marriage, Elizabeth Barrow Wylde, was a direct line from Viscount Robert Tracy II as well from Members of Parliament, the Wylde family from Worcester and the Barrow family from the Manor in Wedmore, England. He was a member of the Holland Society of New York.

Received: 14 October 2014 from a researcher of family land sold. Real Estate transactions of James Smith Haring Sr.

"Came across this from 3 years ago and thought I'd pass it on"

• The JSH who was married to Rachel often bought property from the 1840's through 1872, most noticeably 120 acres on March 38, 1872 from Catherine Blauvelt in Orangetown. I never saw a block of property of that size being sold.
• Then it is noted that James S. Haring, Jr. bought Lot 15, block 3, in the Tappan cemetery from the Tappan DRC, on June 18, 1872, and after that date JSH didn't buy any more property. • His father died in 1878. He decided to purchase a family burial plot in Rockland Cemetery, Sparkill New York. On March 10, 1891 James Smith Haring, Jr. sold a half plot in the Tappan cemetery to a J. Eckerson Demarest.

Rockland Cemetery Records: Sparkill, Rockland, New York

The following information was given to Carole Nurmi Cummings during her visit to the cemetery in August 2009 by the caretaker, Steven La François - 845-359-0172.

ROCKLAND CEMETERY PLOT OWNER-INTERMENTS IN PLOT

• (something written illegible)
• Owner: Haring, James S: Deceased - Address Orangeburg, N. Y.
• Date of Sale Jan. 29, 1987
• Date of Deed Jan. 29, 1987
• Purchase Price $200.00
• Plot care per annum $6 Deed 84
• Transfers by Will to son, James Smith Harring, III and of his children after him eldest son in direct line in each succeeding generation.
• Erie Railway, Midway Bank Bldg., Cleveland, Ohio.
• Other children:
• Grahams B. Haring, 6501 Rosemont Ave.:
• T. B. Haring, 723 Lehigh Ave.;
• Dr. S. G. P. Haring, 811 Chartiers Ave., McKees Rocks, all of Pittsburg, Pa. and
• Mrs. C. H. Baker, 24 Warren St., Crafton, Pa.

• Grahams B Haring was his third son Graham Bell Haring 1897-1954; T.B. was his fifth and youngest son Theodore B Haring (2 July 1904-2 Nov 1991 Crawford City Cemetery in Crawford, Georgia); Dr. S. G. P. was his second son Samuel Gormley Pollock Haring who was a dentist (23 Oct 1895-Nov 1973); Mrs. C. H. Baker was his second daughter, Mary Emma Haring Baker 1901-1986 who was the wife of Clyde Herman Baker 1892-1969.
• Description: SECTION C DIVISION WALKPATH - Birch Grove Avenue - PLOT NUMBER 780

Area 400 ft. Metes and Bounds Beginning at a stake in the southeasterly corner of lot 781 running thence northwesterly 25'; thence northeasterly 16'; thence southeasterly 25'; thence southwesterly to place of beginning. "

Sunday, Friday, July 31, 1896 – Nyack, New York

"SHE PUTS A BURGLAR TO FLIGHT"

Maggie Lyons First Puts on Trousers and Then Uses a Revolver.

Nyack, July 30---Maggie Lyons, a fine-looking young girl employed in the household of Corporation Engineer and Surveyor James S. Haring of this place, is a heroine upon whom the people of Nyack have been showering praises all day.

In the absence of Mr. Haring and family Maggie confronted a negro burglar, put him to flight with a revolver, and saved a large quantity of valuable which he intended on carrying off.

She was awakened at 4 o'clock this morning by a slight noise in her room, and looking up, she saw a negro ransacking the bureau. Maggie lay perfectly quiet, and the negro went into another room, gathered up some clothing, and then entered the room where Mr. Haring's aged mother slept.

Then Maggie jumped up, slipped on a pair of Mr. Haring's trousers, so as to appear like a man, took a revolver from under her pillow, and confronted the negro. "What do you want" asked the girl.

The negro replied with curses and then darted down stairs. Maggie rushed after him, and as he reached the foot of the stairs, she fired a shot which just grazed his head and smashed a small mirror all to pieces. The negro dropped the bundle of clothes which he had been carrying and ran through a hall to the back door of the dining room, which he had opened before he went upstairs. Maggie chased him, and as he jumped out on the lawn she fired another shot, but without effect.

Neighbors were summoned, but no trace of the burglar could be found.

On looking around the dining room Maggie found a large package of silver and other valuables which the man had done up to carry away.

Mr. Haring arrived home today and made the girl a liberal present for her bravery.