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1801 Jacob Faatz


Born: Nov. 4, 1801  in Leipzig, Upper Saxony, Germany

Died: Dec. 4, 1855 in Prompton, Wayne County, Penn.


His father was 1771 Christopher Faatz.

His mother was 1772 Elizabeth Ann Hinds.


He was married to 1799 Christine Greiner.

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

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

Children of Christine Greiner and Jacob Faatz are:

  1826  Henry G. Faatz     born Oct. 20, 1826 in Pennsylvania
  1832  Anna Eliza Faatz   born 1832, and died 11 Oct 1833.
  1836  Malissa Faatz      born about 1836 in Pennsylvania. 
  1838  Franklin L. Faatz  born about 1838 in Pennsylvania.
  ____  Augustus G. Faatz  - no information available on him.

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.


JAS