| Name |
Daniel Haller [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] |
| Born |
May 1813
Maryland, USA  [ 1, 2, 3, 4]
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| Gender |
Male |
| Birth |
1822
Maryland, USA [ 5]
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| Residence |
1867
South n Short, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 6]
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| A Serious Charge-- Daniel Haller Accused of Rape of White Girl |
10 Jun 1875
Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 7]
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| Residence |
1880
340 Muench Street, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 3, 4]
– StreetAddress: Muench Street; Age: 62; Occupation: Laborer; CannotRead: Yes; CannotWrite: Yes; EnumerationDistrict: 090; MaritalStatus: Married; Self RelationToHead: Head |
| Dan Haller Caged |
9 Apr 1886
Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 8]
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| A Lecture and Cake Walk -Telegraph 18 May 1888 |
18 May 1888
Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 9]
– A Lecture and Cake Walk |
| How To Live Without Work--Daniel Haller Delivers A Lecture_Teleg |
15 Jun 1888
Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 10]
– How To Live Without Work--Daniel Haller Delivers A Lecture |
| Haller Can Do It |
1 Aug 1893
Steelton, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 11]
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| Mr. Haller On Deck |
23 Feb 1894
Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 12]
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| Dan Haller's Entertainment |
24 Feb 1894
Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 13]
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| Residence |
1900
1258 9th street, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 5]
– Age: 78; Occupation: Servant; AbleToSpeakEnglish: Yes; CanRead: Yes; CanWrite: No; CityWard: 8th; EnumerationDistrict: 0072; HomeOwnership: Rent; MonthsUnEmployedPastYear: 6; OwnsFarm: H; YearsMarried: 38; MaritalStatus: Married; RelationToHead: Head |
| Residence |
1910
Ward 4, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 2]
– Marital Status: Widowed; Relation to Head: Lodger |
| Uncle Dan Haller Denies He's Dead |
15 Oct 1910
Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 14]
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| Dan Haller Out of Jail After Spending Night in Prayer |
15 Sep 1911
Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 15]
– Dan Haller Out of Jail After Spending Night in Prayer |
| Abuse of the Infirm--The Case of Dan Haller |
16 Sep 1911
Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 16]
– Abuse of the Infirm--The Case of Dan Haller |
| Ethnicity |
American [5] |
| Police Prepare For Annual Old Hoss Auction Sale |
11 Oct 1911
Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 17]
– Police Prepare For Annual Old Hoss Auction Sale |
| Race |
Black [4, 5] |
| Died |
30 Jul 1913
Swatara, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 1, 18, 19]
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| Buried |
201 South 30th, Penbrook, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 1, 18]
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| Notes |
- **DAN HALLER, WHOM EVERYBODY KNEW, DIES IN ALMSHOUSE**
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**Old “Darkey,” His “Whoop Whoop” Stilled Was Town Character**
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**WAS OLD SLAVE**
**Early Life Devoted to Industry, Was a Good Marksman**
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*(Image of Dan Haller sitting with a basket on his lap and holding a long staff)*
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**DAN HALLER**
Who died at the Almshouse yesterday. His age is estimated at between 95 and 100 years.
Dan Haller’s “whoop whoop” is stilled. His last “jumbo” peanut has been sold. Dan died at the almshouse yesterday. His age was estimated at between 95 and 100 years.
Dan Haller was one of the best known persons in town. He was one of the vanishing part of the colored race called “darkies.” His place in the community was in the constellation of “town characters.” Everybody was his fun-loving tease; almost every adult his friend.
Few people living or having business in the central part of the city did not know Dan. With his basket of peanuts and his long staff, he was a familiar figure on the central streets. His “whoop whoop” salutation brought mirth to pedestrians and his good nature made others smile.
But Dan was not a joke. His early life was devoted to industry and fidelity to his task. For eight years he had been a farm hand, and a good one, his employer said. After that he was a man of all work and latterly he became a street vendor, though as age, a year ago, laid a heavy hand, Dan was taken from his Marion street home to end his days in the poorhouse.
This was not necessarily a hardship for the old fellow, who seemed just as light-hearted there as elsewhere. Persons passing the county institution were wont to hear Dan’s “whoop whoop” and “hay haw” many times.
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**Was Old Slave**
In the midst of the Civil War, Dan and his wife were slaves on their...
*(Continued on Page 2)*
**DAN HALLER, WELL KNOWN CHARACTER DEAD**
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*(Continued from Page 1)*
master’s place near Frederick, Maryland. One hot July Sunday in 1863, George W. Mumper and his family, including his son, George B., were driving to service at Silver Spring church from their home near White Hill. On the way they encountered two dust-covered colored folks, a man and a woman.
Out of the cloud of dust, the man saluted Mr. Mumper. It was Dan Haller, then middle-aged. The woman was his wife. Dan asked for work after telling that he and his wife had escaped from their “massah’s” place and were fearful of being caught.
The senior Mumper, who now resides in New Cumberland, gave them a place and for eight years Dan and his wife worked on the farm. All during the time before the Emancipation Proclamation, Dan never went to bed sure that he wouldn’t be caught and taken back to Maryland.
“Dan was a good, dependable workman,” said George B. Mumper in his apartments at 133 Walnut street last night. “He was faithful and could be counted upon. One of the things he did was to haul the stone for the residence of James McCormick at Front and Walnut street.”
After Dan left the farm, he became a workman about the drug store of E.Z. Gross, staying there for many years. In the course of his work, he became the friend of many Front street residents with whom he was much of a favorite, several of them delighting in posing Dan for their cameras and getting splendid results.
**Where He Loafed**
Dan was so attached to the drug store that after he severed his business relations, he spent a good deal of his time there with his peanut basket on his arm. When he wasn’t at the drug store, he was at the grocery store of Kreidler Brothers, Second and Walnut streets, the Court House or between those places.
It was on these journeys that he became the taunting object of fun-loving boys. Their cry to him was “whoop whoop”; his answer, “hay hay,” though oftimes he led off. Dan didn’t seem to mind the ridicule, taking it probably as it was meant, smiling, tapping his staff on the pavement and walking on.
He had to stand for more of the same sort of greeting. “Who shot the cat for a rabbit,” was shouted at him several times a day. Back of this remark is the story of a joke worked on Dan years before. As a shot, it is declared there were few better. He was much of his time hunting and those who know say he never missed a bird or a rabbit.
It was on such a hunting trip, it is said, that he came back laden with cotton tails. He took his hunting bag from his shoulder and while he was not looking, the joker slipped a dead cat into his bag. Dan never lived the joke down.
He also had to provide amusement for many persons. He said oftimes that he was a preacher and a lecturer and many times appeared before organizations to argue his theory that “the world was square” though it didn’t seem to be in its treatment of him.
Within a year or so, he was the victim of an hysterical anger when after being teased by boys at his Marion street home, he fired some bird shot into them. Of course the police had to take him, but he was put on probation. Shortly after that he was taken to the almshouse.
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| Person ID |
I5898
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