WILLIAM
C. HAUS, attorney at law, was born in Boalsburg, Centre Co., Penn.,
February 6, 1852, and is a son of Jacob and Sarah (Crozier) Hans,
natives of Union and Juniata Counties, Penn., respectively. Jacob Hans
was a prominent Republican politician of Union County, and served as
deputy sheriff and also prothonotary of that county two terms. He
afterward removed to Boalsburg, Penn., and in 1854 to New Castle,
Penn., where he has since resided. In 1855 he was elected justice of
the peace, and excepting the period from 1867 to 1869, when he was
prothonotary of Lawrence County, has served continuously in that office
up to the present. Our subject grew to manhood in Lawrence County, and
was educated in the public schools of New Castle. He spent considerable
time in his father' s office during his term as prothonotary, and thus
became familiar with the duties thereof. In January, 1870, Mr. Hans
came to Mercer and clerked in the prothonotary' s office nearly two
years, devoting his spare moments to reading law. In October, 1871, he
began reading in the office of McClure & Anderson, of Sharon, with
whom he remained nearly two years. In August, 1873, he entered the
Albany Law School of the Union University, Albany, N. Y., and graduated
May 5, 1874. He -was at once admitted to the Mercer bar, and began
practice in Sharon, where he has since followed the duties of his
profession. He was admitted to the United States courts May 8, 1876,
and is the local solicitor for the Pennsylvania Company. Mr. Hans was
married February 11, 1875, to Miss Mary, daughter of
Cornelius Bowden, of Sharon, of which union two children, William
B. and Emma R., have been born. Politically he is a Republican.
History of Mercer County, 1888, pages 728-729
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