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Charles Lewis Harbach
Sep 1847 – 1910
| Birth | Sep 1847 |
| Death | 1910 |
| Cemetery | Custer Cemetery Custer , Custer County , South Dakota , USA |
| Added by | Charles Harball on 17 Dec 2016 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139404579 |
Bio
According to census and naturalization records, Charles Lewis Harbach immigrated to the United States in 1849 from Bavaria while still a very young child. His parents settled in Pennsylvania. He reported that they ran a brewery there where he learned the business. As a young man he became intrigued with gold mining and struck out for San Francisco. In the late 1870s he wound up in the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory in Indian Country learning by trial and error how to and how not to find gold. When the natives weren’t showing him their disfavor, the Federal Army was trying its best to discourage his activities. He began his efforts in the Deadwood area and finally settled in the French Creek area around Custer where he held a number of mining patents and lived on a small ranch. Not long after Charles’ first wife, Jennie Jeffreys, died, without issue, he married Hattie Merrifield in 1889. He was 41 years old and she was 15; her father Harrison signed the consent. They would have 10 children together before he passed away in 1910 at the age of 62. There is currently no memorial to mark his grave. Bio submitted by Charles Harball.
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- Margaret M. Harbach Clyde 1890–1977
- Charles Andrew "Andy" Harball 1892–1947
- Olive Violet May Harbach Hack 1893–1979
- Adolph L Harbach 1896–1918
- Helen Hattie Harbach Roseberry 1897–1986
- Leopold Gerald Harbach 1899–1975
- Walter Harrison Harbach 1903–1983
- Thomas Erwin Harbach 1907–1984
- Leland Kenneth "Hap" Harbach 1909–2001
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