Godfrey Haga (born in Isingen,

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, 30 November 1745; died in

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, 5 February 1825) was a

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merchant, politician and philanthropist.

Biography

After emigrating to the United States, he settled in Philadelphia, where he became a merchant, and was connected with the principal charitable and mercantile institutions of the city. He was a member of the

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in 1797-1800, and of the

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in 1800-01. He was a director of the

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, 1800-1825. He bequeathed an estate valued at $350,000 to charitable purposes. Notably, he sold 5,500 acres of land to the Christian sect, The Separatist Society, led by John Baumeler, that had emigrated from Wurtemberg to Philadelphia. The land, in northeastern Ohio, in present day Tuscarawas County, would later become the village of Zoar, a communistic society ( eine Guter Gemeinschaft / a community of goods).

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