Henry Winfield Haldeman

[3] Haldeman attended the Mount Carroll Seminary (later known as Shimer College) in the 1860s, first around 1860-1861[4] and again, studying music, around 1865-1866.

In 1866, after the death of Haldeman's father William, he left with two of his Seminary teachers for the Leipzig Conservatory in Germany, where he studied music for two years.

[5] Shortly thereafter, Henry Haldeman fell in love with his new stepsister, Sarah Alice, and they were married on October 25, 1875.

[11] In 1881, Haldeman, his wife Alice, and stepsister Jane, all went to Philadelphia to study medicine.

[22] His time as mayor also coincided with the arrival of socialism in Girard in 1896, in the form of Julius Wayland and the Appeal to Reason.

Although he had been unable to complete his conservatory studies, Haldeman retained a strong interest in music.

They had an intense affair starting in the mid-1890s that ultimately cost Miss Totten her job at the school.

[23] Haldeman died on March 20, 1905,[8] of a massive heart attack, although some have described the cause of death as "acute alcoholism".

[24] Alice Haldeman said that "with the last words he ever spoke he asked me not to leave the bank,"[25] thus crediting him in part with her own illustrious career.