Mahlon Haines
[1] The family moved to Washington, D.C., in 1882 and lived above a store she owned on 11th Street SE;[3] it was there that Haines worked for much of his early life.
[2] After his mother denied his request at age 28 to become a business partner, he went to California and was a sales representative for several clothing stores in the West.
[8] The three-story "Haines Building", opened in 1915 on North George Street, also served as headquarters for his shoe company;[9][10] it was torn down in the 1960s for off-street parking spaces.
In 1922, Haines ran as the Republican candidate from Pennsylvania's 22nd District to the U.S. House of Representatives,[11] though he lost to Democratic challenger Samuel F.
[12] Later in life, Haines attended a September 1962 campaign rally in Hershey for Republican gubernatorial candidate William Scranton, at which former President Eisenhower spoke.
Amid the event's fervor, Haines reportedly stood on a chair, identified himself as the oldest Republican in the room, and announced a tripling of his admission contribution.
[13] In October and November 1924, Haines bought 318 adjoining acres (0.497 sq mi; 129 ha) of land which became known as Yorkshire Ranch.
[15] After the Great Depression in 1929, he built streets through the ranch land and offered free housing lots to those unemployed who agreed to build homes there, as he began developing the Yorkshire neighborhood.
[14] Haines built a two-room brick schoolhouse in the development in 1930, initially leased for $1 per year to the township's Independent School District.
[22] The Lancaster County Conservancy bought the Wizard Ranch land in 2018, to become part of the Hellam Hills Nature Preserve, and still allow the scouts to use it for safari events and camping.
The surrounding farm was sold to local real estate firm Epstein & Sons in November 1953, and it was developed into the Haines Acres subdivision.
[24] After selling a 4,000-acre (6.3 sq mi; 1,600 ha) cattle ranch in South Dakota in 1960, Haines gave his shoe business to 28 key employees.
He also gave substantial gifts to farmers of his land, boy and girl scouts, YMCA, YWCA, his church, and York Hospital.
Haines founded a "Three Quarter Century Baseball Team" for senior citizens in St. Petersburg, Florida, near a winter home he had in Snell Isle.
[1][30] The house has since had a series of owners and was a museum and an ice cream and gift shop,[32] before becoming an Airbnb rental property in late 2022.
[35] Haines' mother had an orange and grapefruit plantation on the Isle of Pines – at that time an American territory before it was returned to Cuba in 1925.
In January 1913, Haines left on a primarily steamship trip to visit her there, going with Edward Schaszberger, the father-in-law of a friend in the Dempwolf family.
The Haines's first suburban residence was designed by John A. Dempwolf in 1912 and occupied in April 1913, at the intersection of North Rockburn and East Philadelphia Streets in Springettsbury Township, and still standing in 2018.
[39] Haines first met second wife Grace Marianne Churchill of London, England, while on a westward trans-Atlantic steamship cruise in summer 1955.
[18] Haines died on October 31, 1962, while under intensive care after collapsing with a "heart ailment" a few days after undergoing "a successful operation".
