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Founder of the bakery that became the Haffner Star Bakery
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Haffner came to the United States in 1855 and worked at the baker's trade in Cincinnati. He enlisted among the first in the Ninth Ohio Infantry, served three months, and, incapacitated by illness for field service, continued as a baker for the government. In 1865 he came to Fort Wayne and bought a half interest in the Wolroff bakery on East Main Street opposite the present No. 1 fire station; he bought Wolroff out, took C. W. Jacobs as partner until 1869, then built his own plant at Harrison and Berry streets, where he operated about twenty years. In 1890 he moved to larger quarters at 333–5 East Lewis Street, the later home of the Haffner Star Bakery. After his death his widow carried the business on under their son George M. Haffner; it was incorporated as the Haffner Star Bakery on 1 September 1914 with $50,000 capital, all held by the family, and became known for its ten-cent "Hol-Tayto-Loaf" bread. He married Mary Feist of Columbia City in December 1867.
Sources: Griswold, Pictorial History, Vol. II (1917), biographical sketch (within his son George M. Haffner's sketch) and portrait, read first-hand. No second source reached for this profile.