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Son of Karl Klees & Magaretha Rueck.
Born in Hanau, Germany (a town in the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany; 25 km east of Frankfurt. Hanau is known for it being the birthplace of Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm... aka the Brothers Grimm)
Mr. Klees arrived in the US during 1871.
A Susquehanna Erie R. R. electrician/mechanic of the Electric Light, Heat and power Co., and the inventor of the Klees ARC Lamp, patent # 501,884, granted July 18, 1893.
His 2nd marriage was during 1886 to Eva Campfield (daughter of Hampton Rufus Campfield and Ophelia Skinner Campfield)
Their children:
- Agnes Klees (1887– ) m. Bartells
- Eva Klees (1889– )
- Richard William Klees (1890–1978)
- Karl Klees (1892– )
- Margaret Klees (b.Aug. 24, 1894, d. April 16, 1895), m. Willett
- Madeline Klees (1898– )
- Cornelius E Klees (1900– )
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Excerpted from from the April, 1926 Issue of Erie Railroad Magazine:
Obituary - WILLIAM H. KLEES
William H. Klees, chief engineer of the Erie Railroad power house at Hornell, NY, died at Hornell on March 20 (1926), aged 62 years. He had been in the Erie service for many years. Before he went to Hornell, in 1906, he was employed in the Erie shops at Susquehanna.
Born in Germany, he came when a boy to this country with his parents. The elder Klees was a plater and interested in electricity. At the Centennial exposition in Philadelphia in 1876 he saw on exhibition a dynamo for the production of current for electric lights, then a novelty. He conducted tests of the machine and after a time a dynamo was ordered for the Erie Railroad and installed by him in the Erie shop at Jersey City, the first electrical machine, it is said, used by the Erie.
The Klees family moved to Susquehanna, where the son William became a machinist and electrician in charge of electric lighting; while the father did plating for headlight reflectors for locomotives. In 1890 William Klees became engineer of the Susquehanna Light, Heat and Power Co. Three years later he resumed service with the Erie Railroad as stationary engineer and electrician at the Susquehanna shop.
When the Erie power house at Hornell was built in 1906 William H. Klees was put in charge, and with the exception of a period of two years he continued in charge until his death. Surviving are a widow and six children. The widow was formerly Miss Eva Camfield, of Susquehanna, daughter of an Erie locomotive engineer.
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1880 US Census
Name: William Klees
Birth Year: abt 1864
Birthplace: Hesse Darmstadt
Home: Woodbridge, Bergen Co., NJ
Father's name: Karl Klees
Father's Birthplace: Hesse Darmstadt
Mother's name: Margaret Klees
Mother's Birthplace: Hesse Darmstadt
Occupation: Works In Watch Case Fac
Household Members:
- Karl Klees, 57, head, Hesse Darmstadt
- Margaret Klees, 57, wife, b. Hesse Darmstadt
- William Klees, 16, son, b. Hesse Darmstadt
- Richard Townsend, 25, son-in-law
- Margaret Townsend, 26, daughter, b. Hesse Darmstadt
- Margaret Townsend, 4, granddaughter
- Samuel Townsend, 2, grandson
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1900 US census
Name: William H Klees
Birth Date: Aug 1863
Birthplace: Germany
Home: Oakland, Susquehanna Co., PA
Race: White
Immigration Year: 1871
Spouse: Eva Klees
Marriage Yr: 1886
Occupation: Railroad Electrical Engineer
Naturalization Status: Naturalized
Father's Birthplace: Germany
Mother's Birthplace: Germany
Household Members:
- William H Klees, 36, head
- Eva Klees, 36, wife
- Agnes Klees, 13, daughter
- Eva Klees, 11, daughter
- Richard Klees, 9, son
- Karl Klees, 8, son
- Madeline Klees, 7, daughter
- Cornelius Klees, 3/12, son
- Annie Kennedy, 22, Servant
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TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
Susquehanna, PA. Aug. 26, 1890
— Wm. Klees, engineer at the electric light works in this place, while in the act of turning one of the electric switches Saturday night last, received a shook which hurled him some distance against the wall, badly bruising his head.
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TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
Susquehanna, PA., Jun. 23, 1893
A VALUABLE INVENTION.
An Improved Arc Lamp
Susquehanna mechanic Mr. W. H. Klees, electrician of the Susquehanna Electric Light Heat and Power Co, has invented an arc lamp which we believe is destined on account of its many advantages, to take the places of all other arc lamps now in use. The invention baa been submitted to the Patent office and application for patent filed, which will, without doubt be granted, as the invention differs in all important respects from any lamp now used. This invention is owned by Messrs. W. H. Klees and H. E. Out water, the latter a popular business man of this borough, and a short description of the same may not be uninteresting, as showing some of its points of superiority. The new lamp while it gives more light than the others, and with one-fourth less voltage, is so constructed that it casts no shadow underneath. This one feature will be appreciated when used in stores, factories, hotels, workshops, etc., where it is desirable to have light below, instead of a big, black shadow.
This effect, which has hitherto been considered impossible, is obtained in a very simple manner. The carbons instead of being made straight and placed one above the other, are curved something like this (), the points of contact being at the bottom. The feeding apparatus is also, as will be seen, a new scheme, and works perfectly. The lamp complete with all appliances, is but 23 inches in height while the majority of lamps of the style now in use are about 54 inches in height The Klees lamp.as it will be called, will, with the carbons used—which cost no more on account of their peculiar shape than the straight ones—burn 42 hours without renewing. It will be seen from this sketch that this invention is a most valuable one. It has been examined by many experts, who agree in pronouncing it to be the most perfect lamp of the kind yet made, and it will undoubtedly be the arc light of the near future. Messrs. Klees and Outwater are to be congratulated upon the possession of so useful and valuable an invention.
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TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
Susquehanna, PA. Aug. 16, 1893
— Druggest Outwater, of this place, who is the largest stockholder in the new Klees arc light, is already receiving numerous applications for negotiations for the use and sale of the lamp, one coming yesterday from England. It is the best electric arc light yet made.
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TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
Susquehanna, PA. Aug. 25, 1894
— Born to Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Klees, of Oakland, yesterday afternoon, a daughter (Margaret).
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Background for his 2nd wife, Eva Camfield:
Father's Birthplace: New Jersey
Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Birth Date: Aug 1863, PA
Mother: number of living children: 6
Mother: How many children: 7
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Full details for US Patent # 501,884, ELECTRIC ARC LAMP, invented by William H. Klees, Susquehanna, PA, can be viewed at http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm. Mr. Klees's application was Patented on July 18, 1893. Witnesses referenced were Harris Johnson and Arthur Kemp; Atty. James Sanigster.
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ELMIRA TELEGRAM, Elmira, NY
Sunday, Aug. 28, 1898
Miss Annie Kennedy, of Susquehanna, Tired, of Life. — At about 1 o'clock, Monday-afternoon Miss Annie Kennedy, aged about twenty years, employed as a domestic at the residence of William H. Klees, on the Oakland side of the river, at Susquehanna, attempted suicide by shooting herself three times with a revolver. Two of the shots took effect in her left breast, the third in her right side. Her recovery is improbable. She says she committed the deed because she was tired of life. She has resided in Oakland three years.
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Son of Karl Klees & Magaretha Rueck.
Born in Hanau, Germany (a town in the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany; 25 km east of Frankfurt. Hanau is known for it being the birthplace of Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm... aka the Brothers Grimm)
Mr. Klees arrived in the US during 1871.
A Susquehanna Erie R. R. electrician/mechanic of the Electric Light, Heat and power Co., and the inventor of the Klees ARC Lamp, patent # 501,884, granted July 18, 1893.
His 2nd marriage was during 1886 to Eva Campfield (daughter of Hampton Rufus Campfield and Ophelia Skinner Campfield)
Their children:
- Agnes Klees (1887– ) m. Bartells
- Eva Klees (1889– )
- Richard William Klees (1890–1978)
- Karl Klees (1892– )
- Margaret Klees (b.Aug. 24, 1894, d. April 16, 1895), m. Willett
- Madeline Klees (1898– )
- Cornelius E Klees (1900– )
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Excerpted from from the April, 1926 Issue of Erie Railroad Magazine:
Obituary - WILLIAM H. KLEES
William H. Klees, chief engineer of the Erie Railroad power house at Hornell, NY, died at Hornell on March 20 (1926), aged 62 years. He had been in the Erie service for many years. Before he went to Hornell, in 1906, he was employed in the Erie shops at Susquehanna.
Born in Germany, he came when a boy to this country with his parents. The elder Klees was a plater and interested in electricity. At the Centennial exposition in Philadelphia in 1876 he saw on exhibition a dynamo for the production of current for electric lights, then a novelty. He conducted tests of the machine and after a time a dynamo was ordered for the Erie Railroad and installed by him in the Erie shop at Jersey City, the first electrical machine, it is said, used by the Erie.
The Klees family moved to Susquehanna, where the son William became a machinist and electrician in charge of electric lighting; while the father did plating for headlight reflectors for locomotives. In 1890 William Klees became engineer of the Susquehanna Light, Heat and Power Co. Three years later he resumed service with the Erie Railroad as stationary engineer and electrician at the Susquehanna shop.
When the Erie power house at Hornell was built in 1906 William H. Klees was put in charge, and with the exception of a period of two years he continued in charge until his death. Surviving are a widow and six children. The widow was formerly Miss Eva Camfield, of Susquehanna, daughter of an Erie locomotive engineer.
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1880 US Census
Name: William Klees
Birth Year: abt 1864
Birthplace: Hesse Darmstadt
Home: Woodbridge, Bergen Co., NJ
Father's name: Karl Klees
Father's Birthplace: Hesse Darmstadt
Mother's name: Margaret Klees
Mother's Birthplace: Hesse Darmstadt
Occupation: Works In Watch Case Fac
Household Members:
- Karl Klees, 57, head, Hesse Darmstadt
- Margaret Klees, 57, wife, b. Hesse Darmstadt
- William Klees, 16, son, b. Hesse Darmstadt
- Richard Townsend, 25, son-in-law
- Margaret Townsend, 26, daughter, b. Hesse Darmstadt
- Margaret Townsend, 4, granddaughter
- Samuel Townsend, 2, grandson
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1900 US census
Name: William H Klees
Birth Date: Aug 1863
Birthplace: Germany
Home: Oakland, Susquehanna Co., PA
Race: White
Immigration Year: 1871
Spouse: Eva Klees
Marriage Yr: 1886
Occupation: Railroad Electrical Engineer
Naturalization Status: Naturalized
Father's Birthplace: Germany
Mother's Birthplace: Germany
Household Members:
- William H Klees, 36, head
- Eva Klees, 36, wife
- Agnes Klees, 13, daughter
- Eva Klees, 11, daughter
- Richard Klees, 9, son
- Karl Klees, 8, son
- Madeline Klees, 7, daughter
- Cornelius Klees, 3/12, son
- Annie Kennedy, 22, Servant
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TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
Susquehanna, PA. Aug. 26, 1890
— Wm. Klees, engineer at the electric light works in this place, while in the act of turning one of the electric switches Saturday night last, received a shook which hurled him some distance against the wall, badly bruising his head.
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TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
Susquehanna, PA., Jun. 23, 1893
A VALUABLE INVENTION.
An Improved Arc Lamp
Susquehanna mechanic Mr. W. H. Klees, electrician of the Susquehanna Electric Light Heat and Power Co, has invented an arc lamp which we believe is destined on account of its many advantages, to take the places of all other arc lamps now in use. The invention baa been submitted to the Patent office and application for patent filed, which will, without doubt be granted, as the invention differs in all important respects from any lamp now used. This invention is owned by Messrs. W. H. Klees and H. E. Out water, the latter a popular business man of this borough, and a short description of the same may not be uninteresting, as showing some of its points of superiority. The new lamp while it gives more light than the others, and with one-fourth less voltage, is so constructed that it casts no shadow underneath. This one feature will be appreciated when used in stores, factories, hotels, workshops, etc., where it is desirable to have light below, instead of a big, black shadow.
This effect, which has hitherto been considered impossible, is obtained in a very simple manner. The carbons instead of being made straight and placed one above the other, are curved something like this (), the points of contact being at the bottom. The feeding apparatus is also, as will be seen, a new scheme, and works perfectly. The lamp complete with all appliances, is but 23 inches in height while the majority of lamps of the style now in use are about 54 inches in height The Klees lamp.as it will be called, will, with the carbons used—which cost no more on account of their peculiar shape than the straight ones—burn 42 hours without renewing. It will be seen from this sketch that this invention is a most valuable one. It has been examined by many experts, who agree in pronouncing it to be the most perfect lamp of the kind yet made, and it will undoubtedly be the arc light of the near future. Messrs. Klees and Outwater are to be congratulated upon the possession of so useful and valuable an invention.
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TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
Susquehanna, PA. Aug. 16, 1893
— Druggest Outwater, of this place, who is the largest stockholder in the new Klees arc light, is already receiving numerous applications for negotiations for the use and sale of the lamp, one coming yesterday from England. It is the best electric arc light yet made.
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TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
Susquehanna, PA. Aug. 25, 1894
— Born to Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Klees, of Oakland, yesterday afternoon, a daughter (Margaret).
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Background for his 2nd wife, Eva Camfield:
Father's Birthplace: New Jersey
Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Birth Date: Aug 1863, PA
Mother: number of living children: 6
Mother: How many children: 7
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Full details for US Patent # 501,884, ELECTRIC ARC LAMP, invented by William H. Klees, Susquehanna, PA, can be viewed at http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm. Mr. Klees's application was Patented on July 18, 1893. Witnesses referenced were Harris Johnson and Arthur Kemp; Atty. James Sanigster.
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ELMIRA TELEGRAM, Elmira, NY
Sunday, Aug. 28, 1898
Miss Annie Kennedy, of Susquehanna, Tired, of Life. — At about 1 o'clock, Monday-afternoon Miss Annie Kennedy, aged about twenty years, employed as a domestic at the residence of William H. Klees, on the Oakland side of the river, at Susquehanna, attempted suicide by shooting herself three times with a revolver. Two of the shots took effect in her left breast, the third in her right side. Her recovery is improbable. She says she committed the deed because she was tired of life. She has resided in Oakland three years.
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Son of Karl Klees & Magaretha Rueck.
Born in Hanau, Germany (a town in the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany; 25 km east of Frankfurt. Hanau is known for it being the birthplace of Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm... aka the Brothers Grimm)
Mr. Klees arrived in the US during 1871.
A Susquehanna Erie R. R. electrician/mechanic of the Electric Light, Heat and power Co., and the inventor of the Klees ARC Lamp, patent # 501,884, granted July 18, 1893.
His 2nd marriage was during 1886 to Eva Campfield (daughter of Hampton Rufus Campfield and Ophelia Skinner Campfield)
Their children:
- Agnes Klees (1887– ) m. Bartells
- Eva Klees (1889– )
- Richard William Klees (1890–1978)
- Karl Klees (1892– )
- Margaret Klees (b.Aug. 24, 1894, d. April 16, 1895), m. Willett
- Madeline Klees (1898– )
- Cornelius E Klees (1900– )
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Excerpted from from the April, 1926 Issue of Erie Railroad Magazine:
Obituary - WILLIAM H. KLEES
William H. Klees, chief engineer of the Erie Railroad power house at Hornell, NY, died at Hornell on March 20 (1926), aged 62 years. He had been in the Erie service for many years. Before he went to Hornell, in 1906, he was employed in the Erie shops at Susquehanna.
Born in Germany, he came when a boy to this country with his parents. The elder Klees was a plater and interested in electricity. At the Centennial exposition in Philadelphia in 1876 he saw on exhibition a dynamo for the production of current for electric lights, then a novelty. He conducted tests of the machine and after a time a dynamo was ordered for the Erie Railroad and installed by him in the Erie shop at Jersey City, the first electrical machine, it is said, used by the Erie.
The Klees family moved to Susquehanna, where the son William became a machinist and electrician in charge of electric lighting; while the father did plating for headlight reflectors for locomotives. In 1890 William Klees became engineer of the Susquehanna Light, Heat and Power Co. Three years later he resumed service with the Erie Railroad as stationary engineer and electrician at the Susquehanna shop.
When the Erie power house at Hornell was built in 1906 William H. Klees was put in charge, and with the exception of a period of two years he continued in charge until his death. Surviving are a widow and six children. The widow was formerly Miss Eva Camfield, of Susquehanna, daughter of an Erie locomotive engineer.
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1880 US Census
Name: William Klees
Birth Year: abt 1864
Birthplace: Hesse Darmstadt
Home: Woodbridge, Bergen Co., NJ
Father's name: Karl Klees
Father's Birthplace: Hesse Darmstadt
Mother's name: Margaret Klees
Mother's Birthplace: Hesse Darmstadt
Occupation: Works In Watch Case Fac
Household Members:
- Karl Klees, 57, head, Hesse Darmstadt
- Margaret Klees, 57, wife, b. Hesse Darmstadt
- William Klees, 16, son, b. Hesse Darmstadt
- Richard Townsend, 25, son-in-law
- Margaret Townsend, 26, daughter, b. Hesse Darmstadt
- Margaret Townsend, 4, granddaughter
- Samuel Townsend, 2, grandson
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1900 US census
Name: William H Klees
Birth Date: Aug 1863
Birthplace: Germany
Home: Oakland, Susquehanna Co., PA
Race: White
Immigration Year: 1871
Spouse: Eva Klees
Marriage Yr: 1886
Occupation: Railroad Electrical Engineer
Naturalization Status: Naturalized
Father's Birthplace: Germany
Mother's Birthplace: Germany
Household Members:
- William H Klees, 36, head
- Eva Klees, 36, wife
- Agnes Klees, 13, daughter
- Eva Klees, 11, daughter
- Richard Klees, 9, son
- Karl Klees, 8, son
- Madeline Klees, 7, daughter
- Cornelius Klees, 3/12, son
- Annie Kennedy, 22, Servant
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TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
Susquehanna, PA. Aug. 26, 1890
— Wm. Klees, engineer at the electric light works in this place, while in the act of turning one of the electric switches Saturday night last, received a shook which hurled him some distance against the wall, badly bruising his head.
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TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
Susquehanna, PA., Jun. 23, 1893
A VALUABLE INVENTION.
An Improved Arc Lamp
Susquehanna mechanic Mr. W. H. Klees, electrician of the Susquehanna Electric Light Heat and Power Co, has invented an arc lamp which we believe is destined on account of its many advantages, to take the places of all other arc lamps now in use. The invention baa been submitted to the Patent office and application for patent filed, which will, without doubt be granted, as the invention differs in all important respects from any lamp now used. This invention is owned by Messrs. W. H. Klees and H. E. Out water, the latter a popular business man of this borough, and a short description of the same may not be uninteresting, as showing some of its points of superiority. The new lamp while it gives more light than the others, and with one-fourth less voltage, is so constructed that it casts no shadow underneath. This one feature will be appreciated when used in stores, factories, hotels, workshops, etc., where it is desirable to have light below, instead of a big, black shadow.
This effect, which has hitherto been considered impossible, is obtained in a very simple manner. The carbons instead of being made straight and placed one above the other, are curved something like this (), the points of contact being at the bottom. The feeding apparatus is also, as will be seen, a new scheme, and works perfectly. The lamp complete with all appliances, is but 23 inches in height while the majority of lamps of the style now in use are about 54 inches in height The Klees lamp.as it will be called, will, with the carbons used—which cost no more on account of their peculiar shape than the straight ones—burn 42 hours without renewing. It will be seen from this sketch that this invention is a most valuable one. It has been examined by many experts, who agree in pronouncing it to be the most perfect lamp of the kind yet made, and it will undoubtedly be the arc light of the near future. Messrs. Klees and Outwater are to be congratulated upon the possession of so useful and valuable an invention.
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TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
Susquehanna, PA. Aug. 16, 1893
— Druggest Outwater, of this place, who is the largest stockholder in the new Klees arc light, is already receiving numerous applications for negotiations for the use and sale of the lamp, one coming yesterday from England. It is the best electric arc light yet made.
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TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
Susquehanna, PA. Aug. 25, 1894
— Born to Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Klees, of Oakland, yesterday afternoon, a daughter (Margaret).
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Background for his 2nd wife, Eva Camfield:
Father's Birthplace: New Jersey
Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Birth Date: Aug 1863, PA
Mother: number of living children: 6
Mother: How many children: 7
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Full details for US Patent # 501,884, ELECTRIC ARC LAMP, invented by William H. Klees, Susquehanna, PA, can be viewed at http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm. Mr. Klees's application was Patented on July 18, 1893. Witnesses referenced were Harris Johnson and Arthur Kemp; Atty. James Sanigster.
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ELMIRA TELEGRAM, Elmira, NY
Sunday, Aug. 28, 1898
Miss Annie Kennedy, of Susquehanna, Tired, of Life. — At about 1 o'clock, Monday-afternoon Miss Annie Kennedy, aged about twenty years, employed as a domestic at the residence of William H. Klees, on the Oakland side of the river, at Susquehanna, attempted suicide by shooting herself three times with a revolver. Two of the shots took effect in her left breast, the third in her right side. Her recovery is improbable. She says she committed the deed because she was tired of life. She has resided in Oakland three years.
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Son of Karl Klees & Magaretha Rueck.
Born in Hanau, Germany (a town in the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany; 25 km east of Frankfurt. Hanau is known for it being the birthplace of Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm... aka the Brothers Grimm)
Mr. Klees arrived in the US during 1871.
A Susquehanna Erie R. R. electrician/mechanic of the Electric Light, Heat and power Co., and the inventor of the Klees ARC Lamp, patent # 501,884, granted July 18, 1893.
His 2nd marriage was during 1886 to Eva Campfield (daughter of Hampton Rufus Campfield and Ophelia Skinner Campfield)
Their children:
- Agnes Klees (1887– ) m. Bartells
- Eva Klees (1889– )
- Richard William Klees (1890–1978)
- Karl Klees (1892– )
- Margaret Klees (b.Aug. 24, 1894, d. April 16, 1895), m. Willett
- Madeline Klees (1898– )
- Cornelius E Klees (1900– )
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Excerpted from from the April, 1926 Issue of Erie Railroad Magazine:
Obituary - WILLIAM H. KLEES
William H. Klees, chief engineer of the Erie Railroad power house at Hornell, NY, died at Hornell on March 20 (1926), aged 62 years. He had been in the Erie service for many years. Before he went to Hornell, in 1906, he was employed in the Erie shops at Susquehanna.
Born in Germany, he came when a boy to this country with his parents. The elder Klees was a plater and interested in electricity. At the Centennial exposition in Philadelphia in 1876 he saw on exhibition a dynamo for the production of current for electric lights, then a novelty. He conducted tests of the machine and after a time a dynamo was ordered for the Erie Railroad and installed by him in the Erie shop at Jersey City, the first electrical machine, it is said, used by the Erie.
The Klees family moved to Susquehanna, where the son William became a machinist and electrician in charge of electric lighting; while the father did plating for headlight reflectors for locomotives. In 1890 William Klees became engineer of the Susquehanna Light, Heat and Power Co. Three years later he resumed service with the Erie Railroad as stationary engineer and electrician at the Susquehanna shop.
When the Erie power house at Hornell was built in 1906 William H. Klees was put in charge, and with the exception of a period of two years he continued in charge until his death. Surviving are a widow and six children. The widow was formerly Miss Eva Camfield, of Susquehanna, daughter of an Erie locomotive engineer.
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1880 US Census
Name: William Klees
Birth Year: abt 1864
Birthplace: Hesse Darmstadt
Home: Woodbridge, Bergen Co., NJ
Father's name: Karl Klees
Father's Birthplace: Hesse Darmstadt
Mother's name: Margaret Klees
Mother's Birthplace: Hesse Darmstadt
Occupation: Works In Watch Case Fac
Household Members:
- Karl Klees, 57, head, Hesse Darmstadt
- Margaret Klees, 57, wife, b. Hesse Darmstadt
- William Klees, 16, son, b. Hesse Darmstadt
- Richard Townsend, 25, son-in-law
- Margaret Townsend, 26, daughter, b. Hesse Darmstadt
- Margaret Townsend, 4, granddaughter
- Samuel Townsend, 2, grandson
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1900 US census
Name: William H Klees
Birth Date: Aug 1863
Birthplace: Germany
Home: Oakland, Susquehanna Co., PA
Race: White
Immigration Year: 1871
Spouse: Eva Klees
Marriage Yr: 1886
Occupation: Railroad Electrical Engineer
Naturalization Status: Naturalized
Father's Birthplace: Germany
Mother's Birthplace: Germany
Household Members:
- William H Klees, 36, head
- Eva Klees, 36, wife
- Agnes Klees, 13, daughter
- Eva Klees, 11, daughter
- Richard Klees, 9, son
- Karl Klees, 8, son
- Madeline Klees, 7, daughter
- Cornelius Klees, 3/12, son
- Annie Kennedy, 22, Servant
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TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
Susquehanna, PA. Aug. 26, 1890
— Wm. Klees, engineer at the electric light works in this place, while in the act of turning one of the electric switches Saturday night last, received a shook which hurled him some distance against the wall, badly bruising his head.
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TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
Susquehanna, PA., Jun. 23, 1893
A VALUABLE INVENTION.
An Improved Arc Lamp
Susquehanna mechanic Mr. W. H. Klees, electrician of the Susquehanna Electric Light Heat and Power Co, has invented an arc lamp which we believe is destined on account of its many advantages, to take the places of all other arc lamps now in use. The invention baa been submitted to the Patent office and application for patent filed, which will, without doubt be granted, as the invention differs in all important respects from any lamp now used. This invention is owned by Messrs. W. H. Klees and H. E. Out water, the latter a popular business man of this borough, and a short description of the same may not be uninteresting, as showing some of its points of superiority. The new lamp while it gives more light than the others, and with one-fourth less voltage, is so constructed that it casts no shadow underneath. This one feature will be appreciated when used in stores, factories, hotels, workshops, etc., where it is desirable to have light below, instead of a big, black shadow.
This effect, which has hitherto been considered impossible, is obtained in a very simple manner. The carbons instead of being made straight and placed one above the other, are curved something like this (), the points of contact being at the bottom. The feeding apparatus is also, as will be seen, a new scheme, and works perfectly. The lamp complete with all appliances, is but 23 inches in height while the majority of lamps of the style now in use are about 54 inches in height The Klees lamp.as it will be called, will, with the carbons used—which cost no more on account of their peculiar shape than the straight ones—burn 42 hours without renewing. It will be seen from this sketch that this invention is a most valuable one. It has been examined by many experts, who agree in pronouncing it to be the most perfect lamp of the kind yet made, and it will undoubtedly be the arc light of the near future. Messrs. Klees and Outwater are to be congratulated upon the possession of so useful and valuable an invention.
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TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
Susquehanna, PA. Aug. 16, 1893
— Druggest Outwater, of this place, who is the largest stockholder in the new Klees arc light, is already receiving numerous applications for negotiations for the use and sale of the lamp, one coming yesterday from England. It is the best electric arc light yet made.
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TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
Susquehanna, PA. Aug. 25, 1894
— Born to Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Klees, of Oakland, yesterday afternoon, a daughter (Margaret).
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Background for his 2nd wife, Eva Camfield:
Father's Birthplace: New Jersey
Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Birth Date: Aug 1863, PA
Mother: number of living children: 6
Mother: How many children: 7
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Full details for US Patent # 501,884, ELECTRIC ARC LAMP, invented by William H. Klees, Susquehanna, PA, can be viewed at http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm. Mr. Klees's application was Patented on July 18, 1893. Witnesses referenced were Harris Johnson and Arthur Kemp; Atty. James Sanigster.
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ELMIRA TELEGRAM, Elmira, NY
Sunday, Aug. 28, 1898
Miss Annie Kennedy, of Susquehanna, Tired, of Life. — At about 1 o'clock, Monday-afternoon Miss Annie Kennedy, aged about twenty years, employed as a domestic at the residence of William H. Klees, on the Oakland side of the river, at Susquehanna, attempted suicide by shooting herself three times with a revolver. Two of the shots took effect in her left breast, the third in her right side. Her recovery is improbable. She says she committed the deed because she was tired of life. She has resided in Oakland three years.
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