JOSEPH  A.  HAUPTLY

    JOSEPH A. HAUPTLY, one of nine children of the late
John and Mary Wachter Hauptly, was born in Pottsville, Pa.
on December 7, 1902.  He attended St. John the Baptist
School and was graduated from Pottsville High School and
International Accountants Society of Alexander Hamilton
Institute of Chicago.
     From 1921 through 1929 he played baseball with the
Yorksville Yanks.
     During 1919 and 1920 he played football with the St. Clair
Steam Rollers; in 1921 with the Yorkville Hose Company, the
forerunner of the Pottsville Maroons; from 1922 to 1925 with
the Pottsville Maroons, and hten in 1925 signed with the
Frackville Buffalos.
     Mr. Hauptly worked for P.& R.C.& I. Company as
storekeeper and chief clerk from 1918 to 1930; then trans-
ferred to St. Clair Coal Company, at St. Clair, Pa., from
1930 to 1946 as a cost accountant.  In 1946 and 1947 he
was employed by Pottsville Castings Company as an
Accountant and assistant secretary.  The latter part of
1947 he operated a bituminous coal stripping company;
and then in 1948 to 1963+ he managed and operated his own
Public Accounting, and General Insurance Agency.  Mr.
Hauptly was also affiliated with H & H Stripping Co. and
Glenn Worth Coal Company.
     In 1953 Mr. Hauptly entered politics, and he was elected
alderman in the Seventh Ward of the City of Pottsville, and
re-elected in 1959, for another six year term, expired in 1966.
In 1961 he was elected to the office of City Council of
Pottsville, for a four year term, commencing January 1,
1962, and in 1963 was Director of Parks and Public Property
for the City of Pottsville.
     Mr. Joseph A. Hauptly still resides in Pottsville, and
remains one of the few living Maroons to this day.