Ignace Hainer

HAINER, BLAISE, SHEPHERD

Posted By: Thomas Blaise Shepherd <existentialpress@compaq.net>
Date: 6/3/2002 at 00:35:52

Hungarian Statesman & Decatur County, Iowa Postmaster & Civic Leader Ignace Hainer was born in Hungary in about 1820. He received a liberal and military education and served as an adjutant-general, a journalist, and a lawyer and member of the bar, serving all the courts of Hungary.

Hainer was a journalist for a newspaper published by LAJOS KOSSUTH, who led the revolution for Hungarian Independence and who proposed reforms known as the March Laws, granting Hungarians freedom of the press and complete religious freedom (including full emancipation of Jews).

On April 11, 1948 the March Laws were signed into law by Ferdinand V (Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), granting Hungary independence, and in 1849 Count Lajos Batthyani became Premier of Hungary. Ignace Hainer served as Secretary to Premier Batthyani. When the Austrians, with the aid of Russian troops, invaded Hungary, killing Batthyani, Ignace Hainer was imprisoned by the Austrians.

After a month, Hainer was released from prison and in 1954 he was invited by the U.S. Secretary of State to settle in America. After residing in Chicago for one year, he then took up residency in Decatur County, Iowa, in the township then known as New Buda, where he held a number of posts, including that of teacher, school administrator, county treasurer, Presbyterian minister, Postmaster, and Delegate to the National Convention. He was also engaged in farming in Decatur County.

Ignace Hainer was appointed a professor of modern languages at the University of Missouri, a post he held for five years until the outbreak of the Civil War, when he returned to New Buda. Ignace Hainer died in about 1899 at Davis City, Iowa following a trip to his native Hungary.

Ignace Hainer had a large family that included his wife Adelaide and sons,Julius, Eugene, Bayard, and daughters, Laura, Ada, Hermoine, Vesta, and others, whose names are not known.

Julius was a professor of physics at Iowa State University.

Ignace Hainer's son, Eugene Jerome Hainer, who was born in Funfkirchen, Hungary, August 16, 1851,was graduated from the law department of Simpson Centenary College, Indianola, Iowa, in 1976, and served as a U.S. Representative (from Nebraska) in the Fifty-Third and Fifty-Fourth Congresses of the United States, from March 4, 1893 to March 3, 1897.

Ignace Hainer's son, Bayard Taylor Hainer, who was born in Columbia, Missouri, was graduated from the law department of Michigan University and was apponted Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice of Oklahoma Territory in 1998. He also served as general council for the Packers & Stockyards Administration and for the Federal Trade Commission from 1925 to 1927.

Ignace Hainer's daughter, Ada, married John Theodore Blaise and had one son, Eugene Frank Blaise,was born in 1878. Blaise became an Oklahoma oil producer and president of the Farmer's National Bank of Tulsa. He also served as president of the Admiralty Zinc Co. of Picher, Oklahoma, and president of the Cushing Gasoline Company of Tulsa. Eugene Frank Blaise had one son Dudley Eugene Blaise Sr. and two grandsons, Dudley E.Blaise Jr. and Thomas M. Blaise (a/ka/ Thomas M. Blaise-Shepherd)

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