The Rev. Eli Haskell, was born in the town of Dudley, Hampton county, in the year 1783. He removed with his family to Bristol, Ontario County, in 1816. He was a well-educated man for his time, and was ordained to the ministry in 1823, and became pastor of the Baptist church of Bristol, which he served three years. He then removed to Canandaigua and was pastor of the First Baptist church for twenty-seven years. He died October 7, 1855. During his pastorate he preached 267 funeral sermons, baptized 143 persons and married 113 couples. He did a great work in what was then new country, enduring hardships as a pioneer, and preaching the gospel as a missionary in different towns of the county. He was married in his native State to Elizabeth Tower, by whom he had eight children: Abel, a Baptist minister, who died in Penfield, December 21, 1865; Levi, a farmer, who .died December 16, 1889; Eli, a cabinet maker, who died in Wisconsin, August 16, 1866; Isaac and William (twins), both died in Michigan; Jeremiah, ticket agent N. Y. C. R. R. Co., died in Batavia in 1876; Achsah married Samuel Shaw now residing in Mason, Mich.; Nancy died April 9, 1844, aged sixteen.
Reference
History of Ontario County, New York, Family Sketches
Pages 97, 98
Samuel Shaw and Achsah Haskell had no children.
American Civil War Soldiers
Name: Samuel Haskell
Enlistment Date: 9 Sep 1861
Enlistment Place: Madrid, New York
Side Served: Union
State Served: New York
Service Record: Promoted to Full Corporal.
Enlisted as a Private on 9 September 1861 at the age of 25.
Enlisted in Company A, 60th Infantry Regiment New York on 30 Oct 1861.
Killed Company A, 60th Infantry Regiment New York on 3 May 1863 at Chancellorsville, VA.
Our County and its People: A Memorial Record of St. Lawrence County, New York
Edited by Gates Curtis
Syracuse N.Y., D. Mason & Company, 1894Nathaniel Healy Bixby, father of our subject [Charles Nathaniel Bixby], was born in Dudley, Mass, December 17, 1798 When six months old he moved with his parents to Underhill, Vt., thence in 1811 to Madrid, N. Y., where he settled in the Haskell neighborhood. About the year 1819 he bought land in Norfolk, and there established a home. In February, 1828, he married Marcia Haskell.
Charles N. Bixby, esquire, a lawyer and register in bankruptcy, residing at Norwood, is his only son and child. His first wife died in May, 1847, and in 1849 he married Harriet Wilson of Canton, who survives him. He resided on his farm in Norfolk until the fall of 1870, when he sold it and purchased a house in the village of Morley, where he remained till the time of his death, July 11, 1881, aged eighty-two years, seven months and twenty-five days. He was a man of generous impulses, a kind husband, father and neighbor, and honest in his dealings with all. His education was limited, but he possessed solid character, accumulated a competence of this world's goods, and exerted a benign and wide influence in the community in which he lived.
U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records
Name: Mathus C Flagg
Residence: Lawrence, New York
Class: 1
Congressional District: 17th
Age on 1 July 1863: 21
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1842
Race: White
Marital Status: Unmarried (Single)
Place of Birth: New York
Son Haskell died young.
7141. Jeremiah Francis Haskell
Jeremiah Francis Haskell was unmarried.
Brigham Eugene Haskell was unmarried.