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November 3,1922Funeral services for Mrs. Reuell Haskell, eighty-niner, and head of the first Carnegie library of Oklahoma City, will be held at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Street & Draper chapel, 9th & Robinson. Rev. S.J. Porter of the First Baptist church will preach the funeral service, and Dr. E.T. Lane will have charge of memorial services. Burial will be in Rosehill cemetery.
Mrs. Haskell died Wednesday morning at her home, 25 ½ E. 5th street, following illness of a month. She was a charter member of the Eighty-Niners association, and a member of the First Baptist church.
Mrs. Haskell, then Mrs. Marion Rock, was associated with civic and social clubs, and was librarian of the first Carnegie library here in August 1901. Prior to that time, she was society editor of the Oklahoma City Times.
She was a newspaper writer at Guthrie, Okla., when the state capitol was there, and wrote a history of Oklahoma. She is survived by her husband, Reuell Haskell sr., three sisters, Mrs. Rose Preisler, Rockport, Ill.; Mrs. Flora Plumley, Tulsa, and Miss Eleanor Tuttle, Newport; and one brother, E.W. Tuttle, Newport. Her husband is a brother of C.N. Haskell, former governor. (THE OKLAHOMAN)
ObituaryMrs. Margaret J. Haskell, wife of Reuel Haskell, of the New-State Tribune, died at her home, 550 South Sixth street, at 6 o'clock last Thursday evening from paralysis brought about as the result of a runaway accident which occurred nearly one year ago. Mrs. Haskell was severely injured in the accident and in addition to being paralyzed a complication of diseases was brought about all of which brought about her untimely death.
The deceased is survived by her husband and five sons: O.D. Haskell, Reuel Haskell, Jr., Leroy Haskell and James and Paul N. Haskell.
The deceased during her life in Muskogee made for herself numerous friends and her death will be deeply regretted by all.
ObituaryLast Saturday morning sad and shocking news came to our village informing relatives and friends that Mr. G. C. Haskell, son of Mr. Ruel Haskell and son-in-law of Mr. C. M. Hathaway of this place, who was yardmaster for the C. H. & D. Railway Company at Deshler had been fatally injured by the cars. General and profound regret was the result, deep-hearted sympathy went out to the families here and everything possible was done to mitigate their sorrow and reconcile them to the heavy cross that had been laid upon them. Inquiry developed the terrible details of the affair, which were that while at work crossing the B. & O. right-of-way which is double-tracked, Mr. Haskell stood on one track waiting for a freight to pass and while doing so was struck by the tender of a locomotive that, coupled to another one, was coming from the opposite direction. He was thrown upon his face, horribly crushed and dragged 219 feed before his screams reached the ears of a woman who from the upper story of her home called the firemens' attention to their awful work. The engines of death were stopped, the victim released and carried to a surgeon's office, where the poor man, who repeatedly groaned for death to come, was treated as skillfully as possible. The left leg had been crushed off at the groin, the lower portion of the right one cut, the left arm torn off at the shoulder joint and the face badly skinned. Besides internal injuries had undoubtedly been sustained. Mr. Haskell remained conscious for some time after being released, sent some messages to his wife and child, who first at his desire did not go in to see him, and coversed a little with his pastor, Rev. Street. Finally Mrs. Haskell approached her husband but recognition upon his part was not apparent, the result doubtless both of weakness and the opiates that had been administered. He expired at 11:20, two hours and five minutes after being injured. His father and brother Dean arrived there before the end came but Mrs. Haskell's parents were unable to do so until after that. A committee from the Ottawa fire department went up on the noon train, rendered what assistance they could and escorted the remains to this place, arriving on the seven o'clock evening train.
Funeral services occurred at the Presbyterian church on Monday afternoon and every pew was occupied, the firemen acting as escort and attending as a body. About thirty of them were present. Lovely palms surrounded the pulpit while floral evidences of friendship and sorrow were in profusion, three set pieces being exceptionally beautiful. Those came from the K. of P. lodge and the Fire Department here and from the office and yardmen at Deshler. Rev. Street, pastor of the Deshler church that was attended by Mr. Haskell, delivered a very pleasing, very affecting and impressive address and it elicited highly complimentary comment. Rev. R. W. Edwards and Rev. C. B. Holding also participated in the church service. Upon conclusion of this, interment took place in Pomeroy cemetery. The full name of the deceased was George Carlos Haskell.
He was born on a farm in Ottawa township on September 18th, 1875, so reached the age of 25 years, 5 months and 15 days. On October 12, 1898, he was united by marriage to Miss Nelle Hathaway of this village. To the union was born one child, a daughter. Mr. Haskell was a member of the Presbyterian church and a consistent Christian. He was industrious, genial and always satisfactory in his official relations, a dutiful son, a loving and generous husband and father. In the community he was looked upon as a most worthy citizen. To his stricken family and relatives we proffer the most sincere sympathy. In the comment upon this sad event nothing but condemnation is heard against the criminal negligence excercised by the B. & O. firemen who were running the two locomotives referred to, and the Company's liability appears absolutely certain. Three reasons are given for this belief, first, the law does not permit firemen to have entire control of the locomotive; second, no flagman was on the tender to give alarm; third, no whistle was blown or bell rung. It seems that all precaution was cast aside, and if liable under the law the B. & O. Company should be made to pay dearly.
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O. Dean Haskell, 93. of 611 Linden died 12:55 a.m. Wednesday in Memorial Hospital.
Born March 7, 1877, in Leipsic, he was the son of Revel and Margaret Miller Haskell. His wife, Meda, preceded him in death.
Surviving are a daughter, Kathyrn of 611 Linden; three brothers, LeRoy Jr. of Edcouch, Yex., James of Tulsa, Okla. and Paul of Houston, Tex.; and a niece, Margaret Haskell.
A retired painter, he was a member of the Episcopal Church and Royal Arcanum.
U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010
Name: Leroy Haskell
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 25 Dec 1883
Death Date: 4 May 1975
SSN: 452508917
Branch 1: ARMY
Enlistment Date 1: 27 Nov 1917
Release Date 1: 31 Dec 1943
U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010
Name: Paul Haskell
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 1 Jan 1897
Death Date: 29 Sep 1973
SSN: 453014809
Branch 1: NAVY
Enlistment Date 1: 16 Apr 1917
Release Date 1: 22 Jul 1920
33609. Governor Charles Nathaniel Haskell
The following biographical notes from Wikipedia:Charles Nathaniel Haskell (March 13, 1860 July 5, 1933) was an American lawyer, oilman, and statesman who served as the first Governor of Oklahoma. Haskell played a crucial role in drafting the Oklahoma Constitution as well as Oklahoma's statehood and admission into the United States as the 46th state in 1907. Haskell is also remembered as a prominent resident of Muskogee, Oklahoma and helped to bring the city to prominence throughout Oklahoma.
Born near Leipsic, Ohio, in 1860, Haskell was the son of a cooper who died when Haskell was only three years old. This forced Haskell to grow up fast and accept a life of hard work to attain all that he had. At the age of ten, he was hired by a farmer named Miller from Putnam county, Ohio, as a farm boy where he remained for eight years as he grew into adulthood. Though Mr. Miller was a school teacher, and a young Haskell had to work for all he had, he was left little time to attend school regularly, though Mrs. Miller taught him at home. None the least, Haskell earned a teaching certificate at age seventeen and became a school teacher at age eighteen and taught for three years in Putnam County.
Haskells hard working nature paid off in 1880 when on December 6 he passed the bar exam and become a practicing attorney at age 20 without any form of formal training in the field. In his work as an attorney, Haskell became one of the most successful lawyers in Putnam Countys county seat of Ottawa, Ohio, as well as one of the most prominent members of the Democratic Party in northwestern Ohio. Serving in his profession, Haskell, in 1888, added general contractor work to his resume, and for the next sixteen years his business career gave him a great understanding of American industrialism.
Haskell married Lucie Pomeroy, daughter of a prominent Ottawa family, on October 11, 1881. Lucie Haskell died in March, 1888, leaving Haskell with three children: Norman, a Muskogee lawyer; Murray, a bank cashier; and Lucie. He married again the next year, this time to Lillian Gallup. Haskell would have three more children by his second wife, Frances, Joe, and Jane.
With the Land Run of 1889 and the passage of Organic Act in 1890, Oklahoma Territory was quickly coming onto the national scene. Seeing a chance to make it big, Haskell moved his family to Muskogee, the capital of the Creek Nation, in March 1901. When he arrived, Haskell found Muskogee a dry, sleepy village of some four thousand, five hundred people. However immediately on his arrival, the town took new life, business blocks were constructed with Haskell building the first five-story business block in Oklahoma Territory.
Using his knowledge as a contractor, Haskell began building railroads, and has the honor of having organized and built all the railroads running into that city with the exception of but a small few. It is said that he built and owned fourteen brick buildings in the city. Through his influence, Muskogee grew to be a center of business and industry with a population of over twenty thousand inhabitants. Haskell often told others that he hoped Muskogee would become the Queen City of the Southwest.
His success brought his much political clout in the politics of Indian Territory and to the attention of the Creek Nation. During this time, the Native American nations in Indian Territory were talking of created a state and joining the Union under the name of the State of Sequoyah. Haskell was selected as the official representative of the Creeks to the conventions, in the position of vice-president for the Five Civilized Tribes, held in Eufaula, Oklahoma in 1902 and Muskogee in 1905. Of the six delegates at the Muskogee convention, all were of Native American descent, save two: Haskell and William H. Murray. Even though the attempt to create the state was blocked by US President Theodore Roosevelt, Haskell wrote a large portion of the proposed states constitution. Though publicly, Haskell worked for a separate state for Indian Territory, privately, he thrilled to see the Sequoyah state defeated. Haskell believed it would force the Indian leaders to join in statehood with Oklahoma Territory.
Haskell would meet William H. Murray at the Muskogee convention. The two men would become life-long friends.The United States Congress and President Roosevelt agreed that Oklahoma and Indian Territories could only enter the Union as one state, the State of Oklahoma. In response to Congresss passage of the Enabling Act in 1906, Haskell was elected as the delegate from the seventy-sixth district (including Muskogee) by the largest majority of any delegate in the entire new state. Traveling to Guthrie and the Oklahoma Constitutional convention on November 20, 1906, Haskell would meet William H. Murray from the Muskogee convention and Robert L. Williams. Because of their meetings at both conventions, Haskell would gain a friendship with Murray that would last until the end of his life.
With many of the men at the Guthrie convention having served at the earlier Muskogee convention, many of the ideas proposed for the new constitution were based upon the Sequoyah constitution. Haskell owned the New State Tribune, and through its editorial columns advocated certain specific propositions for the new constitution, most of which he eventually saw, in substance if not in form, incorporated into the document. While William H Murray served as the conventions President, all recognized Haskells power within the body. A local newspaper during the time, the Guthrie Report, called Haskell the power behind the throne.
Haskell was present at every roll-call and voted on every proposition during the session. Among the things he advocated were provisions that affected both territories labor problems and avocation for representatives of organized labor. Haskell also drafted a report drawing up county boundaries, lead the crusade for state prohibition, introduced Jim Crow laws, and successfully kept feminine suffrage out of the Constitution.
At Tulsa on March 26, 1907, during the recess before the final adoption of the constitution by the convention, Haskell held a large Democratic banquet attended by five or six hundred of the leading Democrats of the new state. During this banquet, the first campaigns for governor were formally inaugurated. It was during the course of that evening that Haskell was presented by his friends with the honors of the Democratic gubernatorial candidacy. Among the other potential candidates were Thomas Doyle of Perry and Lee Cruce of Ardmore.
Unfortunately for Haskell, the primaries for governor were set for June 8 and Doyle and Cruce had already been campaigning; Haskell had little time. During his campaign, Haskell made eighty-eight speeches in forty-five days, and reached nearly every county, while the lieutenants of the respective candidates were vigorously working in the school districts and securing support in every community. Once again Haskells hard working nature led him to win the Democratic nomination. Haskell's victory in the primaries was carried by over four thousand vote majority. He immediately confronted a new opponent in the opposite party, the Republican territorial governor, Frank Frantz, who was nominated by the Republican caucus at Tulsa.
Frantz, the current territorial governor, a former Rough Rider, a friend of President Roosevelt, and with the federal prestige and support backing him, was the strongest candidate the Republican party could have presented to face Haskell. Haskell challenged his opponent to joint public discussions throughout the state, and every problem concerned with the administration of the new state came up and was debated during the campaign.
During the course of the campaign, two nationally prominent figures spoke at various locations: Republican presidential nominee William Howard Taft and Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan. Unfortunately for the Republicans, Tafts disapproval of Oklahomas proposed constitution and his advice that the people vote against it caused the voters to react in favor of the Democrats. Haskell won the gubernatorial race on September 17, 1907. On the same day, the voted approved the Oklahoma Constitution into law.
After Haskell's election and the approval of the constitution, a Republican approached the governor-elect and is reported to have said, "You have so written the constitution and carried on this fight in a way that the Republicans can't get anything in the state for fifty years." Haskell's eyes had a twinkle in them when he replied, "Well, that's soon enough, isn't it?"
After President Roosevelt signed the bill that admitted Oklahoma into the Union, Haskell was inaugurated on November 16, 1907 as the first Governor of Oklahoma. Five minutes after it was known that Oklahoma was a state, the oath of office was administered to Governor Haskell by Leslie G. Niblack, editor of the Guthrie Leader, who had qualified as a notary public especially for this purpose. The ceremony took place privately in Haskell's hotel apartments in the presence of his immediate family, Robert L. Owen, United States Senator-elect, and Thomas Owen of Muskogee, Haskell's former political manager. Haskells inaugural address at Guthrie, delivered on the south steps of the Carnegie Library, quickly lifted him into national prominence.
Even Haskells old friends William H. Murray and Robert L. Williams came into power with the states founding; with Murray as the states first Speaker of the House and Williams appointed, by Haskell, as the first Chief Justice of Oklahoma. Haskell quickly became the idea of executive power through his handling of the Legislative and Judicial branches. Through his powerful personality and keen understanding of the office he had helped to create, Governor Haskell would weld the powers granted to him as Governor in such a manner that he is still remember as being Oklahoma's greatest chief executive.
During the states First Legislature, Governor Haskell delivered a message creating a commission charged with sending a message to the US Congress: amending the Federal Constitution to provide for the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people. Though after he left office, his efforts, as well as the works of the Progressive era leaders, provided for the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1912.
Though Guthrie was the official capitol of the State, Haskell set up his administration from Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City quickly grew in industry and prominence, shadowing the Capitol located just miles from the growing city. With a booming population of 64,000, the Governor moved towards official action. Haskell would personally lead the charge to the voters to change the capitol from Guthrie to Oklahoma City. First he moved the official home of the Great Seal of Oklahoma and Oklahoma Constitution. Slowly, all government actions occurred in or around the Oklahoma City area.
In the Legislatures first session, under Haskells leadership, Oklahoma adopted laws regulating banking in the state, reformed the old terroritial prison system, and protected the public from exploitative railroads, public utilizes, trusts and monopolies. Haskell also initiated a law insuring deposits in case of a bank failure, a landmark piece of legislation in the nation. Haskell also rigidly enforced prohibition through the Alcohol Control Act. Though following progressive dogma at every turn, such as the introduction of child labor laws, factory inspection codes, safety codes for mines, health and sanitary laws, and employers liability for workers, Haskells legislative schedule also included Jim Crow laws for Oklahoma. Haskell's other significant contributions while governor included establishing the Oklahoma Geological Survey, the Oklahoma School for the Blind, the Oklahoma College for Women, and the Oklahoma State Department of Health. In addition, he helped to create the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals in 1908.
Theodore Roosevelt would be one of Haskell's fiercest political opponents during his Governorship. Before Oklahoma became a state, all prisoners were imprisoned by Kansas officials. The Oklahoma Commissioner of Charities and Corrections Kate Barnard, Oklahoma's first female state official, visited the Kansas prisons and reported the horrible conditions to Governor Haskell. In response, in 1908, Haskell pushed through the Legislature a bill that transferred all Oklahoma prisoners detained in the Kansas penitentiary at Lansing to McAlester, Oklahoma. When the Oklahoma National Guard marched the prisoners down to McAlester, they found no prison. Under National Guard supervision, the prisoners built McAlester State Peniteniary, the state's first correctional facility (which is still in use today). The National Guard housed the prisoners in a tent city and were authorized by Haskell to use lethal force against any prisoner that tried to escape.
A grandfather clause was also enacted in the Legislatures second session by the states Democratic leaders, effectively excluding all blacks from voting. Haskell would spend the remainder of his term enforcing prohibition, regulation of railroads and other trusts, and the moving of the state capitol to Oklahoma City. Haskells dream came true on June 11, 1910 when Oklahoma City became the States official capitol.
Throughout his term as Governor, his office he was free from corruption. Though he was the leader in the deliberations of the committee on county lines and county seats when hundreds of towns had committees attending the sessions with heavy purses, he left its deliberations lean and poor and by the time he had retired from the Governor's office he had become utterly impoverished. In debate he ignored the graces of oratory and instead marshaled facts, arrayed statistics, and piled up figures, using his cutting wit and grim humor to carry his point.
He possessed a deep insight into human psychology based on a reverence for public duty which is best demonstrated in his selection of the first judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals. He declared that though he deemed knowledge of the law of vast importance in a court dealing with the liberties of the citizens, but rising above and far beyond this elemental necessity that the public welfare prescribed that this court should be composed of men of the noblest human impulses and a rich and abiding sympathy of heart.
By the end of his first term in 1911, Haskell returned to private life, happy to see his former Democratic primary nominee for first Governor Lee Cruce inaugurated as the second Governor.
Murray George Haskell, of Muskogee, who came into prominence in connection with the banking interests of Oklahoma and is an active representative of the oil industry, was born in Ottawa, Ohio, August 19, 1884, and is a son of Governor C. N. Haskell, who was the first chief executive of Oklahoma after the admission of the state into the Union. He was born at Leipsic, Putnam County, Ohio, March 13, 1860, and came of English descent, the ancestral line being traced back to Henry and Jonathan Haskell, who in 1622 left their native land of England and became members of the Massachusetts colony. George Haskell, father of Governor Haskell, was born in Vermont and in 1811 became a resident of Huron County, Ohio, while ten years later he settled in the northwestern section of that state, where he followed the cooper's trade. He died in January, 1863.Charles Nathaniel Haskell was one of five children and was but three years of age at the time of his father's death. He was early thrown upon his own resources, becoming a farm boy in 1870 when a lad of but ten years, remaining with a family by the name of Miller. While work in the fields prevented his attendance at school he benefited largely by association with Mrs. Miller, a woman of broad education and thorough Christian character, who assisted him in his studies at night and on Sundays. Under her direction he made such advancement in school work that on the 12th of March, 1878, he passed the required examination for a teacher's certificate. During the following three years he taught two terms at school each year and the remainder of the year was spent in study. He also took up the study of law under Jacob Warner, an attorney of Leipsic, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar at Columbus, Ohio, December 6, 1880. He located for practice in Ottawa, that state, March 7, 1881, and soon won recognition as an able representative of the bar. He likewise took up the work of general contracting and between 1888 and 1900 built the first sections of six different railroads in Ohio and Michigan.
It was in his capacity as a railway contractor that Mr. Haskell came to the Indian Territory in April, 1901, settling at Muskogee. He organized and built all the railroads extending into that city with the exception of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas. He was first engaged on the construction of the Muskogee division of the Frisco road, and in 1902 he built a portion of the Midland Valley Road, followed in 1904 by his work on the M. O. & G. Railroad. In the same year he began the construction of the Muskogee Street railway and in 1911 built the interurban line between Fort Gibson and Muskogee. His work in 1914-15 was on the Oil Belt Terminal Railway from Jennings into the Cushing oil field, but in March, 1915, he sold that property. As a railroad builder he contributed in notable measure to the up-building, development and progress of the state. He also judiciously embraced his opportunities for investment in property and became the owner of fourteen brick buildings in Muskogee and he it was who erected the first five story business block in the territory. Largely as the result of the life and activity which he instilled into the city, Muskogee grew from a village of forty-five hundred population to a city whose inhabitants number twenty thousand.
Before removing to the southwest Mr. Haskell had exerted considerable influence in Democratic circles in Ohio and represented the fifth district of the state in the Democratic national convention in 1892 and was again a delegate to the national convention in 1908, acting as chairman of the committee that wrote the national platform. In 1905 he was a delegate to the separate state-hood constitutional convention and in 1906 and 1907 was a delegate to the Oklahoma constitutional convention. This was followed by his election as governor of the new state. His service as chief executive is a matter of history. He took most active and helpful part in framing the initial policy of the state, in systematizing every department of the government and in laying the foundation for future greatness and progress. He has left his impress indelibly upon the annals of Oklahoma and the record of no man has been actuated to a greater degree by fidelity to duty and high standards of service. He has long been thoroughly versed on the vital questions and issues of the day, and his opinions are the result of a most careful reflection and study combined with a recognition of the needs, the possibilities, the opportunities of the state, whose destinies he has largely guided. With his retirement from the position of governor he resumed his residence in Muskogee and his activity as a railroad builder and has also become a prominent figure in connection with the development of oil and gas interests in the southwest.
In October, 1881, was celebrated the marriage of Governor Haskell and Lucye Pomeroy, of Ottawa, Ohio, a representative of one of the old colonial families of New England that figured prominently in the Revolutionary war through the active service of its representatives. Governor and Mrs. Haskell have become parents of three children: Norman, a lawyer of Oklahoma City; Murray, of this review; and Lucie, wife of Prentiss Hill. In March, 1888, Governor Haskell lost his first wife and afterward wedded Lillie Gallup, of Ottawa, Ohio. There are three children of this marriage: Frances, wife of Colonel L. G. Niblick of Guthrie; Jane, wife of Joseph L. Hall; and Joseph, who is associated with his father in business.
Murray George Haskell, the second son of the family, obtained a public and high school education and acquired a correct knowledge of life's values through careful home training. He dates his residence in Muskogee from 1902 and through the intervening period has largely been connected with banking interests. His initial position was that of teller with the Territorial Bank & Trust Company and after serving in that capacity for about six years he became in 1908 cashier of the Guaranty State Bank. This was followed by election to the presidency of the institution and he continued as its directing head until 1917, conducting the bank along safe and conservative lines that, however, constituted no bar to progressiveness. He retired from the banking business in 1917, having achieved a place of prominence among the financiers of the state. Since that time he has given his attention to the oil industry and again is forging to the front as a prominent representative of this line of endeavor.
Mr. Haskell married Miss Lucy Smith, of Muskogee, and they are now parents of a son, Francis Waller. Mr. Haskell belongs to the Town and Country Club, and his social qualities, his genial disposition and his unfeigned cordiality make for personal popularity wherever he is known. Family connections have brought him a wide acquaintance but personal worth has established his position as a valued friend, as a progressive citizen and a most enterprising business man.
Source: extracted from Muskogee And Northeastern Oklahoma
Find-a-GraveLillian B. Gallup was born in Ottawa, Ohio, December 12, 1862, the daughter of Josiah and Naomi Jane Cox Gallup. The Gallup family is a distinguished one, having in its earlier history the names of many of the gentry of England. John Gallup sailed for the United States from Plymouth, on the 20th of March, 1630 and Christobel, his wife together with their three children followed him to the New World, three years later. The family settled first in Dorchester, Massachusetts but later moved to Boston where John Gallup became known as a man of substance and influence, possessing as he did, "a meadow on Long Island, a sheep pasture on Nix Mate and a house in Boston." After the settlement of Rhode Island and Connecticut, his ship furnished the sole means of communication between the colonies and, at one time, there was considerable anxiety in the settlement in Rhode Island because of his long absence and in a letter written to Governor Bradford of Massachusetts by Roger Williams, the opening sentence contained these words, "God be praised, John Gallup has arrived."
Lillian B. Gallup was of the ninth generation of the descendants of John Gallup; she was married to Charles N. Haskell, then of Lipsic, Ohio, on September 4, 1889. The marriage was solemnized in Ottawa, Ohio where Mr. Haskell was then practicing law; she was Mr. Haskell's second wife. For a short time after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Haskell continued to live in Ottawa, Ohio but in 1901, came to Muskogee, Indian Territory where Mr. Haskell rapidly rose to prominence and in 1907 was elected the first governor of the new state of Oklahoma; he served as governor from 1907 to 1911. Governor Haskell died July 5th, 1933 and the last visit of his widow to Muskogee was on the occasion of the dedication of a marble shaft to the memory of her deceased husband. This ceremony took place in Greenhill Cemetery on May 30th (Memorial Day), 1938. Mrs. Haskell was the mother of three children. The two daughters who survive her are: Mrs. F. D. Richardson (Naomi Jane) and Frances Haskell Edmonson, both of San Antonio, Texas; a son, Charles Josiah, died August 12th, 1931. She is also survived by two granddaughters, Mrs. Gustavus West (Betty Niblack) and Marguerite Sherry O'Brien, both daughters of Mrs. Edmonson by previous marriage
While Mrs. Haskell, with her husband lived for many years in New York City and after his death made her home in San Antonio with her daughters, she never wavered in her devotion to Oklahoma and to old-time friends and neighbors. To an unusual degree, she was companion and help-mate to Governor Haskell, who, in many public speeches, referred to the help and inspiration which "Miss Lillie" never failed to give him. It was said that when he was installed as governor, his wife's sewing machine was also installed in the capitol building so that she might be near her husband and, when Governor Haskell's interest in building railroads took him through the new state, she always accompanied him on these expeditions, cheerfully sharing the inconveniences and hardships which they entailed.
Lillian Gallup Haskell died in San Antonio, Texas, July 13, 1940, at the age of seventy-seven years. She lived a full, colorful and varied life and her contribution to the early days of her adopted state is and will remain a valuable and appreciated one.
It is altogether fitting that her portrait should have a place in Oklahoma's Hall of Fame even as her memory is enshrined in the hearts of Oklahoma's people.
U.S. Veterans' Gravesites, ca.1775-2019
Name: Charles J Haskell
Death Date: 12 Aug 1931
Cemetery: Ft. Sam Houston National Cemetery
Notes: SGT US Army
Per draft registration, married with 2 children in 1917.
Web: Kent County, Michigan, WWI Veterans Census Index, 1917-1919
Name: George Clark Haskell
Birth Date: 20 Feb 1894
Birth Place: Ft.Wayne IN
Residence Year: 1919
Residence Place: Kent, Michigan, USA
Plymouth Advertiser
May 23, 1914Minor Jordan, farmer, 28 years old, who with George Doane, conducts a haybaling outfit, met a tragic death Saturday evening between 5 and 5:30 o'clock on the Conrad Farm in Hartland Twp., just as the crew with the outfit were preparing to leave the place. He was crushed to death, his body being caught between the engine and hay press, as the engine was backing up to couple onto the baler.
33616. Burnette Gregor Haskell
Burnette Gregor Haskell was the founder of the Haskell Family Association and of the Haskell Journal in San Francisco in 1898.
____The following article was published in the Haskell Journal, Issue 50, Summer 1899, page 1013 - 1015
BURNETTE GREGOR HASKEL AND THE KAWEAH COLONYAs many of you know, Burnette G. Haskell was the editor of the ill fated, short lived Haskell Journal, published in 1898. He was the son of Edward Wilder-8 (Edward Wilder-7, Prince-6, Nathaniel-5, Mark-4, Roger-3, Mark-2, Roger-1) and Maria Antoinette (Briggs) Haskell. Edward Wilder Haskell went to California during, the gold rush in 1849. Burnette was born in California 11 June 1857 and died in San, Francisco County, California, [13] November 1907. About 1882, he married Anna Fader, who was born in 1858 and died in San Francisco County 8 November 1942. The couple had two sons: Astaroth Victor (Nov. 1886-? 1951) and Paul B. (n.f i.)
Burnette was the eldest son of Edward W. and Maria Haskell. A lawyer by profession, he was mainly known as a social evangelist and eccentric visionary. According to his obituary in the San Francisco Examiner, November 18, 1907, he was a socialist, anarchist, romancer and economist. He had a reputation as a dynamic speaker, gained not only from his political activities, but also from his defense of waterfront workers arrested for militant activities.
He published a socialist newspaper, Truth, and founded a number of activist organizations, including the Coast Seamen's Union in 1884 and the Nationalist Club in San Francisco in 1889, as well as other trade union and socialist movements. He founded the international Workmen's Association in 1882, whose central committee founded the Kaweah Colony in 1886.
Haskell believed that the goal of the International Workmen's Association Land Purchase and Colonization Association (IWA) was to seek an investment opportunity that would demonstrate its political ideals in an industrial cooperative. The leaders of the movement, in addition to Burnette, were James J. Martin and John Redstone. Their agent, C. F. Keller, found a large tract of timber in the Kaweah Canyon in Tulare County, California, which would produce enough lumber to finance the enterprise. The principals hoped to gain title to the "Great Forest" region.
The Federal Timber and Stone Act of 1878 limited individual claims for public land to 160 acres per person, which could be purchased for $2.50 per acre. A single claim of 160 acres was not enough land for their utopian vision. This was not a problem, however, the idea being to pool individual resources. Thus, in October, 1885, forty individuals went to the General Land Office in Visalia, California, to file claim to adjoining tracts of timberland. In all, fifty-three applications were filed, but the Land Commission became suspicious as seven of the applicants had the same San Francisco address. When the would-be colonists returned to pay and take title to their land, they discovered that the Land Commissioner had suspended their applications, and he refused to take their money.
The colonists were so sure that no fraud was involved that they went ahead with their plans anyway. In the Spring of 1886, Haskell and a number of colonists led their families and fellow dreamers to a camp on the north fork of the Kaweah River and, thus, the Kaweah Colony was born. In October, 1886, work began on the Giant Forest Road, a wagon road. A laborious work in rugged terrain, the road was completed in 1890 and a sawmill was built, but it failed to produce the expected quantity of lumber because cutting timber was not as easy as expected.
The colony was concerned with questions of organization and philosophy. Haskell wanted it to be a joint stock company. Led by Burnette in March, 1888, membership in the colony was established. It was known as Kaweah Cooperative Commonwealth Company of California. A limited joint stock company, it assumed the assets of the Colonization Association and began as the Giant Forest and Toll Road Company. Membership in the colony cost $500, $100, in cash with the rest in installments or money, goods, or labor. There were many non-resident members and money from these people was important in keeping the colony alive. Total membership was not over 500; actual residents did not exceed 300 at any time.
The philosophy of Kaweah was socialist and the aim was that colonists should enjoy benefits based on labor they contributed. Their currency was based on minutes of labor, rather than gold. The pay rate was thirty cents an hour for an eight hour day. This rate applied to everyone and was paid in time checks, not cash. The colonists were poor; many couldn't contribute anything more monetarily after the first $100. The colony, therefore, was faced with the lack of actual cash for day-to-day operations. There were not enough provisions for exchange and little in the way of clothing. Internal problems arose almost immediately: petty jealousy, poor bookkeeping, and general lack of discipline.
The real death knell for the Kaweah Colony came when President Harrison signed a bill 1 October 1890, enlarging the Sequoia National Park to include the Great Forest. The creation of the park affected the titles of the Kaweah colonists to the land. The Secretary of the Interior denied their claims, but said they should be reimbursed for their expenses, though they never received any reimbursement. Worse yet, the trustees of the colony were arrested for illegally cutting timber on Federal land and were found guilty on 16 April 1891 and fined $300 each; though the case was dismissed on appeal. 1891 saw the gradual disintegration of the utopian venture and, by 1892, most of the colonists had moved away.
In August, 1891, Burnette Haskell was forced out as lawyer for the colony and, driven by financial hardship, he alienated his friends by selling an article to the press describing why Kaweah had failed.*
The colony did leave an important legacy: the Great Forest Road, which served as the only public access to the area for the next thirty-six years. Even years later, J. J. Martin, secretary of the colony, was still an advocate of the Kaweah philosophy.
Unable to earn a living on their homestead in Arcady, Burnette and his family returned to San Francisco. Burnette's law practice provided an erratic income. As Barbara Beno noted in her article, "Burnette G. Haskell: A California Dreamer:" A fellow colonist said of Haskell, he was too often drawn 'to the wrong bar, the one with a foot rail."'
Anna, although she thoroughly believed in many of her husband's more radical political ideas, often chafed at her wifely duties. She spent her days canning, washing, and trying to keep a garden to supply food. She had moved to Kaweah in 1889, where she lived in a tent cabin. It was the first time in her married life that she had not been forced to take in boarders to augment the family income. After awhile, the situation became too much, the couple separated, and finally divorced in 1896. Thereafter, she supported herself and her son, Astaroth, by teaching school for the next twenty-three years.
Meanwhile, Barnette was involved with other money-making schemes. He followed the gold rush to Alaska in 1900, but returned to San Francisco in 1901 broke, having exhausted his supplies. His next venture was a cooperative association intended to sail to, and exploit, the Philippines after the Spanish-American War. The scheme collapsed before ships were even launched. He once again turned his energy to his law practice, but it suffered greatly from his intemperate habits. He formed a law partnership in 1904, the contract specifying that he was not to touch even a drop of alcohol. Until his death in 1907, he continued to search for the economic security he found so elusive in his law practice in San Francisco in the 1880s. To Burnette, the Kaweah Colony had represented his dream of a utopian workers' society, for which he had worked so long, and hard. His dream was never fulfilled.
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San Francisco Examiner
November 17, 1907HASKELL - In this city, November 15, Burnett G., son of Edward W. and the late Maria A. Haskell, husband of Annie H. Haskell, father of R.A. Haskell and brother of Helen M. Thomas of Paris, France, Edward P. and the late Ben B. Haskell, a native of California, aged 50 years, 5 months and 4 days.
Interment, Mount Olivet Cemetery
She was divorced from her husband, Burnette Gregor Haskell, in 1896.
Marriage Notes for Burnette Gregor Haskell and Anna H. Fader
MARRIAGE: Marriage ceremony was performed by Hon, J. R. Sharpstein Justice of the Supreme Court according to a notice in the San Francisco Examiner.
The San Diego Union
November 24.947Edward Prince Haskell, Escondido orchardist and foremost authority on growing of citrus and stone-fruits in San Diego County, died yesterday in an Escondido hospital. Mr. Haskell, former President of the Montebello Irrigation District and President of the Federal Farm Loan Board of San Diego County, resided on a ranch in Bear Valley, 10 miles east of Escondido.
The 82 year old orchardist was noted for the development of the first commercial fruit orchards in Southern California more than 50 years ago. In 1882 he settled near La Canada and began a study of fruit trees. His interest blossomed into one of the most successful commercial enterprises in the San Fernando Valley.
Born in Marysville, Yuba County, he attended public schools in San Francisco and Yuba City. At 17 he moved to La Canada and in 1890 he married Miss Jennie H. Cryer, a sister of a former Los Angeles Mayor. In subsequent years he ranched in and near the fertile San Fernando Valley. He moved in 1905 to Montebello where he developed a 55 acre ranch.
In 1930 he came to La Jolla to reside but soon after purchased a ranch near Escondido and developed it into a 600 acre commercial fruit farm known as Haskell Farms Co., of which he was President.
In 1882 Mr. Haskell also turned over the first furrow in the development of Foothill Blvd., a main thoroughfare in N. Los Angeles, Haskell Ave., which runs parallel to San Fernando Valley was named after him.
Mr. Haskell is survived by his wife, Mrs. Jennie H. Haskell; a son Donald B. Haskell; two daughters, Mrs. Anita H. Ellis of Escondido, and Mrs. Jean Haskell of Los Angeles, and five grandchildren.
Find-a-GraveKatherine Cole Noyes was the daughter of Judge George Henry Noyes and Agnes Allis Haskell. She was born in Milwaukee, WI, and educated at Milwaukee-Downer Seminary and Smith College (Northampton, MA), class of 1905.
On Feb 22, 1906 in Milwaukee, she married Donald Roderick McLennan. They had six children: Jane, Donald Roderick, Jr, Margaret, Katherine, George Noyes, and William Lillingston.
Katherine was a member of the Onwentsia Club, the Women's Athletic Club, the Smith College Club, Shoreacres Country Club, and the Garden Clubs of Lake Forest and Palm Beach, Florida.