The following notes on Samuel Baldwin Haskell from Gina Comfort posted in Gina Marie (Diehl) Comfort database in Ancestry.com:
1851 On Military roll Southport, Chemung Co.,NY
1868-1869 Living in Elmira, farm in Big Flats, Chemung, New York - carpenter and farmer
Walt Whitman, who was working as a volunteer nurse in Washington's military hospitals, wrote a letter of condolence to Erastus's family a few days after his death. This letter is published in "Walt Whitman's Civil War", by Walter Lowenfels, publ. by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1960.
The following note is copied from Gina Marie (Diehl) Comfort database on Ancestry.com:
A carpenter from Elmira NY, Erastus played the fife for the 141st New York Infantry band. Not long after he was mustered into the Volunteers on September 11th 1862 he took ill and spent several months in field and general hospitals before his admission to Armory Square on July 11,1863 with typhoid fever. He died Aug 2,1863 unmarried. The 21-year old left behind his parents and deaf sister Abigail all of whom were financially dependent on him after a stroke had left the father unable to work.
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Find-a-Grave
Son of Samuel Burnett Haskell & Rosalind Derby
Christened in 1845 at the Congregational Church, Lyme, Grafton Co., NH
Brother of Josephine, Helen, Samuel, Peres, Caroline, Abigail (who was deaf), Cassius, & Myron Haskell.
Fifer Co. K. 141st Inf. Rgt. Band N Y Vols.
Former occupation - farmer
Enlisted Sept. 11, 1862 @ Chemung Co., NY
Assigned to Camp Casey, Washington D. C.
Became too ill for duty after Dec. 20, 1862
Hospitalized @ the Armory Square Hospital Ward E. on July 11, 1863. Died August 2, 1863 with the poet, Walt Whitman by his side. The diagnosis was typhoid.
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Civil War Pension File
Mothers application # 250002, cert # 188729
Enrolled August 20, 1862 at Elmira, New York, Company K, 141st NY Infantry.
Mustered in September 11, 1862
Died at Armory Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia, of typhoid fever
Erastus father, Samuel B. Haskell suffered a stroke about 1855 or 1856 and was partially paralyzed on one side. That the family depended on Erastus for support.
Samuel died May 20, 1876.
In 1879, Rosalinda requested pension support, since her son Myron could no longer support her, and she had a deaf daughter she cared for.
Abigail Haskell was deaf and mute. She was unmarried.
Prosper Fitch and Bathsheba Fitch were first cousins.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
January 22, 1895
George Haskell, 70 Brownell, 93 y. old age.
Monroe Commercial
July 1, 1881Last week news reached here that Norman R. Haskell had died suddenly at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y., on Tuesday, June 21st. Mr. Haskell was for many years a prominent citizen of this place, having lived here for about forty years.
He was the son of Roger Haskell, of Geneva, N. Y., where he lived for the first twenty years of his life. After leaving Geneva he went to Cleveland where he obtained a position in a bank, and there acquired considerable knowledge of the banking business. From Cleveland he came to Monroe in 1835, and entered the River Raisin bank as cashier. Held this position until the bank failed in 1850, when he started a broker's office. This was the only bank in town for many years, and Mr. Haskell was looked upon, financially, as a prosperous man In 1858 he failed in business, and since that time has been more or less of a wanderer. He lived for sometime in Ohio and Illinois, when he returned to this city. For several years he taught book-keeping, in which branch he was very proficient. He busied himself with book-keeping and attending to his fiardin (sic), which at one time had quite a reputation, until five years ago, when he removed to Brooklyn.
In the early days of Monroe he was looked upon as one of the leading citizens. He was an excellent and capable banker, and stood high among the business men of this section of the country. He was for many years, a leading member of the Presbyterian Church, of which he was an Elder. After his business failure, his friends seemed to forsake him, and he soon lost the prestige which he had formerly enjoyed. He was a great speculator among the wildcat banks of his time, and gained the reputation towards the last of being somewhat crooked in several of his dealings.
His wife died here several years ago. He leaves three children, all of whom are now grown up.
The Monroe Commercial
February 17, 1876Died at her residence in Monroe, Feb. 14th, Mrs. Elizabeth F. Haskell, at the age of 58 years.
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Haskell was born in Buffalo, N. Y., March 23, 1818. She was married in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1835, and came immediately with her husband, N. R. Haskell, Esq., to Monroe, where she has since resided. In the early days of the city, as a in later years, she has taken a lively interest in its history, being a woman of great energy and untiring industry. She is the author of the Housekeepers' Encyclopedia," published by Appleton & Co., which has had a large circulation. She has contributed many useful articles on Horticulture, a science in which she took a deep interest, besides on other subjects. In early life she united with the Presbyterian Church, where she has found the field of her Christian work For the past 13 years she has been an invalid, being unable most of the time to walk. But her sufferings and privations have been patiently endured, as they have strengthened her Christian hope, brightening with increasing peace, and the assurance of a blissful immortality.
Plain Dealer
September 6, 1858Daniel M. Haskell died at his residence 71 West Thirty-Eighth street, New York City on Friday lasr, aged 42 years. He formerly resided in this city and was Postmaster here under the Taylor-Fillmore Administratio.
3326. Colonel James Richard Haskell
Patent 241978 - James R. Haskell - Accelerating Gun
Patent 241979 - James R. Haskell - Wad for Ordance
Patent 484008 - James R. Haskell - Projectile
Patent 484009 - James R. Haskell - Multicharge or accelerating gun
Patent 484010 - James R. Haskell - Multicharge gun
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James Richard Haskell was an American inventor chiefly remembered for his invention (with Azel S. Lyman) of a multi-charge gun which was intended to increase muzzle velocity by detonating additional propellant charges behind the projectile or shell as it moved up the gun's barrel and was a distant ancestor of the World War II German V-3 "supergun".In 1854 Haskell began experiments with steel breech-loading rifled cannon and breech-loading small-arms, manufacturing 25 of the former, which were purchased by the Mexican Government.
In 1855 he began experimenting with multi-charge guns in partnership with Azel S. Lyman, who first originated the idea of applying successive charges of gunpowder to accelerate the velocity of a projectile.
James Richard Haskell
Born September 17, 1843
Died August 16, 1897, Passaic, New JerseyWikepedia
[note that date of birth and experiment dates do not make since, as he would be 12 when conducting experiments]
Note that census show James R. Haskell born 1825 as A manufacturer and Inventor
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U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865
Name: James R Haskell
Residence: New York
Class: 2
Congressional District: 6th
Age on 1 July 1863: 37
Race: White
Place of Birth: New York
David Leavitt Haskell was an importer.