ALBERT G. HASKELL.
A comparatively new profession which in recent years has gained wide recognition is that of tree surgeon. This calling has abundantly proven its worth and merit, and today the skilled and competent tree surgeon is recognized as a distinct addition to the desirable and serviceable callings. In this connection Albert G. Haskell has gained a splendid reputation because of the fine work he has done in the preservation and saving of trees, some of them of great historic value and importance. Mr. Haskell was born in Los Angeles, California, on the 4th of February, 1895, and is a son of George O. and Nellie N. (Mackey) Haskell, the former a native of Maine and the latter of St. Joseph, Missouri. The father came from his native state to California in 1870, locating in Los Angeles when it was but a small town. He was a mining engineer by profession and was identified with radium mines in old Mexico, also operating in the Cuccamunga district of Los Angeles county. He was one of the founders of the Southern California Music Company, selling out at the end of five years, and was also interested in the Western Soap Company His death occurred in 1906, and he is survived by his widow, who came to California in 1879. They became the parents of four children, namely: Ruth E., who is the wife of Paul Lane, of Los Angeles, and has two children; Marian L., the wife of Gilbert Redfield, of Mexico City; Maude, who is the wife of Herman Antholtz, of Imperial county, California, and has three children; and Albert G., the immediate subject of this sketch.
Albert G. Haskell was graduated from the Polytechnic high school at Los Angeles and then attended and was graduated from the Gardena Agricultural School, at Gardena, California. He next took a course at Leland Stanford University, after which he attended and was graduated from the Schinn National School of Tree Surgery. Since becoming qualified for his special calling, Mr. Haskell has been employed in various parts of California, and he has accomplished some very remarkable results in the preservation of trees, among the most notable being the Pepperwood tree at Cloverdale, which was filled in with seventeen tons of cement, requiring four months of work; the St. Joseph Hooker oak, at Chico, California, and the Lewis oak, at Gridley, California, all of which were in bad condition when he began work on them but which now will probably last for many years. Mr. Haskell now makes his home in St. Helena, and he is realizing marked success, both professionally and financially. He is the owner of six hundred acres of fruit ranch in the Howell mountains, thirty acres of which are in apples. He is an enthusiastic horticulturist and takes a justifiable pride in the fine quality of fruit which he raises, and it is a noteworthy fact that he has taken three fourths of the blue ribbon prizes at California fairs in recent years on his standard varieties.
Mr. Haskell is a veteran of the World war, having enlisted in the Sixty second Heavy Artillery, which trained at Fort Scott. They were sent overseas and saw much active service in the campaigns in France and Belgium, and he was discharged with the rank of sergeant. He was the first man to enlist in St. Helena and the second in Napa county. Mr. Haskell was married to Miss Christine Augusta Jespersen, who was born in Ferndale, Humboldt county, California, and they are the parents of a daughter, Marion C.
From:
History of Solano County, California
BY: Marguerite Huneand Napa County, California
BY: Harry Lawrence Gunn
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.
Chicago 1926
37942. Sylvanus Green Haskell Sr.
Noteworthy among the active, prosperous ranchers of Imperial County is Sylvanus G. Haskell, who owns and occupies an eighty acre place. It is well appointed and well managed, and he is numbered among the prosperous men of his locality.
Mr. Haskell was born in Belfast, Maine, October 11, 1861, son of John Green and Mary Haskell, who were the parents of five children, three sons and two daughters. Mr. Haskell received a limited education in the public school. At the age of twelve he worked out and remained with his employer for four years. He then spent two years in Kennebec County.
In 1881 Mr. Haskell came to California and located in Riverside. Here he worked at ranching for one year. Sylvanus and his two brothers then went to Cucumonga, California, and bought sixty acres and later took on forty acres more. This was all orange land and the brothers set out twenty acres to oranges. In the fall of 1897 they went to Westminster, Orange County, and rented land. Then after spending three years in Whittier, California, Mr. Haskell came to Imperial County, where he now farms eighty acre
He intends to engage in alfalfa and hogs and will operate a small dairy. Politically Mr. Haskell is Republican but has never aspired to office. He married Georgiana Eady, a native of Whittier, California, June, 1901. There has been born seven children: Ralph True, attending high school; Lloyd Elsburg, Glenn Douglas, Le Roy, Paul Valentine, Vivian and Sylvanus, Jr. Mrs. Haskell comes from old English stock and her ancestors came to this country at a very early date. Mr. Haskell comes from Scotch ancestors and his grandparents were early settlers in Maine. Mr. Haskell will shortly move his present house back and erect a new residence, and will put in five acres to grapefruit.
Reference
The History of Imperial County, California
Published by Elms and Franks, Berkeley, California, 1918
Pages 437,438
U.S. World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938-1949
Name: Lloyd E Haskell
Ship, Station or Activity: Henderson
Muster Date: 21 Feb 1943
U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
Name: Leroy Haskell
Birth Year: 1909
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: California
State of Residence: California
County or City: Imperial
Enlistment Date: 17 Sep 1942
Enlistment State: California
Enlistment City: Los Angeles
Branch: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Grade: Private
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life
Education: 4 years of high school
Civil Occupation: Farm hands, general farms
Marital status: Single, without dependents
Height: 68
Weight: 155
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U.S. Rosters of World War II Dead, 1939-1945
Name: Leroy Haskell
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: No Preference
Disposition: Nonrecoverable
Service Branch: Army
Rank: Staff Sergeant
Service Number: 39535407
Imperial Valley Press
January 23, 2007Thelma Haskell, 88, passed away at Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nevada on Thursday January 18, 2007, surrounded by her loving family.
An Imperial Valley native for 87 years, she moved to Sparks, Nevada in 2005 but the Valley never left her thoughts or her heart.
Thelma was born on August 18, 1918 to Taylor Gilbert House and Nanny (Banks) House. She was the third child, but the first daughter born to the couple who had five sons and three daughters. She married the love of her life, Paul Valentine Haskell in 1937 and had three children. Paul and Thelma raised their family and enjoyed life together until his death in 1993.
Thelma was preceded in death by both of her parents, her brother James House, her brother Elmer House, her husband of fiftysix years Paul Haskell and her youngest daughter Paula Townsel.
Thelma is survived by her brothers Gilbert House, Henry House and Ray House, by her sisters Betty Fisher and Margaret Dickson, by her children Janis Gray and Larry Haskell, by six grandchildren, by ten greatgrandchildren and by hundreds of extended family and friends that loved her.
After her husband's death, Thelma hoped for something to take her mind off of her loss. It took a while to find a cause, but she finally found her new motivation through the Imperial Valley College Desert Museum. After spending her life in the desert of the Imperial Valley, she felt it was her duty to educate future generations of the beauty that the desert holds. Thelma served on the board of the museum until her move to Sparks in November of 2005. She left the Imperial Valley with the knowledge that she would return for the museums dedication. She will be unable to make it to the dedication, but her memory will be with the museum forever.
U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
Name: Sylvanus G Haskell
Birth Year: 1917
Race: White, citizen (White)
State of Residence: Arizona
County or City: Pima
Enlistment Date: 18 May 1943
Enlistment State: California
Enlistment City: Los Angeles
Branch: No branch assignment
Grade: Private
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life
Education: 3 years of high school
Civil Occupation: Electricians
Marital status: Married
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U.S. Rosters of World War II Dead, 1939-1945
Name: Sylvanus G Haskell
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: Protestant
Cemetery Name:California
Disposition: According to next of kin
Service Branch: Army
Rank: Staff Sergeant
Service Number: 39297646
The Bangor Daily News
June 15, 1973Tpdd, Capt. Haskewll C., 77 died June 13 at a Belfast Hospital. He was born in Lyndonville, Vermont, Feb. 12, 1896, son of Louis amd Mary (Haskell) Todd.
He was a career Naval Officer, Veteran of Wprld War I and II, Graduate of War College, retired in 1946. He was a member of the Fran D. Hazelton Post of the American Legion, The Belfast Rotary Club, served as a member of the Red Croos Board for several years, former director of the Waldo County Hospital, former director of the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad, served several years as a tax assessor.
Survived by wife, Mrs. Rita (Robinson) Todd of Belfast; two sisters, Mrs. Louis F. Frohman, Bronxville, N.Y., Mrs. George Pike, Rowley, Mass., several nieces and nephews.
37947. Capt. John Thomas Marshall
John T. Marshall was a yachtsman.
Greeley T. Small was a carpenter at the time of his marriage to Lena Marshall.
37954. William Arthur Marshall
The Newark Advocate
January 30, 1942William Arthur Marshall, 83, died at 8:30 p.m. Thursday in the home in Milford township, Knox county.
He is survived ny his widow, Edith Dunlap Marshall, two daughters, Mrs. Harley Sawyer, Johnston and Miss Mattier Marshall of the home; a granddaughter, Mrs. Ethel Orndorff of Johnstown; a great-grandaughter and a sister, Mrs. William Frazier, near Centerburg.
The Newark Advocate
January 22, 1960Johnstown - Mrs. Alice [sic] E. Kile, 74, widow of Edward Kile, resident of Johnstown, died at 3:30 a.m. Friday in Columbus Hospital, where she had been a patient since Jan. 5.
The daughter of William A. and Edith (Dunlap) Marshall, she was born May 14, 1885, in Knox County, and had lived in Johnstown 45 years. She also had resided in Centerburg.
A member of Simmons Church of Christ, Knox Coubty, Pythian Sisters and Rebekah Lodge of Johnstown, she was also a member of the Mary Circle of the Methodist Church and Johnstown Grange.
A daughter, Mrs. John Orndorff of a former marriage resides in the Johnstown area and she also leaves one granddaughter; two great-grandchildren; one sister, Miss Mattie Marshall of the Centerburg area. A son is deceased.
Edwin Carman was a seaman at age 33 (1870 Deer Isle census).
64313. Capt. Edwin Thomas Carman
Edwin Carman at age 33 was a yachtsman (1900 Federal Census for Deer Isle).