Boston Herald
March 24, 1952In Cambridge, March 22, Emma Parker (Felch), widow of George E. Haskell of 199 Park drive, Boston, mother of George A. Haskell, Jamaica Plains,; Mrs. Dorothy H. Wass, Somerville, Mrs. Elizabeth H. O'Brien, San Pedro, Calif.; Miss Fayette Haskell, Brighton; sister of Mrs. Paulina R. Stone, Melrose, Mrs. Mary P. Eisnor. Somerville.
80593. George Alexander Haskell
Boston Globe
August 9, 1975HASKELL � Of Somerville, suddenly on August 7, George A. Beloved husband of Gladys A. (Brannan) Haskell. Father of Det. George A. Haskell of Dist. 7, Boston Police, and Arthur L. Haskell of Dracut, Mrs. Loraine Chiminiello of Fort Lee, VA., Mrs. Kathleen Bennet of Mansfield, Mrs. Barbara Alborano of Portland Maine and Mrs. Linda Kannally of Walpole. Brother of Mrs. Fayette Hawkins of Center Harbour, N.H. Also survived by 14 grandchildren.
Interment in Highland Cemetery, Norwood
50274. Charles Hoyt Ellingwood
When his father died, Charles and his mother moved to Brooklyn to live with her Hoyt aunts on St. Felix Street. With the recommendation of the rector of the Church of the Redeemer at 5th Avenue and Pacific Street in Brooklyn he was accepted at the Trinity School in New York. He and his mother were living at 83 St. James Place near Pratt University by 1893.
Given that Horatia Cunningham must have also been living near Pratt, where she was teaching wood-carving and perhaps attended the same church, it can be assumed that this is where they met.
Charles was a stockbroker in partnership with his brother-in-law James Cunningham between 1895 and 1901. He was a partner in the creation of the Wolverine Lubricants Co. in 1911. Their most notable product was Wolfs Head Oil, a fine motor oil distributed nationally. It was supposedly a favorite of chauffeurs who drove limousines and although far removed from when the family was a part of the company, it is now used for race cars. Charles eventually headed the firm.
The family lost their positions in the company about 1930 when Charles was removed as a voting board member for misappropriation of company funds.
Charles was fiercely devoted to his daughters. The family lived in a succession of large houses in Montclair and owned a summer house on Groton Long Point, CT. Charles owned a sloop called Diana, which was raced on Long Island Sound.
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Horatia, known by the nickname "Tip," was born in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Oral history says that she was given her middle name by the minister at her baptism, apparently without consulting her parents about it.
Her parents decided to move out of the city to a farm of the Hudson River in Tarrytown. Her father died when she was a little over a year old when he was unloading their household goods at the Tarrytown pier. The family ended up in Montclair, New Jersey.
It's possible that Tip attended Pratt University in Brooklyn, because she was teaching there by the time she was 24 (1889), perhaps earlier. Her specialty was wood carving.
Tip probably met Charles Ellingwood in Brooklyn. He and his mother were living in the same neighborhood as Tip. They married at Tip's mother's house in Montclair. After the marriage, the Cunninghams and Ellingwoods lived in adjacent houses at 78 and 80 Clinton St.
Tip taught at Pratt up to the time she married, but she gave up her artistic pursuits to move to the suburbs and raise her two daughters. She became active in gardening. Later in life she and the family spent summers at their house in Groton Long Point, CT.
Generally she seems to have enjoyed a life of leisure, but it was compromised by her husband's drinking and his extramarital affair. Her daughter Evelyn contracted meningitis at an early age, and ended up with nerve damage from a spinal tap. This altered the course of her life and must have affected Tip greatly as well. Tip also lamented the resentment Evelyn felt towards Virginia, placing that animosity among the several things that she wished would be resolved before she died.
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Virginia, known as "Ginnie" attended the Dwight School in Englewood, NJ. She had the opportunity to study with an artist in Manhattan, but turned it down. She nevertheless drew and painted various subjects, particularly figures. She had a French pen pal during WW I (through a program called Mon Soldat). She made numerous trips to Europe and was particularly fond of Etretat on the northern coast of France. She gathered a great deal of genealogical information on her family. Her mother and grandmothers provided her with stories that we can now pass down through the generations. She told her own stories as well.
Virginia was also very interested in gardening, creating her own landscapes at her homes in Morristown and Madison, New Jersey, Norfolk, Virginia, and Bristol, Rhode Island. She designed their house in Madison with the help of an architect. An example of the determination she had to create a beautiful environment around her I saw myself. At Bristol, she and John T. "Jack" (also "Gramps") Carpenter, her second husband, bought a small house that would suit their needs in their elder years. It had a tiny, flat yard to the side and back and a strip of asphalt in front. She took a pick-axe and dug up the asphalt and carted soil around the yard to create different levels and walkways. She planned the remodeling of the house with a local preservation architect. The transformation was well-known in town. Her love of Europe appeared all around her in her decorating choices, especially colors.
Virginia lived in Bristol through Johns death, but when she needed health care, her daughter Janie (also known as Ginnie, being named Viriginia Jane) brought her down to live in an addition to her house in Covington, Louisiana. She was in a nursing home in the last years of her life, but never lost interest in her family and her artwork. She was a most loving person and left behind just the sort of wonderful memories that one would want from their granny. Virginia is buried next to John Carpenter in Downington, Pennsylvania.
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Franklin, known by the preferred name "Stod," was to be named Stoddart Holbrook Smith. His uncle Franklin intervened, insisting that the oldest son of the family should be named after his father's oldest brother. Thus, he became Franklin Stoddart Smith II.
Stod and his sister Peggy spend a year at Starkey Seminary, by the shores of Seneca Lake. Stod told his family (perhaps not his parents!) that he and Peggy caught a ride on a freight train that was passing through Starkey, clinging to a car to Watkins Glen about 20 miles away.
Stod worked at the family's soap factory in Manhattan when he was young. He recalled the flickering gas lights, and worked at putting the wrappers around the soap bars.
He attended the Cloyne School in Newport and Stevens Institute in Hoboken, but left to enlist in the Navy during World War I. He was the radio officer on the battleship Louisiana, which was a training ship and later used for troop transport from France. He became sick from drugs used to inoculate diphtheria and had fond memories of the time spent with Peggy, who helped him recuperate on Peak's Island.
Stod met Ginnie Ellingwood while playing in the orchestra for the Montclair Players, a local acting troupe. After they were married, Stod became an executive at Wolf's Head Oil, of which his father-in-law was CEO. With Stod's parents and an architect friend of the family, Adrian von Schmid, Stod and Ginnie had one of three houses built on a cul-de-sac off Park Street in Upper Montclair.
Stod's life took a dramatic turn when, due to his father-in-law's indiscretions, he was forced to leave Wolf's Head Oil and he and Ginnie divorced. He went back into naval service during World War II as an officer at a supply depot in Brooklyn.
He married Lue Zimpel and eventually retired to Mt. Lebanon, PA. They enjoyed many years together and continued the family's long tradition of boating in the summer.
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Boston Herald
August 13, 1971PEARSON - In West Roxbury, August 12, Mrs. Alice L. (Haskell) Pearson, widow of Joseph D. Pearson of 15 Landseer St., aged 86 years; mother of Willard H. Foster of Sudbury and Nrs. Nancy Latham of Essex; also leaves seven grandchildren; sister of the late Dr. Edmund G. Haskell and Rev. J. Wayne Haskell.
Cape Cod Times
January 14, 1996Chatham - Willard Haskell Foster, 84, A World War II veteran a former engineer, died Tuesday at Cape Cod Hospital, Hyannis.
He was the husband of Alice W. Foster. Mr. Foster was born in Beverly and graduated from Roxbury Latin School and the Massachusetts Institute of Tecnology. He was a reserve officer in the Army Corps of Engineers during World War II. Mr. Foster retired from the corps as a brigadier general.
He lived in Sudbury, where he served as a selectman. Mr. Foster was an industrial engineer for General Motors and a plant engineer at Microwave Associates in Burlington. He ran his own professional engineering consulting firm in Sudbury.
Mr. Foster moved to Chatham many years ago and was active in boating, belonging to Cape Cod Power Squadron and the Coast Gaurd Auxiliary. He was a past commander of both organizations and also a member of the Monomoy Yacht Club. Mr. Foster made three trips to Sanibel, Fla., in his ketch Hannah with friends as crew.
He was the former president of the New England Chapter of the American Institute of Plant Engineers and served as president of the Retired Officers Association on Cape Cod.
Surviving besides his wife are a son, W. Blake Foster of Fairport, N.Y., two daughters, Penelope Foster of Magnolia and Susan Teal of Denver, Colo.; two sisters, Joanna Cowen of Commaquid and Nancy Latham of Essex; four grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
Grave inscription
PHM3 US NAVY
WORLD WAR II
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U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File
Name: Robert Haskell
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 25 Mar 1928
Death Date: 12 Feb 1992
SSN: 016208564
Branch 1: NAVY
Enlistment Date 1:24 Sep 1945
Release Date 1: 14 Jun 1948
Midland Reporter-Telegram (TX)
February 6, 2018Elaine LaBaume Haskell, 89, passed away peacefully on February 3, 2018 in Midland. She was born August 14, 1928, in Dublin, Texas, to William Wiley and Claude Beatrice (Branum) LaBaume.
She grew up on a farm and attended school in Dublin. After graduating high school, Elaine attended secretarial school in Fort Worth, Texas.
While there, she met Robert Everett Haskell, a "Yankee" from Massachusetts who was stationed in Fort Worth while attending naval medical training. Elaine and Bob were married on June 26, 1947 in Weatherford, Texas.
Following Bob's discharge from the Navy, the young couple moved to Bob's hometown of Beverly, Massachusetts for a short time, eventually relocating to Texas. After brief residences in Fort Worth, Big Spring, Lovington, New Mexico and Snyder, the family moved to Midland in 1963. In Midland, Elaine was employed as a land secretary by Cities Service Company and its successor, Occidental Petroleum Corporation. She retired from Occidental Petroleum in 1985. Elaine and Bob enjoyed traveling together, including ski trips to Austria, as well as spending time with family and friends. Elaine also took great pleasure in collecting Depression glass and china.
Left to honor Elaine and remember her love are Elaine's three children, Kenneth (Sandra) Haskell, Stephen (Glenna) Haskell and Karen (Dean) Rucker, all of Midland; five grandchildren, David Haskell, Carla (Scott) Pattillo, John (Becky) Haskell, Clark (Rebecca) Rucker, and Dustin Rucker; seven great-grandchildren, Jake (Crystalin) Pattillo, Madeline Pattillo, Anthony Haskell, Liliah Haskell, Dylan Haskell, Harper Rucker, and Haley Rucker; one great-great-grandchild, Payton Haskell; a brother, Ray (Ola Mae) LaBaume of Dublin; and many cousins, nieces, and nephews.
Elaine was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; her infant son, William Edmund Haskell; and her sisters, Mildred Kim, Anita LaBaume, Doris LaBaume, and Mary LaBaume.
Elaine will be remembered for the love she shared with her family, her wit, humor, and storytelling, as well as being the family historian.
A graveside service will be held on Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 12:00 p.m. at Resthaven Memorial Park in Midland with the Reverend Mike Hunter officiating.
50277. Rev. Joseph Wayne Haskell
Obituary
Milford, Feb. 19- Rev. J. Wayne Haskell, 48, pastor of the First Congregational church for the past five years, died Sunday at a Nashua hospital following a long illness. He was secretary and superintendent of the NH Universalist State Conference.
Born in Wenham, Mass., Feb 26, 1902, he was the son of Joseph I. and Lydia D. (Gallop) Haskell. Before coming to Milford he was pastor of the White Memorial Universalist church in Concord, and was a former pastor of the Community church in Danvers, Mass. and of the Westfield Congregational church in Danielson, Conn.
He was also director of religious education of churches in Melrose Highlands, Mass., North Attleboro, Mass., and Davenport, Iowa. He was director of the NH Bible Society, the Rotary and civic clubs and active in Boy Scout work in Milford. He was a member of the Society of American Magicians, and was well known in the area for his many presentations of magic performances before clubs and organizations.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Dorothy F. Haskell; two sons, Richard E. and Philip T. Haskell; one daughter, Elizabeth Anne; one brother, Dr. Edmund G. Haskell of Beverly, Mass.; one sister, Mrs. J. D. Pearson West Roxbury, Mass.; nieces and nephews, and grand nieces and grand nephews,
Obituary
Mrs. Dorothy F. Haskell, 58, of 18 Myrtle St., widow of Rev. J. Wayne Haskell, former pastor of the First Congregational Church, died at a Nashua Hospital yesterday after a brief illness.
She was born in Cambridge on July 23, 1904, daughter of Harley E. and Ida (Tower) Tower, and had lived here for 18 years.
Mrs. Haskell had taught the fourth grade in the Milford elementary school since 1951.
She was a member of the First Congregational Church, the Laura E. Heald Club of the church, The Board of Christian Education, and the N. H. Education Association.
Members of the family include two sons, Richard E. Haskell and Philip T. Haskell, both of Milford; a daughter, Mrs. Richard P. Fisk of Medford; three grandchildren; her mother, Mrs. Ida M. Tower of Melrose, Mass.; two sisters, Mrs. Gladys W. Todd of Melrose, Mass., and Mrs. Edith V. Johnson of Villa Park, Ill.; and several nieces and nephews.
The Telegraph (Nashua, NH)
October 28, 2010Elizabeth "Betsy" Anne Fisk, longtime resident of Milford, and more recently of Moultonborough, NH and North Hutchinson Island, Fla., 73, died October 21, 2010, at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, surrounded by her loving family.
She was born in Melrose, Massachusetts on December 7, 1936 to Rev. Joseph W. and Dorothy (Tower) Haskell. She attended Milford High School graduating in 1954 and attained a B.S. in Nursing from Burbank Hospital School of Nursing-Fitchburg State College. She went on to earn an M.S. in Nursing from Boston University, an M.S. in Nursing Education from the University of New Hampshire and attended the University of Texas, Austin, where she entered the PhD program.
Mrs. Fisk was a professor of nursing education at Fitchburg State College for 21 years and a Professor Emerita of nursing at Excelsior College in Albany, NY. Moreover, she was a consultant, genealogist, lecturer, and researcher of family history, and a staff instructor for FHGRG with a specialty in genetic medical pedigrees. She was a very active member in the Haskell Family Association, a member of Sigma Theta Tau International, Honor Society of Nursing, Tower Genealogical Society, Society for the Advancement of Modeling and Role Modeling, and Military Officers Association of America Ladies Club. She was also Chapter Coordinator and Director of Registered Nurses Retired, President of the Friends of the Moultonborough Library, and actively involved in the Recreation Committee for Ocean Harbor North Condo Association.
Additionally, she was a very committed member of her community in Milford serving as a den mother for the Cub Scouts, had a working involvement with 4-H, member of the Laura G. Heald Club, taught kindergarten, was employed as a high school nurse at Milford Area Senior High School and was also an instructor of Anatomy and Physiology at MASH. She was a longtime member of the First Congregational Church of Milford. In her free time, she enjoyed traveling with her family, gardening, sewing and quilting.
She was a loving wife, a devoted mother and grandmother.
Family members include her husband of 52 years, Richard P. Fisk of Moultonborough, NH; two sons and a daughter-in-law, Gregory P. and Beatriz Fisk of Miami, FL, Kevin D. Fisk of Moultonborough, NH; two daughters and sons-in-law, Karin L. and Panfilo Almonte of Seymour, CT, Suzanne E. and Wade Gadreault of Johns Creek, GA; eleven grandchildren, Jennifer, James, Peter, all of Florida, Jessica of NY, Nicholas and Lauren, both of CT, Meagan and Matthew, both of GA, Rachel, Kyle and Ciara; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Dr. Richard and Edith Haskell of Rochester Hills, MI, Philip and Linda Haskell of Amherst, NH; and many cousins, nieces and nephews.
The Telegraph (Nashua, NH)
July 12, 2012Linda Mace Haskell, 70, of Amherst, NH, loving wife, mother, grandmother and close and trusted friend to many, passed away on July 6, 2012 in Merrimack, NH after a brief battle with breast cancer. Born Linda Boyd Mace (named after her Great-Grandfather, Lynn Boyd Porter of Cambridge, MA, noted author and journalist) on April 27, 1942 to Morrill Atwell Mace and Virginia Porter Haynes Mace, Linda grew up in Darien, CT and Fayetteville NY and graduated from Cazenovia College in Cazenovia, NY. Linda married Philip Tower Haskell on August 26, 1967 in Darien, CT.
Linda was a talented artist who loved photography, oil painting (studying under Anne Colby Hines), and rug hooking (studying under Gail Waldon) among other arts and crafts. She often incorporated floral scenes and fond New England landscapes into her work. She enjoyed spending summers with friends and loved ones on Lake Winnipesaukee at the family cottage on Barndoor Island. Ever since the cottage was built in 1978, Linda would not let visitors leave the island until she took their picture. Each year she would put the previous summer's guest photos in a frame and hang it on the wall of the cottage. No one wanted their picture taken at the time, but everyone loved seeing photos from the previous years - a tradition which continues.
Linda was a very caring person and always generous with her time. She was an active member of PEO, supporting women's education, and a founding member of the Souhegan Christian Church, now combined with the Household of Faith, both in Amherst, NH.
In addition to her husband, Philip Tower Haskell, Linda is survived by the pride of her life, her two sons, Stephen Morrill Haskell of Waitsfield, VT, and Craig Tower Haskell of Durham, NH, and their wives Katherine Duane Haskell and Susan Webster Haskell. Linda delighted in and was loved dearly by her five grandchildren Charlotte, Samuel, Tela, Sadie, and Zachery Haskell.
She is also survived by a brother, David Mace, and his wife Rosemary Mace of Darien, CT, her brother in law Richard Haskell and his wife Edith Haskell of Rochester, Michigan, and her brother in law Richard Fisk of Fort Pierce, Florida and their children and grandchildren.
The Washington Post
April 13, 1966NEW YORK, April 12 (HTNS) - Amory L. Haskell, 72, one of the most prominent sportsmen in the East, died here today of a heart ailment.
Mr. Haskell, who lived at Woodland Farm in Red Bank, N.J., had been president and board chairman of Monmouth Park Race Track in Oceanport, N.J., since it was established in 1946. As president of the National Horse Show from 1938 to 1946, and board chairman since, he was a familiar figure at the annual Madison Square Garden event.
He raised thoroughbred horses at Woodland Farm and one of the peak social occasions of each autumn was the Monmouth County race meeting held on his acreage over a cross-country course regarded as one of the toughest in the Nation.
For many years he was active in breeding, steeplechasing. flat racing, fox hunting and showing, and also raised ribbon-winning hounds. In addition to his farm, Mr. Haskell had a winter home in Palm Beach, Fla.
He was born in New York, the only son of J. Amory Haskell, a General Motors vice president. He began riding and jumping at the age of 7, and played varsity at Princeton. In World War I he was a Navy aviator.
Outside of sport, Mr. Haskell was until 1926 vice president and general manager of General Motors Export Co. He then became president of Triplex Safety Glass Co. In 1938 he began a tour of service as dollar-a-year director of the New Jersey Council, a state promotional agency.
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Amory died on April 12, 1966 in Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, at age 72.The Haskell Invitational Handicap, run at Monmouth Park with a purse of $1.25 million (USD), is held every August in his honor. The richest invitational event contested in North America, the race presents a very prestigious horseracing trophy called the Haskell Invitational Trophy along with its hefty purse. It is the one of the most important sporting events in New Jersey.
As a tribute to the man honored by the race, Amory's daughters Hope Haskell Jones and Anne Haskell Ellis present the Haskell Invitational Trophy each year.
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U.S., Navy and Marine Corps Registries, 1814-1992
Name: Amory L Haskell
Military Year: 1918
Military Country: USA
Rank: Ens
Ship or Station: Rf, naval air stu, San Diego, Calif
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New York, Abstracts of World War I Military Service, 1917-1919
Name: Amory Lawrence Haskell
Birth Place: New York City, New York
Birth Date: abt 1894
Service Start Date: 7 Jun 1917
Service Start Place: New York City, New York
Service Start Age: 23
Trenton Evening Times
March 4, 1946Fort Lauderdale, Fla. - Mrs. Annette Tilford Haskell, 45, of Red Bank, N.J. and Palm Beach, wife of Amory Lawrence Haskell, former president of the National Horse Show Association was killed Saturday in an automobile accident near here.
Mrs. Haskell was the daughter of the late Henry M. Tilford, an early associate of John D. Rockefeller in Standard Oil. She was married to Haskell, September 19, 1923, at Tuxedo Park, N.Y.
An ardent horsewoman, Mrs. Haskell often rode at the head of the Monmouth County Holunds. Their estate, Woodland Farm, Red Bank, has been the scene for many years of exhibitions of hunters and breeding stock.
Surviving, beside her husband. are four daughters, Mrs, Anne Haskell Ellis amd the Misses Margaret, Isabell, and Hope Haskell, a son, Amory L. Haskell, Jr. and two sisters, Mrs. David Wagstaff and Mrs. Stanley G. Mortimer.
Palm Beach Daily News (FL)
March 6, 2006Anne Haskell Ellis of Palm Beach and Middletown, N.J., died Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006, at a Red Bank, N.J., hospital after a short illness. She was 81.
Mrs. Ellis was born in 1924 in New York City, the daughter of Amory and Annette Haskell. She was the widow of John C. Ellis, president and chairman of Rowan Industries in Oceanport, N.J., who died in 1970.
She was a part-time resident for many years and attended Palm Beach Private School, Spence School and Sarah Lawrence College. She belonged to the Gulf Stream Golf Club here, as well as the Rumson Country Club, Sea Bright Beach Club and Navesink Country Club in New Jersey.
Mrs. Ellis is survived by her four children, Anne E. Glaccum of Unionville, Pa., John C. Ellis of Baltimore, Isobel L. Ellis of Washington, D.C., and William C. Ellis of Wellesley, Mass.; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. She also is survived by two sisters, Isabelle de Tomaso and Hope Jones, both of Palm Beach.
Cape Cod Times (Hyannis, MA)
January 4, 1999[Margaret Haskell Ross] of Basking Ridge, a summer resident of Edgartown, on Martha's vineyard, died unexpectedly Saturday at Morristown Memorial Hospital.
She was the wife of Edmund Burke Ross. Mrs. Burke was born in New York City and had lived in New Vernon, N.J., and Rumson, N.J., prior to moving to Basking Ridge, 48 years ago.
She was a longtime summer resident of Edgartown. Mrs. Ross and her husband were breeders of thoroughbred horses. She was a member of the Church of St. John on the Mountain Church in Bernardsville and for many years, a volunteer at the Blood Bank at Morristown Memorial Hospital.
In addition to her husband, she is survived by three sons, Edmund B. Jr. of Bernardsville, N.J., Amory L. of Basking Ridge, N.J., and Benson T. of New Vernon, N.J.; a daughter, Parthenia Kiersted of Edgartown; three sisters, Anne Ellis of Red Bank, N.J., Hope Jones of Palm Beach, Fla., and Isabel DeTomaso of Modena, Italy; and nine grandchildren. She was also the mother of the late Robin Ross.
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Ned died Jan. 17, 2005.
A graduate of St. Pauls School, he majored in geology at Princeton, was a member of Cottage Club, and enlisted in ROTC. He was on the freshman hockey team and the JV hockey team, and senior year was on the varsity team that won the 1941 Quadrangular Championship. His roommates included G. Bright, Keep, Kilduff, Lanahan, Pitney, Schley, and Tomlinson.
Following graduation, Ned served more than four years in the Army. During World War II, he was a battery commander with the Third Army in the European theater and was awarded a Bronze Star.
Neds adult life was spent principally as a gentleman farmer and breeder of thoroughbred horses in Basking Ridge, N.J., where he was active in the local Community Chest. He and his family also maintained a summer residence for many years in Edgartown, Mass.
Predeceased by his wife of more than 50 years, Margaret Haskell Ross, and his daughter, Robin Ross, Ned is survived by three sons, Edmund Jr. 73, Amory, and Benson; his daughter, Parthenia Kiersted; and 11 grandchildren.
ALESSANDRO DE TOMASO
Nationality: Argentina
Date of birth: July 10, 1928 - Buenos Aires
Born into a well known and powerful Argentine family in 1928, de Tomaso raced in his home country in the early 1950s but fled Argentina in his own airplane in 1955 to escape persecution from Juan Peron's regime. He settled in Modena, hoping to make a name for himself as a racing driver. He talked his way into a job as a mechanic at Maserati and soon became a driver. Not long afterwards he met and married American heiress Isabelle Haskell, a Ferrari customer who raced the cars in the United States and together they decided to set up their own racing car company in Modena. While this was being established he enjoyed some success with OSCA (which had been established by the Maserati brothers after they sold Maserati to the Orsi Family). He raced to ninth place in the 1957 Argentine Grand Prix in a Scuderia Centro Sud Ferrari 500/625. Two years later he retired from the US Grand Prix at Sebring in a Cooper-OSCA. At the end of that season he retired from racing and began to build up DeTomaso Automobili SpA to build road cars. The company produced a variety of racing cars in the early 1960s beginning with an F2 car which appeared in the hands of Roberto Bussinello at Modena. It crashed heavily but reappeared the following year as an F1 car. He hired ex-Maserati engine designer Alberto Massimino to design a flat eight engine and the de Tomaso cars were seen from time to time until end of 1965. The de Tomaso cars enjoyed a limited amount of success in the junior formulae with Mario Casoni winning at Caserta and a young Clay Regazzoni racing for the team. The company began producing road cars in the late 1960s and in an effort to advertise the company de Tomaso decided to have another attempt at Formula 2 and hired Giampaolo Dallara, a Lamborghini road car engineer, to design an F2 car for 1969. This was run by an ambitious young team owner called Frank Williams and was raced by Jonathan Williams, Jacky Ickx and Piers Courage. Williams and de Tomaso then did a deal to enter F1 in 1970 with Courage, Cosworth engines and a Dallara-designed chassis. Courage finished third in the International Trophy and was running seventh in the Dutch Grand Prix when he crashed and died in Holland. The team continued until the end of the year with drivers Brian Redman and Tim Schenken but then withdrew.The de Tomaso car company enjoyed some success with the Pantera model and was able to buy up a number of bankrupt engineering companies including the Benelli and Moto Guzzi motorcycle companies and the Innocenti car firm. In 1975 de Tomaso put together a rescue package to buy Maserati and tried to revive it. This was a success and in 1993 he sold the firm to FIAT and went back to running De Tomaso. Not long afterwards he had a stroke. The company was taken over by his son Santiago under the guidance of his wife Isabelle.
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The San Diego Union-Tribune
May 24, 2003Alejandro DeTomaso, whose company produced a sports car that combined Italian flair with American horsepower, died on Wednesday in Modena, Italy. He was 74. The cause was heart failure, his family said.
In 1971, Mr. DeTomaso's company, DeTomaso Automobili, based in Modena, began selling the Pantera, a sports car with the sleek, angular profile of a jet fighter, which had a Ford V-8 placed behind the two-seat passenger compartment. Mr. DeTomaso built the car after being approached by Lee A. Iacocca, then president of the Ford Motor Co., who a few years earlier had helped create another populist sports car, the Mustang. Ford, which had failed in an attempt to buy Ferrari, wanted a high-performance European car for its showrooms.
The Pantera was sold in the United States by Lincoln-Mercury dealers. Although it cost more than twice as much as a typical sedan, it was also less than half the price of a Ferrari, Maserati or similar limited-production Italian sports cars of the time, making it an exotic car accessible to the middle-class buyer.
As many as 6,000 Panteras were sold before Ford ended the arrangement in 1974 because safety and emissions laws would have required a major redesign of the car. Mr. DeTomaso continued to make the car through the 1990s, selling it in countries other than the United States.
Mr. DeTomaso was born on July 10, 1928, in Buenos Aires to parents prominent in Argentine politics and agriculture. In 1955, he fled Argentina to avoid the wrath of Juan Peron. He moved to Modena, where he raced cars for Maserati and OSCA, another limited-production auto maker.
Through racing, he met his second wife, Isabelle Haskell, a member of a wealthy family from Red Bank, N.J. She bought Ferraris and raced them against the world's best drivers.
In 1959, the couple formed DeTomaso Automobili, starting off by building racing cars. Their first car for public roads, the Vallelunga, had its debut in 1963. It featured an unusual backbone chassis, a central spinelike frame running the length of the car. About 60 were made.A few years later came the Mangusta, designed by the Italian stylist Giorgetto Giugiaro. It caught Iacocca's eye and led to the Pantera. The success of the Mangusta and Pantera allowed Mr. DeTomaso to acquire Maserati in 1975 and keep it running.
In the 1980s, Iacocca, then at Chrysler, again collaborated with Mr. DeTomaso to produce a Chrysler-Maserati convertible, but the car sold poorly. Mr. DeTomaso sold his controlling interest in Maserati to Fiat in 1993 and returned to his original company, but a stroke soon after required Isabelle Haskell DeTomaso and a son from his first marriage, Santiago, to take control. They continue to run the company.
He is also survived by his sons, Alessandro and Pablo, from his first marriage to Lola DeTomaso.
The Palm Beach Post
August 5, 1999BLANCHE ANGELL HASKELL. Widow of Amory L. Haskell, daughter of the late John and Edith Ranahan, sister of Robert and John Ranahan (deceased), died on August 1, 1999 at Vermont Respite House in Williston, VT.
Mrs. Haskell was born in Manhattan and grew up in Southold, Long Island. She attended business college after graduating high school at the age of 16; she worked on Wall Street at Smith and Gallatin for many years. Mrs. Haskell lived in New Jersey and Palm Beach from the time she left New York City until her permanent move to Palm Beach in 1982, where she resided until she moved to Vermont to be near to her family in 1998.
Surviving are her daughter, Cynthia D. Smith and son-in-law, Kevin Ford of East Dorset, VT; and her grandchildren, Crystal and Timothy Allen and their daughter, Merrill Allen, Mimi Davie, Alyssa -Davie and Jason Davie; a niece, Robin D'Angelo and her husband, Ron, and grand niece, Suzanne; and grand nephew, Adam.