Kalamazoo Gazette
January 21, 1902Mrs. Nancy Cox, wife of the late Isaac Cox, passed away Monday evening at 7 o'clock at her home 713 Forest avenue. She was born 64 years ago last August and has spent most of her life in Kalamazoo or vicinity.
She leaves three brothers, Arad Cahill in Plainwell, Mortimer Cahill of Chicago, and Daniel Cahill of Coffeyville, Kansas. Miss Bertha, daughter of the last named, has resided with her for some time. The two recently made a trip to Kansas. On their return they stopped in Chicago, where deceased was taken ill, She hastened home and has continued to grow worse until death released her. She was formerly Mrs. Nancy Boynton and became the wife of Mr. Cox June 24, 1874. She was a member of the First Baptist Church and for a time secretary of the Womans Union.
Kalamazoo Gazette
January 26, 1901Isaac Cox, an old and highly respected resident of Kalamazoo county, died at 7:30 Friday morning at his home, 715 Forest street. Mr. Cox was born in the city of New York, July 15, 1822, of Quaker parentage. He was brought up in that faith and held firmly to it throughout his life. The deceased came to Kalamazoo county in 1843 and in August of the same year married Cyilnda S. Sykes, who died January 12, 1871. He was again married January 24, 1874, to Mrs. Nancy Boynton, who survives him. Mr. Cox spent the greater part of his life upon his farm in Portage which he purchased in an early day. He was a very successful farmer, a lifelong democrat and a man of unquestionable integrity. He had been a subscriber to the Gazette for 40 years.
6360. Leonidas Hamilton Hascall
The Centreville ObserverLeonidas Hamilton Hascall was born near Kalamazoo, Mich., Jan. 8, 1842. and died at his home in Centreville on Saturday, Aug. 26, 1911, aged 69 years, 7 months and 18 days.
In his youth he entered a printing shop and mastered its every detail. His thorough knowledge of the business and his basic intellectuality took him from "case" and into the editorial chair which he occupied many years. He was an analyst, an omniverous reader, and a keen observer and in these three schools he was a tireless student. His ability compelled respect and he was recognized as an authority on any subject he was interested in. He was of a cosmopolitan spirit and popular with all who knew him. To his broad culture was added a loveable disposition and great kindliness. His failings were but these virtues run riot.
His early life was spent in Kalamazoo. On July 6, 1880, he was married to Mrs. Sophia Beerstecher Hascall, widow of his half brother, Volney Hascall. For the two succeeding years they continued to reside in Kalamazoo, when business and family ties brought them to Centreville where they have since resided.
For several years Mr. Hascall has been a semi-invalid and for a number of months has been confined to his bed. Under this affliction, those very immediately associated with him state he developed a lovableness and depth of spirituality that was most delightful. Everthing that love or science could suggest was done by his devoted wife and friends to brighten his pathway.
The Centreville Observille Observer
For many weeks the people of Centreville have anxiously watched the condition of Mrs. Hascall and prayed for her recovery to health and strength. Few if any homes that have not had evidence of her thoughtful consideration. Those in need turned to her as their unfailing friend, those in joy delighted in having her share their pleasure, those in sorrow received from her some token of her sympathy, a tender little note accompanied by a bunch of flowers, arranged as only she knew how to bring out their full beauty; for everyone she had some kindly act; kindliness and helpfulness seemed to radiate from her. So when it became known on Monday evening that she had finished her mission, sorrow was in every heart. Her life has been one of service: from her young womanhood her first consideration has been for others.
And flowers! How she loved them and how her garden in her healthful days was a riot of color and beauty, not laid out in exact plats and filled with stiff designs so conventional as to be almost painful, but it went wandering away, every turn disclosing some new harmony, some happy surprise. Away in a dark corner was some plant that lighted it up like an exquisite gem while out in the bright sunshine were those "Smiles of God" that enhanced its beauty. Everywhere was harmony and beauty, without the primness or precision that is man-like but never like God's harmony of nature. God had given her that love of his works that made her in complete harmony with nature and her garden was but symbolical of her nature and life: always beautiful, always harmonious, always helpful.
Mrs. Hascall was born in Switzerland May 27, 1838, and died at her beautiful home in Centreville on Monday Evening, July 6, 1914, aged 76 years, 1 month, 9 days. In 1856 the family emigrated to this country and came directly to Centreville, which they have always regarded as their home. Here she spent her young womanhood until she bagan teaching and for many years was occupied in that calling and in traveling for she was much in demand as a traveling companion. She spoke four languages, was a fine business woman and highly educated, an ideal educator, companion and friend. Her travels were very extensive, embracing nearly every country on the globe. Her great privileges never changed her nature: she was ever the same unassuming, delightful person that never forgot a friend or considered herself superior.
In 1856 she was married to Volney Hascall, of Kalamazoo, who was editor and proprietor of the Kalamazoo Gazette for thirty-five years. Mr. Hascall died in about 1878. On July 6, 1880, she was married to Leonidas H. Hascall. a half brother of her first husband.
For two years they resided in Kalamazoo and then came to Centreville to be among her own people and here she has resided since. Her love for Centreville and its people never waned: she was first in every good work and there are scores of things on every hand to evidence her love and generosity. Our side-walk to the depot and cemetery were made possible through the generosity of herself and sister Mrs. Thomas.
Mr. Hascall died August 26, 1911, after a very long and most trying illness. She was his constant nurse; no one could meet his wishes as could she and she sacrificed herself for him. There is peculiar significance and harmony in her release from human life on the anniversary of her marriage.
For the past two winters she has gone with her sister and brother and wife to California and how she did enjoy the land of winter flowers and sunshine, and yet she never recovered from the sorrow of Mr. Hascall's death and has only been waiting for reunion..
Of the original family of seven children but four are now living - Adolph, Mrs Julia B. Thomas, Eugene and Augustus, all of Centreville. There are 23 nephews and nieces, all of whom were as dear to her as own children.
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New York Passenger Lists
Ship William Penn frm Le Havre, France, arrived New York 5 Jun 1868
The Hascall BlockIn the 1970's a National Fast Food Chain, Wendy's, featured as a part of their decor, tables with old newspaper advertisements set in acryllica on the table surface. One of the ads was for products that could be found at the store located in the Hascall block in Goshen. The Hascall block actually referred to a single building on the block. Chauncey Smith Hascall, is the Hascall who erected that building. The building was located at Main and Lincoln, in 1922 it was razed and City National Bank, 102 North Main was erected on the site.
The Hascall Hall, was a part of the Hascall Block. In 1853 General Tom Thumb, P.T. Barnum's famous little man appeared in the Goshen Opera House, Hascall Hall.
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Obituary The Goshen Times August 30, 1894
From Wednsday Daily TimesChauncey S. Hascall whose illness has been mentioned in this paper for several days, died at the residence of Frank Abbott in East Chicago, last night at 10 o'clock, from a paralytic stroke sustained last Sunday. The deceased was over 82 years old and had enjoyed good health up to the hour he was stricken. mr. Hascall was for many years a prosperous merchant in Goshen and leaves standing as a monument to his memory the large red brick block occupied by the Hawks drug store at the corner of Main Street and Lincoln Avenue. The building was an imposing structure in its day and was erected by the deceased but afterwards sold. Mr. Hascall leaves to mourn aside from his wife and four children a large circle of old friends and relatives.
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Pioneer History of Elkhart County, IndianaMr. Hascall was a prosperous business man for many years. He was associated for a time with Washington Earle in conducting a general store, then the largest store in Goshen. Mr. Hascall built the brick block on the corner of Main Street and Lincoln avenue, which was torn down several years ago to give place to the present City National Babk building. The store occupied the corner room of the old building and was familiarly known as Hascall's corner. He had the contract for and built a part of the Lake Shore railroad and was interested in other important projects. Some of his business ventures turned out disastrously and during the last years of his life he was in rather straightened circumstances. He was given the nickname of "old Hascall", by which he was known to the people of his day.
Goshen Daily News-TimesMrs Emma Permelia Hascall, widow of the late Chauncy S. Hascall, died at 8:30 this morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank P. Abbott, on East Lincoln avenue. Old age was the cause of her death. Mrs. Hascall was born at Penyan, N. Y., September 25, 1820. She graduated from Elmyra Seminary, Elmira, N. Y. at the age of fourteen and with her parents, Mr. and Mrs Ebenezer Brown, came to Goshen in the same year. The trip was made to Detroit by boat and then overland. Ebenezer Brown was one of the first sherrifs of Elkhart county and was a very influential man. He has the distinction of building the first frame house in Goshen, which at that time was but a village no larger than its neighbor Benton. Miss Broiwn began teaching school and was the first woman instructor in Elkhart county. She taught in a small school house west of the village.
In July 1842 Miss Emma Brown was united in marriage to C. S. Hascall, at that time the most influential citizen of Goshen. They took up their residence on the corner of Second and Pike streets. Among the achievements of Mr. Hascall was the building of the Hascall block, which stands today on the corner of Lincoln avenue and Main street. Hascall's hall, which was in the block, was the most popular place in the village, and the older citizens of Goshen can recall many a good time spent in it. Mrs. Hascall has done a great deal for Goshen in a literary way. Mr. Hascall died in August 1904.
To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Hascall four children were born. Mrs. F. P. Abbott and Mrs A. C. Loomis of Goshen and Mrs. William Pulling and Louis Hascall of East Chicago. The deceased is survived by her four children, one sister, Mrs. Helen Elliott of Pasadena, Cal., and also ten grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
_____Mrs. Chauncey Hascall's Recollections
Doubtless other schools were thrown open away from these centers of population, large and small, but the educational movement throughout the county was sporadic, and not directed along continuous channels through an organized system. Among those who faithfully participated in such effort, and bravely assisted in the task of tiding over the children of those imes to the better period of organized and classified schools, was Mrs. Chauncey S. Hascall, wife of the pioneer merchant of Goshen. In a paper read before the Elkhart Historical Society she says: "In the winters of 1839-40 and 1840-41 I taught chool in the next district of Goshen. I received twelve dollars a month which was considered at that time a high salary for a woman. Of course it was the typical log schoolhouse, which the young people of the present day have read of, and the older ones hold in affectionate remembrance. The writing desks were shelves attached to the logs on the sides of the room, and the seats were long benches without backs, with a second row of the same kind, but lower, for the smaller scholars. A fire in a big box stove in the center of the room was kept in a roaring condition by the boys, who were glad of the opportunity of getting a change of position and a breath of fresh air. The patrons of the school were mostly Pennsylvania Dutch and spoke their own language in home and neighborhood intercourse; consequently English was almost a foreign language to many of the scholars.
"The Stouders, Studebakers, Cripes, Ulerys and Mannings I remember most distinctly among the scholars, as I boarded with each of their families a month, instead of taking, as was the custom, the rounds of the district. It was an experience having the winter school taught by a 'schoolma'am ,' and he trustees thought I might have some trouble governing it, but I had very little. The girls and boys were model children, and must have been well trained at home. Those who are living now are
"John and David Studebaker, Levi Ulery and Jacob Cline were the oldest pupils and were nearly grown men. All the older residents will remember Dave Studebaker, whose residence was in Goshen many years and who died here esteemed and regretted. I think there were almost thirty scholars in the school, and among them the Bartmess boys.
"The small scholars of that day, with their home-made garments, home-made from the shearing of the sheep to the last stitch in the clothes, made after the same pattern as their fathers' and mothers' apparel, would make a striking contrast to the little people of today, with their large collars, and knee pants of the boys, and the furbelows and fancy dress 'fixings' of the girls.
"The three R's were the principal branches taught; in fact the only ones. Grammar was an unknown study in the backwoods. One or two little 'Mannings' may have studied geography. There were different classes in reading and spelling, and the monotonous round was only varied by an occasional call to help solve some problems in subtraction or long division. In arithmetic each studied by himself and could 'go ahead' as fast as he pleased without being kept back by slower ones in the class.
"Of course not one of the scholars could have passed a 'high school' examination, but the young farmers could 'reckon up' the value of their farm produce, read the Bible and weekly newspaper, properly sign all legal documents and spell better than half the high school graduates.
"There were none of the modern aids to teachers; even blackboards were not in use in the country schools of that day. There were no normal schools for instruction in the art of teaching; no country or township institutes where teachers could meet and discuss the new ideas advanced in educational lines." (Weaver, History of Elkhart County, 1916)
The Goshen News-Times
December 8, 1930Mrs. Hannah Loomis, 70 years old, widow of Abner C. Loomis, and the member of a pioneer family of Goshen, died at 4:30 o'clock testerday afternoon at her home, 616 South Fifth street. Mrs. Loomis was born in Goshen on March 14, 1860, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey Hascall. She had lived in Goshen most of her life, although after her marriage she had lived in Chicago for some years, returning here about thirty years ago, and she only by a sister, Mrs. Julia Pulling, of Hamilton Ont., and many nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Loomis was a sister of the late Mrs. Frank Abbott of Goshen and had lived for many years at the old Abbott home on East Lincoln Avenue.
2nd Lieut., Co. D, 177th O. V. I. and aide on the staff of Brigadier Gen. J.S. Casement, commanding 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 23rd Army Corps.
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He was general manager of the Frantz Body Mfg. Co.
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The Goshen News-Times
November 12, 1928Funeral services were held at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon for Abner C. Loomis at the home, 313 East Lincoln Avenue. Mr. Loomis, who would have been 85 years old next January, died Saturday morning. He was a veteran of the Civil War and had for many years been a well known resident of Goshen. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Hannah Loomis, a daughter, Mrs. W. D. Norton, of La Porte; a grand-daughter, Mrs. Louise Schumm, of La Porte, and a sister, Mrs. Maria Shaw, of Mecca, Ohio. The Rev. Trevor Dillon, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, officiated at the funeral service, and burial was made in Oak Ridge cemetery.
Among those who were here for the services were Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Henry, of Detroit, Mr. and Mrs. George P. Torrence, od Indianapolis; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Abbott, of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. John Abbott, Mr. and Mrs. Howell Kitchell, of Evanston Ill.; Mrs. Norton and Mrs. Schumm, of La Porte; Mrs. William Pulling, of Hamilton, Ont.; Mrs. O. M. Ragsdale, of Indianapolis; Eldridge Chamberlain, of Pittsburg; and George Morgan of La Porte.
Pioneer History of Elkhart County, IndianaEbenezer M. Chamberlain came in 1833 from Bangor, Maine, to Elkhart where he taught school one year, then in 1834, located in Goshen. He at once took a leading part in the affairs of his new home. It was he who was instrumental in having the streets laid out wide. He planted the first shade trees in the young village and urged others to plant trees in front of their homes, so the city of Goshen is indebted to him for its wide streets and fine shade trees. He built the first brick residence in Goshen. ... He gave the ground upon which the Chamberlain school is located and many years afterward the school was named in his honor. In 1837 he was appointed postmaster, serving four years. He served in the legislature, was judge of the circuit court nine years, when the circuit court comprised seven counties and was in congress one term, dying just before its expiration. Judge Chamberlain was one of the county's most prominent men during his residence of more than a quarter of a century here.
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The Standard History of Elkhart County IndianaHon. Ebenezer M. Chamberlain. One of the earliest lawyers to practice law in Northern Indiana, including Elkhart County, for years a dignified and upright judge of the District Court, holding sessions over many counties, and riding circuit horsebsck and by oyher conveyance from county seat to county seat, afterwards a member of Congress, Judge Ebenezer M. Chamberlain was one of the most distinguished men of the state from the early '30s until about the time of the Civil war. Judge Chamberlain is remembered as a man of unusual intellectual endowment, of unimpeachable character, with a thorough understanding of the law, and by his fidelity to every trust confided to his care, his life was lived as the highest type of Christian manhood. His career is a part of the history of Elkhart County, and for that reason this sketch belongs among those of Elkhart County's representative men of the past.
He was born at Orrington, Penobscot County, Maine, August 20, 1805. He grew up in the primitive years of the first quarter of the nineteenth century. He attended common schools only during the winter months and worked almost continuously on the farm, giving his labor as a share to the support of his father's family. His father, Col. Joshua Chamberlain, of Brewer, Maine, was a ship builder, and while serving in the war of 1812, as colonel, his ships, in which nearly all his property was invested, were seized by the British and burned, which left him in straigtened circumstances. At sixteen Ebenezer M. Chamberlain left the farm and worked in a shipyard for six years. However, his wages, according to the custom of the time, were paid to his father until he reached his majority.
After becoming of age he continued employment in the shipyard until he had saved enough to enable him to pass six months in an academy. He was ambitious for an education and for a sphere of usefulness commensurate with his excellent talent. For three years he was a student of law in the office of Elisha S. Allen at Bangor, Maine, and taught school in the meantime. At Bangor he was a member of the Forensic Club and in the debates among its members he found an excellent opportunity for training his talent for oratory and public speaking. During 1831 he made something of a local name and reputation for himself by his prominence in the debates over the subject of the Sunday mail question, a matter which engrossed a considerable part of the public mind at the time. He argued against the prohibition of Sunday delivery of mail so ably that those who favored his views printed them in a pamphlet form and this pamphlet was extensively circulated.
At that time the laws of Maine required seven years of preliminary study before admission to the bar. As already indicated Mr. Chamberlain's means were very limited, and rather than "mark time" during this long period of seven years, he determined to come west. In June, 1832 with only a few dollars which he had earned by a term of winter school teaching, he set out for Indiana, arriving in Fayette County a month later. Again he secured acceptance of his services as a school teacher, but soon entered the law offices of Samuel W. Park at Connersville, and on August 9, 1833, he was regularly admitted to the Indiana bar.
Northern Indiana at that time was still a sparsely settled wilderness. Elkhart County had been organized only two or three years, and it was to Elkhart County that the young attorney at law came to begin practice. He soon secured his own share in the litigation of the time, and also became a prominent figure in Indiana politics. In 1835 he was elected representative to the Legislature from the Norten Indiana District, and it shows how small a population there was in this part of the state when it is stated that this district comprised in territory nearly one-fifth of the entire state of Indiana.
Early in his promising career and ascent to prominence Judge Chamberlain established a home of his own by his marriage on November 28, 1838, to Phebe Ann Hascall, daughter of Amasa Hascall of Le Roy, New York. In the following year, 1839, he was elected a member of the State Senate for a three year term, and was soon marked as one of the influential leaders of the democratic party in Indiana. He was especially admired for the strength and eloquence of his oratory, and his reputation as an orator became a matter of state wide recognition through his anniversary address on the battle of New Orlans, delivered before the Democratic State Convention in 1841.
In 1842 the legislature elected him prosecuting attorney of the old Ninth Judicial District. A year later he was chosen presiding judge of the same district. After eight years of service on the bench he was re-elected without opposition in 1851. That was a time of bitter partisanship in Indiana as elsewhere, and being a democratic judge was perhaps only natural that he should be made a taget for criticism from the whig press. But this criticism was silenced by a remarkable unanimity of loyalty in behalf of the judge. The entire bar in attendance at courts united in signature to a letter testifying to the "creditable, dignified, courteous and satisfactory" manner in which Judge Chamberlain discharged the duties of his office. This testimonial was emphasized by the fact that the two associate judges, both of whom were whigs, also added their written statement of praise to the same effect. Judge Chamberlain was for nine years judge of the District Court, and in that time he made his office an instrument for upholding peace and order and justice over a large part of Indiana.
Again and again the democratic party bestowed its honors upon him. In 1844 he was delegate to the Democratic National Convention. In 1848 he was one of the senatorial candidates for presidential elector, and aided in giving the vote of the state to General Cass. In 1851 Judge Chamberlain resigned from the bench to accept democratic nomination to Congress in the reorganized Tenth Indiana District.
The Elkhart Truth
June 19, 1922Mrs. Ann Maria Hascall of 415 West Marion street, aged 85 years, who had been a well known resident of Elkhart over half a century, died at 7:35 o'clock last evening at the Elkhart General Hospital. Two weeks ago last Friday she suffered a fracture of her left hip in a fall from the rear porch of her home and was taken to the hospital the same day.
The burial will take place in the family cemetery on the Redfield farm in Cass county, Michigan.
Mrs. Hascall, who was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Redfield, was born on November 16, 1936, on the farm where she is to find her last resting place. Her parents had settled there during the previous year. Mr. Redfield's influence was not only widely felt in Cass county, but extended to the state, which he served as its secretary of state and its treasurer, and as a member of its legislature, and its constitutional convention. He died there at the age of 91 years.
CAME HERE IN 1870
Mrs. Hascall's marriage to Amasa N. Hascall took place on 1854. Mr. Hascall was in the mercantile business in Goshen, and that town was their home until 1870, when they came to Elkhart, living at the southwest corner of Second street and Lexington avenue, where Mr. and Mrs, Fieldhouse now have their home. Mr. Hascall went to Colorado in 1871, and his death occured there. The burial took place in Goshen. Not long after this Mrs. Hascall moved to her late home on Marion street.
Surviving Mrs. Hascall are a grandson, Dudley Hascall of Houston, Tex., a great granddaughter, Ann Marie Hascall, daughter of Dudley Hascall, who is here with her mother; a half brother, G. H. Redfield of Edwardsburg, and a half sister, Mrs. H. E. Bucklen of Chicago. Dudley Hascall will not be able to come here for the funeral.
The Goshen Democrat
August 27, 1904At 7 o'clock this morning the light which for nearly 86 years has directed the life of Mrs. Avaline Chamberlain, widow of Eldridge Chamberlain, flickered and went out. She was one of the pioneers, having come to Goshen from Le Roy, Genesee county, New York, where she was born April 4, 1819, over 70 years ago, and she has resided here continuously during that period. She was a woman of great character, intelligent, and her life was full of good deeds, and the ripeness of her age had not taken her faculties from her. She was one of a family of great longevity.
She leaves in her immediate family two sons - Thomas J. and Charles Chamberlain, and a daughter Isabelle Miller, and four grandchildren - Anna Miller, Helen, Isabelle and Eldridge Chamberlain. She also leaves one brother and sister - Gen. Milo S. Hascall, who is now very sick at Oak Park, Ill., 75 years of age, and Mrs Phoebe A. Chamberlain, 88 years old, Mr F. A. Hascall and Miss Antoinette Hascall being half brother and sister to the deceased.
Goshen Daily News
February 17, 1899Eldridge G. Chamberlain died of Bright's disease and old age this morning at his home on East Lincoln avenue, shortly after five o'clock, after several month's illness.
For nine months has this pioneer suffered the ravages of Bright's disease, and it was considered certain that the end could not be far off. A short time before his death this morning Mr. Chamberlain expressed a desire to get up and was assisted to a chair. He soon asked to be helped to his bed, and in a few moments after he lay down the long and splendid career of the gentleman was at an end. He passed peacefully away.
Eldridge G. Chamberlain, who had so long been a resident of Goshen and whose life was so much connected with this city's history that his influence in its affairs may be traced back almost three score and ten years, was born August 23, 1811, at Orrington, Maine, where his youth and early manhood was spent and where he cast his forst vote for Andrew Jackson in 1832 in the great contest between Jackson and Clay. During the year 1833 Mr. Chamberlain came to Goshen, preceding his brother, the late Judge Ebenezer M. Chamberlain who later cast his fortunes with the Indiana commonwealth. Since that time Eldridge G. Chamberlain has been identified as a conspicious figure with the affairs of the city and county and this section of the state.
He was elected justice of the peace and served so long that "memory of man runneth not to the contrary," and during all those years as a citizen and a magistrate his career was useful to the people of the locality. Possessing an acute mind and broad principles his decisions were always ruled by law and conscience, and the record he made was one which should be emulated by the magistrates of the present date. He was a man of wide reading and pleasing address and the respect and confidence he obtained from the people was no doubt his most precious reward. He was county clerk seven years, being the second clerk of the county, county recorder seven years and served as postmaster for eight years and in these positions his official career was the same success as that which characterized his life as a magistrate and citizen.
While he was never been so much of a partisan to deny any man respect for opinions, and was agreeable in any political remark, Mr. Chamberlain was always a democrat and conscientiously espoused the principles of his party, voting for every democratic president elected from 1832 to 1892.
He was married at Le Roy, New York, to Aveline E. Hascall, a sister of Mrs. Ebenezer Chamberlain, the wife of the brother. Besides the widow, three children survive him. They are Thomas J., of Detroit; Charles F., of East Chicago; and Mrs. Isabelle Miller of Morenci, Mich., and who has recently been living in Detroit.
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Pioneer History of Elkhart County, IndianaEldridge G. Chamberlain came to Goshen in 1835, and was a resident of the city sixty-three years. He served as county clerk seven years, county recorder seven years, postmaster eight years and justice of the peace thirty six years. While serving in the latter office he officiated at more than five hundred marriages.
Served In Civil War. Invalid Application #69856; Widow App #514148, Cert #426741. He served as a leiutenant Colonel, 48th regiment, Norman Eddy's regemint.
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Served as mayor of Goshen from 1870-1872. Owned and edited the Goshen Democrat for a short period.
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The Goshen Times
May 7, 1891A blue sky and a bright sun looked down upon a sad procession as it conveyed all that is mortal of Col. Melvin B. Hascall to the tomb. Many years had ripened him for the grave, and he laid down life without a struggle. Peace rested upon his features as he lay in the embrace of death. For him life's toil is over and his last tears of earth's sorrows have been shed. He is at rest.
The Elkhart Truth
August 18, 1925Mrs. Melvin B. Hascall, widow of a former mayor of Goshen, died today in Toledo, where she made her home with a son Norman Hascall.
Served Civil War. Widow Application #894209, Cert #690750
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Milo entered the Military Academy at West Point in 1848. He graduated with the class of 1852. He was brevetted as second lieutenant on 1 July 1852 into the 3rd artillery. He served at Fort Adams, Rhode Island 1852-1853. He resigned from the service in September 1853. In 1854 he became a railroad contractor in Indiana.He practiced law in Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana from 1855 to 1861. He served as District Attorney of Elkhart and La Grange Counties, Indiana 1856-1858. He was school examiner in Elkhart County 1858-1861.
In 1861 he enlisted as a private in an Indiana regiment. He was appointed Captain and aide-de-camp on General Thomas A. Morris staff. HE organized and trained six regiments in Camp Morton. He was present at the first engagement of the war after Sumpter where the first Confederate flag was captured at Phillipi. He was appointed Colonel to the 17th Indiana volunteers on 1 July 1861. In December 1861 he was ordered to Louisville Kentucky and placed in command of the 17th Indiana, 6th Ohio, 43rd Ohio, and 15th Indiana regiments, assigned to the Division commanded by General William Nelson. He was later transferred to the command of a brigade in General T.J. Wood's division which participated in the capture of Nashville 24 February 1862 and advanced onto Shilo 6 April 1862. He was commissioned brigadier general of volunteers on 25 April 1862 and led a brigade in the Tennessee campaign. He was in command of a brigade on the extreme left when the engagement at Stone River, 31 December 1862, commenced. His division commander T.J. Wood was wounded early that morning, leaving Milo in charge of the full battle. He was then sent to Indianapolis to return deserters from Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. He was transferred to the army of Ohio at the request of General Burnside, and commanded a division in that army until after the fall of Atlanta. When Sherman began his march on Atlanta he was in command of the 2nd Division, XXVIII Corps. He resigned his commission in late 1864.
He engaged in banking in Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana. In 1890 he moved to Chicago where he dealt in real estate on a large scale.
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Obituary Chicago.General Milo S. Hascall, who died at his home in Oak Park yesterday morning, had a notable record as a soldier and was one of the last of the Union generals holding high command in the civil war. General Hascall was born in Le Roy, Genesee County, N.Y., Aug. 25, 1829. In 1846 he entered West Point, graduating with General Phil Sheridan, General Harry W. Slocum and General Cook. He served a year as lieutenant of artillery then entered the law, which profession he followed until the outbreak of the war, when he was appointed captain and aide de camp on the staff of General Thomas A. Morris. he distinguished himself in the battle of Phillipi, and was appointed colonel of the Seventeenth Indiana Regiment. He was in the first battle of Bull Run and received the first flag of truce from General Robert E. Lee. In December, 1861, he was given command of a brigade and took part in the battles of Nashville and Shiloh. The following April he was made brigadier general of volunteers and was actively engaged until the close of the war. He went into the banking business at Goshen, Indiana., and becoming largely interested in Chicago property, removed here in 1890.
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Le Roy Gazette
September 4, 1904
General Milo S. Hascall, formerly of Le Roy, died at his home in Chicago, on August 30, aged 75 years. He was born in this township and in 1846 went to Goshen Ind. He graduated from the West Point Military Academy in 1852 and in 1861 enlisted in the Federal army, in which he served with much valor and distinction, and was appointed a brigadier general. During the war he was severely wounded, but recovered and continued in the service, from which he was discharged in October, 1864.
General Hascall was a nephew of the late Hiram W. Hascall, and a son of the late Amasa Hascall.
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The Goshen Democrat
August 30, 1904With the dawn of today General Milo S. Hascall peacefully passed away at his Chicago home. The long suffering of the soldier, financier and business man terminated with his death from kidney trouble. The illness has existed for years, but only of late did his condition grow serious, and it was only then that those who were around his bedside and contributed to his comfort so much knew that the long years of useful citizenship were being brought to a close.
General Hascall appreciated his condition, but like the grim warrior that he has always been, he fought back death for days and made the grim reaper wait. But the long life had borne its rich fruits, the days and the years had witnessed achievements at every step, and the iron constitution succumbed alone to the weight of so many years. When his sister Mrs. Evaline Chamberlain, died a few days ago the dying soldier was too sick to come and pay his last tribute of respect. He perhaps realized then that a few more days would call from earthly duty another of a family which had left its impress wherever a member has moved.
General Hascall was born in Le Roy, Genesee county, New York, Aug. 5, 1829 and was a descendant of Massachusetts people. Upon the farm and in the common schools and at eighteen he started across across the mountains to his brother's western home in Goshen, beginning as a clerk. He taught school for a term and then entered West Pont in 1848, graduating 4 years later. In his class were Generals Sheridan, Slocum, Polk, Bonaparte and Stanley. He served in Fort Adams R.I., and Old Pont Comfort for a year and returned to Goshen after a season of travel.
For a year General Hascall was a contractor in the building of the old Northern Indiana & Michigan Southern and then he began the study and later the practice of law, being elected prosecutor. His incumbency of the county clerk's office was interrupted by his enlistment in the volunteer service in the war of the rebellion. He was a Captain of the first company formed in Goshen. When his company arrived in Indianapolis too be mustered into either of the six regiments required by the stateand was obliged to disband. Governor Morton recognized the ability of the young captain by appointing him to a captaincy on the staff of General Thomas A. Morris, on whose staff the Goshen military man became an aide-de-camp. In this capacity Captain Hascall organized and drilled six regiments in Camp Morton prepatory to taking the field. He accompanied General Morris to West Virginia soon after and was in the fight at Philippi, the first engagement of the war after Fort Sumnter. The next day he was appointed colonel of the Seventeenth Indiana. Returning to Indianapolis he bore on the way General Morris' report to General McClellan and bore the flag captured at Philippi.
General Hascall was the first soldier to ever recieve a flag of truce sent by Robert E. Lee. His regiment fought in many of the great battles of 1861 and in December Col. Hascall was placed in command of a brigade at Louisville and assigned to General Wood and commanded it at Nashville and Shilo. In 1862, at the battle of Shilo at the close of the engagement, Col. Hascall, recieved the first flag of truce from General Bearegard. In April of that year he was promoted to the brigadier generalship and until 1864 was actively engaged. At the battle of Stone River General Hascall commanded the forces on the left after ten o'clock of the first day. His whole career was one of remarkable success and honer. His achievements meant much to the union cause.
When the war was over General Hascall came back to Goshen and united with the late John W. Iewin in the banking business under the name of the Salem Bank. In 1879 the two bankers engaged with the late John H. Lesh in the manufacture of hardwood lumber on a large scale, the style of the firm John H. Lesh & Co. Much of the product was shipped to foriegn countries. Fourteen years ago General Hascall sold his interest in the bank and removed to Chicago, where he became interested in real estate and found his usual success. He was one of the promotors of the Lexington hotel in Chicago, and the Hascall hotel in Goshen stands as a monument to his enterprise.
Always a republican, since the birth of the party at Jackson, General Hascall was one of the influential members of the party. In 1884 he was one of the electors at large for Blaine and Logan.
Deceased is survived by his wife, formerly Mrs. Rose S. Miller, of Canton O., to whom he was married in 1886, one sister, Antoinette Hascall, and half brother, Frank A. Hascall. The interment of General Hascall will take place Thursday at three o'clock at Oak Park cemetery at Chicago
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The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume V
Haseltine, James Henry
page 129HASCALL, Milo Smith, soldier, was born in Le Roy, N.Y., Aug. 5, 1829; son of Amasa and Phebe Ann Hascall. He was brought up on his father's farm and attended the district school. In 1847 he settled in Goshen, Ind., and was appointed from that state a cadet in the U.S. military academy, where he was graduated in 1852, assigned to the artillery service and served in garrison duty at Fort Adams, R.I., 1852-53. He resigned from the army to take a contract for building a section of the Indiana & Michigan Southern railroad in 1854. He was admitted to the bar and practised law, serving as prosecuting attorney, and as clerk of courts at Goshen, Ind., 1859-61. He enlisted as a private in a three months' company, was promoted captain and aide-de-camp on the staff of Gen. T. A. Morris and organized and drilled volunteer regiments at Camp Morton. On June 16, 1861, he was present at the first engagement of the war after Sumter where was captured at Philippi the first Confederate flag secured by the Union army in the war and the next day he was promoted colonel of the 17th Indiana volunteers. He commanded a brigade made up of the 15th and 17th Indiana, and the 6th and 43d Ohio volunteers at Louisville, Ky., December, 1861, and was assigned to Gen. William Nelson's division. He was transferred to the command of a brigade in Gen. T. J. Wood's division, helped to capture Nashville. Feb. 24, 1862, and advanced on Shiloh, April 6, 1862. On April 25, 1862, he was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers and led a brigade in the Tennessee campaign, 1862-63. At Stone's River, Dec. 31, 1862, he was in command of a brigade on the extreme left when the engagement commenced. Gen. T. J. Wood, his division commander, was wounded early in the day and retired, which put him in command of the division and by 10 A.M. of that day he was in command of all the troops left fighting and saved the day and the army from utter rout and ruin. After the battle was over he was sent to Indianapolis to return deserters from Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. While thus engaged he was transferred to the army of the Ohio at the request of General Burnside and commanded a division in that army till after the fall of Atlanta. The next day after the battle of Kenesaw Mountain he executed a flank movement which caused the enemy to evacuate that stronghold and retreat precipitately across the Chattahoochee river. He was very prominent in all the engagements [p.129] of the Atlanta campaign and resigned his commission after its fall. He returned to his home and was a banker at Galena, Ind., until 1890 when he removed to Chicago and entered largely into real estate business transactions, making his home at Oak Park, Cook county, Ill.
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The Goshen Times
September 13, 1883Died, at the family apartments of the Hotel Hascall, at 5 o'clock a.m. on Tuesday the 11th inst., Julia A. Hascall, wife of Gen. Milo S. Hascall in the 46th year of her age.
Mrs. H. was the eldest daughter of the late Dean Swift and Mrs. Emeline Swift of Elkhart, born in Farmington, Michigan. She spent her early years at Elkhart, taking advantage of its schools and of an excellent private tuition.On the 27th of November 1855, she was united in marriage to M. S. Hascall and after a short tour came with him to this city where she has since had her home. Two years later their only child died in early infancy.
Mrs. H. was a woman of great energy and fortitude and during the trying days of the war spent a large part of the time with her husband at the front in West Virginia, in Kentucky and in Tennessee. She was possessed of unusual attractiveness of person and of great amiability and sweetness of disposition. She has been a sufferer for years from a most painful malady, which she bore patiently, uncomplainingly, and without the knowledge of even her intimate friends. A protracted stay in the East, from which she returned three weeks since, was without benefit to her health, and upon the discovery of the nature of her disease resort was had to a most distressful surgical operation, but no relief came and her life went out.
Mrs. H. was united with the Presbyterian church of this city in 1869, and has maintained with ardent attachment its communion since. Her death so unexpected by the great mass of our people has produced a profound sensation of grief here, as it will in Elkhart and in other cities where she is known. She leaves a husband, one sister and a widowed mother, who in their deep bereavement have sympathy of the entire community.
Marriage Notes for Milo Smith Hascall and Ellen L. ...
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The Fort Wayne Gazette
October 5, 1884General Milo S. Hascall, of Goshen, Indiana, Republican presidential elector for the Thirteenth district, was married on Wednesday to Mrs. Ellen Kidd, of Cleveland, Ohio.
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The Daily Gazette
November 7, 1885The Goshen News is authority for the statement that Mrs. General Hascall will contest the divorce lately granted Mr. Hascall, on the ground that it was wrongfully obtained.
Chicago Tribune
October 22, 1946:Mrs. Rose S. Hascall, 91, of 241 S. Maple av., Oak Park, died yesterday in her home. She was the widow of Brig. Gen. Milo S. Hascall, Civil war veteran, and had lived in Oak Park for 53 years.
Two sisters, Miss Louise Schwarz and Mrs. Peter Schisler, survive.
Burial will be in Forest Home cemetery.
6370. Franklin Augustus Hascall
Will of Frank A. Hascall
Proved September 18, 1918 in Elkhart
Synopsis:Estate to his wife Mary N. Hascall for her natural life. Then to be distributed among his sons: Milo M. Hascall, Frank N. Hascall and Hubert E. Hascall.
Include Lot number 83 in the original plat of the town, now city of Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana.
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The Goshen Daily News-Times
September 16, 1918Funeral sevices for Frank A. Hascall were held at 4 o'clock Saturday at the home, No., 211 North Fifth street. Rev. H. C. Harman, pastor of the First M. E. church officiating, assisted by Rev. E. A. VanNuys, pastor of the First Presbyterian church.
Burial was made in Oak Ridge cemetery.
The News Democrat Goshen
February 8, 1944Mrs. May Noble Hascall, 88, a native and pioneer resident of Goshen, died at 4:00 a.m. today at the home of her son Frank N. Hascakk, 307 East Monroe street. Death was caused by infirmities of old age after a long illness.
Mrs. Hascall was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Henry Noble, born June 15, 1855, in the residence on the southeast corner of Third and Washington street. She and her husband, Frank A. Hascall, to whom she married March 10, 1874, resided for many years at 211 North Fifth street. Mr. Hascall died Sept. 12, 1918. He was a well known banker here for many years.
For the past seven years Mrs. Hascall has resided with her son on East Monroe street. Surviving are two sons, Frank N. and Hubert E. Hascall, both of Goshen; two grandchildren, Mrs. Osborn Spencer, of Marion, and Capt. Frank L. Hascall, stationed with the U.S. Army in Alaska: and three great grandchildren.
Estate Probated In Lucas County Ohio 1920
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The Goshen Daily News-Times
January 19, 1920Milo Maxfield Hascall, formerly of Goshen, died suddenly at his home in Toledo at six o'clock this morning. Death was caused by a hemorrage of the stomach, following a very short illness.
He had had at times during the past year complained of slight stomach trouble. A week ago he was confined to his apartments, but he became really ill only yesterday and last evening his condition became serious. He leaves his mother, Mrs. Frank A. Hascall, who was with him at the time of his death, having gone to Toledo to spend the week-end, and two brothers, Hubert and Frank N. Hascall of Goshen.
The deceased who was 45 years of age on Dec. 7th last, was born and reared in Goshen. He passed through Goshen high school and afterwards was associated with Charles E. Kutz in the plumbing business. Later he became a reporter on the old Goshen Times and was engaged in this work several years. About 15 years ago he went toi Toledo, where he became associated with the Ohio Plate Glass company. This firm was later absorbed into the Pittsburgh Plate Glass company and Mr. Hascall was retained as manager of the Toledo branch, a position of importance. In the year 1910 he was married to Miss Gertrude Wanner, who died eight years ago in May. Since that time Mr. Hascall had retained and resided in the Parkwood apartments which they had occupied on Parkwood avenue. Frank. A. Hascall, father of Mr. Hascall died on Sept. 12, 1918.
Goshen Daily News-Times
May 12, 1911The sudden death of Mrs. Gertrude Wanner Hascall, wife of Maxfield Hascall, at two o'clock this morning at a local hospital was a distinct shock to the community. Of lovable disposition and charming personality she had a large circle of friends, who mourn with her immediate family the unfortunate ending of an operation performed Wednsday to remove a tumor.
Mr. and Mrs. Hascall came to Goshen from Toledo, where Mr. Hascall is manager of the Ohio Glass company, last Saturday. An operation was decided upon and both returned to Toledo Sunday, returning to Goshen Monday.
Mrs. Hascall was born February 29, 1876, in Goshen and had lived all her life in this city, until her marriage in December three years ago to Mr. Hascall Besides her husband she is survived by her mother, Mrs. Katherine Wanner, two sisters, Mrs. Jos. H. Lesh, Mrs. E. G. Herreth, and one brother Ralph Wanner. Mr. Wanner is in South Dakota and cannot reach Goshen before Sunday.
The News Democrat Goshen
March 18, 950Hubert Edson Hascall, 70, a native of Goshen whose home was at 211 North Fifth street, died in a heart attack at the state hospital at Loganspor
Mr. Hascall was born in Goshen Feb. 29, 1880, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Hascall. He was a traveling sales representative most of his life. His only survivors are a nephew, Frank L. Hascall of Goshen, and a niece, Mrs R. O. (Jane) Spencer, of Redwood City, Cal.
The Kalamazoo Gazette
July 8, 1886The funeral services of the late Mrs. Luther Graves were held at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon from her late residence on Sheldon st., the Rev. Mr. Ranney officiating. Mrs. Graves was in her 82nd year, and was a life long member of St. Luke's Episcopal church. She came here with her husband from Rochester, N. Y., in 1860. His death occurred in 1883 at the age of 83. Two daughters are left, one Mrs. Ludville Nogle, a resident of this city. Among the floral tokens was a bunch of wheat by Mrs. Hattie O'Dell, which was much appreciated.
The interment was at Riverside.
The Kalamazoo Gazette
January 21, 1886Luther Graves, aged 90 years, died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Fairman; on the corner of Lake and Portage streets, Sunday night. In his younger days Mr. Graves was one of the most prosperous business men of Rochester N. Y., was a leader in society and served a term as mayor.