Jeremiah O. Balch was a printer
Joseph Allen Haskell was a portrait artist.
Edward McGee Haskell and Carrie Sutherland had no children.
Some men are adapted for meeting others and have the ability to make themselves at home anywhere. They are good travelers, pleasing companions, and many of them possess the courage that overcomes difficulties so that they gain leadership in important enterprises. To this number belong Charles Freeman Haskell, of Utica, whose death, July 13, 1902, at the age of eighty-seven years, marked the departure of one of the most respected and venerated members of the community.
He was born at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, April 26, 1815, and came of a large family, his parents having ten children, seven boys and three girls. He removed while yet a child with his parents to Oakham, Worcester county, Massachusetts, and from there in 1827 to Ogden, Monroe county, New York. He attended school in Rochester, New York, and after graduating from the high school entered the Geneva Lyceum to study for the ministry. After a short time, however, he changed his mind and for a year taught school at Rochester. He then entered the store of Britton & Loder as a clerk and in four years had arisen until he became principal clerk in the establishment. His next experience was under John G. Parker, a dry-goods merchant of Hamilton, Ontario. Mr. Parker was charged with being implicated in the McKenzie war in Canada and was arrested and sentenced to be transported to Van Diemen's Land. When he arrived in London, however, he made known the fact that he had had no trial and he was allowed to return to Canada where he afterwards became very wealthy. In 1839 Mr. Haskell again took up his residence at Rochester and entered business with a Mr. Barber who afterwards left him. Rather than make a failure, Mr. Haskell returned the goods to the houses from which they had been purchased and then went to Jackson, Michigan, for a short time. In 1840 he went to Detroit where he became head clerk in the Bunker Hill store which adjoined the store of Zach Chandler. He kept books for three years for two large leather concerns and then in 1844 opened a general store for himself at Marshall, Michigan, which he conducted successfully for ten years. In 1854 he went to New York City and secured employment as traveling salesman for a wholesale house but at the end of two years became connected with the fireproof safe business in New York city. For two years he labored successfully as New York City agent for Lillie's fireproof safes, introducing them throughout the wholesale and banking districts of the city. Fairbanks & Company having assumed the agency, he went upon the road as traveling salesman and continued for fifteen years selling safes principally to banks in the New England and middle states, in the meantime being admitted as a partner in the firm of Lewis, Lillie & Company with which he continued until its dissolution. Later he represented Messrs. Herring; Wilder and other safe manufacturers, traveling in the safe business altogether for about thirty years. In 1872 he up his residence at Utica and after the year 1888 devoted his attention principally to the care of his real estate, having through energy and ability gained a competency.
In 1850 Mr. Haskell was married to Miss Mary L. Hall, of Utica, who died in 1864. In 1866 he married Miss Juliana W. Sampson, of Utica. His children are: Charles L., a fine art publisher of Boston; Elizabeth, now Mrs. Charles A. Mott, of Union Hall, Monroe county, New York; and William Sampson of Marshall, Michigan.
Reference
History of Oneida County, New York
Volume II: pages 594, 597
S. J. Clarke Publisher, 1911
17378. Charles Lansing Haskell
Charles Lansing Haskell was unmarried.