20462. Judge Alonzo C. Haskell
Alonzo C. Haskell was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Calvin and Elvira Haskell in 1822.
In 1844, he was chosen as President of the Mercantile Library Association of Boston.
He moved to Sacramento, California in 1850, where he was merchandising on J. Street, near Eighth. He was recorded as being intemperate, failed and after being idle for some time, reformed. He was appointed to the Sacramento Police, for whom he worked for two years. He then accepted a position as Messenger on the river, acting for Adams & Co., and later for the Pacific Express Co. Whitney and Co., successfully wooed him away with a higher salary.
He then developed a passion for gambling, where he lost about $5,000 at the local gambling halls. On November 30, 1855, the Sacramento Tribune reported that Alonzo had embezzled $4,000 from Whitney & Co., and was on the run. He was captured in at Poke Valley, 25 miles north of Napa on December 15, 1855. When captured, he has $1,660, horse, saddle and bridle. Mr. Brown, who captured him, claimed and was paid the reward offered by Messrs. Whitney & Co.
On December 22, he was discharged, since no one appeared to testify against him, and the charges were withdrawn. It appears that the gamblers who won the money from Alonzo agreed to return their winnings to Whitney and Co., to avoid a suit threatened against them.
We next find Alonzo in Placer County in the 1860 census listed as constable.
He mustered in and was commissioned an officer in Company B, California 4th Infantry Regiment on 25 Sep 1861. The company was sent to Fort Vancouver, Washington Territory, in November and stationed there until moved to Fort Dalles, Oregon, in April, 1862. They repositioned to Benecia Barracks, California, October 1862 to February 1863, where Alonzo was promoted to 1st Lieutenant on January 16, 1863. He went with the company to Drum Barracks (Wilmington) in Southern California where he was dismissed for mutinous conduct on April 27, 1863.
He relocated to Mohave County, Arizona with his brother Washington L. Haskell in 1864. Alonzo was appointed Justice of the Peace by Governor Safford on June 10, 1870. He committed suicide at Mineral Park, January 7, 1876, age 53.
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U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles
Name: Alonzo C Haskell
Enlistment Date: 9 Dec 1861
Rank at enlistment: 2nd Lieut
Enlistment Place: Forest Hill, CA
State Served: California
Survived the War?: Yes
Service Record: Commissioned an officer in Company B, California 4th Infantry Regiment on 25 Sep 1861.
Promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant on 16 Jan 1863.
Mustered out on 27 Apr 1863.
Sources: Register of California Men in the War of the Rebellion 1861 to 1867
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Arizona Miner
Letter by Hiram C. Hodge, January 11, 1876Mineral Park is cozily nestled among high peaks of the Cerbat mountains, having an altitude of 3.500 feet. It is in the great mineral belt of Cerbat and Hualpai mountains, and this belt is over 100 miles long, and from one to six miles wide. On the arrival here I found the townspeople excited and in mourning, caused by the suicide of Judge A. C. Haskell who had that morning shot himself through the head with a Sharps rifle. Death was instantaneous.
By inquiry of those who knew him well, I learn that he was a man of more than ordinary intelligence, honest and upright in all his dealings and popular will all classes of society. For 12 years he reside in Mojave County, where he had become popular and highly respected by all. At the time of his he held the offices of Judge of Probate, Justice of the Peace, Notary Public and Recorder of the Hualpai Mining District.
In all these several offices he gave eminent satisfaction, and as a Justice of the Peace his rulings and decisions were satisfactory to all parties. His death is deeply deplored by all.
20463. Judge Washington L. Haskell
U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles
Name: Washington L Haskell
Enlistment Date: 9 Dec 1861
Rank at enlistment: 1st Sergt
Enlistment Place: Forest Hill, CA
State Served: California
Survived the War?: Yes
Service Record: Enlisted in Company B, California 4th Infantry Regiment on 25 Sep 1861.
Mustered out on 04 Oct 1864 at Drum Barracks, CA.
Sources: Register of California Men in the War of the Rebellion 1861 to 1867
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Sylvia Ann Haskell was unmarried.
20471. Charlotte Augusta Haskell
National Aegis
February 21, 1855
Died in Templeton, Jan. 23d, Miss Charlotte A. Haskell, aged 28, daughter of Moses Haskell.
This young lady, throuhout the last five or six years of her life, endured extraordinary bodily suffering: Up to the age of twenty she had enjoyed comfortable health. Disease, connected with a scrofulous tendency of constitition, then showed itself. Affection of the spine seemed, for a time, the expanation of a severe lameness and other symptons. But it soon became evident the disorder was more serious. The gradual decline of health was constant, and, at length, resulted in a chronic state of suffering almost unparralled.
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Jane Haskell was unmarried.
Waldo Noyes Haskell was a barber.
Boston City Directory
1823 - Haskell, Aaron, handcartman, 12 cross
1825 - Haskell, Aaron, soda room, Pierce Alley
1831 - Haskell, Aaron, innholder, 63 Pond, xor. Corner
1839 - Haskell, Aaron, refreshments, 63 Endicott
_____Note from Thomas Friend Haskell which links Aaron Haskell as brother of Moses Haskell.
I visited Boston, MA to exhaust all possibilities of finding Aaron's father through the clerks office and local libraries, and to physically see the headstones in Aaron's cemetery plot in Cambridge. It was there at Mount Auburn Cemetery that I discovered the facts that linked Aaron to a previously known Haskell family line. At the cemetery office, in the file folder for Aaron's Plot, I discovered 19th century handwritten letters that had been correspondences between Mount Auburn's lawyer and several people from Aaron's life. At the time the letters were written, Mount Auburn was attempting to locate the rightful proprietor of the Family Plot. One letter from Aaron's sister-in-law Lucy Knowlton Haskell verifies Aaron's relation to his brother Moses and lists Aaron's children. Another letter written by Archibald Chase again verifies Aaron's relation to Moses.
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20482. William Budd Gould Doctor
William came from a pioneer family. His grandfather, John Gould Sr., was a native of Elizabethtown, N.J.; but moved to Canada, and then to Pekin. He worked as a blacksmith and later a farmer. Dr. Gould's father, Hon. John Gould, a farmer who later worked as a businessman, "had frequently been called upon to serve as guardian, conveyancer and administrator of estates".
A student in the office of Dr, John S. Shuler, William attended medical college in Buffalo, NY. He was a rising young man in his profession and always maintained a leading position among the physicians of the county. His counsel was eminently wise and judicious under all circumstances whether pertaining to church affairs of which he was a prominent member, or in consultation with his professional brethren in trying and difficult cases. He strongly resembled his relative Gen. David Gould. General Gould was a very popular officer in the State militia. Dr. Gould was a member of the Niagara Co. Medical Society. The Niagara Medical Society was organized in Jun 1823; he became a member between 1823-1850. He presided over meetings. He was active in both the medical society in Buffalo and Niagara Co. In 1858 he was added to the list of curators for the medical department for the university in Buffalo. He was treasurer of the Lockport Dispensary, but resigned Nov 1860.
He was received Apr 26 1850 into the First Free Congregational Church of Lockport NY; was elected officer in Apr 25 1852, and still a member in 1885. He was a charter member of the Bruce Council Masonic Lodge No.15 1860; and was captain of the guard.
At the time he was profiled in the "Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Niagara County, New York", he had been practicing medicine for more than 50 years and was "the oldest practitioner in the county." "A more skillful physician, a truer gentleman, a friend of finer feelings, a more sincere Christian than Dr. William Gould I have never known had occasion to feel his generous kindness, and the changing years can never wear the memory away. I have often said that, if he had not chosen the medical profession, he would have made a great actor, for his powers of mimicry are simply marvelous. His fine memory enables him always to use his knowledge for the pleasure and benefit of others, so that socially his presence as a visitor adorns, and enlivens, and helps to dispel the shadows that gather around the couch of suffering.", Julia M (Corbitt) Crowley., 1890. Dr. Gould died at his home at an early hour of the morning at the age of 73 years. He had been in medical practice in Lockport since 1848. He was the oldest physician in the county and universally esteemed as a citizen.
His name is always Dr. W.B. Gould of Lockport or William B of Lockport. He had an uncle William B. that practiced in Buffalo, NY.
References
Landmarks of Niagara County, NY
Lockport NY Daily Journal Courier 1860 Nov
The Buffalo News, Buffalo, NY. July 18, 1999
"Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Niagara County, New York," published in 1892 by Samuel T. Wiley and W. Scott Garner
Echoes from Niagara: historical, political, personal., Julia M (Corbitt) Crowley., 1890
Oswego Daily Times April-July 1893
Company D 84th Illinois Infantry
Killed during the Battle of Chickamauga. Rossville lies just inside the borderline between Georgia and Tennessee.
Charles was among other northern soldiers of the US on their way to New York. He bought poisonous food from public enemy and died from the effects of it at Fr. Wayne, Indiana.
Pioneer History of Meigs County 53
March 16th, 1826, Nehemiah Bicknell married Julia Larkin, in Rutland, Ohio, and they moved immediately to make their home on his farm in Lebanon township on the banks of the Ohio river. They endured many hardships incident to pioneer life, none of which they deprecated more than the ignorance and low state of morals in the neighborhood. Mr. Bicknell opened his own house for preaching in about 1828 or 1829, to the Methodist itinerant. Later he secured the building of a school house on his land adjoining the Pioneer burying ground, where the preaching appointment was removed, and continued for many years. Afterward he gave a lot for a site for a church, deeded to trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a public graveyard. Mr. Bicknell was a public spirited man, who felt the lack of early education a constant impediment to progress.
He was elected magistrate three terms, township trustee, postmaster eleven years, Sunday-school superintendent for many years, class leader when the appointment was known as the Oldtown class. He was an uncompromising temperance man all of his long life, and erected a large barn, the second building in Meigs county raised without the compliment of whisky. He was a road viewer and helped in laying out roads in nearly every part of the county, and dissented from the policy of narrow minded men who would lay out a public road on inaccessable hillsides, or around the corner of a selfish man's farm. He claimed for the traveling public suitable ground, and making good roads everywhere. At eighty-three years of age his step was firm, his eyes bright, and cheeks rosy. His birthday, celebrated in June, 1879, he, with his eldest daughter, left home August 1st to revisit his boyhood home in Chenango county. New York, and attend to the placing of gravestones anew at his father's grave. In some strange manner he seemed to have gone out of the car to the platform, when he fell off and was killed. This was on the Erie railroad, near Beaver Flats, and the fatality occurred about 3 a. m., August 6th, 1879.
Known as Dean Keep, he was noted for being the first to use anesthesia for childbirth, administering ether to Fanny Longfellow, Henry W. Longfellow's wife, on the occasion of her daughter's birth in 1847.