Biographical Review : This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Oxford and Franklin Counties, Maine
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� Peter Haskell, father of Ezekiel W., was born in New Gloucester, Me., and spent his life in that town. He owned a farm of many acres, and was an industrious and progressive agriculturist. He married for his first wife Sally Pulsifer, by whom he had two sons and a daughter; namely, Jacob W., Ezekiel W., and Mary P. He married for his second wife Betsey Hawes, by whom he had two sons - Charles P. and Thomas H. The
Thomas Hawes Haskell was a lawyer and a member of the Maine Supreme Court. He served in the Civil War.
Obituary Record of the Graduates of Bowdoin College and the Medical School of Maine
Thomas Hawes Haskell, son of Captain Peter and Betsey (Hawes) Haskell was born 18 May 1842, at New Gloucester, Maine. He recieved his early education in the schools of his native town and at the Norway Literary Institute, where he graduated in 1862. Instead of entering college he enlisted in the 25th Maine Volunteers. On the expiration of his term of service he began the study of law at Auburn, Maine, with Hon. Nahum Morrill, and was admitted to the bar in February of 1865. He settled in the practice of his profession the following year at Portland. In 1870, 1878 and 1879, he was county attorney. In 1884 he was appointed a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, was re-appointed in 1891 and again in 1898. He died at his residence in Portland from internal hemmorage, 24 September, 1900 aged 58 years, 4 months, and 6 days.
Judge Haskell recieved the honorary degree of A.M. from Bowdoin in 1894. He was chosen an overseer of the college in 1896. He was author of the "Centennial History of New Gloucester" published in 1874, and also reported the decisions of Judge Fox in the two volumes known as "Haskell Reports." "Both as a lawyer and as a judge he was noted for an extreme quickness of perception and a ready comprehension of the vital points of a case. He was distinguished on the bench for his careful preperation of his opinions, which he never hesitated to express. One of his diversions was the the study of mechanics and in his hours of recreation he constructed several model steam-engines in a machine shop which he fitted for his own amusement"
Judge Haskell married in 1867, Elizabeth Parsons Whitman, of New Gloucester, who survives without children.