10497. Barnabas Dodge Haskell Jr.
Obituary
August 1, 1894The late Barnabas D. Haskell, who passed away a few days ago, was a silversmith of the olden times, forming his works by dies and the hammer, which system long since gave place to shaping by machinery. Until 1844 he was in the employ of the late James H. Carleton; after that date until 1882 he was employed in the silver ware rooms of L. Kimball & Co., Water Street. He was a religious and thinking man and an Adventist; often preaching for small societies in country towns. He produced a poem in 1859, entitled "Zethar," which reflected the author's views of creation, life and destiny.
Marriage Notes for Barnabas Dodge Haskell Jr. and Mary Abby Glover
MARRIAGE: Cambridge Chronicle
Volume XXVIII, Number 23, 7 June 18733d inst., by Rev. Wm. S. Apsey, Mr. Barnabas D. Haskell, Jr., of Somerville, and Miss Mary A. Glover, of this city,
Civil War Pension File
Minor cert # 99441
Charles Haskell
Private Company I, 2nd Maine Cavalry
Mustered in 22 December 1863
Died at Fort Barrancas, Fl., September 1864, of disease.
Son Ellis, born December 17, 1858
Wife Angelina B. Reed died September 8, 1866
Andrew Mayhew Haskell appointed as gaurdian.
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U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
Name: Charles Haskell
Side: Union
Regiment State/Origin: Maine
Regiment Name: 2 Maine Cavalry.
Regiment Name Expanded: 2nd Regiment, Maine Cavalry
Company: I
Rank In: Blacksmith
History of Penobscot County, Maine
1882Page 357
B. A. Haskell was one of the first settlers in Garland, a prominent man of the town. His business was that of a blacksmith, and he held the position of captain of militia previous to his death in 1869. His wife's maiden name was Rebecca Mayhew. Of their children four are still Iiving - -Susan H. (Clark), Garland; Frances K. (Mitchell), Minneapolis, Minnesota: Jacob M., Boston, and Andrew M. Andrew, the subject of this sketch, was born in Garland in 1819. At the age of fourteen he learned the trade of mason, and followed it for nine years. In 1842 he commenced the business of carriage-making and repairing, which he is still engaged in. For twenty-one years he held the office of Selectman in this town. He married Mary B. Sargent, of Belfast, and they have seven children. He was engaged in the Aroostook war; and in the years 1870-71 was a member of the State Legislature, proving himself a valuable addition to that
body.
Newsletter of the Haskell Family Society
Volume 7, No. 4, December 1998Captain Isaac W. Haskell, born 18 April 1826 in Garland, Maine, was son of Bildad Arnold and Rebecca (Mayhew) Haskell. He was also brother of Jacob McGaw Haskell.
Isaac was a blacksmith when mustered at Portland into the Union Army as captain, Co. D, 20th Maine Infantry Regiment, 29 August 1862. On 20 November 1862 he resigned his commission for serious health problems. On recovering he joined Co. I, 2nd Maine Cavalry Regiment at Augusta on 22 December 1863, again as captain. He was shipped from Portland, Maine, to New Orleans on the transport Lancaster but fell ill at Barrancas, Florida. The surgeon granted him 60 days' sick leave, which had to be delayed as Captain Haskell was "absent on a raid." On 17 May 1865 Captain Haskell died, aged 39, of chronic diarrhoea contracted during military service. He is buried in Garland's Knight Cemetery.
Jacob McGaw Haskell was a merchant.
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Reminiscences of Fugitive-slave Law Days in Boston
Author: Austin Bearse
Printed in 1880 by R. RichardsonOne night in September 1854, Wendell Phillips, Jacob M. Haskell, and J. B. Smith came to my house at nine oclock, telling me that a schooner lay down at Fort Independence, from Wilmington, North Carolina, with a fugitive slave on board. The schooner proved to be the Sally Ann from Belfast, Maine, and was loaded with yellow pine lumber for parties in Boston. They wished me to get my yacht underway. I did. Going past the vessel I hailed the schooner and asked the captain if he was was ready to give up the slave he had aboard --- (having been told by Mr. Haskell that the man to whom the schooner was consigned wanted to get rid of him). The answer I got was this: If you come alongside my vessel I will send you to eternity ----- quick! So I went up to Long Wharf and waited for three hours, and only got Mr. Haskell. No other man came. Knowing it was soon coming daylight, I had to lay a plot. I took a dozen old hats and coats and fastened them to the rail in my yacht, which gave me the appearance of having so many men; I then went down back alongside the schooner again, and told the captain I had now come prepared, and he better give up the fugitive and save bloodshed. After parleying a while he agreed to put the slave in my boat. My brother went under his bow with the boat and the slave jumped in, and they pulled alongside the yacht. Then I made sail for City Point, South Boston. I landed the slave and carried him up to my house, stripped off his old tow suit and dressed him in another, so he could not be known. By this time it was midnight. He had just got him ready when Mr. Samuel May Jr. and Dr. S. Cabot drove up to my house with a carriage, took him and carried him to Boston and Worcester depot, and Mr. May went on with him to Worcester and from there he was sent on the underground railroad to Canada.
The next day the vessel hauled into Boston Wharf and the captain had a notice inserted in the papers that his vessel was boarded by a set of pirates in the night, the slave rescued, and offering $500 for the man who headed the gang. After President Lincolns proclamation, in 1863, the man returned from Canada and came to see me. He shipped on board a vessel for the West Indies; I have never seen him since, and cannot recall his name.
Boston Herald
February 2, 1906Haskell, Waldo clark, son of Jacob Mcgaw and Adeline Locke Haskell, in his 48th year.
History of Cumberland Co., Maine
1880Page 209
Charles H. Haskell was born in New Gloucester, May 12, 1824. In 1839 he came to Portland, and was a clerk until 1848, when he started business for himself as a wholesale grocer, in partnership with Oliver P. Reynolds. This business he continued until 1878, with the exception of four years, from 1846-60, during which time he was inspector of customs, receiving his appointment from President James Buchanan.
He was a director of the National Traders' Bank for several years, 8 member of the Portland Board of Trade since its organization, its treasurer for ten years, and president of the board in 1878. He was one of' the founders of the Mercantile Library Association, and its president for two years.
Mr. Haskell was formerly a Whig, but upon the dissolution of that party became a Democrat. For two terms he was councilman from the Sixth Ward of the city, and was elected city auditor, but declined to accept the office.
In 1871 he was a representative from Portland in the State Legislature, and was placed on the committee on banks and banking.
In 1875 he was appointed, with, with Joshua Nye, by President Grant, centennial commissioner for the State of Maine, and was State Senator in 1875-76, acting as chairman of the railroad committee. He married, May 10, 1849, Mary E, daughter of Zophar Reynolds, of Portland. She died Oct. 9, 1863, leaving one son, Charles O. Haskell. For his second wife, Mr. Haskell married, June 4, 1879, Mrs. Louise L. Kenney.