Newsletter of the International Haskell Family Society
Volume 13, No. 2, June 2004
The House Leonidas Built
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Leonidas was a cordwainer. He is also listed as a broker and as a trader. The birth and death dates given here are those on the grave marker in the Sumner Street Cemetery, West Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts.
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U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles
Name: Leonidas Haskell
Enlistment Date: 20 Sep 1861
State Served: U.S. Volunteers
Survived the War?: Yes
Service Record: Promoted to Full Captain on 20 Sep 1861.
Commissioned an officer in the U.S. Volunteers Aide-de-Camp Infantry Regiment on 20 Sep 1861.
Promoted to Full Major on 16 Jun 1862.
Mustered out on 04 Jun 1864.
Death Date: 15 Jan 1873
Sources: Heitman: Register of United States Army 1789-1903
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Civil War Pension File
Invalid application # 174787, cert # 163707
Widow application # 208740, cert 163155
Captain of U.S. Volunteers
Leonidas Haskell married Sarah Elizabeth Haskell July 26, 1846
Children per sworn statement of Sarah E. Haskell
Broderick born in San Francisco, July 10, 1860
Leonidas born in San Francisco, December 26, 1861
Frank born in New York City, December 29, 1863
Ortega born in New York City, September 2, 1865
Henry born in New York City, October 5, 1866
Allie F. born in Stapleton, Staten Island, New York, April 15, 1868
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San Francisco Chronicle
June 1, 1936
Leonidas K. Haskell, sir; major, United States Army, arrived in California 1849 and three years later constructed a cootage which in the following 84 years, was destined to house 36 of the army high commands.Fort Mason Reservation, site of the Generals quarters, was established November 6, 1850, on the location of the old Spanish "Battery San Jose", erected in 1797.
11032. William Henry Phelps Haskell
This name is listed as William P. Haskell by Ira Haskell in Chronicles of the Haskell Family. The name is listed as William Phelps in the LDS database.
San Francisco Bulletin
February 2, 1889HASKELL - In Roslyn, W.T., January 29, Andrew D. Haskell, a native of Gloucester, Mass., aged 51 years.
Henry Haskell was a shoe manufacturer.
America's Succesful Men
THOMAS FLETCHER OAKES, railroad president, born in Boston, July 16, 1843, came from old New England stock, his father, Francis Garaux Oakes, being a shipmaster, and his grandfather, Daniel Oakes, a soldier of the American Revolution. Educated in Boston, and well trained for an active career, he secured a position as clerk to the contractors engaged in the construction of The Kansas Pacific Railroad, and in June, 1863, entered the service of this corporation as purchasing agent in St. Louis. Having won the confidence of the officers of the road by conspicuous energy and ability, they advanced him through the positions of assistant treasurer, general freight agent and vice president to that of general superintendent. During this period, his home was in St. Louis and Kansas City. In April, 1879, he became general superintendent of The Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf and The Kansas City, Lawrence & Southern Railroads, but was called in May, 1880, to the responsible post of vice-president and general manager of The Oregon Railway & Navigation Co., with headquarters in Portland, Ore. A year later, he identified himself with The Northern Pacific Railroad, was elected vice-president, and in November, 1855, general manager in addition. In 1888, Mr. Oakes became president of The Northern Pacific Railroad, and continued as such until October, 1895, when having been made one of the receivers of the corporation, he retired from the presidency. His executive ability has been of great service to this important system. Mr. Oakes is a hard worker and a thoroughly trained and competent railroad man. He is a trustee of The Manhattan Life Insurance Co. of this city. In 1864, he married Abby R., daughter of Henry Haskell, and their children are Grace, Zillah, Georgiana and Prescott Oakes. Mr. Oakes resides at Mamaroneck, but is a member of the Metropolitan, Union League, New York Yacht and Riding clubs, and a life member of The American Geographical Society.
Walter W. Haskell was born in West Gloucester, Massachusetts, January 26, 1846, where he remained until he attained the age of sixteen years, when he went to Salem, in the same State, there engaged as a clerk in a grocery store, and remained two years. Next moving to Lynn, he became a clerk to E. W. Osborne & Co., and subsequently went to St. Louis, Missouri, on a six months' visit. Mr. Haskell now located in Smoky Hill Valley, town of Salina, Saline County, Kansas, and became interested in a section of land with T. F. Oakes, the present Vice-President of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. In October, I868, he left Kansas for San Francisco, where he arrived November 27, J 868, and at once entered the employ of Kohler & Chase, but at the end of a year he proceeded to Carson City, Nevada, and became salesman with John G. Fox, in a general variety store.
January 25, J882, he married Miss Clara F. Osborne, of San Francisco, and, residing in Carson until June, 1872, be then came to Alameda County, engaged as clerk for C. R. Bowen, in a general mercantile business on the southeast corner of Park Street and Webb Avenue, Alameda, with whom he remained until the closing out of the business in 1874, and continued with his successor; A. S. Barber, for a twelvemonth thereafter, Mr. Haskell now entered the store of F. Boehmer, in the town of Alameda, for a year, where he accepted the offer of going into the insurance business as special agent for the Alameda County Branch of the Home Mutual Insurance Company of California, his field being the counties of Alameda and Contra Costa. Here he remained until 1876, when he became one of the firm of Brown, Craig & Co., as General Fire Insurance Agents, at No, 215 Sansome Street, San Francisco. In July, 188I, he accepted the position of city agent of the Travelers' Life and Accident Insurance Company, now doing business at the southeast corner of Pine a-d Montgomery Streets, a position he yet occupies, while he is a resident of Alameda County,
His family consists of two children, viz.: Lola Lee and Edmund. In 1875 Mr. Haskell attended the golden wedding of his parents, celebrated at the old homestead, when the family of ten children, save one were present. In our subject we have a man of strict business tact and integrity, circumstances that have won for him the confidence and esteem of all with whom he has been brought in contact; indeed, he is as favorably known any man on the Pacific Coast
Reference
History of Alameda California
M. W. Wood, Publisher, Oakland, 1883
Page 895,896
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The Travelers Life and Accident Insurance Company, of Hartford, Conn., has been in business on the Pacific coast since 1870, and has paid out during that period over $1,000,000 for losses. They have done an installment work on all the railroads of the coast, as well as of the continent, and have at the present time 800 agencies on the coast. The company complies regularly with all the laws of the different States, and the history of the company is one of the highest successes.Walter W. Haskell has been the general agent of the company for the Pacific coast since 1885, and previous to that time was city agent three years, and was formerly a member of the insurance firm of Brown, Craig & Co., but disposed of his interests in that firm to connect himself with his present company. He is a native of Gloucester, Massachusetts, born in January, 1846, and is a descendant of one of the oldest original settlers of New England. His father, Henry Haskell, was born in Massachusetts, in 1800, and was married to Sarah E. Phelps, a descendant of the Rev. Forbes Phelps, of colonial fame. They were the parents of ten children, only two having died, and eight surviving. Mr. Haskell, the youngest child, returned to his home in the East in 1875, and attended the golden wedding of his parents. His father lived to the advanced age of eighty-two years. He had been a trustee of his city, and had also represented his district in the State Legislature several terms. Walter W. Haskell arrived in San Francisco November 26, 1868, and was engaged a year in the music establishment of Kohler, Chase & Co., and later removed to Carson City, and accepted a position with John G. Fox, in the same line of business. In 1872 he was married to Miss Clara F. Osborn, a native of Brooklyn, New York, but a resident of San Francisco at the time of their marriage. They then removed to Alameda, where they have since constantly resided.
For a time Mr. Haskell was in the employ of Bowen Bros., dealers in general merchandise, but after two years he entered the Home Mutual Fire Insurance Companys office at Oakland, in 1874. He afterward resigned his position with them to enter the firm of Brown, Craig & Co. In his political views, Mr. Haskell is a strong Republican, and socially is a member of the Masonic fraternity. He gives close attention to his business, and his industry and honorable methods have brought their reward and consequent success, and he also enjoys the good will of a very large circle of friends.
Transcribed by Donna L. Becker
Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 1, page 514, Lewis Publishing Co., 1892.