Descendants of William Hascall of Fontmell Magna (1490-1542)

Notes


John Groves Herrick

John Groves Herrick at age 45 was a farm laborer (1860 US Federal Census for Gloucester, MA).


11193. Thomas Jefferson Sargent

Thomas Jefferson Sargent -- his death reported due to ersipelas, paralysis and debility from malarial poisoning.


23729. Josiah Cummings Haskell

Civil War Pension File
Widows application # 105555,  cert # 67995
Enrolled 9 November 1863 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 14th regiment, Kansas calvary.
Died of pneumonia aboard steamer enroute from Pine Bluff, Arkansas to Fort Gibson, Oklahoma on 4 May 1865.
Married Eliza Jane Smith 27 December 1853 at Rockport, Essex, Massachusetts.


11199. Charles Haskell

Charles Haskell was a trader.


11202. James Haskell

James Haskell was president of the Haskell Silk Company.

The Haskell Silk Company: Manufacturers of Silk Dress Goods Acknowledged as "The Standard for the Trade" by Jacqueline Field

In November 1882 The American Silk Journal noted that, "The Haskell Silk Company of Saccarappa, Maine, is running 20 looms on black grograin, having discontinued the manufacture of twist a number of months ago." This transition from thread making to weaving signaled a major development.  Over the next period of years the change was followed by a series of factory expansions.  Output steadily increased.  By the turn of the century Haskell fabrics were sold coast to coast and the name Haskell was synonymous with affordable high quality plain staple dress goods--from ranges of solid and changeable taffeta, to messaline and duchesse satin.

The Haskell Silk Company story parallels that of the silk industry.  Haskell operated from 1874 to 1930.  This half-century saw rapid mechanization in the silk industry, the manufacture of immense quantities of silk fabric and, in the final decade, the onset of decline.  Where the silk industry was principally concentrated within a radius of New York--in southern New England, New Jersey and Northern Pennsylvania--the Haskell Silk Company was singularly located in Maine.  How did this remotely situated small company metamorphose into a major manufacturer of fine staple silks with national name recognition?  In a crowded market with silks of various qualities churned out by a profusion of large and small manufacturers what made Haskell silks special?  This paper examines the elements that contributed to their development and to the evolution of the Haskell Company--a silk manufacturer as remarkable for its stability and longevity under one family's control as for its superior product.

Jacqueline Field is an independent researcher resident in Portland, Maine.  Previously, following experience in the textile industry in Britain she joined the faculty at Callendar Park College, Scotland, teaching textile and design courses.  After moving to the United States, she continued her teaching career, first at the University of Southern Maine and, later, at Westbrook College where she also curated a costume and textile collection.  Her current research is centered on silk in Maine and the American silk industry.  Published articles related to silk include, "Silk and Style: Affording American Machine-Made Silks at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" (1999) and "Dyes, Chemistry and Clothing: The Influence of Word War I on Fabrics, Fashions and Silk." (2001) in Dress, the Annual Journal of The Costume Society of America.


11203. Dr. Benjamin F. Haskell

Benjamin Haskell graduated from Amherst College, Amherst, MA, and practiced in Gloucester. He was the author of a book, "Essays on the Physiology of the Nervous System: With an Appendix on Hydrophobia" published in 1856 by J. S. E. Rogers and still available as an outstanding classic medical text in reprint from many book dealers.

The entire book (all the pages) was digitized by Google from a copy in the library of Harvard University and can be read on Google and printed if desired. For direct access use: http://www.archive.org/details/essaysonphysiol01haskgoog.


11205. Deacon Alexander Haskell

Alexander Haskell was a wheelwright and cabinet maker for the Boston and Maine RR in Salem, Massachusetts.