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

Notes


13309. Edwin Bradbury Haskell

New York Times
March 26, 1907

BOSTON, March 25. - Edwin Brasbury Haskell, one of the proprietors of the Boston Herald and formerly editor in chief of the paper, died at his home, in Auburndale, early today.

He is survived by his wife and four children, Col. W. E. Haskell, publisher and editor of the Boston Herald; Henry H. Haskell, Margaret Haskell and Clarence G. Haskell
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At the age of seventeen, having been educated in the common schools of his native town and at Kent's Hill, Me., Seminary, Edwin B, Haskell began to learn type-setting in the office of the Portland (Me.) Advertiser. After becoming expert at this craft he worked as a journeyman compositor in Portland, New Orleans and Baton Rouge, La., and in Boston. He was last employed at type-setting in the office of the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette. In the spring of 1857 be left the Gazette to become a reporter on the staff of the Boston Journal. Three years later he withdrew from the Journal's staff to accept a better position on that of the Boston Herald, where he was Court, Legislative, and financial reporter and editorial writer. In October 1865, Mr. Haskell, Royal M. Pulsifer, Justin Andrews, Charles H. Andrews, and George G, Bailey conjointly purchased from Edwin G. Bailey one-third interest in the Herald, and in 1869 they acquired the remaining two-thirds. Under the new ownership Mr. Haskell became the editor-in-chief, and he continued in that capacity until the autumn of 1887, by which time he had individually acquired a third interest in the paper. Influenced by the financial difficulties of Mr. Pulsifer, who was the Herald's business manager, he sold him his interest, and resigned his editorship. In the following spring, when the aspect of affairs had much improved, and the joint proprietors of the paper had reorganized so as to become a stock company, he was able to resume his ownership, but he did not return to the editorial desk.

A controlling interest in the Minneapolis Tribune, purchased by Mr. Haskell in 1884, he disposed of sometime later on satisfactory terms. He has owned a controlling interest in the Journal, an evening paper of Minneapolis, Minn., since 1889. He is also the owner of a third interest in the Morning-Gazette-Herald and in the Evening News, both of St. Joseph, Mo. A stockholder of the Plant Investment Company, he is a director of that organization. He has been the president of the Boston Herald Corporation since his first election to that office in 1890. In Charlestown, Mass., during his early manhood, Mr. Haskell was a member of the School Committee and the president of the Common Council. First appointed 011 the Metropolitan Park Commission in 1895, he was reappointed for five years in the spring of 1900. For many years he has been the president of the Newton Library trustees and of the Newton Cemetery Corporation; and be has served in the same capacity the Boston Press Club, the Newton Jersey Stock Club, and the Newton Club.

Source:
Representaive Citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
New England Historical Publishing Company, 1902


13313. Clement Caldwell Haskell

Clement Caldwell Haskell was a physician.

Obituary Record of the Graduates of Bowdoin College and the Medical School of Maine
Medical Class of 1871
CLEMENT CALDWELL HASKELL, son of Moses Greenleaf and Rosilla (Haines) Haskell, was born 16 April, 1847, at East Livermore, Me. He received a good cammon school and academic education, and was employed for a time as compositor and local reporter on the Lewiston Journal. He began the study of medicine in 1868, and attended three courses of lectures at the Medical School of Maine, where he received his degree in 1871. He settled in the practice of his profession in Boston, Mass. In the autumn of r875
he removed to Maitland, Fla., and engaged for a time in orange culture. The remainder of his life was devoted to the development of the railroad and other interests of his adopted state. In 1870 with three others he organized a company to build a railroad from Sanford to Tampa, and for the following ten or twelve years he served as a director and treasurer of the South Florida R R. Co., the Sanford and Indian River R. R. Co., the South Florida Telegraph  Co., the Sanford Loan and Trust Co., and the land department of the Plant Investment Co. In 1892 he resigned these positions and gave his attention to the wholesale grocery business at Sanford and at Jacksonville. He died at the latter place from grippe, 17 February, 1900 aged 52 years, 10 months and 1 day.
Dr. Haskell was a successful business man, whose integrity brought him to many positions of trust at the unanimous chice of his fellows. He was a communicant in the Protestant Episcopal church, a director of the Jacksonville Lyceum, and held a position among the Knights of Pythias. His genial and kindly nature had endeared him to a large circle of friends.
Dr. Haskell married first at Lynn Mass., in 1879, Ann White, daughter of Moses and Caroline Barnard, who died in 1887, leaving two sons, Frank Forrester and Herbert Livermore Haskell of Lynn, Mass., and second, 29 September 1892, Charlotte Alice, daughter of Stephen and Sarah P. Osgood of Georgetown, Mass., who survivesw, with two children, Osgood Fitz Osborne and Charlotte Clement Haskell of Georgetown, Mass.


27053. Herbert Livermore Haskell

New York Times
September 10, 1957

HASKELL - of Fitzwilliam, N.H., and Nokomis, Fla., suddenly on Sept. 9, Herbert L., beloved husband of Marguerite (nee Smith) Haskell. Funeral services at Trinity Church, Copley Square, Boston


27061. Jabez Scipio Jack Haskell

U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963
Name: Jack Haskell
Death Date: 27 Jul 1935
Cemetery: Manchester Cemetery
Cemetery Location: Fort Bragg, California
Sargt., Co. B. 20th Engineers
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The Press Democrat
July 30, 1935

Jack Haskell, 40, World War veteran and a brother-in-law of B. J. Pellascio, W.O. Pellascio and O. R, Cockrill of Santa Rosa, ended his life at his Point Arena home by firing a bullet into his brain,

Haskell, who was a member of the 20th Engineers, was gassed during his overseas service and has been in illl health for several years. He is believed  to have been despondent over his condition and of the belief that there was no hope of ever regaining his health.

A member of a widely known Mendocino county family. Haskell was the husband of Mrs Vergie Pellascio Haskell, formerly of Valley Ford, who operates the Point Arena hotel.

He was affiliated with the Masonic lodge and was a member of the Veterans of Forign Wars.


Virginia V. Pellascio

Santa Rosa Press Democrat
December 1, 1943

Funeral rites for Mrs. Virginia V. Haskell, county hospital employee who died suddenly Monday bwill be ...

Mrs. Haskell was the widow of the late John [sic] Haskell, and was the mother of Mrs. Frances Brandon Green, laboratory technician at the county hospital. She was the sister of M. J. Pellascio of Poin Arena, W. O. Pellascio of Santa Rosa, Mrs. W. R. Hamilton of San Jose, Mrs. O.A. Cockrill of Santa Rosa and Mrs. J. F. Mantau of Bodega.


13332. Nathaniel Haskell

Civil War Widow Pension File 10588 for son William P. Haskell
Testimony of Nehemiah Adams and Clara Adams
Nathaniel Haskell was a sailor, and sailed from Boston for New Orleans about 14 years ago (1849), and from New Orleans shipped for some foreign port, which is the last we that he has been heard from.


27066. Nathaniel H. Haskell

U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles
Name: Nathaniel H Haskell
Residence: Gloucester, Massachusetts
Occupation: Farmer
Age at enlistment: 20
Enlistment Date: 15 Apr 1861
Rank at enlistment: Private
Enlistment Place: Gloucester, MA
State Served:Massachusetts
Survived the War?:Yes
Service Record: Enlisted in on 30 Apr 1861.
Mustered out on 01 Aug 1861 at Boston, MA.
Enlisted in on 28 Sep 1861.
Mustered out on 13 Oct 1864.
Enlisted in on 09 Dec 1864.
Promoted to Full 1st Sergeant on 25 May 1865.
Mustered out on 29 Jun 1865.
Birth Date: abt 1841
Death Date: 25 Feb 1906


27067. William P. Haskell

Civil War Widow Pension File 10588
William P. Haskell died Fort Albany, VA. Jan 6, 1863
never married
enrolled Aug 4, 1862, age 18, bn Gloucester, Mass.
Pvt., Co. L., 14th Mass Art.


13336. Sewell B. Haskell

Sewell B. Haskell was a railroad paymaster.


13338. Charles Card Haskell

New York Times

HASKELL - In New York city, on Wednesday, April 18, 1908, Charles C. Haskell. in his 73d year.


13341. Llewellyn Solomon Haskell

Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century.
page 459

"HASKELL, LLEWELLYN SOLOMON, merchant, was born Jan. 4, 1815, in Gloucester, Maine (sic Massachusetts). In 1857 he began to lay out Llewellyn park, and about 1859 retired from business to give his whole time to its improvement. He died May 31, 1872, in Santa Barbara, Cal. "

Glenmont, Thomas Edison's home, is located in Llewellyn Park, the first romantically designed, planned residential community in the United States. The park was developed in the 1850s by Llewellyn Haskell, who acquired 350 acres in West Orange, New Jersey, about fifteen miles from New York City. The architect Alexander Jackson Davis landscaped the park, which grew to 700 acres by the 1870s.

A Clerk's Estate
Glenmont was designed by the New York architect Henry Hudson Holly for Henry C. Pedder, a confidential clerk for the dry goods store, Arnold, Constable and Company, and his wife, Louisa. They purchased 10.5 acres in Llewellyn Park in December 1879, and their house -- decorated by the noted New York firm of Pottier & Stymus -- was largely completed by 1882.

Only two years later, Pedder and two colleagues were accused of embezzling funds from Arnold, Constable. The company quickly took over his property, buying the house for one dollar. Pedder apparently fled soon after to the West Indies, his birthplace.

Thomas Edison at Glenmont
Thomas Edison purchased the Glenmont estate -- 13.5 acres including house, barn, greenhouse, and furnishings -- in January of 1886 for $125,000, or half its estimated value. A thirty-nine year old widower, Edison presented the estate as a wedding gift to his new bride, twenty year old Mina Miller , whom he married on February 24, 1886, at Oak Place, her family home in Akron, Ohio.

According to family tradition, Edison gave Mina a choice between a town house in New York City or the former Pedder estate in Llewellyn Park. She selected the latter. Edison remarked on his good fortune:

To think that it was possible to buy a place like this,...the idea fairly turned my head and I snapped it up. It is a great deal too nice for me, but it isn't half nice enough for my little wife here.
To prevent creditors from ever seizing the home, Edison sold it to his private secretary in 1891 for one dollar. A week later the secretary sold it to Mina Edison for the same amount.

Glenmont was only about a mile away from Edison's newly built laboratories, but he worked long hours and spent little time at home. When Edison was at the house, work was not far from his mind. His son, Charles, recalled in 1953:

Father worked in his laboratory all day long. He used to come home and perhaps after a brief nap of fifteen or twenty minutes he would come down to dinner. Then he would go upstairs and read or think out things, and he'd make a list of things he was going to do the next day.... So, really, the home was his thought bench, you might say, as the other was his work bench.
Edison's reputation obliged him to entertain. He did not enjoy these events, however, and often feigned illness to avoid his own dinner parties. His daughter Madeleine recalled that "he had this awful indigestion, usually before a party, not afterwards...." He would then retire to the bedroom, or perhaps to the living room and his books and desk . His presence seems most evident in those rooms, as well as in the den, where the mementos given to him by admirers were displayed.

Mina Miller Edison at Glenmont
While Edison remained preoccupied with his business and scientific endeavors, his new wife Mina Miller Edison assumed the administration of Glenmont, as well as that of their winter home, Seminole Lodge, in Fort Myers, Florida.

At Glenmont, her responsibilities included planning meals, supervising household staff, ordering supplies, requesting repairs and improvements, reviewing house accounts, and signing checks. Mina's extensive education prepared her for her social role. She studied not only at home in Ohio, but also at a Boston finishing school, where she studied music and the classics, and the Chautauqua Assembly, where she studied in the School of Domestic Science . In a 1930 interview with The American Magazine , Mina noted that:

The term housewife is the worst misnomer we have in our language. A married woman should be known as the home executive. A girl goes out into the world of business and gains a definite title of some sort -- secretary, stenographer, cashier, or bookkeeper. Think how insignificant and remote are her possibilities for constructive effort as compared to those within the reach of the woman who manages the home!

In an interview published in The Christian Science Monitor ten years later, she reinforced her belief that "the first obligation of parents is to educate their daughters.":

All higher education for women, Mrs. Edison feels, should be a powerful contribution to home life. And everything should be done to dignify the homemaker's task. Mrs. Edison would have a cook make of her job a practical art, based on scientific knowledge of food elements, and would name her "kitchen chemist."

But Mrs. Edison's views on the education of women, however, went beyond household management. Ultimately,  . . . a home woman, to make a thorough going job of her home duties, Mrs. Edison believes, cannot be too well informed beforehand. Women, she said, should be educated in history, music, and art, not necessarily to perform, but to understand -- for they must mingle with their husband's friends and with their own children.

After her husband's death, Mina Edison continued to move between Glenmont and Seminole Lodge when she was not traveling. She was joined by her second husband, widower and long-time friend Edward Everett Hughes . During the four years of their marriage, from October 30, 1935, until his death in January 1940, Mina used the name Mina Edison Hughes . After Hughes's death, however, she resumed the name Mina Miller Edison.

A suitable partner for a world-famous inventor and businessman, Mina Miller Edison was a leader in civic and charitable organizations throughout her life , and was a keeper of the Edison flame after the inventor's death . In 1946 she sold the estate to Thomas A. Edison, Inc. , in order that "Glenmont and its contents...be preserved as a memorial to my dear husband and his work." Mina Edison past away the following year.


27084. Deas Thusnelda Haskell

Daisy Haskell was married to an ... ... on 14 January 1891 at Golborne Park, Lancanshire, England.