17604. Judson Elbridge Haskell
Judson Elbridge Haskell was in charge of the purchasing agency of the Standard Oil Company. He owned several oil wells in the oil fields of Bradford, McKean, Pennsylvania. He moved to Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and was one of the founders of the Cities Service Oil Company.
By 1918 Cities Service companies operated seven oil refineries, five of which were in Oklahoma, and were active in nine Oklahoma oil fields. During the 1920s Cities Service located three of the five pools that comprised the Greater Seminole Oil Field, and one of the company's subsidiaries, the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company, discovered the Oklahoma City Oil Field in 1928. Cities Service became a major American enterprise with operations across the nation and abroad. In 1940, however, federal courts ordered Cities Service to divest itself of either its public utility companies or its oil and gas firms, pursuant to the Public Utilities Holding Company Act of 1935. Because the oil and gas business was so lucrative, the company decided to separate from its more than two hundred public utility companies. The long and tedious divestiture process was completed in 1958, and the following year the Cities Service Oil Company, headquartered at Bartlesville, was formed to absorb all the oil companies owned by the original corporation.
In 1968 Cities Service moved its headquarters to Tulsa, OK. It remained there until 1982, when it became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Occidental Petroleum Company. Occidental absorbed all the Cities Service divisions except for refining and marketing, which continued to operate under the name Citgo, with headquarters at Houston, Texas. Now under foreign ownership, Cities Service Company played a major role in the social and economic fabric of Oklahoma during most of the twentieth century, when it employed thousands and played a significant role in the state's oil and gas industry.
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Funeral services for Judson Haskell, one of the pioneer operators in the eastern oil fields, who died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. E. O. Bartlett, Pelham N., March 28, will be held at Waterford, Pa.He was born at Arcade, N. Y., 1844. He married Miss Mary Kibbee at Waterford, in April 1871, and entered the employ of the Standard Oil Company shortly afterward. He became an independent operator in the early 80's.
He was affiliated with all the Masonic organizations at Bradford, Pa., where he made his home since 1877. He was also a member of the Syria Temple shrine of Pittsburg.
He is survived by his wife, Mary E. Haskell, of Bradford, By three daughters, Mrs. E. O. Bartlett of Pelham, Mrs. H. R. Straight of Bartlesville, Mrs. William Parkin of Pittsburg, Pa.; and a on F. K. Haskell of Bartlesville.
35172. Frederick Kibbe Haskell
New York Times
August 22, 1950PRINCETON, N. J., Aug. 21- Frederick K. Haskell of 15 Palmer Square West, a retired oil executive, died yesterday in a private hospital here after a brief illness. He was 68 years old.
Born in Bradford, Pa., he was graduated from Lawrenceville School in 1901 and attended Princeton University with the class of 05.
Mr. Haskell, who had been in the oil business in Texas and Oklahoma, retired in 1937 as head of the oil storage and pipeline department of the Cities Service Oil Company, with headquarters in Bartlesville, Okla.
He was a member of the Princeton Club of New York, the Nassau Club of Princeton, the Masons, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Tiger Inn, a Princeton students' organization.
Surviving are three sisters, Mrs. William M. Parkin of Pittsburgh, Mrs. Herbert R. Straight of Bartlesville and Mrs. Edwiin O. Bartlett of Tulsa.
LeRoy Perkins was a contractor for a railroad company.
Edgar Wesley Sargent was a farmer, merchant, and miller. He was one of the founders of Portlandville (now Akron), Iowa.
Family notes courtesy of Richard Manley Snethen
Fred and Ella Haskell were killed by a trolley that ironically was the instrument in the meeting of Lena Haskell and Perry Snethen. Perry Snethen was an engineer for the American Bridge Co., which had the contract to build the inter-urban line from Cleveland to Buffalo. During the early phases of the construction in 1911,
Perry boarded with the Emmiers family at State Line, New York. Winifred Emmiers was a close friend of Lena Haskell, who introduced Perry to Lena.
In 1940, Florence is single and working as superintendent of nurses at Bellevere Hospital.
Ethel is living in Mineola, Nassau, New York in 1940, and unmarried.
Provided by Harve S. Haskell
Charles Albert Haskell was born 12 August, 1862 to Monroe G. Haskell and Elizabeth Radcliff Haskell in Clayton County Iowa. He learned farming and ranching from his father in Iowa as he grew up. At 20 years of age, in 1882, he came to Oregon and helped establish the homestead with his family. Charles Albert established his own homestead of 160 acres in 1895 east of Baker City on Virtue Flats 13 years after his parents arrived and staked their claim and was granted his patent on 20 February 1901. What has been documented on him is that he did not care for ranching and took up mining for gold. He staked claims on five mines throughout the Powder River Valley.He and his father Monroe also tended to argue frequently and at times were estranged. Charles also ran several herds of his own cattle and horses throughout his life. In 1893 he married Freda Rohner on 3 May. Fredas family was from the Wingville area of Baker County and it is known that they met through Fredas brother John who was a farmer and rancher, but also had a mining claim that he shared with two of his brothers-in-law east of the Flagstaff Mine. Charles was working his last claim, the Alliance Mine at the same time nearby and met John Rohner at Flagstaff.
Charles Albert and Freda were married on 3 May, 1893 and it is known by family that he was a miner of several claims and also ranched some. His last residence is listed as the Flagstaff Mine, east of Baker City. He also liked to gamble and drink, quite a lot. Oscar Haskell told his nephew Walter Haskell that Charles was a problem drinker and loved to gamble. From time to time when Oscar would come into town he would drop by the saloon to find him playing cards. Oscar would walk up behind his brother, put a hand on his shoulder and say: Charlie, how are things going? Charlie, without a word, would reach into his pocket and pull out a cigar and hand it to Oscar without turning around. Oscar knew this as his signal to get lost and leave Charlie to his gambling.
It has also been recorded that he would drink and gamble his paycheck away on trips into town from the mine. Then he would go to Heilners, a local merchant, and seek credit to buy food and clothing for his family. Apparently, on one such occasion too many he was turned away from any more credit at the store. He walked out front of the store and shot himself fatally in the head. Charles Albert Haskell died on 18 May, 1905.
Provided by Harve S. Haskell
Freda Rohner Haskell was born to Jacob Rohner and Anna Zuelli Rohner on 4 March, 1875 in St. George Utah. She was the eighth of nine children born to Jacob and Anna who had immigrated to America from Switzerland in circa 1873/74. She was the first child born in America. Jacob and Anna are documented as having lived in New York upon arrival, then on to Chicago, Arizona, Utah and finally Wingville, Baker County, Oregon. However, Jacob Rohner never saw Oregon. In a newspaper article dated 1976, about a Rohner Family Reunion the article states: Mr. And Mrs. Jacob Rohner came from Herisau Switzerland in 1873. They lived in the New York and Chicago area for seven years and then moved to Arizona. In 1880 while traveling through Utah on their way to Oregon, Jacob Rohner became ill suddenly and passed away. The widow with eight children journeyed on by covered wagon to Baker Valley and settled at Wingville. The children of Jacob and Anna Rohner became Baker County Pioneers. These children were; Trina, John, August, Emil, Jacob, Freda, Louise, and Godfrey Rohner. Obviously there are some contradictions in the histories as presented by multiple sources.The story of the Haskell family, their trek westward, the establishment of the Homestead, and their lives is chronicled in a Historic Novel written and published by Walters grandson Harve S. Haskell. This book is titled: Sagebrush or Gold Dust and was released by Authorhouse Publishers in June 2010.
After his death Freda took her four young children and purchased a home in Wingville. School records and school photographs show that the children were raised in that area and did attend Baker County Schools. Freda did remarry Harvey Morin on 14 January, 1906/07. Harvey and Freda had two daughters born during their brief marriage: Aletha Ione Morin born 8 December 1907 in Wingville, Oregon and Violet Beatrice Morin born 16 October, 1910 in Wingville. Freda Rohner Haskell Morin passed away 26, January, 1956 in Baker, Oregon.