The Kent Advertiser Journal
March 22, 1923Mrs. Lucinda Burke, widow of the late M. M. Burke, passed away last Saturday, March 17, 1923, at the age of seventy seven years in Seattle. Mrs. Burke was an old time resident of Kent, going from here to Duvall where she made her home with her daughter.
Deceased leaves four children, Mrs. Effie platt and Mrs. A. L. Miller both of Duvall; Mrs. william Weber, of Casper, Wyoming and one son Howard Burke of Casper, Wyoming.
17677. 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.
35373. 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.