The Eugene Register-Guard
November 20, 1979HASKELL - Earl "Jack" Haskell of 2360 Chambers, Eugene, died November 18, 1979 at the age of 84. He was born July 28, 1895, in Elgin, Oregon.
He is survived by his wife, Imogene; a brother, James of Salem; a daughter, Phyllis Hicks of Bend; 9 grandchildren; 2 step-sons: J.D. McCune of Eugene and Wayne McCune of Spanaway, Washington; 3 great-grandchildren; numerous nieces and nephews.
Oregonian, The (Portland, OR)
March 13, 2005
Deceased Name: Haskell, Doris Marie -- Citation Only
The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
May 27, 2010A memorial service will be held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 1, at Centennial Christian Center in Springfield for Imogene Haskell of Eugene, who died May 18 of complications from cancer. She was 84.
She was born May 21, 1925, in Spokane. She married Earl Haskell in 1962 in Eugene. He died in 1979.
She worked as a housekeeper for a local cleaning agency and was a homemaker.
Survivors include a son, Wayne McCune of Auburn, Wash.; three grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Statesman Journal
January 14, 1994James V. Haskell
March 13, 1903 - Jan. 13, 1994James V. "Jim" Haskell, 90, of Salem died Thursday.
He was born in Elgin and travelled with his family by wagon to The Dalles. They lived in Vancouver, Wash., and later moved to Corvallis by boat. He was raised in Eugene.
He married Mary L. Noble on Jan. 21, 1938, in Stevenson, Wash.
He worked with Boise Cascade in Salem for 28 years and was a retired electrician. He enjoyed watching sports on television.
Survivors include his wife; daughter, Veldta J. Bedsaul of Hillsboro; sons, Larry J. of Astoria and Jay D. of Palos Verdes, Calif.; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Portrait and biographical album of Morgan and Scott Counties, Illinois
Chapman Brothers, 1889Page 578
Daniel W. Haskell. The home belonging to this gentleman once seen is not soon forgotten. It comprises 130 acres of highly cultivated farming land, but the chief feature of attraction is the residence with its exquisite surroundings, comprising probably the finest grounds in the township, embellished with shapely trees, evergreens and other choice varietes in the midst of which is built a greenhouse, wherein are cultured some of the choicest exotics of the world. Mr. Haskell has been endowed by nature wuth an ardent love of flowers and simply for the gratification of his tastes in this direction, has spent a large amount of of time and money, besides labor in beautifying his home. He made a specialty of raising fine fruit of all kinds, both great and small, and has made this business a success and built for himself an enviable reputation, second to that of no man in the county.
The career of our subject has been one of more than ordinary interest. He was born in Scott County, at the homstead, which he now owns and occupies, Jan. 3, 1840, and was bred to farming pursiits, acquiring his education in the common schools. His father died when he was a lad of twelve years, but he remained at the homestead until he reached his majority, and in May of that year, about a month after the outbreak of the Civil War he proffered his service as a soldier of the Union. He entered the ranks as a member of Company K, 14th Illinois Infantry, under the command of Col. John M. Palmer, and was mustered in at Jacksonville on the 11th. The regiment was at once sent to the front and marched through Missouri, skirmishing by the way and particpating in the battle of Springfield, which was surrendered and evacuated by the Rebel General, Price.
Young Haskell, subsequently participated in many of the important battles of the war including Shiloh in which he was uninjured, but later, while picking over some cartridges, an explosion occured and he was seriously burned about the face and hands and laid up in the hospital from March 17, to July 26. After rejoining his regiment he acted as Color Sergeant and participated in the battles at Hatchie's Run, was at the seige of Vicksburg and at the capture of Ft. Beauregard, went to the Meridian raid and remained in the service until the expiration of his term of enlistment, when he was mustered out at Springfield, June 20, 1864, and there received an honorable discharge. He experienced some hairbreath escapes and at one time the simple point of a bayonet saved his life.
After retiring from the army, Mr. Haskell returned home to the farm, where he sojourned until 1869. He learned the blacksmith trade at Exeter and purchased a shop in partnership with J. W. Covington and they operated together for two years, doing general blacksmithing. In 1871 he sold out and purchased his present honestead upon which he has effected nearly all the improvements which are viewed with such admiration by all who look upon it. A large area is enclosed with a neat hedge fencing and about eighty acres are under the plow. The location is especially fine, with good springs and a sufficiency of timber. The residence was completed in 1875, the main part being 16x26 feet in dimensions and the wing 16x18. In his growing of small fruits Mr. Haskell has been remarkable successful and has made quite a little fortune. He is also considerably engaged in the breeding of live-stock, making a specialty of full blooded Chester and Poland-China swine, raising about eighty head each year.
Our subject was married in Exeter Precinct, Nov. 18, 1869 to Miss Sarah E. Mills, a native of Scott County, and the daughter of Alford and Beda (Lowe) Mills, a sketch of whose parentage will be found in the biography of her brother, D. W. Mills, elswhere in this volume. The Mills family were among the first settlers of Scott County, and Mrs. Haskell, before her marriage was engaged as a teacher some seven or eight years. Of her union with our subject there have been born three children: Maude, now deceased; Fritz and Dovie. Mr. Haskell meddles very little with public affairs, but gives his undivided support to the Republican party. He at one time served as County Commissioner and Road Supervisor and has been on Grand and Petit juries. Socially he belongs to the Modern Woodmen.
Benjamin Haskell, the father of our subject and John Haskell, his paternal grandfather, were natives of Maine, where the latter carried on farming and stock-raising until his removal to Ohio. He was of of English descent and spent his last days in the Buckeye State. Benjamin was a boy when his parents removed to Ohio. They settled near the present sight of Batavia, and during his early manhood he employed himself at rafting, hunting and trapping along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. In 1826, he came to Illinois and while passing through this section of the country entered the land from which he afterward constructed a homestead, He labored upon it during the summer season, but did not give up his home in Ohio until some time later. He was married in 1838, in Scott County after coming here.
Upon his arrival here for the purpose of permanant settlement the father of our subject put up with his own hands a house which is still standing and is well cared for by our subject. He was obliged to cut away a great deal of lumber and he brought a goodly portion of the soil to a state of cultivation. He was an expert hunter in which pasttime he took much delight and kept both his own family and his neighbors supplied with the choicest of wild meats. Daniel W. has in his possession the gun used by his father and which is familliarly known as "Long Tom". This firearm in its day brought down many a deer of the forest as well as wild turkies and other game. The elder Haskell was the owner of 300 acres of land in different parts of this State. Politically he was an old line Whig and conicided with the ideas of Webster and Clay. He departed hence in 1852 at the age of fifty-four years.
Mrs, Sarah (Coonrod) Haskell, the mother of our subject was born in Virginia in 1801, and was the daughter of George Coonrod, a native of Germany, who, after his emigration to the United States, became a Virginia planter. Later he removed to Ohio, where the family resided until 1820. They then came to Illinois by water and located on land in Scott County, where the father engaged in farming, but died soon afterward. The grandmother died in 1803; she was a woman remarkable in many respects and a sincere Christian.Miss Coonrod was twice married and by her first husband became the mother of six children - Henry, who is now deceased; James of Mocoupin County, this State; Sarah of Morgan County; Eliza, deceased; George, of Washington; and Julia, of Missouri. James and George during the Civil War served in a Missouri regiment, the former during the entire period of the war and the latter, two years; both held the rank of Lieutenant. Of the second marriage of the mother of our subject there were born five children, viz.: Daniel W. of this sketch; Beda S., now deceased; John H., in California; an infant, who died unnamed; and Elizabeth, a resident of Nebraska.