Edward Howard Haskell was president of the Haskell-Dawes Machinery Company. The company designed and manufactured rope-making machinery. Edward served in the Civil War.
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Patent 367925 - Edward H. Haskell - Twine
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Newsletter of the Haskell Family Society
Volume 11, No. 3, September 2002Colonel Edward H. Haskell died on 14 November 1923 at Pasadena, California.
He was born in Gloucester, October 5, 1845. He enlisted in Company C of the 16th Regiment when he was 16 and served with General Burnside in his East Tennessee campaign during the winter of '63-64 and later took part in Sherman's 'March to the Sea'.
After the war he entered the newspaper business, but later shifted to the paper business and became one of the most prominent paper manufacturers in the country.
He represented Gloucester in the State House in 1878. Two years later he was appointed assistant adjutant general on the staff of Governor Long, serving three years. He was secretary of the National Republican convention 1880-1884. He was a member of Governor Butler's Council in 1883 and served in the same capacity under Governor Robinson in 1885.
Colonel Haskell was keenly interested in the G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic, Civil War Veterans) and for years was chairman of the finance committee for national encampments.
Colonel Haskell was president of the Press Paper Trade Association, vice president of the Boston Associated Boards of Trade and president of the Essex Club of Massachusetts. He was also president of the American Baptist Home Mission Society and the Ministers' and Missionaries' Benefit Board of Northern Baptists; Great Northern Paper Company, Hastings Lumber company and the Haskell - Dawes Machine Company ....
Survivors include his wife, Harriet J. Haskell, two daughters: Marion R. and Edith I. Haskell of Newton Centre, and one son, Edward A. Haskell of Braintree. A brother, Charles A Haskell of Newton, also survives him. Colonel Haskell lived at 888 Beacon Street. His business offices were at 176 Federal Street.
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Biographical history of Massachusetts: biographies and ..., Volume 2
By Samuel Atkins EliotEDWARD HOWARD HASKELL was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, October 5, 1845. He comes of excellent English stock, tracing his ancestry back to William Haskell who was born in England in 1617, and at the early age of fifteen came to Beverly, Massachusetts, and finally, in 1643, removed to Gloucester, which became his permanent home. In the records of those now distant days we find that William Haskell was among the prominent citizens of this quaint New England town, for his name appears several times as captain of the train band, as deacon of the church, as selectman, and for eighteen years he was a Representative to the General Court. Colonel Haskell's lineage from this old Gloucester citizen who held so high a place among his fellow townsmen is followed through the successive generations of Mark, William, William Jr., Elias, William, an officer of the Revolutionary War, and William H. William H., his father, married Mary Smith of Litchfield, Maine. On the side of his grandmother he is a descendant of Andrew Bray, who, with his brother Isaac, served under Capt. Nathaniel Warren at Bunker Hill.
At the age of sixteen, having attended both the common and high schools of Gloucester, he secured a position at the office of the Gloucester Telegraph and started upon the career in which he hoped to do his life's work. No sooner, however, had he begun to show his promise in this direction than the war broke out and, though but sixteen years of age, he enlisted in Company C, 23d Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers. This was in September, 1861. Three months later he was assigned to special duty with the Signal Corps under General Burnside. He was a participant in the engagement at Roanoke Island, at Newbern, North Carolina (at this latter place suffering a slight wound), and also Fort Macon. In 1862 he served with the Army of the Potomac, under the command of General Pope, in Virginia. He was in the engagements of Cedar Mountain, Kelley's Ford, Rappahannock Station, Manassas Junction and of Bull Run. During the latter part of 1862 and till August, 1863, he was employed as instructor in the signal service in the Camp of Instruction at Georgetown, District of Columbia. It was at this time that he was assigned to special duty to report each day to Secretary Stanton at the War Department. This gave him the opportunity of almost daily contact with President Lincoln and the members of his cabinet. In the winter of 1863-4 he served with General Burnside in the East Tennessee campaign and at the Siege of Knoxville. The following summer he served on the staff of General Schofield, and Iater with General Sherman in Georgia. At Kenesaw Mountain, Marietta, and throughout the investment of Atlanta, he seemed to bear a charmed life, for though almost constantly under fire he escaped without injury. After this record of long and valiant service he was at last honorably discharged in October, 1864.
The war over, Colonel Haskell returned to Gloucester and once more took up his work in the office of the Gloucester Telegraph. Here he spent two years, devoting himself with fidelity and enthusiasm to his journalistic duties. In 1875 he became identified with the paper trade and soon gave evidence of those marked characteristics as a businessman that made him successful in this department of manfacture. For some years he was treasurer of the Rumford Falls Paper Company, whose mills are among the most prominent of the newspaper mills of the country, His prominence in the paper-making world led to his election as president of the Boston Paper Trade Association, and for three years he held this office, discharging its various duties with extraordinary ability and efficiency. In 1896 he became actively interested in the organization of the Great Northern Paper Company, which has since been developed into the largest newspaper-making plant in the world, now producing five hundred tons of paper each day.
The business interests of Boston and its commercial prosperity have always found an active friend in Colonel Haskell. He has been ready upon all occasions to further every project that has looked to the advancement of the city as a business center. Twice he has been vice-president of the Boston Associated Board of Trade, an organization which has been of invaluable service to the city in the widening of its commercial activities, and he has also been and is an active member of the Boston Merchant Association.
Outside of his business life he has, served his native city and State in innumerable ways in response to the call of his fellow citizens, who have honored him with positions of trust and responsibility. In 1877 he represented Gloucester in the lower branch of the Legislature and from 1880-83 he was assistant adjutant-general on the staff of Governor Long. He was also for several years secretary of the Republican State Committee, and rendered in this capacity exceptional service. Twice he was elected a delegate to the National Republican Convention in 1880, and also in 1884, serving as secretary of the memorable National Convention which nominated President Garfield.
In 1883 he was elected executive councilor from the Fifth Massachusetts District, and served with Governor Butler. Two years later he was the senior member in the council of of Governor Robinson.
As chairman of the finance committee of the Grand Army of the Republic he rendered valuable aid during the National Encampment when it met in Boston in 1890, and also served in the same position in 1904. During these years he has also served on the staff of several of the Commanders-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic: Commanders Merrill, Alger, Adams, Black and Blackmer. He is at present one of the members of the Board of Trustees of the Soldiers' Home.
This busy life, crowded with the affairs of business and matters of high political import, has not narrowed Colonel Haskells activities to the exclusion of other interests of large importance for the welfare of the State. He has been a foremost champion of the temperance movement, serving in an executive capacity with the Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society, the National Temperance Society and the National No-License League, giving generously of his time and money to further the ends for which these societies were organized.
Other forms of public service have found in him also a staunch supporter. He has served on the State Board of Lunacy and Charity, as trustee of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital at Westboro; as trustee of the Newton Hospital; as trustee of the Massachusetts State Homeopathic Hospital; as president of the Board of Trustees of the New England Baptist Hospital, and in a multitude of ways has sustained and assisted the endeavors of others who have sought to minister to the needs of the unfortunate and the suffering.
Colonel Haskell is at present a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science; of the National Geographic Society; the American Forestry Association, the Home Market Club, and also a member of the Massachusetts, Middlesex and Essex clubs.
Colonel Haskell is a Baptist, a member of the Newton Centre Baptist Church, where he now resides, and is prominent in many forms of denominational activity throughout the State and the country at large. As president of the American Baptist Home Mission Society, he occupies a position in the denomination of wide influence. He is also closely identified with the work of Foreign Missions, and has but recently returned from an extended trip to China and Japan as a member of a delegation from the United States to, get a first-hand impression of the foreign field and the results of missionary work. Not often does a life touch with such helpful influence so many fields of service. Honored in the business world, associated with military leaders of the State, identified with many of our noblest charities, and an active servant in the cause of religion, Colonel Haskell occupies a position among his fellows attained by but few.
His, wife, to whom he was married in 1866, is Hattie J., the daughter of William and Sarah H. Munsey. Four children have been born to them, two sons and two daughters, Edward A., William H., Marian R. and Edith L.
Press and Sun-Bulletin (Binghampton, N.Y)
January 23, 1928Mrs. Mary Rosalette Haskell, widow of Cjarles A. Haskell, died Sunday morning at 4:40 o'clock at the home of her son Guy B. Haskell. the Reynolds apart ment, 99 Oak street, after a short illness. She has resided in the city for the past eight years, her former home being in Newton, Mass.
She is survivedby a daughter, Jennie L. Haskell, and a son Guy B. Haskell, both of this city.
Newsletter of the International Haskell Family Society
Volume 13, No. 3, September 2004During the early to mid-twentieth century, Guy B. Haskell was a successful and highly respected businessman in the city of Binghamton, Broome County, New York. Born in Swampscott, Massachusetts on 20 August 1875 to Charles A., merchant of Gloucester, and Mary A. (Story) Haskell, he had his early education in Newton and Peabody, Massachusetts schools. Later he prepared for college at Phillips Exeter Academy before entering Harvard College to graduate in the class of 1898.
Guy's business career began as salesman for the James B. Weed & Co., leather tanners, and its successor. In 1902 he moved to Binghamton and gained further experience in several capacities in a number of firms before forming his own company in partnership with John A. Davids. The firm was called Haskell & Davids, and they manufactured work pants. Their business prospered and expanded rapidly until, in 1922, they needed larger quarters and moved into a brand new, four-story building at 14-16 Wall Street. The business continued to sell its product in all parts of the United States.
Mr. Haskell, well known for his service to the community, was a member of the Binghamton Chamber of Commerce, the Binghamton Club, the Tennis Club, and his religious interest was in the Church of Christ, Scientist, which he attended.
Los Angeles Times
March 18, 1954
San Gabriel, March 17 - Funeral services were conducted today at Turner, Stevens, & Turner for Mrs. Julia H. Haskell, 92, a resident here for 31 years. She leaves two daughters, Mrs. Leah Haskell Wotkyns of San Clemente and Mrs. Corinne H. Rhoades of San Gabriel.
The Vital Records (Births) for Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, shows Epes Walter Haskell, son of Epes B., mariner, and Minerva, born Oct. 26 1847, but the will of Epes B. Haskell gives his son's name as Walter E. Haskell.
Rust, William H. R. was an ice dealer.
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Loring B. Haskell was a shoe maker.
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Patent 636541 - Loring B. Haskell - Store goods lifter
Laura F. Haskell was unmarried.
The Gloucester birth record for Josephine B. Haskell is in error in listing her as Joseph B. Haskell.
The Cincinnati Enquirer
March 3, 1969Buchanan, Ina Haskell; widow of Thomas Buchanan; beloved sister of Mrs. Mildred Broughton, Mrs. Ellen Chipman, Mrs. Lucille Houston and Alden Haskell; also survived by nieces and nephews.
The Cincinnati Enquirer
February 9, 1968Buchanan, Thomas, beloved husband of Ina Haskell Buchanan, brother of Mrs. M. E. Lyons; Thursday February 8, 1968; formerly of 41 Price Ave., Erlanger, Ky.
U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865
Name: Wilbert P Friend
Age at Enlistment:21
Enlistment Date: 2 Dec 1861
Rank at enlistment: Private
State Served: Maine
Survived the War?:Yes
Service Record: Enlisted in the Maine 4th Light Artillery Battery on 21 Dec 1861.Promoted to Full Corporal.Promoted to Full Sergeant.Promoted to Full Private.Mustered out on 17 Jun 1865 at Augusta, ME.
Birth Date: abt 1840
Sources:Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine
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U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938
Name: Wilbert P Friend
Birth Year: abt 1840
Keyed Birth Location: Maine
Birth State: Maine
Admitted Year: 1888
Age at Admission:48
State: Wisconsin
County: Milwaukee [Washington]
City: Milwaukee [Wood]
Branch: Northwestern Branch
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U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938
Name: Wilbert P Friend
Birth Year: abt 1840
Keyed Birth Location: Maine
Birth State: Maine
Admitted Year: 1888
Age at Admission:48
State: Virginia
City: Hampton
Branch: Roseburg Branch