26831. Matthew Simpson Haskell
Wellsboro Agitator
March 9, 1938Coroner William F. White ossued a verdict of suicide in the death of Matthew S. Haskell, aged 70 years, well known Knoxville business man, whose body was found Thursday hanging from a rafter in the barn of Gordon Lattimer.
Mr. Haskell who roomed alone on the Ashton Block, apparently went to the Lattimer farm about six miles from Knoxville early Thursday, as his car was seen at the side of the road about 10:30 a.m. Mr. Lattimer discovered the suicide about noon and notified the authorities.
Mr. Haskell has resided in Knoxville for the past 30 years and was engagfed as a produce and cattle buyer.
Survivors include a wido and two daughters, Florence and Grace, and a son, Luther of Westfield.
Edward Bell Haskell was a missionary in Bulgaria and Salonika, European Turkey (now Greece), for the American Mission.Edward returned to New York June 6, 1927 on the ship Levianthan from Cherburg France.
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Find-a-Grave notesSon of Henry Charles and Margaret Bell Haskell. Born in Philippopolis, Ottoman Empire. Married first Martha H. Miller and second to ELisabeth Frohlich.
B.A., Marietta College. "Football; glee club; class pres. and poet; ed., Olio (he college newspaper); 1st fresh. and soph. decs.; 1st jr. rhet. prize; half of 1st Am. hist. prize; 1st sr. Eng. lit.; 2d clas. orat; Phi Beta Kappa; B.A.; M.A.
1891 graduated Oberlin B.D. Oberlin Theological Seminary. Missionary in Bulgaria and Turkey. Co-founded American Farm School in Salonika, Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. In 1912 received Honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Mariette College. zin 1927 he was decorated by the King of Bulgaria for 35 years of service to Bulgaria.
Half of his ashes were buried in Claremont, California, and half in Pordim, Bulgaria.
Graduated from Oberlin College, class of 1893, Oberlin, Lorain Co., Ohio.
Douglas Haskell was born in Monastir, Yugoslavia, in 1899, the son of American missionaries to the the Balkans. He eventually moved to the United States, where he graduated from Oberlin College in 1923 with a degree in Political Science and a minor in Art.
Known as the "dean" of architectural editors, Haskell wrote architectural criticism and edited numerous periodicals. He worked for The New Student as an editor from 1923-1927, was on the editorial staff of Creative Art from 1927-1929, was an associate editor for Architectural Record from 1929-1930, was architecture critic for The Nation from 1930-1942, associate editor again of Architectural Record from 1943-1949, and, finally, was editor of Architectural Forum from 1949 until his mandatory retirement in 1964 at the age of sixty-five. Architectural Forum, May 1949. The first issue published under Haskell's editorship.
Haskell began his career as one of the few American proponents of modern architecture during the 1920s and was a friend and colleague of Clarence Stein, Henry Wright, Lewis Mumford, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Active in promoting issues related to urban renewal, civic architecture, and historic preservation, Haskell lectured throughout the United States, was adjunct professor at Pratt Institute and Columbia University, and served on countless architectural committees, advisory panels, and juries. Although Haskell was never an architect, the American Institute of Architects admitted him as a member, and in 1962 he was elected to the College of Fellows. Douglas Haskell died on August 11, 1979.
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Douglas Haskell, 80, A Writer Specializing In Architecture Topics By Thomas W. Ennis Douglas Haskell, an editor, critic and writer on architectural subjects, died Saturday at Lake Placid Hospital in Lake Placid, N.Y., at the age of 80. He lived in Manhattan and had a summer home in Lake Placid.Mr. Haskell had written about architecture for more than 50 years. Years ago, when only specialized journals were concerned with architecture, Mr. Haskell wrote a column on the subject for The Nation. In that column he defined architecture as a concept "of man working upon the whole of his environment to put it into habitable, workable, agreeable and friendly shape." Although he was not an architect, his concern with architects and their problems led the American Institute of Architects to admit him in 1953 as a corporate member. In 1962, the institute made him a fellow. Last June, the institute honored him again with a medal for his efforts to inspire and influence the profession through his writing. Mr. Haskell's influence as an architectural journalist became widespread when he was with Architectural Forum, a publication of Time Inc., which was widely regarded as the leading American architectural journal. He was with the magazine from 1949 to 1964, serving successively as architectural editor, editorial chairman and editor, the post he had when he retired in 1964. Architectural Forum was later sold by Time and is now defunct.
Born in Turkey, Mr. Haskell was the son and grandson of missionaries. His father, Dr. Edward B. Haskell, was a missionary in Turkey who was attached to the American Board of Foreign Missions.
After graduating [from Oberlin High School in 1916 and] in 1923 from Oberlin College, Mr. Haskell soon became deeply involved in architecture, starting with a visit to the Bauhaus group in Germany. He also came under the influence of such architects and planners as Frank Lloyd Wright and Clarence Stein. Following the publication in 1928 of a long article on Frank Lloyd Wright, his first major venture in the field of architectural journalism, Mr. Haskell joined Architectural Record, a professional magazine published by F.W. Dodge, now a division of McGraw-Hill Inc. He was on the staff of Architectural Record from 1929 to 1930, and until he rejoined the magazine's staff in 1943, he was a contributor. His monthly architectural column ran in The Nation from 1930 to 1943.
He is survived by his wife, the former Helen Lacey; three sisters, Margaret Hazens of Wofford Heights, Calif., Martha Palmer of Los Angeles and Eldora Spiegelberg of St. Louis, and four brothers, Edward and Gordon, both of New York City, Oliver of Los Angeles and Henry of Trents Harbor, Me
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U.S., Adjutant General Military Records, 1631-1976
Name: Douglas P Haskell
Report Year: 1917-1918
Service State: Ohio
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Ohio Soldiers in WWI, 1917-1918
Name: Douglas P. Haskell
Age: 19
Race: White
Birth Date: 27 Jun 1899
Birth Location: Monastir, Servia
Enlistment Date: 4 Oct 1918
Enlistment County: Elyria
Enlistment State: Ohio
Enlistment Division: National Army
Comments: Students' Army Training Corps College of Oberlin O to Discharge Private Honorable discharge 21 Dec 1918.
Oberlin College Ohio Alumni Magazine
Summer 1991Helen Lacey Haskell, Mar. 24, 1991, after a long illness in New York, N.Y.
Born Dec. 27, 1900, she studied at Columbia U. Teachers' Coll. And taught in Missouri and New York schools. In 1928 she was named director of New York City's Camp Treetops and North Country Sch., a position she held until her retirement in 1970. Active in New York alumni organizations, Mrs. Lacey was agent for the Class of 1923 in 1978, 1979 and 1982. She was class president from 1973 to 1977. She was a member of several education, camping, and civic organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Girl Scouts and the Museum of Modern Art.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Douglas Haskell '29, and a brother in law, Edward Haskell '28. Survivors include a sister, Lenore Lacey Clark '28, and a sister in law, Eldora Haskell Spiegelberg '38.
Graduated from Oberlin College Seminary in 1891, Oberlin, Lorain county, Ohio.
46972. Edward Frohlich Haskell
Wikipedia
Edward Frohlich HaskellHaskell was born in Phillipopolis, now Plovdiv, Bulgaria. His mother was a Swiss missionary, Elisabeth Fr�hlich, who married an American missionary, Edward Bell Haskell, who himself was born in Bulgaria of American missionary parents. During his childhood, the family traveled widely throughout Europe (as a result he learned to speak six languages), before returning to the United States. Haskell attended Oberlin College in 1929, where he met Willard Quine who became a lifelong friend. After obtaining his B.A. in 1929, Haskell he did a year of graduate studies at Columbia University.
While hitchhiking during his days as an Oberlin student, Haskell met two wealthy sisters named Reynolds; they were from Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. He so impressed them with his ideas and originality that they set up a trust fund to help support him. This situation appears to have led Haskell to disdain pursuing his research within the context of conventional employment. He lived most of his life alone in a cramped and cluttered student apartment near Columbia University, purchased for him by his half-brother Douglass Haskell and sister-in-law Helen Haskell.
Haskell maintained close relations with both his full and half brothers and sisters throughout his life. Married twice, in youth and in dotage, he had no children of his own. However, he would indulge his nieces and nephews with his humor, stories, violin, and yodeling. Whether climbing the mountains in the Adirondacks or Alps, Haskell's long stride had his companions running to keep up.
Curious about all aspects of human nature, there was no topic that did not interest him. When other adults would tune out, Haskell would spend time with his young nephews and nieces trying to understand why they were so enthusiastic about the music of this new band, the Beatles. He listened attentively while they played the album "Rubber Soul" to him. Whether he got it or not, he never let on.
Haskell employed the leisure afforded him by his good fortune to travel and write a book, Lance A Novel about Multicultural Men (published in 1941) before resuming his graduate studies, this time at Harvard University and the University of Chicago. Although he became a Fellow at University of Chicago in 1940, he never completed his thesis and was not awarded the Ph.D. He left Chicago to teach sociology and anthropology at the University of Denver and Brooklyn College. In 1948, he left teaching to devote himself full-time to private research.
Haskell established the Council for Unified Research and Education (C.U.R.E., Inc.) in 1948, a non-profit research organization for the unification of science and education, which he ran until it was dissolved in the mid 1980s. Among its members were Harold Cassidy, Willard Quine, Arthur Jensen, and Jere Clark. CURE's goal was the synthesis of all knowledge into a single discipline, and they established a body of work called "The Unified Science". Haskell was the guiding light of CURE, and the originator of most of its seminal concepts. In 1972, Haskell published his Full Circle The Moral Force of Unified Science. This book has been out of print for many years, but is now available online, gratis. The greater part of Haskell's work on Unified Science work remains unpublished.
Newsletter of the Haskell Family Society, Vol 3 # 2, Page 9
DR. HENRY S. HASKELL., educator, community leader and former Dean of Wheelock College of Boston, MA, died 31 Jan. 1994 at the Camden Health Care Center, Maine, USA, aged 81 years. Born in Switzerland, one of ten children of Congregational missionaries Edward and Elizabeth (Frohlich) Haskell serving in Bulgaria, he graduated from Ponoma College, Claremont, CA, and was awarded his doctoral degree by New York University, after teaching for a time at a peasant folk school founded by his parents in Bulgaria. During WWIl he served as a US Army cryptographer in India. He and his wife Bessie (Combs)
Haskell founded Blueberry Cove Camp in Tenants Harbor, Maine, in the 1950's as the first inter-racial private children's camp in New England and ran it for 16 years.
Besides his wife, Dr. Haskell leaves two brothers, Oliver and Gordon, two sisters, Martha Palmer of California and Eldora Spiegelberg of St. Louis, three grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren.
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U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
Name: Henry S Haskell
Birth Year: 1912
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: Lichtenstein or Switzerland
State of Residence: New York
County or City: Essex
Enlistment Date: 10 Jul 1942
Enlistment State: Maine
Enlistment City: Portland
Branch: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Grade: Private
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life
Education: 4 years of college
Civil Occupation: Teachers, primary school and kindergarten
Marital status: Married
Height: 65
Weight: 135
Portland Press Herald (ME)
February 6, 1997BESSIE COOMBS HASKELL PIONEER IN DAY CARE, WRITER
Bessie Coombs Haskell, 100, who worked with children most of her life, died Monday at Shore Village Nursing Center in Rockland.
Mrs. Haskell was a senior educational consultant for 97 day care centers in New York City during World War II. The centers were set up so women could work in the war effort.
Mrs. Haskell had been involved in the progressive education movement, and much of what she taught the day care teachers was quite new to them, said a son, Dave Coombs.
One of her favorite seminars to teach was called ''water play,'' about the theraputic value of playing in the water. ''If the thing didn't wind up as a water fight, she regarded it as a failure,'' her son said.Her day care centers also featured crayons, paints and paper to encourage children's creativity. ''She had a very low opinion of coloring books,'' Coombs said. He said she felt there was nothing educational about filling in the lines.
She was also hired by the Peace Corps to train volunteers in a day care center in Tunisia.
Mrs. Haskell also taught at Livingston School on Staten Island and at the Staten Island Academy, where she produced the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta ''The Pirates of Penzance''.
In 1949, Mrs. Haskell and her husband opened Blueberry Cove Camp, the first interracial private summer camp in New England at their home in Tenants Harbor here.''One of the things that they stressed was to get away from the competitive sports that all the all-white camps had,'' her son said. Teams always changed when the kids played games, and the average athletes got as much playing time as the best athletes. Coombs said his mother believed ''camp is a learning experience, not a competitive athletic event.''
The camp also offered kids, most from the inner city, their first chance to see farm animals and explore nature.Mrs. Haskell wrote several children's books including ''The Raft,'' ''The Hunky Dory'' and ''Sailing to Pint Pot.'' She later became very active in the Jackson Memorial Library.
In later years, the Haskells enjoyed traveling in Europe.''She could trounce you in most card games, and if she got in a sailboat (race), you might as well figure you were going to come in last,'' her son said. Mrs. Haskell was also an expert organic gardener, planting flowers and vegetables.
She was born in Norwich, Conn., daughter of Irving and Sara Oat Hill, and graduated salutatorian from South Portland High School.
In 1916, she married James P. Coombs. He died in 1935. In 1937, she married Henry Haskell and they both taught at North Country School in Lake Placid, N.Y.
The 1983 Town Report for St. George was dedicated to her and she was honored as citizen of the year.
Her husband died in 1994.
Surviving are a son, David H. Coombs of Rye, N.H.; a daughter, Joy Coombs of Pueblo, Colo.; two grandsons, James Coombs of South Thomaston, and Thomas Coombs of Dover, N.H.; a granddaughter, Cynthia Coombs Ponton of Hawthorne, N.Y.; and three great-grandsons.
Henry J. Haskell was editor of the Kansas City Star from 1928 to 1952. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for editorials written during the calendar year 1943. The Kansas City Star was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1933 for its series of editorials on national and international topics but no person was named.
Henry Joseph Haskell and his future wife Isabel Cummings were classmates at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. Katharine Wright Haskell (1874-1929), sister of Orville and Wilbur Wright, was also a classmate.
Katherine Wright was the sister of Wibur and Orvile Wright.KATHARINE WRIGHT HASKELL (1874-1929) Papers (KC263)
Katharine Wright was born in Dayton, Ohio, the last child and only daughter of Bishop and Mrs. Milton Wright of the United Brethren Church. Her four older brothers included Wilbur and Orville Wright, the first men to accomplish powered flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17, 1903. Katharine graduated from Oberlin College of Ohio in 1898 and afterwards taught Latin at Steele High School in Dayton and helped her brothers raise money for their famous project. Giving speeches and writing letters on behalf of the airplane experiment, Katharine was known to have been as necessary to the success of the flight at Kitty Hawk as were her brothers.
Always maintaining close ties with her alma mater, she was elected to the Board of Trustees of Oberlin College. Katharine had met and become friends with Henry Joseph Haskell and Isabel Cummings while the three were students at Oberlin College. Henry and Isabel married in 1901. The couple were frequent guests at the Wright home in Dayton over the years, and when Isabel died in 1923, Henry resumed a correspondence with Katharine. In time, a romance developed.
Wilbur, Orville and Katharine, each unmarried, lived together in Dayton. Eventually Orville had become dependent upon his sister's management of their home, especially after Wilbur's death in 1912. Katharine was well aware that her brother depended upon her in many ways and that her romantic relationship with Henry J. Haskell would greatly distress Orville. She kept the true nature of the involvement a secret from Orville and from most of their friends for some time. However, when Henry and Katharine finally informed Orville of their plans, he was very opposed to the marriage and did not attend or acknowledge the ceremony. On November 20, 1926, at Oberlin College, Katharine Wright married Henry J. Haskell of Kansas City, Missouri, an editor for the Kansas City Star. The couple lived in Kansas City where Katharine died in March 1929 of complications of pneumonia. It has been reported that Orville, whom she had not seen from the time of her marriage, visited her at her deathbed.
The papers consist mainly of correspondence from Katharine Wright to Henry J. Haskell. In the beginning, the correspondence was infrequent, but as the friendship grew into a romance, Katharine Wright wrote daily and sometimes three and four letters per day. Consequently, the later folders will include many letters. Also included are letters to Mr. Haskell from other friends, correspondence between Henry C. Haskell and a researcher in the 1970's, articles, clippings and photographs. 1922-1928
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updated: Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Kansas City
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Mason Smith was a teacher.
U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
Name: Charles G Clark
Birth Year: 1911
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: Arkansas
State of Residence: Arkansas
Enlistment Date: 9 Jan 1943
Enlistment State: Kentucky
Enlistment City: Louisville
Branch: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Grade: Private
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life
Education: 2 years of college
Civil Occupation: Foremen, construction
Marital Status: Divorced, with dependents
Height: 69
Weight: 206