The Daily Time (Salisbury, Maryland)
May 3, 1933Col. William E. Haskell, former newspaper executive in New York, Boston, Minnneapilis, and Superior, Wis., died at his Park Avenue apartment here last night at the age of 72.
Retiring from active newspaper work six years ago, he purchased a Manokin river estate near Princess Anne, Md., where he resided until his death.
Col. Haskell became interested in journalism while a student at Harvard College where he established the Ceimson, student publication. He was a native of Charleston, Mass.
Graduating from Harvard in 1885 he became co-publisher with C. M. Palmer of the Minneapolis Tribune. From 1894 to 1901, he published the Minneapolis Times.
With J. T. Murphy, Col. Haskell started the Superior Evening Telegram in 1889, but sold his inteest in the paper a year later.
Leaving Minneapolis, he became business manager of the New York American Journal, a position he held until 1904 when he went to Boston to take over publication of the Boston Herald. After six years there, he accepted the postion as vice president of the International Paoer Company.
His rank of Colonel wasa converred on him in Minnesota while serving on the staff of Governor Merriam. Politically he was an independent.
He is survived by his widow, Helen Eggleston Haskell, writer of several books; two sons, William E. Haskell, Jr., executive assistant to the president of the New York Tribune Corporation, publishers New York Herald Tribune, and Dudley E. Haskell of Paris, France; and one daughter, Cecil Haskell of New York.
The name Olga Van Wedelstaedt is also spelled Olga Van Weddelstaedt.
47292. William Edwin Haskell Jr.
New York Times
August 30, 1953William E. Haskell Jr., former assistant to the president of The New York Herald Tribune, died late Friday night at his home in Putnam Valley, N.Y., after a long Illness, He was 64 years old.
Mr. Haskell, who had been active in the newspaper field for more than forty years until illness forced his retirement three years ago, was appointed in 1931 by the late Ogden Reid, editor and president of The Herald Tribune, as his assistant.
In that post he had lectured frequently before students and other groups, decrying sensational journalism and pointing to a growing sense of responsibility of the press. He repeatedly advised asplring journalists to prepare themselves fully for their career.
Mr. Haskell was born in Minneapolis. He studied at the Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault, Minn.; the Haverford School in Pennsylvania, and the Worcester Academy in Massachusetts. He entered Dartmouth College in 1906 and two years later joined The Boston Herald, owned and published by both his father and grandfather.
Two years later Mr. Haskell came to New York, where he became manager for sales, advertising and promotion for several department stores. From 1914 to 1916 he was advertising manager for James Gordon Bennett's morning and evening newspapers, The New York Herald and Telegram. In 1919 he joined the promotion and circulation staffs of The New York Tribune, Which later was merged with The New York Herald.
In World War I Mr. Haskell served as a captain of infantry for two years in the American Expeditionary Force in France. He was wounded several times and gassed, and from the French received the Croix de Guerre.
For his many lectures before the Columbia Scholastic Press Association he received in 1939 that organization's Gold Key.
Mr. Haskell saw the function of an ethical newspaper as one of collecting and selecting news, while being "guided by the first principles of conciseness, completeness and truthfulness." He criticized newspapers and radio reporters who sought through sensational presentation of news to instill fear in the public, A newspaper of today, he said in 1937, "cannot be considered as a proprietary business, It must be looked upon as a public service."
Mr. Haskell married Elizabeth Lewis Osgood in the chambers of the late Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia at City Hall in 1934. His best man was Ogden Reid.
He was fond of the outdoors and built his own cabin in Putnam Valley. He preferred hunting, which he had done of late with a bow and arrow. Mr. Haskell alsocollected first edition books and early editions of newspapers.
Surviving, besides his widow, are a brother and a sister, E. Dudley Haskell of New York and Mrs. Svhuyler MacGuffin of Reno.
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New York, Abstracts of World War I Military Service, 1917-1919
Name: William Edwin Haskell Junior
Birth Place: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Birth Date: 28 Mar 1889
Service Start Date: 15 Aug 1917
Service Start Place: Plattsburgh Bks, New York
Service Start Age: 28
New York Times
June 27, 1961ALBANY, June 26 - Mrs. Elizabeth Osgood Haskell, director of student personnel at Bennington College, died last night in Albany Hospital of a cerebral hemorrhage. She was 60 years old and lived in North Bennington, Vt.
Mrs. Haskell, who joined the college in 1954, was the widow of William E. Haskell Jr., assistant to the president of The New York Herald Tribune. His father and grandfather owned and published The Boston Herald.
The Haskells were married in 1934, in the chambers of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New York. The late Supreme Court Justice Philip J. McCook performed the ceremony. The best man was Ogden Reid, then president and publisher of the Herald Tribune.
Mrs. Haskell planned to retire Aug. 1 from Bennington, where she also was chairman of the Educational Counselling Committee. The students had been raising a fund for the Elizabeth Haskell Book Collection for the college library.
Mrs. Haskell graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1922, and then was an editor in New York of' D. Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., book publishers, until 1947.
She leaves a sister, Mrs. Thomas A. Foster, Professor of Literature at Bennington.
New York Times
June 28, 1955E. Dudley Haskell. former official of the American Red Cross and the United Nations, died yesterday at Memorial Hospital after a long illness. He was 57 years old and lived at 791 Park Avenue.
Mr. Haskell was a son of the late William Haskell, newspaper executive of Minneapolis and New York, and one-time publisher of The Boston Herald. He was a brother of the late William E. Haskell, assistant to the president of The New York Herald Tribune.
In World War I, Mr. Haskell was With the American Red Cross in Paris. After the Armistice, he was secretary of the Red Cross mission to Greece and acting commissioner of that organization's mission to Albania. Mr. Haskell served as United States liaison officer to Brazil for two years in World War II and later was chief of the mission for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Adminitration to Albania.
In 1924 he married the former Alice Sheldon, who died in 1944. In 1948, he married Princess Kaplanoff, widow of Prince lrbain-Khan Kaplanoff and the former Miss Vernon Rogers Magoffin. Mr. Haskell, like his wife, was a descendant of Thomas Dudley, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts.
Surviving, besides his widow, are two stepdaughters, Mrs. James de Peyster of Palm Beach and Mrs. Crosby T. Smith of New Canaan, Conn.; a stepson, Chester B. Siems of New York, and a sister, Mrs. Celia MacGuffin of Reno, Nev.
Vernon Marguerite Rogers Magoffin
New York Times
April 13, 1956Mrs. E. Dudley Haskell, widow of a former American, Red Cross and United Nations official, died yesterday in her home at 791 Park Avenue after a long illness. She was 69 years old.
Mrs. Haskell, who was the former Miss Vernon M. Rogers Magoffin of St. Paul, had as her first husband the late Chester P. Siems, a railroad builder who was active in the construction of the "Trans-Siberian line prior to and during World War I.
She subsequently was, married to Rushton Peabody, a union terminated by divorce; the late George. Drexel Steel, the late Prince Irbain-Khan Kaplanoff and, in 1948, to Mr. Haskell, who died last June.
She, was a member of' the National , Society of Magna Charta Dames, the Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America. the Most Noble Order of the Garter and the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Surviving are a son, Chester P. Siems Jr. of New York; two daughters, Mrs. Crosby Tuttle Smith of New Canaan. Conn., and Mrs. James A. de Peyster of Palm Beach, Fla.; a sister, two brothers and eight grand-children.
New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
Name:Helen E Haskell
Arrival Date:4 Oct 1935
Birth Date:abt 1869
Birth Location:Wisconsin
Birth Location Other:Fanwater
Age:66
Gender:Female
Port of Departure:Southampton, England
Port of Arrival:New York, New York
Ship Name:Lafayette
Listed as a widow.
Living at 610 W. 110th, N.Y.C.
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California, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1882-1959
Name: Helen Haskell
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 9 Jan 1864
Birth Place: Lynxville, Wisconsin, USA
Age: 64
Arrival date: 29 Mar 1929
Port of Arrival: Wilmington, California
Ship Name: City Of Honolulu
Port of Departure: Honolulu, Hawaii
Listed as a widow
Henry Hill Haskell was an oculist.