Ralph Haskell was unmarried.
9933. Nathaniel Bennett Haskell
In 1843 he went to Penobscot Co., Me., and engaged in lumbering, which he continued until 1857. His first purchase of timber land was some seven thousand acres in that county and his operations were somewhat extensive. In 1847 he married Hannah, daughter of Nathaniel Shorey, of Burlington, Me.. Her grandfather lived to the advanced age of ninety-five and died in Lowell, Me. Her father, during the later part of his life, moved to Wisconsin, here he died in 1875. Mrs. Haskell was born Dec. 2, 1827.
In 1857, Mr. Haskell moved to Hornellsville and one year and a half later moved on to the place where he now resides, then a woodland tract, but now by his industry and eneterprise a pleasant farm residence. His first purchase was some three hundred and sixty-five acres, most of which he has cleared of its original forest erected industrious buildings theron.
Mr. Haskell’s life has been a life of active business, rewarded for merited success. For several years since he came to Hornellsville he has also been engaged in the lumber interest in Michigan, and a part of the time his family has resided there.
Reference
History of Steuben County, New York
By Prof. W. W. Clayton
Lewis Peck & Co., Philadelphia, 1879
Portrait and Biographical Album of Huron County
1884Bennett Haskell, salt and lumber manufacturer and general merchant at Port Crescent, was born May 22, 1850, in Penobscot Co., Maine. His father, N. B. Haskell, was one of a long line of descendants from a family prominent in the Pine-Tree State for many years, was a lumberman in Maine, and is now a resident of Bad Axe, Mich. He married Hannah Shorey, and both were natives of Maine, of English extraction. They removed in 1858 to Steuben Co., N. Y., and seven years later came to Whitehall, Muskegon Co., Mich., where the father engaged two years in lumbering, after which, in the spring of 1868, they came to Port Crescent.
Mr. Haskell's father, associated with Henry C. Spaulding, of Elmira, N. Y., established an extensive lumber business. They secured a large tract of land situated on the course of the Pinnebog River, which empties into the Saganaw Bay at this point, and conducted operations largely in rafting. They controlled an extensive trade on the river, which traversed a county noted for its valuable pine, and which affords at its outlet a fine harbor. Since they came hither they have cut from one to three million feet of logs every winter, and of this large interest Mr. Haskell was general manager until 1880, when he became sole proprietor. In the same year he established the salt block, which has a daily capacity of 200 barrels of salt when operated to its full extent. He is at present engaged in the erection of a store for the prosecution of his mercantile operations, built in L form, 48 x 72 feet in dimensions, designed to be one of the finest structures for the purpose intended in Huron County. He owns within the county about 4,000 acres of land, some of it still in fine timber, but chiefly in course of preparation for agricultural purposes. He owns all village lots in Port Crescent lying north of Pinnebog Street. Mr. Haskell is a Republican in political opinion.
He was married April 9, 1875, at Port Crescent to Josephine Earl. She was born in 1854, at Buckville, Ont., where her parents now reside. She was carefully educated in music, and was a teacher of the art for some time previous to her marriage. She is the daughter of Thomas Earl, and her parents are natives of Canada and of English extraction.
Jacob Haskell was a mason and builder. He is listed as a retired merchant in the 1880 census, of Salem, Essex, Massachusetts.
Mary P. Haskell was unmarried.
Peleg B. Haskell was a farmer.
George Foster Shepley
Civil War Union Brigadier General. Entered the Civil War as Colonel and commander of the 12th Maine Volunteer Infantry on November 16, 1861. Assumed command of his brigade in March 1862, which was involved in the campaign to capture of New Orleans. Soon after the city fell to Union forces, he was appointed Louisiana's military governor by his political friend and commander, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler. He was promoted to Brigadier General, US Volunteers on July 18, 1862. His jurisdiction consisted only of Union-held areas, which steadily progressed as Federal troops captured more of the state from Confederate hands. During his two-year tenure as Governor he was responsible for much of the excess and graft that was attributed to General Butler. One of his more telling acts was to issue a blanket pardon of all prisoners held in Louisiana civilian prisons. This allowed hundreds of dangerous criminals go free. When Michael Hahn was elected Federalist Governor of the State in 1864, General Shepley accompanied General Butler to Virginia, where he commanded the District of Eastern Virginia. Towards the end of the war he served as Chief of Staff to Army of the James XXV Corps commander Maj. Gen. Godfrey Weitzel. When his corps occupied Richmond, Virginia in April 1865, General Shepley served as that city's military governor until July, when he resigned. After the war he served as Maine's United States circuit court judge until his death in 1878 of Asiatic cholera. His father was influential Maine Senator Ether Shepley.
Alfred Haskell was a clothing dealer.
Mary Elizabeth Haskell was unmarried.
Carrie Augusta Haskell was unmarried.