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Mr. Haskell distinctly recalls the prin- cipal events of the war of 1812. His father supplied sails for the sloop-of-war "Wasp." He was the intimate friend of William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp of the "Liberator."
Removing to Chelsea, in 1837, he took an active part in municipal affairs and public benevolent work. He was one of the projectors of the Winnisimmet Benevo- lent Society, founded in 1843, and was at one time its president, remaining one of its directors to date. He was connected with the Chelsea Savings Bank, and one of its vice-presidents for several years. After Chelsea became a city, he held vari- ous public positions, was a member of the common council in 1858, '59 and '61, and alderman in 1866, '67 and '68, and was elected to the Legislature in 1869 and '70, In Boston he was inspector of elections from ward 3 in 1836, '37.
Liberal in his religious sentiment, he be- came connected with the Unitarian society of Chelsea in 1848, of which he is an active member. He has always manifested a deep interest in the public schools, and is ever found in the front rank of those reformers who are combating the evil of intemperance.
At a ripe old age, his vigor displays the effect of a well-spent life.
HASKELL, EDWARD H., son of Wil- liam H. and Mary (Smith) Haskell, was born in Gloucester, Essex county, October 5, 1845.
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He received a common and high school education in his native city, and then adopted the profession of journalism, en- tering the office of the "Gloucester Tele- graph " in 1859.
On the 28th of September, 1861, he en- listed in company C, of the 23d Massachu- setts volunteers. While at Annapolis, Md., in December, he was ordered to special duty with the signal corps of the Burnside ex- pedition, then fitting out. His first engage- ments were at Roanoke Island, Newbern (where he was slightly wounded) and at Fort Macon. July 5 he was ordered to the army of the Potomac, then on the James River ; and immediately afterward to the army of Virginia, under General Pope, and participated in the engagements
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at Cedar Mountain, Kelly's Ford, Rappa- hannock Station, Manassas Junction, Bull Run and Chantilly, and was at the side of General Kearney when he fell in the last named battle. From September, 1862, to September, 1863, he was an instructor in the camp of instruction of the signal corps at Georgetown, D. C. While on duty there he took part in the short campaign of Generals Buford, Kilpatrick and Custer, against the rear of Lee's army in Maryland.
He next saw service under General Burnside in the East Tennessee campaign
of the winter of 1863-'64. Early in June, 1864, he was ordered to report with a de- tachment of the signal corps under his command to General Schofield, then with Sherman in Georgia, and participated in that exciting campaign. He narrowly es- caped capture at Altoona, and was almost continuously under fire at Kennesaw Moun- tain, Lost Mountain, Marietta, and in the investment of Atlanta, which closed his military service. Leaving Georgia in Sep- tember, he reported at Knoxville, and was mustered out of service October 4, 1864.
On his return to Gloucester he resumed the profession of journalism, but after- wards became interested in the paper busi- ness, Boston, as manufacturer and dealer, in which pursuit he is now successfully engaged, with his residence at Newton.
Colonel Haskell has been prominent for several years in public life. In 1878 he represented his native city in the House of Representatives, serving on committees on printing and on mercantile affairs. In 1880 he was appointed assistant adjutant-gen- eral on the staff of Governor Long, and served in that capacity for three years. In 1879 he was elected secretary of the Re- publican state central committee, and ren- dered efficient service in the memorable political campaigns of the three years fol- lowing. The perfection of the organiza- tion of the Republican party during these years was largely due to his able and in- telligent direction. In 1880 he was elected delegate to the national Republican con- vention, Chicago, and in 1884 was again selected for that position, and served as one of the secretaries of the convention.
In 1882 Colonel Haskell was elected as an executive councilor to represent the 5th district, and was associated with Gen- eral Butler during his incumbency as gov- ernor of the State, serving on committees on pardons, prisons, harbors and public lands, and military affairs. In 1884 he was a member of Governor Robinson's council, and served on committees on par- dons, charitable institutions, railroads and Hoosac Tunnel, military affairs, and ac- counts.
Colonel Haskell was married June 27, 1866, to Hattie J., daughter of William and Sarah (Higgins) Munsey. Of this union were four children : Edward A., William Asaph (deceased 1871), Marion R. and Edith L. Haskell.
HASKELL, EDWIN BRADBURY, was born in Livermore, Androscoggin county, Me., August 24, 1837. His father was Moses Greenleaf Haskell, and his mother,
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Rosilla Haines, daughter of Captain Peter Haines, who emigrated from New Hamp- shire to the then district of Maine in 1795.
Mr. Haskell was educated in the district school and at Kent's Hill Seminary, and was prepared for college at the age of six- teen. The limited means of his parents prevented him from taking up his college connection, and when seventeen, he entered the office of the "Portland Advertiser," then edited by Henry Carter.
After staying one year and learning the art of type-setting, he went to New Orleans in the autumn of 1855, and worked there and in Baton Rouge as a journeyman printer until the following June. He then returned to Boston and took a situation as compositor on the "Saturday Evening Gazette," then published by William W. Clapp, now of the "Boston Journal." In the spring of 1857 he was employed on the " Boston Journal " as printer and re- porter, and went to the "Boston Herald " as a reporter, in the spring of 1860.
The "Herald" was then owned and managed by Colonel E. C. Bailey, who quickly discovered the newspaper abilities of Mr. Haskell, and added him to his staff of editorial writers. In that position he remained until 1865, when he and four other employees of the "Herald " bought the paper of Colonel Bailey. Mr. Haskell was then installed as editor-in-chief, a position which he held uninterruptedly (save during a year's absence in Europe) until October, 1887, when he sold a large moiety of his third proprietary interest in the "Herald," and has since had nothing to do with the management of the paper, save as one of the directory of the " Bos- ton Herald Company." This company succeeded the partnership under the firm name of R. M. Pulsifer & Co.
By his good judgment he was enabled to steer this independent journal between partisan extremes and make it a widely recognized conservative power and author- ity.
As an editorial writer, Mr. Haskell was terse and direct, going to the core of the theme under discussion, and his keen sense of humor was a no less noticeable trait of his professional outfit.
Mr. Haskell is chief owner in two daily newspapers in Minneapolis, holding with his associates there, including his eldest son, a monopoly of the press franchise in that city.
Mr. Haskell's fortunate business and pro- fessional career has been happily matched by his social and domestic life at his ele-
gant and beautiful home overlooking the valley of the Charles River in Auburndale, Newton.
In 1877 and '78, accompanied by his family and a small retinue of invited friends, he made a tour of Europe. Hence the unique descriptive serial sketches in the " Herald " of the adventures of "The Scribbler Family Abroad."
In 1882 he declined a nomination to Congress, which would have been equiva- lent to an election, preferring journalism to what he held to be a more limited field of usefulness and honor.
Mr. Haskell was married in August, 1861, to Celia, daughter of Jonas and Joanna (Hubbard) Hill, of Fayette, Me. Of this union were seven children, of whom four are living. The eldest son, William, is editor of the "Minneapolis Tribune," having graduated at Harvard in the class of 1884. The second son, Harry Hill, is a student in Harvard, preparing for a medical education.
HASKINS, DAVID GREENE, the sec- ond son of Ralph and Rebecca (Greene) Haskins, was born in Boston, May 1, 1818. Ralph was the sixteenth and youngest child of John and Hannah (Upham) Has- kins. The father of John was Robert, who came to Boston from England in the early part of the last century. Ralph was a well-known Boston merchant. He began life in 1800 in the employ of Theodore Lyman (with whom he was afterwards in partnership) as supercargo of the ship "Atahualpa " on a three years' voyage to the northwest coast in search of furs. Rebecca Greene was the eldest daughter of David and Rebecca (Rose) Greene. David was a direct descendant of John, who was associated with Roger Williams in the Providence purchase. His wife was a daughter of John Rose, of Antigua, W. I.
Mr. Haskins was fitted for college at the academy of his uncle, Charles W. Greene, at Jamaica Plain. He was grad- uated from Harvard University in the class of 1837, and was immediately em- ployed as assistant teacher in Mr. Greene's Academy. In 1839 he entered the junior class of the theological seminary, Andover.
From 1841 to '44 he was preceptor of the Portland Academy, at Portland, Maine. Removing to Roxbury in 1844, he con- ducted a private school for girls, and at the same time studied for the ministry under the direction of Rev. Dr. Howe, now bishop of central Pennsylvania.
He was admitted to deacon's orders in 1847, and to priest's orders the next year.
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During his diaconate he had charge for six months of Christ church, Gardiner, Me. From 1847 to '51 he lived at Medford, where he gathered a society and built Grace church, of which he was the first rector. For a part of this period he was treasurer of the diocesan convention.
Subject at this time to an occasional loss of voice, he decided to take a temporary rest from regular preaching. For some months he taught a class of girls in Lowell. Removing to Roxbury in 1853, he estab- lished and conducted a private school for young ladies at the South End, Boston ; this school, at the time of its fullest devel- opment, occupied the two upper floors of the large Concord Hall Building on Con- cord Street, and numbered about sixty pupils. It was known as the Concord Hall school.
While in charge of this institution he published "Selections from the Old and New Testaments for Use in Families and Schools," also "The French and English First Book."
For one year of this period he supplied the Sunday services of the infant church at Hyde Park. In 1862, when his son .en- tered college, he removed to his present home in Cambridge. Soon afterwards, transferring his school interests to the Rev. Charles C. Shackford and Miss M. C. Pratt, he resumed ministerial work and organized the first Episcopal church in Brighton, of which he was the rector till the latter part of 1866. In 1868 and '69 he was chaplain of the McLean Asylum for the Insane, Somerville. In 1873 and '74 he traveled in Europe with his family.
From 1875 to '80 he was rector of St. John's, Arlington, having gathered the society and erected the church building. Since January, 1889, he has had charge of St. Bartholomew's Mission, Cambridge.
In 1876 he was chosen dean and profes- sor of ecclesiastical history in the theo- logical school of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. He declined these positions, but accepted the appointment of commissioner of education for the uni- versity, which he still holds. In 1877 he prepared an illustrated sketch of the uni- versity, which was printed by this institu- tion. The same year he received the de- gree of S. T. D. from Columbia College.
In addition to the works above men- tioned, he has published treatises in pam- phlet form on the following subjects: " Con- firmation," " The Study of the Larger English Dictionaries," " The Religious Education of Children in New England,"
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" The Requisites for a Church School for Girls." He is also the author of a volume recently issued entitled, "The Maternal Ancestors of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with some Personal Reminiscences of Him." Mr. Haskins was a cousin of Mr. Emerson, and went to his school in Roxbury.
Mr. Haskins was married in Portland, Me., December 20, 1842, to Mary Cogs- well Daveis, daughter of the Hon. Charles Stuart Daveis, of that city, and Elizabeth Taylor (Gilman) Daveis (the daughter of Governor John Taylor Gilman of Exeter, N. H.). He has one son and two daughters now surviving : David G. Haskins, Jr., (H. U., 1866), Mary Cogswell Daveis Haskins (now Mrs. James O. Watson, of Orange, N. J.) and Frances Greene Has- kins.
HATHAWAY, GUILFORD H., son of Edmund and Betsey Hathaway, was born in Freetown, Bristol county, May 3, 1808.
His educational advantages, besides the common school, were the military school, Norwich, Vt. (Captain Alden Partridge).
In 1836 he became director of the Fall River Bank, which position he still holds. He has been president of the same bank since 1876. He is the oldest living and senior member of the board of investment of the Fall River Savings Bank.
He was collector of taxes, Freetown, four years ; selectman five years ; chair- man Fall River board of assessors thirteen years ; member of the common council, 1864 and '65 ; alderman, 1866 and '67 ; county commissioner Bristol county, 1868 to'77, and representative to the Legislature in 1837.
Mr. Hathaway was married in Fall River, November 1, 1832, to Betsey, daughter of Edward and Hannah Wilson. Of this union were seven children : Othalia W., Abiah, Edmund, Edward W., Edmund 2d, Emma F. and Charles G. Hathaway.
HATHEWAY, NICHOLAS, son of Elna- than P. and Salome (Cushman) Hathe- way, was born in Freetown, Bristol county, September 3, 1824. He was the eldest of eleven children, and comes of Puritan stock on both sides. His mother was a direct descendant of Robert Cush- man, who preached the first sermon on Plymouth Rock. His father was a lawyer of distinction and an acknowledged leader of the Democratic party.
Passing through the public schools of his native town, he supplemented his early educational training by attendance at Phil- lips Academy, Andover, and fitted for
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college at Pierce Academy, Middleborough. He was graduated from Brown University, Providence, R. I., in the class of 1847.
Choosing the profession of law, he passed the preparatory studies in his father's office, and was admitted to the bar, and began the practice of law in Freetown, in 1850. In 1856 he was elected a member of the state Senate. He was appointed a weigher and gauger in the custom house, Boston, 1857, and held the office until 1861. In 1857 he removed to Dorchester, which was his home for ten years. In 1861 he became a member of the Stock Exchange, Boston, and remained until 1867, when he resumed the practice of law, removing to Fall River, where he has ever since resided.
Mr. Hatheway was elected alderman in 1874 ; a member of the House of Repre- sentatives, 1875 ; and was postmaster at Fall River under the administration of President Cleveland.
Mr. Hatheway was married in Freetown, January 1, 1851, to Fanny P., daughter of Benjamin and Rosamond (Hatheway) Dean. Of this union are two sons : Nel- son D. Hatheway, M. D. (deceased), and Nicholas Hatheway, Jr., graduate of Brown University, class of 1883, now a practicing lawyer in Fall River.
Mr. Hatheway is a Mason of the thirty- third degree, and an active member of the order. Politically he has always been a worker in the ranks of the Democratic party. He has been a delegate to state conventions for the past forty years ; also a delegate from the Ist congressional district to the national Democratic conventions of 1868, '72, '76, and '80, and a member of the Democratic state committee for many years. He is well and favorably known as a political speaker.
HAWKINS, RICHARD F., son of Alpheus and Celia A. (Rhodes) Hawkins, was born in Lowell, Middlesex county, on the 9th day of March, 1837.
His early education was obtained at the common schools and the high school of Springfield. At the age of sixteen he began work as office boy for Stone & Harris, railroad and bridge builders. In 1862 he became a partner of D. L. Harris in the same business, succeeding to the entire control in 1867, which extensive business he still conducts, under the name of the R. F. Hawkins Iron Works, whose products are bridges, steam-boilers, iron castings, machinery, etc.
September 3, 1862, Mr. Hawkins was married in New York to Cornelia Morgan, daughter of A. B. and Sarah (Cadwell)
Howe. Their children are : Paul, Flor- ence, Edith, Ethel and David Hawkins.
Mr. Hawkins has for years been identi- fied with all the current matters of interest
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in the community, but has never aspired to become a politician, preferring to spend his time and energies in the more conge- nial details of his prosperous business inter- ests. He held the office of alderman for three years, but though often offered other positions, has invariably declined.
HAYDEN, EDWARD DANIEL, son of Eze- kiel and Elizabeth Hayden, was born in Cambridge, Middlesex county, December 27, 1833.
After passing the common schools, he fitted for college in Lawrence Academy, Groton, and having honorably and suc- cessfully pursued his course at Harvard, was graduated from that university in 1854.
His first connection in business was with J. B. Winn & Co., who conducted a large tanning establishment at Woburn.
Mr. Hayden was first married in Wo- burn, February 9, 1862, to Marcia A., daughter of Jonathan B. and Nancy W. Winn. His second marriage was with Ellen F., daughter of George and Lucy A. Champney. He has no children.
Mr. Hayden was paymaster in the United States navy, 1862 to '65 ; member of the
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House of Representatives 1880, '81, and '82, serving on some of the most import- ant committees. In 1885 he was elected to represent the 5th congressional district in the 49th United States Congress, and received a very flattering re-election to the 50th, by a largely increased majority.
He has been president of the First National Bank of Woburn since 1874, and
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was one of the trustees of the Woburn public library - a library not only a matter of local pride to the citizens of Woburn, but one of the finest in the Common- wealth.
HAYDEN, JOSEPH ORLIN, son of Elizur Boise and Lucinda E. (Simmons) Hayden, was born in Blandford, Hampden county, July 8, 1847.
His early education was obtained in the district school and academy at Granville, and the high school at Chicopee Falls.
With a preference for a business life, he first engaged as a dealer in real estate in Minnesota, which business he relinquished in 1869, and entered the newspaper busi- ness, as treasurer of the Times Publishing Company, of Boston, where he remained till 1876, when he purchased the "Somer- ville Journal," with which he has ever since been identified. The paper under his management has proved a literary as
well as a financial success. Its influence is not confined to the city where it is pub- lished, but its bright and witty sayings have found their way into the acknowl- edged leaders in the newspaper world.
In 1883 he was placed, by the city coun- cil, upon the Mystic water board, and in 1884 became its president, which position he still retains. In 1885 he was elected treasurer of Middlesex county, and re- elected in 1888. He is a charter member, and since its organization has been a trustee of the Somerville Savings Bank. He is also a vice-president of the Suburban Press Association, and fills several positions of trust in various social and charitable societies.
Mr. Hayden was married in Somerville, August 18, 1870, to Mary Elizabeth, daugh- ter of William and Mary E. (Cleves) Pond, of that city, where they reside.
HAYDEN, LEWIS, was born a slave in Lexington, Ky. His age is not definitely settled, but he is believed to have been born in 1809. He was owned by a Pres- byterian minister of the town, named Rev. Adam Rankin. When ten years of age he was sold for a pair of horses. He was afterwards owned by several prominent southern families, where he had opportu- nities for seeing many of the famous states- men of that period, including Henry Clay. In 1844, while at work in the field one day, young Hayden resolved to make his escape from slavery. He told his wife of his in- tention. They immediately left for the North. They crossed the Ohio River at Ripley, September 10th.
They were supposed to be in attendance upon a couple matrimonially inclined, who were crossing into Ohio to consummate a clandestine marriage. On the Ohio side they were received by the agents of the " underground railway." They were pur- sued, and large sums of money were offered for their capture and return. In four months, however, they reached the Cana- dian border. Six months later Mr. Hayden returned to Detroit, Mich., and established a school and church for colored people. He then came to Boston, where he formed the acquaintance of John A. Andrew, then unknown to fame. Mr. Andrew took great interest in him, and they became firm friends. The colored men of ward 6 (now 9) were the first to plead with Mr. Andrew to allow his name to be used as candidate for the Legislature. 'To this he reluctantly consented. He had no idea of being elected, judging from the party make-up of this district. But his popularity as a man car-
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ried him through, and to his disappoint- ment he was elected.
Mr. Hayden had reached Boston in the hottest of the anti-slavery struggle, and as- sisted in the work of Garrison, Phillips and their coadjutors, running double risks on account of his color. His home on Phillips Street was the home of the fugitive slaves until they could be despatched to Canada. He was notably connected with the cases of William and Ellen Crafts, Anthony Burns, Simms and Shadrack. When Batchelder, an officer, was killed, while resisting the crowd in the attempt to take Burns out of the court-house, Mr. Hayden was arrested with others and tried for murder. A verdict of not guilty was returned.
In 1851 Mr. Hayden opened a clothing store on Cambridge Street. In 1855 and '56 his store was the second largest estab- lishment in Boston managed by colored men. His store was the place where Phil- lips, Garrison, Parker and their friends often congregated for conference. He did a good business, but in the panic of 1857 he went down with thousands of others. In 1858 Mr. Hayden was selected as a messenger in the state department, which position he has held to the date of his death, which occurred April 7, 1889.
Mr. Hayden was the first man to suggest to Governor Andrew to put colored troops in the field. The suggestion was acted upon. Governor Andrew went immediately to Washington and laid the suggestion before President Lincoln. The result is known. Mr. Hayden served one term in the House of Representatives in 1873. He was a prominent Mason, and author of "Caste among Masons," "War of Races" and "Ancient York Masons." The " Hay- den Commandery," Knights Templar, was named for him. The Crispus Attucks Monument erected on Boston Common was the crowning work of his life. He was a member of Robert A. Bell Post 134, G. A. R. - the first colored man in the United States to receive the honor. He had but one child, a son, killed during the war in a naval engagement under Admiral Farragut, New Orleans.
Mr. Hayden, in spite of race or color, did exceptionally possess the warm personal friendship and entire confidence of the best men in the Commonwealth with whom he was brought in contact. His char- acter was untarnished, and had he been possessed of early educational advan- tages, would have found his place well to the front in the ranks of political lead- ers.
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HAYNES, EMORY JAMES, son of Zadoc S. and Marion W (Bayley) Haynes, was born in Cabot, Washington county, Vt., February 6, 1847.
In 1863 he entered Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., where he soon won a leading class position. He excelled in elo- cution, winning the president's prize. He was graduated with honors in 1867.
During the third year in college he preached his first sermon in Royalton, Vt., his father being the pastor, and among his hearers. In his senior year, at the urgent request of the Main Street M. E. church, Norwich, Conn., he consented to supply the pulpit for the year. Here he was suc- cessful, and after graduating, and joining the Providence conference, he was regu- larly appointed pastor of the same church, and remained three years. It was during his ministry in this place that he married Jennie P., daughter of Zadoc C. and Mary (Phillips) Crowell. Obtaining leave of ab- sence from his church, he spent four months traveling in Europe with his wife.
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