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George Paddon Bond Hasell, M. D., was the son of Andrew Hasell the second, and was born in South Carolina, in 1781. He graduated at the University of Edinburgh and became an eminent physician in his native State, where he died in 1818. While abroad he married, in 1802, Penelope, daughter of Bentley Gordon Bentley, of Chipping Norton, England, and his wife, Penelope Bentley, who was descended from Edward Bentley, who resided at Little Kingston, Warwickshire, in 1595. Bentley Gordon Bentley's father was Alexander Gordon, whose name was changed by act of Parliament to Alexander Gordon Bentley, in order that he might inherit the Bentley estates.
Bentley Hasell, son of the preceding, was born on Sullivan's Island, S. C., in 1807, graduated at Yale and from the Litchfield (Conn.) Law School in 1827. In 1828 he married Catherine de Nully Cruger, daughter of Nicholas Cruger and his wife, Ann Trezevant. Ann Trezevant first married Daniel Heyward, of South Carolina, by whom she had Elizabeth, who married General James Hamilton, Governor of South Carolina. Ann Trezevant was the granddaughter of Theodore Trezevant, the leader of the Huguenot Forty Families, who, on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, fled from France, in 1685, and settled in South Carolina. He brought with him wealth, acquired several plantations, and gave financial assistance to his less fortunate compatriots. He was deputed by the Huguenot families to correspond with the English Government as to the rights and privileges which should be accorded them, which task he executed to the satisfaction of both the Colonists and the Government.
The Cruger family, famous both in New York and in South Carolina, descends from John Cruger, who came to New York prior to 1700, married Maria Cuyler, daughter of Major Hendrick Cuyler, of Albany, and his wife, Annetje Schepmoes. John Cruger was appointed
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Mayor of New York in 1739, and remained in office till his death, in 1744. His son, John, was also Mayor of New York, from 1756 to 1765 inclusive, was the Speaker of the first Colonial Assembly, and founder and first president of the New York Chamber of Commerce. His nephew, Henry Cruger, was Mayor of Bristol, England, and was the colleague of Edmund Burke as a member of the English Parliament for the same constituency. His other nephew, Nicholas Cruger, the first of that name (and the grandfather of Catherine de Nully Cruger-Hasell), was born in New York in 1743, and died at Santa Cruz, West Indies. He owned the beautiful Rose Hill estate, which is now in the heart of New York City. He was the friend of Washington and the patron of Alexander Hamilton, who obtained his first mercantile clerkship in Mr. Cruger's counting house at Santa Cruz, and came to New York under his auspices. Nicholas Cruger's first wife was Ann de Nully, daughter of Bertram Pierre de Nully and his wife, Catherine Heyliger, daughter of General Pierre Heyliger, Chamberlain to Christian V., of Denmark, and Governor-General of the Danish West Indies. Bertram Pierre de Nully was the son of Count Bertram de Nully, a planter of Martinique.
Bentley Hasell died in 1836, and his wife, Catherine de Nully Cruger, died in 1870. They are buried in the family vault in St. Mark's churchyard in this city, jointly built by their uncle, William Bard, and Ferdinand Sands. They left two sons, Bentley Douglas Hasell, C. E., and Lewis Cruger Hasell, M. D., who died in 1889 at his country residence, near George- town, S. C. Bentley Douglas Hasell was born in Charleston, S. C., February 27th, 1829, and in 1852 married Hannah, daughter of Judge Jesse Morgan and his wife, Jane Cisna, who died in 1875. After leaving Trinity College, in 1848, he adopted the profession of a civil engineer, and has been engaged on many important public works, among which were the United States dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York; the Erie Railroad, Michigan Southern, Northern Indiana Railroad, and Quincy & Toledo Railroad. He was chief engineer and general manager of the New Orleans, Jackson & Great Northern Railroad, now the Southern division of Illinois Central Railroad; held the same position on the Memphis & Ohio Railroad, now a part of the Louisville & Nashville system, and was president of the Charleston & Savannah Railroad. He has for some years past been in business in New York, as head of the firm of B. D. Hasell & Co., and is president of a company bearing his name, controlling a perfected automatic railroad block signal system. Mr. Hasell was for seventeen years a member of the Union Club, and is a life member of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and of the Downtown Association. He published, in 1892, for private distribution among his relatives, a chart of the Cruger family in America descended from John Cruger. In 1896, he also published a chart of the Rhinelander family in America, descended from Philip Jacob Rhinelander, who came to this country in 1686, and founded the notable New York family of that name.
Mr. Lewis Cruger Hasell, born in 1858, is the only surviving child of Bentley Douglas Hasell and his wife, Hannah Morgan. Mr. Hasell is a merchant in this city, where he resides, having also a country residence at Greenwich, on the Sound, and is a member of the Calumet Club. In 1884, he married Mary Mason Jones, daughter of Mason Renshaw Jones and his first wife, Lydia Haight. Mrs. Hasell is a granddaughter of Isaac Jones, president of the Chemical Bank of New York, and his wife, Mary Mason, daughter of John Mason, founder of the Chemical Bank. Frances A. Jones, sister of Isaac Jones, married John Church Cruger, the father of Colonel Stephen Van Rensselaer Cruger. Mr. Lewis Cruger Hasell and his wife, Mary Mason Jones, have three children, Mason Cruger, Alice and Mary Mason Hasell, who are the eighth generation of their name in this country.
To recount the alliances of the Hasells, Trezevants, Crugers, de Nullys, Heyligers and Bentleys would be to enumerate a majority of prominent family names in South Carolina, Virginia and New York, as well as the oldest families in England, France and Denmark, the entire subject being of great interest to the genealogist and student of the Colonial and later history of our country.
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CHARLES WALDO HASKINS
B ORN in Brooklyn, January 11th, 1852, Mr. Charles Waldo Haskins has been socially prominent in New York and is actively identified with several patriotic bodies of the highest standing, while he has achieved success and reputation in a difficult profession. His parents were Waldo Emerson Haskins and his wife, Amelia Rowan Cammeyer. After graduating from the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, Mr. Haskins entered the accounting department of F. Butterfield & Company, of New York, where he spent five years and then traveled abroad for two years, after which he became connected with the brokerage firm of W. E. Haskins. For three years he was engaged upon the accounts of the North River Construction Company, which built the West Shore Railway, and then began practice as an expert accountant, in which profession he has taken a leading place. He was also secretary of the Manhattan Trust Company, of New York, for some time, but his principal work was one which has given him national reputation. This was nothing less than the reorganization of the Government's system ot accounts, which had never been altered since the Treasury and the other departments were established. To this task Mr. Haskins was called by a joint commission of Congress, and, in association with his present partner, E. W. Sells, performed it in such a radical, yet judicious, manner that the public business has been simplified and expedited to a marked extent. The methods he suggested have all been adopted, and, after thorough experience, have won the approbation of the executive and accounting officials of the Government and the warm thanks of the commission in charge of the matter. Mr. Haskins is president of the board of examiners, appointed by the regents of the University of New York to pass on the qualifications of applicants for certificates as Certified Public Accountants, and is president of the New York Society of Certified Public Accountants. He is also comptroller of the Central of Georgia Railway Company, and is officially connected with other corporations, besides holding important fiduciary positions.
Mr. Haskins inherits the characteristics as well as the blood of a notable New England ancestry. His paternal line in America begins with Robert Haskins, a resident of Boston early in the eighteenth century. "Honest John Haskins," his son, born in 1729, became an eminent citizen of Boston, famed for his probity and sterling qualities, and was Captain in the old Boston Regiment, his commission dating from 1772. He was also one of the first Sons of Liberty, and was active on the patriotic side in the agitation that led to the Revolution. John Haskins' wife, Hannah Upham, came of prominent Puritan families. She was descended from John Upham, who came to Massachusetts in 1635, while among her other ancestors were Captain John Waite, of Malden; Rose Dunster, sister of the first president of Harvard; Thomas Oakes, cousin of Dr. Oakes, the fourth president of the same college, and John Howland, the famous Mayflower Pilgrim. Robert Haskins, son of John and Hannah (Upham) Haskins, married Rebecca Emerson, daughter of the Reverend William Emerson, who died while chaplain of the Patriot army at Ticonderoga in 1776. Ruth Haskins, Robert's sister, married the second Reverend William Emerson and was the mother of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great New England poet and philosopher. The grandparents of the present Mr. Haskins were Thomas Haskins, son of Robert, and Mary (Soren) Haskins, Waldo Emerson Haskins having been the child of the latter couple.
In 1884, Mr. Charles Waldo Haskins married Henrietta Havemeyer, daughter of Albert Havemeyer, the youngest brother of William F. Havemeyer, Mayor of New York, 1848-49 and 1873-74. The issue of this marriage is two daughters, Ruth and Noeline. The family reside in West Fourteenth Street. Mr. Haskins is a member of the Manhattan, Riding and Westchester County clubs in New York, the Metropolitan Club in Washington, and the Piedmont Club of Atlanta, Ga. He is, as already referred to, actively identified with patriotic societies, being a member of the Society of Mayflower Descendants and treasurer general of the National Society Sons of the American Revolution, 1892-97, while he was secretary of the Empire State Society of that organization, 1893-94, and has done much to advance its interests.
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CHARLES HAYNES HASWELL
B ORN in New York City in 1809, and identified with the naval service of the United States, as well as with some of the most remarkable feats of American engineering science in the present century, the parents and ancestors of the subject of this article were, nevertheless, natives of the Island of Barbadoes. The families from which he descends were on both sides numbered among the royalist gentry who, after the overthrow of Charles I. and the loss of their cause at the battle of Worcester, migrated to Barbadoes and other West India islands, where they became wealthy and prominent. Mr. Charles Haynes Haswell is the son of Charles Haswell and his wife, Dorothea Haynes, the latter being the daughter of Richard Haynes and Anna Elcock. One of Mr. Haswell's uncles, the Honorable Robert Haynes, was Speaker of the House of Assembly of Barbadoes and Lieutenant-General of the royal forces of the island, while another uncle, Henry Haynes, was a Post Captain of the British Royal Navy, and at his death was at the head of the list of Captains in that service. The Haynes coat of arms, borne by the representatives of the family both in England and the Western hemisphere, is : Quarterly, first and fourth, argent, three crescents, paly, wavy gules and azure, and second and third gules, two billets, argent, and the crest of Haswell is the head of the talbot, or hunting dog, erased, azure, collared, ermine. The crest of the Haynes is a stork, with wings displayed, proper, bearing a serpent in its beak.
Mr. Haswell received a classical education at academies in Jamaica, Long Island, and the City of New York, and in 1828, after a complete early training, began his career as a civil and marine engineer. In 1836, he entered the United States Navy as Chief Engineer, and in 1845 was commissioned Engineer in Chief. While in the service, he bore a most useful share in the first steps that led to the evolution of the modern war ship, designed and superintended the construction of a number of the earlier steam vessels of the navy, and in the line of duty, while on active service at sea, visited not only Europe, but Africa and South America. Leaving the navy in 1851, after fifteen years passed in the service of the Government, he has since been engaged in the succesful practice of his profession, being regarded as one of its foremost members, filling, among other important public and private duties, those of the engineer of the Board of Health and trustee of the Brooklyn Bridge. He was a member of the Common Council of the City of New York in 1854-56, and its president in 1857. In 1862, he accompanied Major- General Burnside on his expedition to North Carolina as Chief Engineer of the Naval Service, and was present at the bombardment and capture of Roanoke Island and other operations of that campaign. He is the author of several important professional works, his Engineers' Pocket Book having more than a national reputation, and is a member of many scientific bodies, including the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, and the Institutions of Civil Engineering and Naval Architecture of Great Britain, and others of similar character and prominence. Among the many flattering testimonials to his services, he received, in 1853, a diamond ring from the Emperor Nicholas of Russia. It is impossible to mention the numerous inventions and improvements he originated, beyond noting that he designed and directed the construction of the first steam launch in 1837, and in 1847 he first applied zinc to prevent oxidization in marine boilers and in the holds of iron vessels.
In 1829, Mr. Haswell married Ann Elizabeth Burns, of New York, their children being Sarah Haynes, Edmund Haynes, Frances Roe, Gouverneur Kemble, Charles Haynes and Lillie Bulwer Haswell. Mr. Haswell resides at 324 West Seventy-eighth Street, New York, and possesses, in addition to a collection of statuary and paintings, a large and valuable library.
Leading an active life, full of grave responsibilities and labor, he has found pleasure in society and yachting, and is a member of the Union and Engineers' clubs, as well as of the American Yacht Club. His interest in yachting has been active, and for many years he acted as chairman of the Regatta Committee of the New York Yacht Club.
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HENRY OSBORNE HAVEMEYER
N TEARLY a century ago, the two brothers, William and Frederick Havemeyer, established themselves in New York and founded families that have since been extremely prominent in many directions. The younger of these brothers, Frederick C. Havemeyer, was the ances- tor of that branch of the family to which Mr. Henry O. Havemeyer and the late Theodore A. Have- meyer belong. The elder, William Havemeyer, as will be seen from the ensuing page, was the father of Mayor William Frederick Havemeyer and his line.
Frederick C. Havemeyer, grandfather of Mr. Henry O. Havemeyer, was the junior member of the firm of W. & F. C. Havemeyer, which engaged in sugar refining in New York in 1807. His son, Frederick Christian Havemeyer, the father of Mr. Henry O. Havemeyer, was born in 1807 in New York. After spending two years in Columbia College, he entered the paternal establishment in Vandam Street as an apprentice, and gained a thorough knowledge of sugar manufacturing. In 1828, he became associated with his cousin, William F. Havemeyer, under the firm name of W. F. & F. C. Havemeyer, and continued in business for fourteen years. After the death of his father, he had the management of the large estate left by the latter, and also traveled extensively in the United
States and in Europe. In 1855, he returned to business, establishing the firm of Havemeyer, Townsend & Co., which afterwards became Havemeyer & Elder, one of the largest sugar refining houses in the world. During the time that he was out of business, he applied himself to literary pursuits as well as to travel. His favorite study was the Latin language and literature. For many
years he was president of the school board of Westchester County, where he had his residence. In 1831, he married Sarah Osborne Townsend, daughter of Christopher Townsend, one of his business associates. Ten children were born of this union. The sons were Charles, Theodore A., George W., Henry O., Thomas J., Warren H., and Frederick C. Havemeyer. Mary O. Havemeyer, the eldest daughter, became the wife of J. Lawrence Elder; Kate B. Havemeyer married Louis J. Belloni, and Sarah Louise Havemeyer married Frederick Wendell Jackson.
Mr. Henry O. Havemeyer, the fourth son of his father's family, was born in New York, October 18th, 1847. Educated in private schools, he entered the firm of which his father was head, and in 1869 was admitted to partnership. He soon became the manager of the firm, whose mem- bers, besides his father, were Theodore A., Thomas J. and Henry O. Havemeyer, J. Lawrence Elder and Charles H. Senff. The development of the business of which he is now at the head makes one of the most interesting pages in the industrial and commercial history of the country. It was mainly through his initiative that the American Sugar Refining Company, in which were merged nearly all the great refineries of the United States, was organized in 1891 and has become one of the greatest corporations in the country.
In 1883, Mr. Havemeyer married Louisine Waldron Elder, daughter of George W. Elder, who was also well known from his connection with the sugar business. Mr. and Mrs. Havemeyer have three children, Adeline, Horace and Electra Havemeyer. The city residence of the family is at the corner of Sixty-sixth street and Fifth Avenue. Mr. Havemeyer also has a home in Greenwich, Conn., one of the finest country seats on the Long Island Sound, situated on a ridge overlooking the water and the surrounding country. Mr. Havemeyer is interested in the breeding of cattle and high grade stock, and has at his place a notable herd of cattle and fine specimens of horses and Southdown sheep. A large public school building, which he erected and presented to the town of Greenwich at a cost of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, is a proof of his active interest in public education. He is a member of the Grolier and Riding clubs and a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The best known of his brothers was the late Theodore A. Havemeyer, who married Emilie de Loosey, daughter of Charles F. de Loosey. His sons are Theodore A., who married Katherine Aymar Sands, and Henry O. Havemeyer, Jr. He was for many years consul- general of Austria-Hungary in New York, and was active in business, but also was prominent in society and sport and was largely instrumental in making golf popular in this country.
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WILLIAM FREDERICK HAVEMEYER
1 N Germany, the history of the Havemeyer family can be traced back for more than three hundred years. Herman Havemeyer, who lived in Bueckeburg, Germany, before 1600, was the ancestor of William Havemeyer, who came to this country and founded an American family that for three generations has been eminently distinguished in mercantile and civic life. When only fifteen years of age, William Havemeyer left his German home and went to London. There he learned the art of sugar refining, and in 1799 he came to the United States. In less than ten years he began business on his own account, taking as a partner his younger brother, Frederick C. Havemeyer. The two brothers were, respectively, the American ancestors of the two branches of the Havemeyer family of New York. William Havemeyer was the ancestor of the branch of the family of which Mr. William Frederick Havemeyer is the representative. Frederick C. Havemeyer was the ancestor of the branch to which Henry O. Havemeyer belongs.
The eldest son of William Havemeyer was William Frederick Havemeyer, who was born in New York in 1804, and graduated from Columbia College in 1823. In 1828, with his cousin, Frederick Christian Havemeyer, he established the firm of W. F. & F. C. Havemeyer. He was also interested in other business enterprises, being elected president of the Bank of North America in 1851 and president of the New York Savings Bank in 1857. He was vice-president of the Pennsylvania Coal Company and of the Long Island Railroad, and a director in other corporations.
It was in public life, however, that William Frederick Havemeyer became best known. As early as 1844, he took an active part in politics, becoming a delegate to the Democratic general committee of New York City. In the same year, he was a Presidential elector for the successful Polk and Dallas ticket. In 1845, he was elected Mayor of the city, and after serving one year declined a renomination. The subject of emigration had for many years engaged his attention, and when the law creating the Board of Emigration Commissioners of this State was passed in 1847, he became its first president. In 1848, he was elected Mayor of the city for the second time, and again in 1859, he was nominated for the same office, but on this occasion was defeated by Fernando Wood. He maintained his active interest in municipal affairs, and during the Civil War was one of the most devoted supporters of the national government. When the transactions of the so-called Tweed-ring were exposed in 1870, he again exhibited his unswerving devotion to the public interests and to the welfare of the city, and as vice-president and afterwards president of the Committee of Seventy rendered untiring and efficient service to the reform movement. For the fourth time, in 1871, he was nominated for Mayor and elected for the third time. He died suddenly in November, 1874, while in his office at the City Hall.
William Frederick Havemeyer married in 1828, at Craigville, N. Y., Sarah Agnes Craig, daughter of Hector Craig, who was a member of the National House of Representatives, 1823-25, and was afterwards reelected in 1829, subsequently serving a term as Surveyor of the Port of New York. The children of this marriage were six sons and two daughters. Sarah C. Havemeyer, who became the wife of Hector Armstrong, and Laura A. Havemeyer, who married Isaac W. Maclay, were the daughters. The sons were John, Henry, Hector Craig, James, Charles and William F. Havemeyer, Jr.
Mr. William F. Havemeyer, of the present generation, was born in New York, and after receiving his education, engaged in the sugar business, becoming vice-president of the Have- meyer Sugar Refining Company, of which his brother, Hector Craig Havemeyer, was president. He lives in East Fifty-seventh Street, near Fifth Avenue. The clubs of which he is a member include among others the Metropolitan, Grolier and City, the Century Association and the Downtown Association.
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GEORGE GRISWOLD HAVEN
B ELONGING to an old family that had long been established in the West of England, Richard Haven came from his native land to Massachusetts in 1645. One or more brothers came with him, and from them are descended all the Havens of this country who trace their lineage to Colonial ancestry. John Haven, 1656-1705, a son of Richard Haven, was an important man in Lynn, Mass., frequently serving on committees of the town, while he was a selectman several times and a representative to the General Court in 1701 and again in 1702. In the next generation, Joseph Haven, 1698-1776, was as prominent in public affairs as his father. In 1732, he was a surveyor, was elected a selectmen the following year, and was a justice of the peace from 1756 until the time of his death. His wife was his cousin, Mehitable Haven, daughter of Moses Haven. She died in 1780.
Samuel Haven, 1727-1803, son of Joseph Haven, was the great-grandfather of Mr. George Griswold Haven. His first wife was Mehitable Appleton, daughter of the Reverend Dr. Appleton, of Cambridge. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1749, entered the ministry, was ordained over the South Church in Portsmouth, N. H., in 1752, and occupied that pulpit for fifty- one years, retiring in 1803 on account of advanced years. He received the degree of D. D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1772, and Dartmouth College conferred the same honor upon him in 1773. The grandfather of Mr. George Griswold Haven was John Haven, who was born in Portsmouth, N. H., and became one of the leading merchants of that city. His wife, whom he married in 1791, was Ann Woodward, of a prominent Colonial family of New Hampshire. Joseph Woodward Haven, son of John Haven, was born in 1803 and was also engaged in mercantile pursuits. His wife, whom he married in 1833, was Cornelia Griswold.
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