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 HERRINGSUAWS LIBHAUV UK AMKKICAN Haskin, Nelson, merchant. HtutrHman, was born Ocl. 20, 1840» in CftiwdA. He is a deBcendant of Bartholomew Haskin. who ar* rived in Bustmi Imrbor from England in

and settled

10S5.

9

Mr

City.

Eli/:ilMfli

in

moveil tu Michigan in lS71,and has attained -.)irri>s>i a-t ono of the iMtiiiio^t

iiH«ri'hant«

of LajMHT county, at City. For two I ml. IV

wsM

ht'

t*'riii»>

village

president; is a prominent mover in various fraternal ordorn; aii'l in 1S87-SS Ht-rvt-d a* a respre?** Mt:ltiv»• in the Michigan state legislature. While in the state legislature he served on several im*
 * M>rtant

enniiiii(t«-«'-.

Haskin, William Lawrence, soldier. wn» 1S41. at Hoiilton. .Maine. He born -May received thi- ilrfjrt-e of civil (•n;^'ine»T from Rensselaer polytechnic institute in 1801. He wflg appointed second lieutenant in first and served l'niteerations ill the Itoston district: and in 1S08 eomnianded the volunteer electric c>. the

ond

i

i

mIIi'-.-



teacher

whool (lif-

III! iii'came a of a private for yojini» la,1

in

Itostdii.

M.(-^s.

He was preceptor of academy:

Portland

and

a

eliTfryinaTi

in

ehureh. pastorates In Brighton. Arlington and the .Mission church at the epi»eopal

He

filled

Med ford.

(

"anibridge.Mass.



and

was chaplain in the McLean aaylum. H«^ was the author of SeWtions from the Old and New Testanu>nt Families and Sehotils; French and u st Book: and Maternal. ceHtors Kalph Waldo Kmol-son. He died May 11. IWM. in Cambridge. Mass.

for I'se in Kripli~li

l

of

Haskins, Kittredge, suMiir. lawyer, state M-nator, congressman, watt born April 8,1830,

BICXiUAPUV.

89

Dover, Vt. During the civil war he attained the rank of first lieutenant. In 187273 and 1806>M he was a member of the iI ,i>-fml)Iy; X'irniont g. ami during 18!)2U3 was a member ot the i»tatc senate. In 1001-00 be waa a representative from Verin

m

i

mont to the fifty s.vtiitti. fifty -eighth, fiftyninth and sixtieth congreases as a republican.

Haalervd, Peter K., real estate dealer and banker of ('rook«ton. .Minn., was Inirn Aug. 7. 1S.">7. in Numedal. Norway. He has taught school, was de|tuty auditor of his itiunty in 18H4-1887. and lounty treasurer in IKHJl-im. In 1S!MM!)2 he was presnii iit oi tin- I'arra* ers' State bank; and since 1!K>1 he ha^ been superintendent of farm loan agenci<«» for northern Minnesota and North Dakota for (eoqje W. Wisbard and company of Minneapolis. He has been chairman of the republi<-an central committee of his county; and is also president of the Madison state

bank. Haslett, Jobo^ soldier, physician, .state legwa» bom in Ireland. He was re-

iHlator,

peatedly in the state assembly of Delaware. He served during the revolutionary war; and was in the actions of I.4)ng Island and White Plains. He died Jan. 3, 1777, in Princeton, N.J. Haslett, John, fdiysician. surgeon, was born ill DecenilM'r. WK in Charleston, 8.C. He entered the United States navy as a surgeon in 1822: and reached the rank of fl«-etsurgeon in 1841, when he resigned. On the estabiishuent of tbe Brooklyn city liosjtital,

he became its

its vice-president,

and

practically

head: and in 1853 its president. 1878. in Brooklyn. N.Y.

He

died

S. pt. 2S.

Haslett, Didawar*'.

DeUware in

governor, was horn in He was the «iglitli i:i>vtinoi (4 in 18U-14, and 1823-24. He died Joseph,

July. 1824. in Delaware.

Hasaam, Childe,

painter, artist,

was born

Boston. Ma.ss. He haH refor art exhibitions in Baris. Boston* Philadelphia. Cleveland and Chicago. Hassam, John Tyler, -oldier. lawyer, antli|uaiian i.'fnealogi-«t. was horn Sept. 2(M841. in BoHton. .Mass. In 1803-04 he was first lieutenant in the seventy-fifth United States colored infantry, t ikin^ part in the Red Kiver expedition. He practiced law in Boston. Mass.. principally in conveyancing; and lot many yt'ar- was chairman «»f the rxeciitivc i-omiiiittee of the land transfer reform league of Boston. He was a director in the Historical genealogical society: and was also the author of valuahle pa|>ers on Th<> Hassam Family; and other genealogical ami historic puhlieationa. He died in 1902 in Boston. Mass. Hassard, John Rose Greene, journalist, autlior. was born Sept. 4, 1830, in New York Oct.

17.

I't-ivfd

lH."i!».

in

numerous medals

'

VHy. He was a literary critie on the ttaff of (lie Xew York Tribune. He was the author of The King of the Nibelun};; School