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service luiving expired he was lionorably mus- teretl out, Oct. 4. lH(i4. He again engaged in journalism in Gloucester, but owing to failing health reliuquishetl it to engage in the paper trade. He est^iblished in Boston a large business «nd was elected president of the Boston Paper Trade association. In 1877 he was elected a representative in the state legislature. He was assistant ailjutant general on the staff of Gover- nor Ixjng, lSS0-f2, and a member of his council, 1883-84. He was secretarj- of the Republican state committee in 1879 and a delegate to the Rejiublican national conventions at Chicago in 1880 and 1884. He was married, June 27, 1866, to Hattie J., tlaugiiter of William and Sarah H. 3Iunsey. They liad one son and two daughters. HASKELL, Edwin Bradbury, journalist, was born in Livermore. Maine, Aug. 24, 18'57; son of Moses Greenleaf and Rosella (Haines) Haskell. His ancestors were English stock, the Haskells having settled in Gloucester, Mass., in 1846, and his maternal ancestor, Samuel Haines, in Ports- mouth, N.H., about the same time. His two grandfathers

emigrated to the dis- I*?*' ^'SSr jSi trict of Maine soon

after the Revolution- ary war, one from Massachusetts and • iZ3iati^ *^^® other from New p^^, \ ' '?^^, Hampshire. Edwin

C^. '".' ^^^/y"*^ B. Haskell was pre-

pared for college at Kenfs Hill academy, but at the age of seventeen entered the office of the Portland Advertiser as an apprentice. In 1855 he went to New Orleans, working there and at Baton Rouge as typesetter two years. In 1856 he was employed by the Satnrdatj Evening Gazette and in 1857 he beciime a coinjjositor and reporter on the Bostcm Jour mil and in 1860 accepted a position on the Boston Herald as court and financial reporter, being promoted in 1861 to the position of leading editorial writer. In 1865 he and four of his asso- ciates, employees on the paper, bought a third interest of the Ilrrahl and completed the pur- ciiase in 1869. Mr. Ha.skell was editor in-chief of tliat journal from 1865 until 1H8T, when he retired from active journalism, though retaining a large interest in the newspaper reorganized as the Bo.ston Herald company. During his editor- ship the Jlernld became one of the most prosper- ous newspa[>ers in the country. In 1872 he purchased ''Vista Hill," a country estate in Aulmriidale. a part of Xfwt< ii. Mass. He de

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clined the nomination for representative in con- gress when it was equivalent to an election. He was elected jiresident of the Newton free library in 1875 and was appointed a member of the ]\Ietropolitan park commission in 1896. He was elected a member of the American academy of political and social science.

HASKELL, James Richards, inventor, was born in Geneva, N.Y., Sept. 17, 1825. He re- moved with his parents to the Western reserve and was educated at the Western Reserve college and at Richfield academy, but did not complete a college course. His attention was early di- rected to bi'eech-loading guns and small-arms and he began his experiments in their improve- ment as early as 1854. He manufactured twenty- four steel bi-eech-loading rifled cannon which were purchased by the Mexican govenniient, the first of that class of guns manufactured in the United States. He began his experiments in producing multi-charge guns in 1855 in company with Azel S. Lyman, who was the originator of the idea of applying successive charges of pow- der to accelerate the speed of a shell or solid shot. In that year congress made an appropria- tion to test these guns, but the experiments met with the opposition of the ordnance dejiartment. In 1862, in company with Rafael Rafael, he constructed a rapid-fire gun which received a favorable report from a board of army officers appointed to test the gun, but again the ordnance department refused to recommend its adoption by the government. He spent vipwards of §300,- 000 before he completed the process of multi- charge and while he doubled the power he reduced the maximum jiressure to less than that of any other guns of equal calibre. He was elected a member of the American association for the advancement of science and contributed to scientific journals and to pamphlet literature ai'ticles on national armament and ordnance. The U.S. government tardily acknowledged his claims by paying him 8100,000 for his invention. He died at his home in Passaic, N.J., Aug. 15, 1897.

HASKELL, Llewellyn Frost, soldier, was born in Belleville, X.J., Oct. 8, 1842; son of Llewellyn Solomon Haskell, druggist, landscape gardener and founder of Llewellyn Park, Orange, N.J.. 1857. He was educated at Heidelberg, Germany, but returned home before comjjleting his course to join the Federal army in 1861. He enlisted in tiie 14th New York as a private, was promoted lieutenant, and became aide to Gen. A. S. Aslwth at Pea Ridge, March 8. 1862, and to Gen. Henry Prince at Cedar IVIountain, Aug. 9, 1862. In the latter battle he was .severely wounded and was the only member of the staff of General Prince that escaped with his life. In October. 1863, he was made lieutenant colonel of