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the 7th U.S. colored infantry and was promoted colonel of the 41st U.S. colored infantry in November, 1864. He served with these regiments in South Carolina and Florida and before Rich- mond and Petersburg, Va. He was brevetted brigadier-general of volimteers, March 13, 1865. He aided his father in developing Lle%vellyn Park after the war and in 1877 engaged in business in San Francisco. Cal.

HASKELL, Thomas Nelson, educator, was born in Mina, N.Y., Jan. 20, 1826; son of Capt. George and Eliza (Knapp) Haskell; and grand- son of Roger and Edith (Nelson) Haskell and of Alexander and Mary Knapp. His ancestor, Roger Haskell, emigi-ated from Wales about 1720. Capt. George Haskell removed from Mid- dleborough, Mass., to Middleburj^ Vt., and from New Eng- land to the Chau- tauqua Lakes, N.Y., and thence to Trum- bull county, Ohio. Thomas taught school in 1842 at Warren, Ohio, and subse- quently- held several of the first teachers' institutes assembled in the state. He was principal of WajTie academy and of Sanduskj' high school, and was tutor at Oberlin college and at Miami imiversity. At the latter he was a student on the Trumbull County scholarship and was graduated A.M. in 1851. He was graduated from the Union theo- logical seminary, N.Y., in 1854, having spent the middle year of his theological course at Andover. He was pastor of a Presbyterian church at Wash- lAgton, D.C., 1854—58, and was opposed to the secession of the synod of Virginia which met in Washington in 1857, to form a Southern pro- slavery as.sembly. He was a Congregational and Presbyterian pastor in Boston, Mass., 1858-66; was professor of logic, rhetoric, literature and aesthetics in the University of Wisconsin and conducted its female college, lecturing on ethics and evidences of Christianity. He was pastor of the New England church at Aurora, 111., 1868-73, and was elected president of the Congregational association and triistee of Wheaton college. Assisted by his brother-in-law, the Rev. Jonathan Edwards of Massachusetts, he foimded the first college in the Rocky mountain region at Colorado Springs in 1874, and was its chief representative and correspondent. He was chaplain of the Colorado senate, custodian of the state library, and did much to bring the territory into the

Union as "The Centennial State." He was married in 1855 to Annie, youngest daughter of Justin Edwards, president of Andover theological seminary. The honorarj- degi-ee of L.H.D. was conferred on him by Miami university in 1896. He is the author of: Volume of Sermons on Human and Divine Governments {^I'S^) ; Soldier's Mission (1861) ; Life of Sir Henry Havelock (1861) ; Echoes of Inspired Ages (1874) ; Ciril Ethics in the United States (1876) ; Domestic and Occasional Poems at Home and Abroad (1889) ; Yoting Konkaput, the King of Utes (1889) ; Women of the Bible (1893) ; Wives of our Presidents (1892) and A Dark Secret (1896) ; besides articles on civil and ethical sub- jects, including A Becieio of Eedpath's Memories of Jefferson Davis.

HASKIN, Joseph A., soldier, was born in New York in 1817. He was graduated from the U.S. military academy in 1839 and was assigned to the 1st artillery. He was in Maine on duty incident to the boimdary dispute, 1840-45; in Florida and Louisiana, 1845-46; in Mexico under Gen. Winfield Scott from Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico, losing his arm at the battle of Chapulte- pec. He was promoted captain in the 1st U.S. artillery in 1851 and was in charge of the arsenal at Baton Rouge, La., when attacked by a supe- rior force of Confederates early in 1861, and was obliged to surrender the buildings and arms. He then served in the Federal army at Washington, D.C., at Key West, Fla., in command of the nort'-iern defences of Washington, 1862-64, and as chief of artillery in the war department, 1864- 66. He was retired from active service in 1872. His pi'omotions were: major, 1862; lieutenant- colonel of staff. 1862; lieutenant-colonel of 1st artillery, 1866; brevet colonel and bi-CAet briga- dier-general U.S.A., March 13, 1865. He died in Oswego, N.Y., Aug. 3. 1874.

HASKINS, Charles Homer, educator, was born in Meadville, Pa., Dec. 21, 1870; son of George W. and Rachel (McClintock) Haskins and of English and Scotch ancestry. He attended the preparatory school of Allegheny college, Meadville. and was graduated from Johns Hop- kins university A B., in 1887, remaining as a grad- uate student, 1887-90; as instructor in history, 1889-90, and gaining the degree Ph.D. in 1890. He studied subsequently at the universities of Paris and Berlin. He removed to the L^niversity of Wisconsin where was instructor in history, 1890- 91; assistant professor of history, 1891-92; and was made professor of institutional history in 1892. He lectured on history at Harvard univer- sity, 1899-1900. He was elected a member of the American historical association. He is the author of various monographs and articles on historical subjects published in the American Historical Bevieio.