



NATHANIEL B. HASKELL 



was bo.^ in the town of Wayne, Kennebec Co., Me., Dec. 3, 

 181 1 . The ancestors of the Haskell family emigrated from Eng- 

 land, and settled in New England, in 1626. His grandfather, 

 Eliphalet, and his father, Jacob, were both natives of New 

 Gloucester, Cumberland Co., Me. ; the latter was a lumber- 

 man and farmer'by occupation ; was a captain of a company of 

 militia in the war of 1812, and in the beginning of the present 

 century moved to Wayne, Kennebec Co., Me. He was married 

 to Charlotte Bennett, of which union were born four sons and 

 three daughters, of whom Nathaniel B. Haskell was third child. 

 Five of the children are now living. The father died at the 

 jige of sixty-five, in the year 1848. The mother died in 1831, 

 :it the age of about forty-five. 



Mr. Haskell remained with his father engaged in lumbering, 

 farming, and carrying on a grist-mill until he was twenty years 

 of age. In the year 1831 he went to New Brunswick and en- 

 «yaged as a millwright. There he remained for three years and 

 went to Bangor, Me., where he remained for some two years, 

 and a short time afterwards accompanied Hiram A. Pitts, the 

 inventor of the Pitts' Separator, through New Jersey and Penn- 

 sylvania in its sale. After one year he traveled alone, selling 

 this machine, and it is said that Mr. Haskell bought the first 

 machine that was sold. 



In 1843 he went to Penobscot Co., Me., and engaged in 

 lumbering, which he continued until 1857. His first purchase 

 of timber land was some seven thousand acres in that county, 



and his operations were somewhat extensive. In 1847 he mar- 

 ried Hannah, daughter of Nathaniel Shorey, of Burlington, Me. 

 Her grandfather lived to the advanced age of ninety-five, and 

 died in Lowell, Me. Her father, during the latter part of 

 his life, moved to Wisconsin, where he died in 1875. Mrs. 

 Haskell was born Dec. 2, 1827. 



In 1857, Mr. Haskell moved to the village of Hornellsville, 

 and one year and a half later moved on to the place where he 

 now resides, then a woodland tract, but now by his untiring 

 industry and enterprise a pleasant farm residence. His first 

 purchase was some three hundred and sixty-five acres, most of 

 which he has cleared of its original forest and erected commo- 

 dious buildings thereon. 



Mr. Haskell's has been a life of active business, rewarded with 

 merited success. For several years since ho came to Hornells- 

 ville he has been also engaged in the lumber interest in Michi- 

 gan, and a part of the time his family has resided there. In this 

 latter interest he was associated with William Bennett, and James 

 and George Alley, which interest he disposed of in 1870. In 

 1868 he bought an interest in the lumber business in Huron Co., 

 Mich., with Henry C. Spaulding, of Elmira, which he still retains. 



He was formerly a Whig, was a delegate to the first State 

 convention in Maine, and assisted in the organization of the 

 Republican party, since which time he has been identified with 

 that party. His children are Moses, Bennett, Edward M., 

 Albert, Lizzie x\.., Henry Beecher (deceased), and Bell M. 



