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- The Daily Time (Salisbury, Maryland)
May 3, 1933
Col. William E. Haskell, former newspaper executive in New York, Boston, Minnneapilis, and Superior, Wis., died at his Park Avenue apartment here last night at the age of 72.
Retiring from active newspaper work six years ago, he purchased a Manokin river estate near Princess Anne, Md., where he resided until his death.
Col. Haskell became interested in journalism while a student at Harvard College where he established the Ceimson, student publication. He was a native of Charleston, Mass.
Graduating from Harvard in 1885 he became co-publisher with C. M. Palmer of the Minneapolis Tribune. From 1894 to 1901, he published the Minneapolis Times.
With J. T. Murphy, Col. Haskell started the Superior Evening Telegram in 1889, but sold his inteest in the paper a year later.
Leaving Minneapolis, he became business manager of the New York American Journal, a position he held until 1904 when he went to Boston to take over publication of the Boston Herald. After six years there, he accepted the postion as vice president of the International Paoer Company.
His rank of Colonel wasa converred on him in Minnesota while serving on the staff of Governor Merriam. Politically he was an independent.
He is survived by his widow, Helen Eggleston Haskell, writer of several books; two sons, William E. Haskell, Jr., executive assistant to the president of the New York Tribune Corporation, publishers New York Herald Tribune, and Dudley E. Haskell of Paris, France; and one daughter, Cecil Haskell of New York.
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1862 - 1933 (70 years)
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