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- New York Times
June 28, 1955
E. Dudley Haskell. former official of the American Red Cross and the United Nations, died yesterday at Memorial Hospital after a long illness. He was 57 years old and lived at 791 Park Avenue.
Mr. Haskell was a son of the late William Haskell, newspaper executive of Minneapolis and New York, and one-time publisher of The Boston Herald. He was a brother of the late William E. Haskell, assistant to the president of The New York Herald Tribune.
In World War I, Mr. Haskell was With the American Red Cross in Paris. After the Armistice, he was secretary of the Red Cross mission to Greece and acting commissioner of that organization's mission to Albania. Mr. Haskell served as United States liaison officer to Brazil for two years in World War II and later was chief of the mission for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Adminitration to Albania.
In 1924 he married the former Alice Sheldon, who died in 1944. In 1948, he married Princess Kaplanoff, widow of Prince lrbain-Khan Kaplanoff and the former Miss Vernon Rogers Magoffin. Mr. Haskell, like his wife, was a descendant of Thomas Dudley, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts.
Surviving, besides his widow, are two stepdaughters, Mrs. James de Peyster of Palm Beach and Mrs. Crosby T. Smith of New Canaan, Conn.; a stepson, Chester B. Siems of New York, and a sister, Mrs. Celia MacGuffin of Reno, Nev.
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1897 - 1955 (58 years)
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