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- Newsletter of the Haskell Family Society
Volume 7, No. 3, September 1998
Reverend Augustus Mellen Haskell, Unitarian Minister, served on the Field and Staff organization of the 40th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment as Chaplain in the American Civil War. He was mustered 11 September 1863 and cited by M. M. Marsh, Medical Inspector for Sanitary Commission for " ... faithful, courageous volunteer service after the battle of Olustee" when caring for the grievously wounded. Forced to resign his commission due to ill health, Revd Haskell was honourably discharged at
Hilton Head (Folly Island), North Carolina, on 6 March 1864.
Augustus M. Haskell was born 24 January 1832 at Poland, Maine, son of Rufus and Susan Haskell of Poland and New Gloucester. He married, first, Catherine Woodman who died 19 December 1866, aged 39, in Manchester, New Hampshire. He married, second, Anna Johnson at Salem, Massachusetts, on 24 December 1867.
For 20 years he was minister of historic First Parish of West Roxbury, Massachusetts. He founded the Unitarian Church in Roslindale, which he served loyally and faithfully until his death 24 February 1893, of pneumoni
Reverend Haskell's second wife, Anna, was the daughter of Dr. Samuel and Anna (Dodge) Johnson of North Andover, Massachusetts. A member of one of the first families of Salem, where she was born 15 January 1826, Anna Haskell died 15 May 1909 at 46 Amherst Street, Roslindale, after a short illness.
Two sons of Augustus and Catherine Haskell survived their stepmother. They were Professor Mellen Woodman Haskell, Harvard '83, of the State University at Berkeley, California; and Augustus Story Haskell, 1887 graduate of Harvard University and manager of a mining company in Kennett, California.
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