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- The following is adapted from: 1916 History of Oklahoma Vol III
Subject: FRANK A. HASKELL
Transcribed by Marti Graham
Date: 15 August 1999
FRANK A. HASKELL
Vol. 3, p. 971-972
A resident of Oklahoma since 1904 and of the City of Tulsa since 1913. Mr. Haskell is vice president and genera manager of the Okla Oil Company, is a prominent figure in connection with the operations in the oil and natural-gas fields of this state and acquired his initial experience in the oil producing business when a youth, in Pennsylvania, his association with this line of enterprise having continued during the long intervening years and definite and worthy success having attended his efforts, the while he is a recognized authority in the details of the important industry.
Mr. Haskell claims the historic old metropolis of the Keystone state as the place of his nativity and is a scion of a sterling family, of English lineage, that was founded in New England in the colonial era of our national history, his great grandfather, Capt. Job Haskell, having served in the army of General Washington in the War of the Revolution and having held commission as captain of his New England company, so that the subject of this review is eligible for membership in the noble patriotic order, the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.
Frank H. Haskell was born in the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 2d of June 1868, and is a son of Harvey M. and Amelia (MILES) Haskell, the former of whom was born at Tunbridge, Orange county, Vermont, in 1831, and the latter of whom was born in the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, her home being now at Pleasantville, Venango county, that state, where she has resided since the death of her husband, in 1887.
Of the five children four are now living and the first born was he whose name introduces this article. Harvey M. Haskell was a son of Job Haskell, Jr., who passed his active life as a substantial farmer in Orange county, Vermont, the family having been one of no little prominence and influence in that section of the old Green Mountain State for many years.
Harvey M. Haskell was reared to adult age under the conditions and influences of the old homestead farm in New England and was indebted to the schools of his native state of his early educational discipline. About the time of attaining to his legal majority he went to Madison, the capital of the State of Wisconsin, in company with his older brother, Frank A. Haskell, who was a gallant soldier in a Vermont regiment in the Civil War and who took part in numerous important engagements, including the famous battle of Gettsburg: he later wrote a careful and concise history of this sanguinary battle and this is looked upon today as the most authentic and authoritative published record of the momentous battle. In the early '60's Harvey M. Haskell served as the clerk of the county court of Dane county, Wisconsin, of which the now picturesque and metropolitan little City of Madison is the judicial center, but he returned to the East after remaining a few years in the Badger State.
In Pennsylvania he became one of the pioneers in the development of the oil industry, and after establishing his home at Pleasantville, Venango county, that state, he effected the organization of the Citizens National Bank, of which he served in turn as cashier and president, besides having continued his association with the production of oil in the Pennsylvania fields. His political allegiance was given to the republican party but he was essentially a business man and manifested no ambition for political office.
Frank M. Haskell fully availed himself of the advantages of the public schools of Pleasantville, Pennsylvania, and supplemented this discipline by a course of higher academic study in Allegheny College, at Meadville, that state. He was nineteen years of age at the time of his father's death, and as the eldest of the children he was called upon to assume supervision of the various business interests with which his father had been connected. During the intervening years he had never entirely severed his active association with the oil industry, and he has been identified with producing activities in the oil fields of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Kansas and Oklahoma, so that he has kept pace with the development of this enterprise in the new fields that have been successively opened in these different states of the Union, his broad experience having given him authoritative knowledge of the business in all of its details.
As previously stated, Mr. Haskell came to Oklahoma Territory in 1904, and he has been one of the leaders in developing and exploring the great oil and natural gas resources of the commonwealth, both under the territorial and state regimes. He is identified with the Okla Oil Company, and for seven years prior to extending his activities in states farther to the west he had held the position of manager of the Associated Producers of Illinois. At the present time his time and attention are given largely to his executive and technical duties as vice president and general manager of the Okla Oil Company, which has extensive holdings and controls large producing properties in the Oklahoma oil and gas fields.
Mr. Haskell is a stockholder in the National Bank of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and has other important capitalistic investments in the East, as well as in Oklahoma. In national politics he is a republican, but in local affairs, where no general economic and government issues are involved, he gives his support to the men and measurers meeting the approval of his judgment and without being in the least constrained by strict partisan lines.
Reverting to the agnatic genealogy of Mr. Haskell, it may be recorded that he is a direct descendant of William Haskell, who immigrated from England to America in 1632 and established his residence in the historic old City of Salem, Massachusetts.
June 24, 1896 recorded the marriage of Mr. Haskell to Miss Jane M. BROWN, who was born at Pleasantville, Pennsylvania, and who was a childhood schoolmate of her husband. They have one son and two daughters, namely: Richard M., Frances K., and Rebecca K. Mrs. Haskell is a daughter of Alexander W. and Minerva (MITCHELL) Brown, both natives of the State of Pennsylvania and representative of honored colonial families. Mr. Brown was prominently identified in his native state, where he continued to reside until his death.
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New York Times
February 12, 1958
Sharon, Conn., Feb. 10 - Frank Haskell, who retired as a director of Tide Water Associated Oil Company, after a career that spanned seventy years in the business died here today at his home at the age of 90.
Mr. Haskell joined the old Tide Water Company, later merged to form Tide Water Associated, in 1908 as general superintendent of production, with headquarters at Robinson, Ill. In 1909 he became general manager of the Okla Oil Company which had been formed to operate the orgaanization leases in Oklahoma. When Okla was named the Tidal Oil Company in 1916, Mr. Haskell became its vice president and general manager.
He leaves a son, Richard N. of Stamford; two daughters, Mrs. Vernon Henry of Essex Falls, N,J., and Mrs. Frank Wood of Tulsa, Okla.; a brother, six grandchildren and several great grandchildren.
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1867 - 1958 (90 years)
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