Ellen Maria Haskell

1835 - 1934  (98 years)

• Name	Ellen Maria Haskell  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	17 Sep 1835	Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island   [2, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Death	31 May 1934  [4]
  Burial	Quaker Cemetery, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island   [4]
  Person ID	I41579	Descendants of William Hascall of Fontmell Magna (1490-1542)
  Last Modified	23 Oct 2020

  
  

  Father	William Turner Haskell,   b. 8 Sep 1790, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island d. 20 Nov 1863, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island (Age 73 years)
  Mother	Patience Boyce Smith,   b. 6 Apr 1794, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island d. 26 Mar 1883, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island (Age 88 years)
  Marriage	7 Oct 1813	Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island   [3]
  Family ID	F7799	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Ellen Maria Haskell was unmarried. _____ Ellen M. Haskell, sixth daughter of W. Turner Haskell, was born September 17, 1835, in Cumberland and has devoted most of her long life to teaching. After attendance in the public schools of her native town and the Friends' school in Providence, taught by Silas Cornell and his wife Sarah, she entered the Normal School of Providence, a private institution which was the foundation of the present State Normal School. The faculty at that time consisted of Professor Samuel S. Greene; Dana B. Colburn, later principal of the State Normal School; William Russell, subsequently principal of the State Normal School at Merrimack, New Hampshire, and Arthur Sumner, a cousin of Senator Charles Sumner. Upon leaving school she immediately took up teaching at the Potter avenue school in Providence, and after one term was transferred to the Bridgham street school, where she was several years assistant to the principal. Following this she taught in the high school of Providence, where she served several years, afterward becoming principal of Wheaton Seminary at Norton, Massachusetts, where she continued three Years. She then became a member of the faculty of the State Normal School of Worcester, Massachusetts, where she continued twenty years. At the end of this period she resigned and has since made her home in Providence with her sister, Mrs. Brown Reference New England Families Genealogical and Memorial Volume 1 By William Richard Cutter Lewis Historical Publishing Co., NY, 1915

  
  

• Sources

  [S11404] Ira J. Haskell, Chronicles of the Haskell Family, (Ellis Printing Company, Lynn Mass 1943; Reprint Goodspeed's Book Shop, Boston Mass. 1976). [S73428] Ancestry.com, The Wright Family Genealogy compiled by Thomas Wright. [S27363] Genealogy of the descendants of William Haskell and Mary Tybott, (compiled by Marion S. Anderson for the Haskell Family Association). [S63020] Cemetery index, Quaker Cemetery, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island, (Find-a-Grave).