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- OTIS L. HASKELL HELPED MAKE DENVER
GLOUCESTER NATIVE HAD PROUD RECORD IN WAR AND CMCS.
"News has been received in this city of the death of Otis L. Haskell, a native of this city, who passed away at Denver, Colorado, on Wednesday, after an illness of several months duration, at the age of 73 years, 11 months and 12 days.
Mr. Haskell was the son of Benjamin and Mary B. (Noble) Haskell; his father being a well-known blacksmith and one of the founders of the Cape Ann Anchor Works. He went to sea at the age of 13 years, his first trip being made in a mackerel fishing schooner to the Bay St. Lawrence, with Capt. Nathaniel K. Watson. He was enamored with sea life, and later shipped as cabin boy and was engaged in the South American service for five years.
He returned home during the Civil war and enlisted in the navy January 25, 1865, as acting ensign on the gunboat Delaware, seeing active service on the James and Potomac rivers, being engaged in a number of conflicts where rebel artillery and assisting in cutting out a vessel at Marshfield on the James and in the removal of torpedoes and obstructions in the same river.
He also assisted the land forces at the battle of Petersburg, Va. being in command of a company of sailors which took charge of several thousand rebel prisoners, taking them to City Point. He also secured some valuable papers at Richmond, for which he received a letter of thanks from the secretary of the navy. He was second in command when only 20 year of age, being the youngest officer of that rank in the navy. He was discharged June 10, 1865.
Returning to this city, he engaged in mercantile pursuits, and in February. 1872, while on a business trip to Prince Edward Island he suffered severely from exposure as the result of being caught in a severe storm and contracted a cold on his lungs from which he never entirely recovered. He continued in business in this city, until 1873, when on account off ailing health he removed to Denver, and for years engaged In the commission business as a member of the firm of Haskell & Waters, the firm soon becoming the largest and leading commission house in the city.
He retired from the firm in 1881 since which time he has given his time chiefly to his large real estate interests He was one of the originators and chairman of the executive board of the first exposition held in Denver, one of the projectors of the Denver Circle railroad, and in part builder of two of the largest irrigating canals in the state of Colorado.
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Civil War Pension File
Ivalid application # 237290, cert # 20920
widow application # 1142538, cert # 890155
Acting Ensign, served on U.S. Delaware
Otis L. Haskell married Juliette Webber December 21, 1869 (marriage cert)
Otis died April 30, 1919 (death cert)
Children
Ethel M. Haskell born October, 19, 1870
J. Inez Haskell born August 25, 1872
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1845 - 1919 (73 years)
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