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- Patent 226746 - Daison E. Haskell - Hay knife
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Probate file, Madison county, D. Eralzman Haskell
File # 5580-J-85
Died Sept 21/1898, Cazenovia
Frances L. Haskell administrator
died intestate
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The educational advantages enjoyed by D. Eralzman Haskell were those of the district school and of a select school at Cazenovia, and his opportunities were so well improved that at the age of seventeen he was fitted to be a teacher. He taught successively eleven winter terms, in the intervals between working at farming. He served two years as Superintendent of Schools. In 1852 he was elected Justice of the Peace, and began to study law, being admitted to the bar in 1858. Coming to Cazenovia in 1859, he started in business as a dealer in general merchandise, continuing in trade twenty years. Since that time he has been engaged in the insurance business, and now represents the New York Life Insurance Company.
His father being a Democrat, Mr. Haskell was reared in the political faith of that party; but, disagreeing with some of its principles, he joined the Liberty party, and voted in 1844 for James G. Birney for President, in 1848 for John P. Hale, and in 1852 for Gerrit Smith. He has been a Republican since the organization of that party, in 1855. His fellow-townsmen have shown their confidence in his good judgment and integrity by electing him to various offices of public trust.
During the war he was one of the committee to raise men to fill the town's quota. On one occasion the Supervisor of the town, going to Washington to secure recruits, was made the victim of spurious vouchers; and Mr. Haskell was sent there to straighten out the matter. The Provost Marshal turning a deaf ear to his remonstrances, he made a personal appeal to President Lincoln, the result of which was satisfactory. Mr. Haskell has served on the Village Board, and for twenty-one years as a member of the Board of Trustees of Cazenovia Seminary, fourteen years being Secretary of the Board.
Reference
Biographical Review of Madison County, New York
Biographical Review Publishing Company, Boston, 1894
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