Imperial-Riverside-San Bernardino County CA Archives Biographies.....Haskell, Sylvanus G. 1861 - 
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Author: F. C. Farr (editor, 1918)

SYLVANUS G. HASKELL.—Noteworthy among the active, prosperous ranchers of
Imperial County is Sylvanus G. Haskell, who owns and occupies an eighty-acre
place. It is well appointed and well managed, and he is numbered among the
prosperous men of his locality. Mr. Haskell was born in Belfast, Maine, October
11, 1861, son of John Green and Mary Haskell, who were the parents of five
children, three sons and two daughters. Mr. Haskell received a limited education
in the public school. At the age of twelve he worked out and remained with his
employer for four years. He then spent two years in Kennebec County. In 1881 Mr.
Haskell came to California and located in Riverside. Here he worked at ranching
for one year. Sylvanus and his two brothers then went to Cucumonga, California,
and bought sixty acres and later took on forty acres more. This was all orange
land and the brothers set out twenty acres to oranges. In the fall of 1897 tnev
went to Westminster, Orange County, and rented land. Then after spending three
years in Whittier, California, Mr. Haskell came to Imperial County, where he now
farms eighty acres. He intends to engage in alfalfa and hogs and will operate a
small dairy. Politically Mr. Haskell is a Republican but has never aspired to
office. He married Georgiana Eady, a native of Whittier, California, June, 1901.
There has been born seven children: Ralph True, attending high school; Lloyd
Elsburg, Glenn Douglas, Le Roy, Paul Valentine, Vivian and Sylvanus, Jr. Mrs.
Haskell comes from old English stock and her ancestors came to this country at a
very early date. Mr. Haskell comes from Scotch ancestors and his grandparents
were early settlers in Maine. Mr. Haskell will shortly move his present house
back and erect a new residence, and will put in five acres to grapefruit.

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THE HISTORY
OF
IMPERIAL COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
EDITED BY
F. C. FARR

IN ONE VOLUME
ILLUSTRATED
Published by ELMS AND FRANKS
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 1918


Printed by Taylor & Taylor, San Francisco


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