Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....Haskin, William P. 1835 - 
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  William P. Haskin, a Johnson county pioneer and a successful farmer now living
retired in Olathe township, was born in St. Clair county. Michigan, September
20, 1835. He is a son of Harley and Mary (Pennock) Haskin, the former a native
of Vermont, born in 1801, and the latter of New York, born May 9, 1811. Harley
Haskin was the son of Richard Haskin, native of Londonderry, Ireland, who
immigrated to America in 1865 and settled at Middletown, Vt. He died in 1850.
Richard Haskin served in the Revolutionary war and also had a brother, Harvey,
who served in that war. They were with the "Green Mountain Boys," who were
commanded by General Stark, at the battle of Bennington. Harley Haskin, the
father of William P., went to Michigan when a young man and was married there.
In the spring of 1836 he moved to Lake county, Indiana, where he was frozen to
death on "Twenty Mile Prairie" while returning to his home after a day's work,
December 24, 1836. The mother and William P., then a baby, were left alone in
the world and she later married Elkanah Haskins and they moved to Lee county,
Iowa, and William P., the subject of this sketch, remembers being where the city
of Keokuk, Iowa, now stands, when the Indians were the only inhabitants of that
place. The family settled on some Indian land along the bluffs of the
Mississippi river. There was some question about the title to the land but the
Haskins family remained there for some considerable time. In 1846 they returned
to Indiana and located in Porter county. William P. Haskin lived in Porter and
Laporte counties, Indiana, until 1865, when he came to Kansas and settled in
Olathe township, Johnson county, on the place where he now resides. The
following year after coming to Kansas, he went back to Vermont but remained only
a few weeks when he returned to Kansas and settled on the 160 acres of land in
Olathe township which he bought September 26, 1865, for which he paid only $500,
but even at that price Mr. Haskin says that it required more effort to pay for
it on account of the scarcity of money than it would to pay for it at its
present valuation. Mr. Haskin bought this land from James A. Crawford, of
Staunton, Va. Mr. Haskins made a success in general farming and stock raising.
He retired a few years ago and divided most of his property between his
children. However, he has retained enough of the world's goods to easily keep
the wolf from the garage. Mr. Haskin was married February 25, 1869, to Miss
Diana Brush, of Laporte county, Indiana. She was born in Clinton township, that
county, January 31, 1845, and is a daughter of Samuel R. and Sarah Cora Brush,
natives of Pennsylvania and early settlers in Indiana. To William P. and Diana
(Brush) Haskin have been born the following-children: Diana Keyes, a teacher in
the Kansas City schools; Samuel Brush, a banker of Shawnee township; and E. H.,
a personal sketch of whom appears in this volume. Mr. Haskin is a Republican and
since casting his first vote for John C. Fremont in 1856, he has missed only-one
Presidential election. He is a member of the Masonic lodge and the Grange. He
also joined the I. O. of G. T. in 1859, and was Deputy D. G. W. C. T. in
Indiana, and has never violated the obligation. The marriage license of Mr. and
Mrs. Haskin, issued February 25, 1869, has a prominent place on the wall of the
sitting room and is enclosed in a neat frame.

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HISTORY OF Johnson County Kansas
BY
ED BLAIR

AUTHOR OF
Kansas Zephyrs, Sunflower Sittings and Other Poems and Sketches

IN ONE VOLUME

ILLUSTRATED
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
1915


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