BIO:  HASKINS, Nenian, s/o William & Mary (Russell) Haskins

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

HASKINS   RUSSELL   HOPKINS

History of Pike & Dubois Counties, Indiana; Chicago
Goodspeed Bros. & Co., Publishers, 1885
Dubois County, Bainbridge Twp, page 600

NENIAN HASKINS, recorder of Dubois County, Ind., and native of the county,
was born February 5, 1844, is one of a family of eleven children born to
William and Mary (Russell) Haskins, natives of Kentucky and North Carolina
respectively.  William came to Indiana with his father about 1812; they
settled in Crawford County, where the father died.  William was raised and
married in that county, in 1831 or 1832 came to Dubois County, and settled
on a farm near Knoxville, where he farmed ten years; he afterward located
on a farm in Bainbridge Township, where he remained twenty-six years; he
now resides on a farm in Jefferson Township.  Our subject passed his boyhood
on the farm and received a limited education in the primitive schools of his
boyhood days; at the age of nineteen years he began farming and made that his
exclusive occupation until 1872, when he engaged in the cattle and butchering
business, continuing in that capacity four years; he was United States mail
carrier between Jasper and Petersburg for four years, and then engaged in
buying cattle and wool; he is an unswerving Democrat, in politics, and in
1882 was elected to the office of recorder, which he is filling ably and well;
he was justice of the peace from 1870 to 1878, and is a member of the
I.O.O.F. and A.O.U.W. and he and wife belong to the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church.  October 12, 1863, he married Sarah Hopkins, a native of the county.
They are the parents of six children:  Florence, Frances, Sarah A., Felix,
Edgar and Ida.  Mr. Haskins is an example of the self-made man; he started
in life with little or no capital, but by untiring energy and economy has
succeeded in obtaining a good competency.
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