Biographical Sketch of Alansom M. Haswell, Greene County, Missouri,
North Springfield

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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This gentleman is a grandson of Anthony Haswell, a Revolutionary sold-
ier, who, at the close of that war, started the first paper in Benning-
ton, Vermont, and probably the first in that State.  It was called the
Vermont Gazette, and Mr. Haswell was its editor and publisher for about
thirty-five years.  His son, James M. Haswell, D. D., was born in Benn-
ington, Vermont, February 4th, 1810.  His father died when he was about
seven years of age, and he went to Pennsylvania and learned pharmacy.
While in the drug business, he prepared himself for college, and enter-
ed Madison University at Hamilton, New York, where he graduated in 1835.
On the 23rd of August, 1835, he married Miss Jane M. Mason.  Soon after
his marriage he was appointed by the Baptist church as a missionary to
Maulmain, British Burmah.  He sailed September 10th, 1835, and arrived
there the following January, and remained until his death, on the 25th
of September, 1876.  His widow and two daughters are yet living in
Maulmain.  Alansom M. Haswell was born June 29th, 1847, at Maulmain,
British Burmah.  His father brought him to the United States when he 
was two years of age, where he remained three years, and then was taken
back to Maulmain, and lived with his parents until he was twelve years
old.  He was then brought back to this country to be educated, receiv-
ing his primary education at Boston.  He graduated from Hamilton Uni-
versity in 1866.  He then engaged in farming two years, and next moved
to Springfield, Missouri, where he engaged in surveying and classing 
railway lands in Southwest Missouri for three years.  He then farmed in
Greene County until the 8th of June, 1878, when he took charge of the
St. Louis and San Francisco railroad land office, at North Springfield,
for Dr. E. T. Robberson, the agent.  In August, 1879, he went into
partnership with E. T. Robberson, and, upon Robberson's resignation in
1881, Mr. Haswell and A. H. Sander were appointed joint agents for 
about one hundred and fifty thousand acres of land belonging to the St.
Louis and San Francisco railroad company, which position he still holds,
besides doing a general real estate business.  March 11th, 1873, he
married Miss L. C. Butler, by whom he had five children, three of whom
are now living.  He and his wife are members of the Congregational
Church.

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