Rev. George Edwin Ernest Haslam Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Patricia Cooper - pcooper@peaknet.net

Surname: HASLAM
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 1219

  REV. GEORGE EDWIN ERNEST HASLAM, rector of the Church
of the Transfiguration, the Episcopal Church at Derry, Rockingham 
County, N. H., was born in Cullinswood House, near Dublin, Ireland, on 
March 30th, 1857, a son of John Haslam and Isabella (Greville) Haslarn, 
He was educated at home and at private schools, also at Trinity 
College, Dublin, where he obtained honors in logic and English; also a 
Moderatorship. He was graduated in 1882, the degree of Master of Arts 
being conferred upon him in 1885. In 1883 he came to Canada and in the 
following year was ordained deacon, being ordained priest in 1886. He 
became curate of St. Stephen's Church, Toronto, in 1884, and was Fellow 
and Lecturer in Natural Science at Trinity University, Toronto. He 
became rector at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, in 1887 and in 1900 was 
appointed Manager of the Twentieth Century Fund of the Diocese of Nova 
Scotia. From 1904 to 1907 he was in charge of the church at Rose 
Blanche, Newfoundland. His present charge comprises both Derry and 
Peterboro, N. H., and in addition he holds the office of District 
Secretary.
  Mr. Haslam was married in August, 1890, to Mabel Mary, daughter of
Rev. Canon Brent of Newcastle, Ontario, and sister of Bishop Brent, Of
this marriage have been born four sons, namely: George A. Greville, who
is now a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Maurice
Brent, a Medical Student in Canada; C. Edwin Cummings,a student at Har-
vard University, and Herbert Montfort, at St. Paul's School, Concord, 
N. H. Aside from his parochial duties,.Mr. Haslam has done a 
considerable amount of work along educational, literary and scientific 
lines. For some years he was editor and publisher of the Church Review, 
and was also lecturer in Apologetics in King's College, Windsor, N. S., 
of which he was a Govornor.
 He has published several lectures on scientific subjects, and is the
inventor of a machine for calculating the rate of evaporation from 
exposed water surfaces. He has now in course of publication a 
scientific allegory entitled "Old Jump Off." Mr. Haslam is a Royal Arch 
Mason. He resides at the Rectory, Derry, N. H., and since coming to 
Derry has made many warm friends among the people of the village and 
town.

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