BIO: E. F. Haskell, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

                             CHAPTER LVIII.

    SOUTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH OF MOUNT HOLLY SPRINGS.

552  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  E. F. HASKELL, farmer and proprietor of the Wood View Nursery, P. O. 
Uriah, was born in Massachusetts May 27, 1810, son of Charles H. and 
Demaris (Flagg) Haskell, natives of Massachusetts and of English 
origin.  Charles H. Haskell was a farmer and manufacturer of woolen 
goods.  Our subject, the third in a family of ten children, after 
receiving his education in the academy of his native State, at the age 
of seventeen learned the trade, with his father, of manufacturing 
woolen goods, which he followed seventeen years, a part of the time 
being in business in Delaware County, Penn.  He also managed the carpet 
manufacturing business at Mount Holly Springs, this county, for five 
years, and afterward became general manager of the Pine Grove Iron 
Works, where he remained for eight years, when he engaged as 
superintendent of the Ahl Iron Works for a year.  After this he moved 
on his farm, consisting of 205 acres, which he had purchased in 1850, 
and 

553  SOUTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP.

embarked in the nursery business, selling trees in New York and the 
Western States extensively, meeting with more than average success.  
Our subject has been twice married; first in 1832, and, this wife dying 
in 1835, he was married, on the second occasion, in 1840, to Miss Eliza 
Watsbaugh, of German and Irish origin, and their three children are 
Amanda, wife of John Peters; Almira, wife of E. J. Hartzel; Harrison, 
who is married and farming the home place.  Mrs. Eliza Haskell died in 
1867.  She was a member of the German Reformed Church.  Mr. Haskell was 
a member of the Presbyterian denomination, but now has his membership 
with the Lutheran Church.  He has always taken an active interest in 
his church, serving as elder and deacon.  Mr. Haskell has lived in 
Cumberland County since 1838, and for a number of years has been a 
member of the school board.