. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. NATHANIEL B. HASKELL was bo.^ in the town of Wayne, Kennebec Co., Me., Dec. 3, 1811. The ancestors of the Haskell family emigrated from Eng- land, and settled in New England, in 1626. His grandfather, Eliphalet, and his father, Jacob, were both natives of New Gloucester, Cumberland Co., Me.; the latter was a lumber- man and farmer'by occupation ; was a captain of a company of militia in the war o
. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. NATHANIEL B. HASKELL was bo.^ in the town of Wayne, Kennebec Co., Me., Dec. 3, 1811. The ancestors of the Haskell family emigrated from Eng- land, and settled in New England, in 1626. His grandfather, Eliphalet, and his father, Jacob, were both natives of New Gloucester, Cumberland Co., Me.; the latter was a lumber- man and farmer'by occupation ; was a captain of a company of militia in the war of 1812, and in the beginning of the present century moved to Wayne, Kennebec Co., Me. He was married to Charlotte Bennett, of which union were born four sons and three daughters, of whom Nathaniel B. Haskell was third child. Five of the children are now living. The father died at the jige of sixty-five, in the year 1848. The mother died in 1831, :it the age of about forty-five. Mr. Haskell remained with his father engaged in lumbering, farming, and carrying on a grist-mill until he was twenty years of age. In the year 1831 he went to New Brunswick and en- «yaged as a millwright. There he remained for three years and went to Bangor, Me., where he remained for some two years, and a short time afterwards accompanied Hiram A. Pitts, the inventor of the Pitts' Separator, through New Jersey and Penn- sylvania in its sale. After one year he traveled alone, selling this machine, and it is said that Mr. Haskell bought the first machine that was sold. In 1843 he went to Penobscot Co., Me., and engaged in lumbering, which he continued until 1857. His first purchase of timber land was some seven thousand acres in that county, and his operations were somewhat extensive. In 1847 he mar- ried Hannah, daughter of Nathaniel Shorey, of Burlington, Me. Her grandfather lived to the advanced age of ninety-five, and died in Lowell, Me. Her father, during the latter part of his life, moved to Wiscon
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