. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . se ofhumor, made hiseditorials extensivelyquoted and com-mented upon fromMaine to Californiaduring his activejournalistic Haskell wasborn in Livermore,Me., Aug. 24, father was MosesGreenleaf Haskell,and his mother Ro-silla Haines, daugh-ter of Captain PeterHaines, who emi-grated from N e wHam])shire to Mainein 1795. Mr. Has-kell was educated inthe district school,and at Kents HillSeminary, and wasprepared for collegeat the age of sixteen
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . se ofhumor, made hiseditorials extensivelyquoted and com-mented upon fromMaine to Californiaduring his activejournalistic Haskell wasborn in Livermore,Me., Aug. 24, father was MosesGreenleaf Haskell,and his mother Ro-silla Haines, daugh-ter of Captain PeterHaines, who emi-grated from N e wHam])shire to Mainein 1795. Mr. Has-kell was educated inthe district school,and at Kents HillSeminary, and wasprepared for collegeat the age of , how-ever, prevented himfrom going to col-lege, and when he was seventeen years old he enteredthe office of the Portland Advertiser, then edited byHenry Carter. After staying in the Advertiser office forone year, and learning the trade of type-setting, he wentto New Orleans and worked there and at Baton Rougeas a journeyman printer, until June, 1856. He thenreturned to Boston and took a situation on the SaturdayEvening Gazette, then published by the late William , who was subsequently editor of the Boston your-. EDWIN B. HASKELL. nal. In the spring of 1857 Mr. Haskell was employedon the yoiirnal as compositor and reporter, and went tothe Boston Herald as reporter in the spring of Herald was then owned and managed by ColonelE. C. Bailey, who quickly discovered Mr. Haskellsnewspaper abilities, and added him to his staff of edito-rial writers. In that position he remained until 1865,when he and four other employees of the Herald pur-chased the paper of Colonel Bailey. Mr. Haskell was then installed as edi-tor-in-chief, a posi-tion which, with theexception of a yearsabsence in Europe,he held uninterrupt-edly until October,1887, when he solda large share of histhird proprietary in-terest in the then he hashad nothing to dowith the manage-ment of the papersave as one of thedirectory of theBoston Herald Com-pany, which suc-ceeded the partner
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