Bio: Haskin, Charles T. (History - 1841)

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Surnames: HASKIN VOSBURGH WOODWORTH BRUSH

----Source: 1891 History of Clark and Jackson Co., Wisconsin--pg. 295

CHARLES T. HASKIN has been identified with the agricultural and lumber interests of Clark County since 1871. He is a native of Chautauqua County, New York, born February 21, 1841, and is a son of William and Aurilla (Vosburgh) Haskin, also natives of the Empire State. The parents emigrated to Wisconsin in 1847, and settled in Waukesha County, at the town of Waukesha, where they resided until 1857 thence they removed to Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, where the father passed the remainder of his days the mother is still living, at the age of seventy-six years. He was a carpenter by trade, but in the later years of his life devoted his time to farming. The family consisted of five children: Horace, Elizabeth, William E., Charles T. and Frank H. Charles T., the subject of this notice, was a young child when his parents brought him to the wilds of the frontier, and there he grew to manhood, surrounded by all the vicissitudes and privations of pioneer life. He received his first lessons in the primitive log schoolhouse, and during the vacations assisted his father in the work at home. When he was sixteen years old he went with his parents to Fond du Lac County, and there he began farming on his own account. He remained there until 1871, and then came to Clark County, and purchased eighty acres of timber land which he has since made his home. As his means would admit he has invested in land until he now owns 280 acres, situated on sections 11 and 12, Beaver Township and section 34, Green Grove Township. Fifty acres of this land have been converted from the wild state in which nature left them, to one of advanced cultivation. To accomplish this has been an undertaking of no small magnitude. It should be remembered, too, that Mr. Haskin has been unaided by any financial assistance in his business, and that all his success is due to his own merit.

In 1864, December 15, this worthy gentleman was united in marriage to Miss Mary R. Woodworth, of Fond du Lac County. She was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 17, 1846, and is a daughter of Harvey and Emaline (Brush) Woodworth, natives of the State of New York. They removed to Wisconsin in 1844, and located in Milwaukee thence they went to Fond du Lac County, and about the year 1874 they moved to Nebraska, where they are now making their home.

Mr. and Mrs. Haskin have had born to them five children: Laura, deceased Rosa, William, John and Charles T.

1880 Federal Census, Osceola, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin

Horace Haskins @43, b. NY, Farmer, Parents b. NY

Wife: Matilda @43, b. VT, Keeping House, Parents b. VT

Son: Marion @18, b. WI, Helps on Farm

Son: Evert @16, b. WI

Sister-in-law: Alice Garfield @18, b. WI, Domestic Servant, Father b. VT, Mother b. VT

Family Notes:

Charles Theodore Haskin, born 21-Feb-1841 in Chautauqua Co., NY.  He married Mary Woodworth in Eden, Fondulac, WI 15-Dec-1864.  His younger brother, William Elmer Haskin, was born in 1843 in Chautauqua Co., NY and his older brother, Horace, was born about 1837. Their parents were William Haskin and Aurilla Vosburgh.