| Birth: | Mar. 23, 1842 | | Death: | Dec. 16, 1883 | 
US Congressman. He was born in Springfield, Windsor County Vermont and when he was thirteen moved with his parents to Lawrence, Kansas. He returned to Vermont in 1857-1858 to attend school in Springfield; became a shoe merchant following the gold rush to Pikes Peak in Colorado in 1959 where he lived until 1861. He was assistant to the quartermaster of the Union Army in Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas and the Indian Territory during 1861 and 1862 when he decided to leave the service and continue his education. Entering Williston's Seminary in Easthampton, Massachusetts the next year, he was graduated from Yale College in 1865. For two years he returned to the shoe business, but then entered politics beginning with the Kansas State house of representatives in 1762 advancing to speaker in 1876. He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress 1876, a post to which he would continue to be re-elected until his death seven years later in Washington, D.C. His grandson Otis Halbert Holmes, would follow him as Republican Congressman from the state of Washington. (bio by: D C McJonathan-Swarm)
Search Amazon for Dudley Haskell | | | Burial:
Oak Hill Cemetery
Lawrence
Douglas County
Kansas, USA
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Record added: Aug 31, 2000
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http://is.gd/QhFEjS GENEALOGICAL NOTE ON HIS FATHER: . . . . Franklin HASKELL, b. Weathersfield, Vt., Aug. 12, 1806, m. Aug. 24, 1830, Almira Chase of Weathersfield, and d. Lawrence, Kan., Jan. 26, 1859. Children, John C, b. Milton Falls, Vt., Feb. 5, 18...(Read more)
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