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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [410-411]

           BENNETT HASKELL, salt and lumber manufacturer and general mer-
        chant at Port Crescent, was born May 22, 1850, in Penobscot Co.,
        Maine. His father, N. B. HASKELL, was one of a long line of descen-
        dants from a family prominent in the Pine-Tree State for many
        years, was a lumberman in Maine, and is now a resident of Bad Axe,
        Mich. He married HANNAH SHOREY, and both were natives of Maine, of
        English extraction. They removed in 1858 to Steuben Co., N.Y., and
        seven years later came to Whitehall, Muskegon Co., Mich., where the
        father engaged two years in lumbering, after which, in the spring
        of 1868, they came to Port Crescent.
           MR. HASKELL'S father, associated with HENRY C. SPAULDING, of
        Elmira, N.Y., established an extensive lumber business. They
        secured a large tract of land situated on the course of the
        Pinnebog River, which empties into the Saganaw Bay at this point,
        and conducted operations largely in rafting. They controlled an
        extensive trade on the river, which traversed a county noted for
        its valuable pine, and which affords at its outlet a fine harbor.
        Since they came hither they have cut from one to three million feet
        of logs every winter, and of this large interest MR. HASKELL was
        general manager until 1880, when he became sole proprietor. In the
        same year he established the salt block, which has a daily capacity
        of 200 barrels of salt when operated to its full extent. He is at
        present engaged in the erection of a store for the prosecution of
        his mercantile operations, built in L form, 48 x 72 feet in dimen-
        sions, designed to be one of the finest structures for the purpose
        intended in Huron County. He owns within the county about 4,000
        acres of land, some of it still in fine timber, but chiefly in
        course of preparation for agricultural purposes. He owns all vil-
        lage lots in Port Crescent lying north of Pinnebog Street.  MR.
        HASKELL is a Republican in political opinion.
           He was married April 9, 1875, at Port Crescent, to JOSEPHINE
        EARL. She was born in 1854, at Buckville, Ont., where her parents
        now reside. She was carefully educated in music, and was a teacher
        of the art for some time previous to her marriage. She is the
        daughter of THOMAS EARL, and her parents are natives of Canada and
        of English extraction.

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