Imperial County, CA Biographies

Transcribed by Sally Kaleta, January, 2007.

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SYLVANUS G. HASKELL
 
                    Noteworthy among the active, prosperous ranchers of Imperial 
County is Sylvanus G. Haskell, who owns and occupies an eighty-acre place. It is 
well appointed and well managed, and he is numbered among the prosperous men of 
his locality. Mr. Haskell was born in Belfast, Maine, October 11, 1861, son of 
John Green and Mary Haskell, who were the parents of five children, three sons 
and two daughters. Mr. Haskell received a limited education in the public 
school. At the age of twelve he worked out and remained with his employer for 
four years. He then spent two years in Kennebec County. In 1881 Mr. Haskell came 
to California and located in Riverside. Here he worked at ranching for one year. 
Sylvanus and his two brothers then went to Cucumonga, California, and bought 
sixty acres and later took on forty acres more. This was all orange land and the 
brothers set out twenty acres to oranges. In the fall of 1897 they went to 
Westminster, Orange County, and rented land. Then after spending three years in 
Whittier, California, Mr. Haskell came to Imperial County, where he now farms 
eighty acres. He intends to engage in alfalfa and hogs and will operate a small 
dairy. Politically Mr. Haskell is a Republican but has never aspired to office. 
He married Georgiana Eady, a native of Whittier, California, June, 1901. There 
has been born seven children: Ralph True, attending high school; Lloyd Elsburg, 
Glenn Douglas, Le Roy, Paul Valentine, Vivian, and Sylvanus Jr. Mrs. Haskell 
comes from old English stock and her ancestors came to this country at a very 
early date. Mr. Haskell comes from Scotch ancestors and his grandparents were 
early settlers in Maine. Mr. Haskell will shortly move his present house back 
and erect a new residence, and will put in five acres to grapefruit.
 
Source: "The History of Imperial County, California," Elms and Franks Publ. Co., 
1918, pp. 437-438.