Brief Life History of William Sloan
When William Sloan HASKELL was born on 24 September 1814, in Garland, Penobscot, Maine, United States, his father, John Smith Haskell, was 35 and his mother, Sarah Elizabeth Murray, was 32. He married Ruth Fogg LAWRENCE on 3 July 1837, in Dexter, Penobscot, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Maine, United States in 1870. He died on 16 January 1898, in Garland, Penobscot, Maine, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Garland, Penobscot, Maine, United States.
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- Wm S Haskell, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: William Sloan HASKELL - Published information: birth-name: William Sloan HASKELL
- William P. Haskell, "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907"
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1816
Historical Boundaries: 1816: Penobscot, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Penobscot, Maine, United States
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Askell with prosthetic H-, from Old Norse Áskell, a shortened form of Ásketill (see Axtell ). The personal name was also popular among the Normans, sometimes in the form Anskell (with ancient Germanic Ans- substituted for As-), which explains why the name occurs in post-Conquest England in counties not settled by Vikings. Its appearance as a surname is often disguised by altered pronunciations; metathesis of /sk/ to /ks/, spelled -x-, for example, has given rise to Axtell . The Normans frequently used the name in Frankish forms; see Askin , Haskin , Hasty , and Astin . For the name in the Isle of Man see Castell .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the personal name Khaskl, a Yiddish form of the Hebrew name Yeḥezqel (see Ezekiel ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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