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FRANK A. HASKELL
Vol. 3, p. 971-972

A resident of Oklahoma since 1904 and of the City of Tulsa since
1913. Mr. Haskell is vice president and genera manager of the Okla
Oil Company, is a prominent figure in connection with the operations
in the oil and natural-gas fields of this state and acquired his
initial experience in the oil producing business when a youth, in
Pennsylvania, his association with this line of enterprise having
continued during the long intervening years and definite and worthy
success having attended his efforts, the while he is a recognized
authority in the details of the important industry.

Mr. Haskell claims the historic old metropolis of the Keystone state
as the place of his nativity and is a scion of a sterling family, of
English lineage, that was founded in New England in the colonial era
of our national history, his great grandfather, Capt. Job Haskell,
having served in the army of General Washington in the War of the
Revolution and having held commission as captain of his New England
company, so that the subject of this review is eligible for
membership in the noble patriotic order, the Society of the Sons of
the American Revolution.

Frank H. Haskell was born in the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
on the 2d of June 1868, and is a son of Harvey M. and Amelia (MILES)
Haskell, the former of whom was born at Tunbridge, Orange County,
Vermont, in 1831, and the latter of whom was born in the City of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, her home being now at Pleasantville,
Venango County, that state, where she has resided since the death of
her husband, in 1887.

Of the five children four are now living and the first born was he
whose name introduces this article. Harvey M. Haskell was a son of
Job Haskell, Jr., who passed his active life as a substantial farmer
in Orange County, Vermont, the family having been one of no little
prominence and influence in that section of the old Green Mountain
State for many years.

Harvey M. Haskell was reared to adult age under the conditions and
influences of the old homestead farm in New England and was indebted
to the schools of his native state of his early educational
discipline. About the time of attaining to his legal majority he went
to Madison, the capital of the State of Wisconsin, in company with
his older brother, Frank A. Haskell, who was a gallant soldier in a
Vermont regiment in the Civil War and who took part in numerous
important engagements, including the famous battle of Gettsburg: he
later wrote a careful and concise history of this sanguinary battle
and this is looked upon today as the most authentic and authoritative
published record of the momentous battle. In the early '60's Harvey
M. Haskell served as the clerk of the county court of Dane county,
Wisconsin, of which the now picturesque and metropolitan little City
of Madison is the judicial center, but he returned to the East after
remaining a few years in the Badger State.

In Pennsylvania he became one of the pioneers in the development of
the oil industry, and after establishing his home at Pleasantville,
Venango County, that state, he effected the organization of the
Citizens National Bank, of which he served in turn as cashier and
president, besides having continued his association with the
production of oil in the Pennsylvania fields. His political
allegiance was given to the republican party but he was essentially a
business man and manifested no ambition for political office.

Frank M. Haskell fully availed himself of the advantages of the
public schools of Pleasantville, Pennsylvania, and supplemented this
discipline by a course of higher academic study in Allegheny College,
at Meadville, that state. He was nineteen years of age at the time of
his father's death, and as the eldest of the children he was called
upon to assume supervision of the various business interests with
which his father had been connected. During the intervening years he
had never entirely severed his active association with the oil
industry, and he has been identified with producing activities in the
oil fields of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Kentucky, Kansas and Oklahoma, so that he has kept pace with the
development of this enterprise in the new fields that have been
successively opened in these different states of the Union, his broad
experience having given him authoritative knowledge of the business
in all of its details.

As previously stated, Mr. Haskell came to Oklahoma Territory in
1904, and he has been one of the leaders in developing and exploring
the great oil and natural gas resources of the commonwealth, both
under the territorial and state regimes. He is identified with the
Okla Oil Company, and for seven years prior to extending his
activities in states farther to the west he had held the position of
manager of the Associated Producers of Illinois. At the present time
his time and attention are given largely to his executive and
technical duties as vice president and general manager of the Okla
Oil Company, which has extensive holdings and controls large
producing properties in the Oklahoma oil and gas fields.

Mr. Haskell is a stockholder in the National Bank of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, and has other important capitalistic investments in the
East, as well as in Oklahoma. In national politics he is a
republican, but in local affairs, where no general economic and
government issues are involved, he gives his support to the men and
measurers meeting the approval of his judgment and without being in
the least constrained by strict partisan lines.

Reverting to the agnatic genealogy of Mr. Haskell, it may be
recorded that he is a direct descendant of William Haskell, who
immigrated from England to America in 1632 and established his
residence in the historic old City of Salem, Massachusetts.

June 24, 1896 recorded the marriage of Mr. Haskell to Miss Jane M.
BROWN, who was born at Pleasantville, Pennsylvania, and who was a
childhood schoolmate of her husband. They have one son and two
daughters, namely: Richard M., Frances K., and Rebecca K. Mrs.
Haskell is a daughter of Alexander W. and Minerva (MITCHELL) Brown,
both natives of the State of Pennsylvania and representative of
honored colonial families. Mr. Brown was prominently identified in
his native state, where he continued to reside until his death.

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