The record-union., 1893-09-22
DEATH OF DIR. HAsWRLL.
It Occurred Yesterday in the City of
Oakland.

It Occurred Yesterday in the City of
Oakland.
DIR. C. S. HasweIl, an old-time resi-
dent of Sacramento. died at IL o'clock
yesterday morning at the residence of
his son-in-law, j. w. Reeves, in Oak
land. He was we'll known, not only in
this city, but all over the State, as man
OF upright character, broad intelligence,
noble impulses and kindly disposition.
His life has been devoted to the elevation
OF his fellow men and he will go down to
his grave honored and lamented by
wide circle of friends.
DIR. Charles Salem Haswell was born in
bennington Center, VT, March q, 1915.
He was the son of Anthony Haswell, J,
well-known journalist of his day. An
thOny Hasweu was proprietor aud editor
of the Vermont Gazette, the first news
paper published in Vermont; and the
paper remained in the ownership of his
family for more than forty years. DR..
HasWell was the youngest of a family of
sixteen children, of whom Mrs. Eliza
Harwood OF Ontario, Cal, alone survives.
She has reached the remarkable age of 93
years, and is still in full possession of her
faculties. Each of the Doctors brothers
and sisters lived to be very Old and re-
tained their mental and physical vigor
well-preSerVed to the end. He was left
an orphan in infancy, and removed with
the remainder Of the family to Northern
Ohio. January /, 1857, he married Fanny
Patchens daughter of DR.. Josiah Patchen.
He came TO California at an early day and
settled in Sutter County, in the vicinity
of Nicolaus. They had a family OF ten
children, six OF whom -four sons and two
daughters surviye-Charles, Edward,
Fred and Frank Haswell and Mrs. w.
II. Mills and Mrs. j. w. Reeves.
Dr.. Haswell was one Of the organizers
of the Free Soil party, and in 1856 was
the candidate of that party for joint Sena-
tor for Yuba and Sutter Counties. He
was defeated, but later was elected AS
semblyman from the same district, and
subsequently joint Senator.
He was an outspoken advocate of the
temperance cause, and was prominently
identified with the Independent Order of
Good TempIars in this State. At the ses-
sion Of the Grand Lodge of that order
held in this city in 1S63-thirty years ago
he was elected Grand Chief remplar,
and was four times successively re-
elected. During these years, and subse-
quent thereto, he was frequently heard
upon the platform in advocacy OF that
cause.
He was a great lover of the children,
and shortly after his removal to Sacra-
mento, where he came to take up the prac-
tice of medicine, he assembled the chill
dren in the SiXth-street NJ. L. Church
and organized the Templars' Band of
Hope. The organiZation--the Sacramento
Band of Hope-is still in existence. This
was in November, 1866. From this
nucleus the State organization has grown,
numbering some 1900.
Dir. Haswell was prominently identified
with Odd Fellowship, uniting first with
that order in Sutter County and trans
ferring his membership TO Capitol Lodge,
No. 81, of this city, in which he held
membership at the time of his death, and
under whose auspices he will be inferred.
He rose to the distinction OF Grand Master
of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows Of
this State
He was also member of Union Lodge,
No. 5S, L. and A. NJ, and charter mem
Der OF Costumes Tribe, No. ii, of the
Improved Order of Red Men of this city,
being one of the founders of that organ
ization some twenty-five years ago.
Some sixteen years ago he forsook his
profession to enter the ministry, and has
been in active service as pastor in the
Methodist Episcopal Church, his last
charge being at Elk Grove, to which ne
had but recently been reappointed.
He was always the friend Of the down.
trodden and oppressed, a champion of the
colored race, and in the days when his
nelgn DOrS ana tnOSe ali ABOUT MN were
intensely pro-slayery, often at the peril
of his life he was an open and outspoken
advocate of freedom.
In the earlier days he kept a general
merchandise store in Sutter County.
From conscientious motives he declined
TO deal in or to handle in any way intox-
icating beverages and also refused to sell
any goods on Sunday.
DR.. Haswell's body will be brought
here next Monday from Oakland, and
the funeral will take place at 2 P. NJ. on
that day from Odd Fellows Temple, un-
der the auspices of Capitol Lodge