The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-08-06
An Old N8Igh50f Talks
About N C, Haskell
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home folks. Away back in the early
COS when / was a young man teach
ing school aid getting ready to prac-
tice medicine, about what is now call
ed West Leipsic, then the only Leipsic,
as the new town was just starting,
and was then a cleared patch Of forty
acres in the back woods, the Haskell
family consisting Of the father, moth
er and five children Of whom Charley
was next to the youngest, were one Of
the pioneer families established in
this vicinity before the war, George
Haskell, Charley's father, was a coop
er BY trade but died in 1863 leaving
the mother with five young children
and with no support except the moth
er and Reual Haskell, the oldest boy, |
then about a dozen years Of age. The
mother was one Of the most courag-
c9us women / ever knew; it was only
her untiring energy and deterriina-
tion chat enabled her to keep aer chill
dren together and give them oppor-
tunity for common school education,
but her constant effort and dedre was
devoted to the welfare Of her children
ami she kept them together until they
became old enough to relieve her to
some extent by beginning their own
support and as they grew still older,
to aid her iq the support Of the fa-
mily. remember that as a young
man took part in the conducting Of
the Presbyterian Sunday School in the
village and that Charley was in the
first class Of which / was teacher.
When he was about nine years old he
went to work for an acquaintance Of
mine BY the name Of Miller on farm
some six or seven miles from town,
where he farmed until he was just
about twenty-one years Of gae. The
last two or three years on the farm
he had taught school in the Medary
district and Oakdale district near here
also the village school in his native
town, the original Leipsie. While
teaching school he devoted the nigats
to reading law. I used to see him Sat
urday afternoons, passing back and
forth on his way to the law office Of
Barr & Werner, to whom he recited
his law lessons. was always inter
ested in the Haskell children because
Of the high esteem in which Charley''
mother was held by all our neighbor:
and we all encouraged them and help
ed them in every respect. As fal
back, almost, as remember the his
tory Of our once celebrated Literar.
and Debating Society in old Leipsic
we used to have recitations by sew
: eral Of the school children of whom
! Charley was always one until he wen
to live on the farm. | think, almos
as soon as he was Of age he was ad
mitted to the practice Of law and op
ened law office in Ottawa in tn
spring Of about 1881. I remembei
comment on the unusual fact that HI
began practice alone-without any in
huence to secure him business excep
his energy and determination, but OLE
neighbors and farmers Of Libert.
township stuck to him and soon w
! knew Charley Haskell as one Of tn
most satisfactory and successful o
lawyers in the county. lie continued
in the practice for a number of year
: in this county and finally became in
E terested in general contracting work
principally on railroad construction
and continued his residence in thi
county until something like six or sew
en- years gao.
| don't suppose anybody aroun'
: here knew him better from his child
hood up to the time he moved to tn
Indian Territory than I did and
have always felt a deep interest an,
pride in what he has done While h
is democrat and I am a republican
I am just as proud as anyone coul
possibly Of his success in life. Their
IS one thing sure, Charley Haskel
has always stood for honest, mora
government and is one Of the mos
uncompromising fighters I ever saw
When he makes up his mind that any
thing is right, you cant buy him o
Z scare him out Of fighting for it. What
ever he has made out Of himself sine
[ he left his mothers home and wen
to work on Miller's farm up to th
present time, is due 10 the right star
his mother gave him and to the untir
ing energy and courage Of the man
and to think Of Charley Haskell i
tie future as the Governor Of Okla
homa viii make me feel just as prou
as though he really weM my own bo
and know that that is the same wa.
lall the old settlers around Leipsi