The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-08-29
No. 81
Kittredge
'HaskinS
Tuesday, Sept. l,
Amasa T. Eddy

Col. Kittredge Haskins, former con
gresham, present postmaster of Brat
tIeboro, attorney, former municipal
court Judge, and man who has held at
various times most of the Offices within
the gift of his townsmen as well as
several within the gift of the voters
of the county and state, was an officer
in the Union army, but owing to an in
jury was obliged to resign from active
service before the regiment Of which he
was a member saw actual fighting.
Later he served for several years as
civilian employee in the quartermaster 5
department of the state.
Kittredge Haskins was born in Dow
er, April :, 1896, a son of Asaph and
Amelia (Ward) Haskins. He came of
fighting stock for his great grandfath-
CT, grandfather and father served re
spectivelv in the French war, the RevO-
mtionarv war and in the War of 1912.
He was educated in the public schools
of his native town and by a private
| tutor and began the study of law in
the office of Shafter & Davenport in
| Wilmington. He was admitted to the
/ bar of Windham county April IA, 1888,
and entered Immediately into co
partnership with Charles \. Davenport
at Wilmington. This partnership was
dissolved in the spring of 1861 and Mr.
Haskins moved to Williamsville and
opened law office there.
In August. 1862. Mr.. Haskins enlist
ed as a private in Company l, 10th
Vermont regiment. at WilliamsvilIe
He was elected and commissioned Il
short time later first lieutenant of the
company. The regiment organized al
Brattleboro, going into camp here Oct
9. 1t was mustered into the United
States service Oct. %.
Lieut.. Haskins was appointed acting
regimental adiutant while the regiment
was in camp at Camp Vermont, neal
Washington. and later was acting quar-
termaster of the regiment. He wa,
post adiutant to Gen. +. II. StoughtOn
who was for a time in command of tn,
ID Vermont brigade. Of which the l6tl
regiment was a part 1t was while
serving as quartermaster of the regi
ment that Lieut.. Haskins was iniure,
. while lifting n heavy ease in the fall o
$50, which finally compelled him to re
r sign from the service i'm March, 1863
because of disability,
After his discharge he moved t.
Brattleboro and was appointed civi
4cmpl0ve in the Office of the assistan
: quartermaster of volunteers, doing dut
here and in Burlington, st. Adams an,
! Montpelier. He was appointed an
commissioned captain of Company II
10Th regiment, Vermont militia, and i
1869 was appointed aide-de-camp wit
the rank of colonel on the staff of Go,
Peter It. Washburn
Col Haskins has been a Justice o
the peace since 1861 with the exceptio
of the eight years he served in Cor
Ieress and in addition to that he ha
held many important Offices. He wa
states attorney of Windham county i
t1S7l-2 and United States attorney fo
< the district of Vermont from Octobe
t 1850. to July, 1897.
/ Politically Col. Haskins started /
life as Democrat, but at the breakin
l.. out of the Rebellion he became a SUI
t rorter of President Lincoln and sine
i then has been an ardent Republican
He represented Brattleboro in the stat
Legislature in 1929, 1867 and !