page_title: Harriet Newell Haskell
section_title: Personal life and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Harriet Newell Haskell / Personal life and legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Haskell Memorial Entrance, from a 1908 publication. https://archive.org/details/harrietnewellhas00alde/page/n75
context_page_description: Harriet Newell Haskell was an American educator and administrator from the U.S. state of Maine. She taught from 1855 to 1860 in Waldoboro, Maine and Boston, Massachusetts. From 1860 to 1868, she was a teacher and principal at Castleton Collegiate Seminary, Vermont. Thereafter, for 39 years, she served as principal at Monticello Seminary in Godfrey, Illinois.
context_section_description: While attending Mount Holyoke, Haskell made the acquaintance of Emily Gilmore Alden, and the two became constant companions and had a common home for 55 years. Alden served as Haskell's assistant at Monticello. Though Haskell did not have children of her own, she raised two nieces. One was Lila ("Kitty") Haskell Burdick, and the other, Elizabeth Porter Haskell, was a member of Monticello's faculty during the period of 1898 to 1907. 
  Haskell died May 6, 1907, at Monticello, of heart disease. She had been ill for several weeks in her apartment at Monticello. Burial was at the family plot in Waldoboro.
  After Haskell's death, in 1908, Alden published Haskell's biography. A memorial stone wall in front of the grounds at Monticello Seminary was finished in December 1910. The wall, 1,000 feet (300 m) in length, with an elaborate arch and gateway, was erected to the memory of Haskell by the alumnae of the institution. Haskell House, a girls' dormitory at Monticello college, was dedicated on May 29, 1938. The Harriet Newell Haskell Society was established in 1963 at Monticello.
caption: Haskell memorial entrance at Monticello.
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