Early Life and Education
Born near Leipsic, Ohio in 1860, Haskell was the son of a cooper who died when the boy was three years old. He learned to work hard to gain what he wanted. At the age of 10, he started working as a farm boy for a farmer named Miller in Putnam County, Ohio, where he lived and worked for eight years as he grew into adulthood. Miller was a school teacher, but as the young Haskell had to work, he had little time to attend school. Mrs. Miller taught him at home and Haskell earned a teaching certificate at age 17.
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