Biography
Haskell was born in Springfield, Vermont in 1842, a son of Franklin and Almira (Chase) Haskell. His siblings included John G. Haskell. Haskell moved with his parents in 1855 to Lawrence, Kansas. He returned to Vermont to attend schools in Springfield in 1857 and 1858. After beginning work as a shoe merchant, he moved west in 1859 to follow the Pike's Peak Gold Rush. He lived in Pike's Peak Country, Pikes Peak, Colorado until 1861, when he returned to Missouri to enter Union ranks after war broke out. During the American Civil War, Civil War, Haskell served as an assistant to the quartermaster of the Union Army in Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, and the Indian Territory in 1861 and 1862.Post-Civil War years
He left the army and entered Williston’s Seminary in Easthampton, Massachusetts in 1863 for further education. He graduated from Yale College in 1865, when he was 23. Afterward, he returned to Lawrence, Kansas, where he engaged in the shoe business from 1865 to 1867. He entered politics with the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party and was a member of the Kansas House of Representatives in 1872, 1875 and 1876, serving as Speaker (politics), Speaker of the House in 1876. In 1876 Haskell was elected a Republican Party (United States), Republican from Kansas's 2nd congressional district to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1877 until his death in Washington, D.C. on December 16, 1883. There, he served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Natural Resources, Committee on Indian Affairs from 1881 to 1883. He believed in education for Native American children and supported legislation to authorize construction of three off-reservation Indian boarding schools, to be located in Nebraska, Kansas, and Indian Territory. He gained location of the Kansas school in his hometown of Lawrence. It opened with 22 elementary school students but soon grew. It was named Haskell Indian Nations University, Haskell Institute in his honor four years after his death. His body was returned to Lawrence, where he was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery. Haskell had married and had a family. Among his descendants was grandson Hal Holmes, Otis Halbert Holmes, who also became a politician. Holmes grew up in Eastern Washington, and served eight terms from there as a US Representative (R-WA).Legacy and honors
* The off-reservation Indian boarding school that he secured in Lawrence was named the Haskell Institute in 1887 in his honor. Since the mid-20th century, it has developed as the Haskell Indian Nations University. * He is the namesake of Haskell County, Kansas, Haskell County in southwestern KansasSee also
* Haskell Indian Nations University * List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899)References
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* Retrieved on 2008-02-14 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Haskell, Dudley C. 1842 births 1883 deaths Speakers of the Kansas House of Representatives Republican Party members of the Kansas House of Representatives Union Army officers Gold prospectors American gold prospectors Yale College alumni Politicians from Lawrence, Kansas People of Kansas in the American Civil War People from Springfield, Vermont Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Kansas 19th-century American politicians