Wisconsin History Commission
(Organized under the provisions of Chapter 298, Laws of 1905, as amended by Chapter 378, Laws of 1907)
JAMES O. DAVIDSON
Governor of Wisconsin
FREDERICK J. TURNER
Professor of American History in the University of Wisconsin
REUBEN G. THWAITES
Secretary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin
HENRY E. LEGLER
Secretary of the Wisconsin Library Commission
CHARLES E. ESTABROOK
Representing Department of Wisconsin, Grand Army of the Republic
Chairman, Commissioner Estabrook
Secretary and Editor, Commissioner Thwaites
Committee on Publications, Commissioners Legler, Thwaites, and Turner
PREFACE
Frank Aretas Haskell was born at Tunbridge, Vermont, the son of Aretas and Ann (Folson) Haskell, on the 13th of July, 1828. Graduating from Dartmouth College with distinguished honors, in the class of 1854, the young man came to Madison in the autumn of that year, and entered the law firm of Orton, Atwood & Orton. His career in this profession was increasingly successful, until in 1861 it was interrupted by the outbreak of the War of Secession.