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H. J. Haskell
Henry Joseph Haskell (1874-1952) was an American writer.
Born on March 8, 1874 in Huntington, Ohio, the youngest child of the Rev. Henry Charles Haskell and his wife Margaret Bell Haskell, Haskell...view moreHenry Joseph Haskell (1874-1952) was an American writer.
Born on March 8, 1874 in Huntington, Ohio, the youngest child of the Rev. Henry Charles Haskell and his wife Margaret Bell Haskell, Haskell had been on the staff of The Kansas City Star for 54 years at the time of his death in 1952, and had been editor for the paper since 1928. Under his leadership, The Star won Pulitzer prizes for its editorial excellence in 1933 and 1944.
Haskell was also the author of two books, This Was Cicero (1942) and The New Deal in Old Rome (First Edition, 1939; Revised Edition, 1947).
He married his first wife, Isabel Cummings, in 1901, with whom he had his only son, Henry Cummings Haskell. Following Isabel’s death in 1923, Haskell married his second wife, Katherine Wright, with whom he had been friends since their college days at Oberlin College, in 1926. Katherine passed away in 1929, and Haskell married his last wife, Agnes Lee Hadley, the widow of former Missouri governor Herbert Spencer Hadley, in 1931.
Haskell died in Kansas City, Missouri on August 20, 1952, aged 78.view less