Haskins, Seth F. (1844-1924)

HASKINS

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Date: 10/10/2019 at 23:52:48

Seth F. Haskins
June 12, 1844 - 1924

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.28, Council Bluffs)
S. F. Haskins, Coffee, Council Bluffs, was born in Connecticut in 1844; his father was an old railroad man. In August, 1862, our subject enlisted in the Nineteenth Connecticut, and, after serving fifteen months in that regiment, was transferred to the Second Connecticut Heavy Artillery, in which he was Sergeant. He left Connecticut in the spring of 1867, and, April 19, 1880, engaged with Thurman & Co., on Pearl street, Council Bluffs. August 1, 1881, he bought out Mr. Thurman, and carried on the grocery business until he came to his present stand; he started in the coffee business January 1, 1882, keeping all kinds of the finest goods in that line, and giving employment to two assistants.