Frank W. Haskins (1896)

HASKINS, HOWELL, JONES

Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:02:59

The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, February 21, 1896
Page 5, Column 3

Frank Haskins Dead

Frank Haskins died at his home at Osceola Wednesday morning of diabetes. C. D. Howell received a telegram at nine o’clock Wednesday morning from J. G. Haskins stating that Frank was dead and requesting that he and Mrs. Howell who is a sister of Frank, come to Osceola at once. They left on the afternoon train for that city. The funeral will probably occur today

Frank Haskins grew to manhood in Winterset. He was the only son of J. G. Haskins who was in the lumber business at this town for many years. He was married to Miss Calla Jones, a niece of Jeff Jones, in 1880, and immediately went into the lumber business at Greenfield where he was very successful. Later he purchased his father’s interest in a bank at Osceola and has resided in that city since. He has been quite sick for over a year at his death was not unexpected.
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The Weekly Osceola Sentinel
Osceola, Iowa
Thursday, February 20, 1896
Page 5, Column 4

Death of F. W. Haskins

Mr. Frank Haskins died at his home in Osceola at 6:30 Wednesday morning, February 19th, at the age of thirty-five years, after a lingering illness of two years. The deceased had been cashier of the Iowa State Bank for the past six years and was one of Osceola’s most liberal and progressive young business men.

His boyhood was spent in Winterset from where he moved to Greenfield and was elected to the position of cashier in Mr. Dan Heaton’s bank when quite young. He afterwards went to Des Moines where his father, J. G. Haskins, was president of the American Savings Bank, and was made teller. In October, 1889, when the Iowa State Bank was organized, Mr. Haskins was elected cashier, which position he held until his death.

Mr. Haskins’ death, just in the beginning of his manhood, has saddened the hearts of many, but none more than his father, to whom the death of his only son is doubly hard. To his wife and two children, John and Annette, aged fourteen and five years respectively, and one sister, Mrs. A. Howell, of Winterset, the loss is most touching.

He was a member of the Baptist church in Osceola. Rev. Jacobs will deliver the sermon Friday morning, February 21st at 10:30 after which the remains will be interred in the Osceola Cemetery.

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