Windham

HASKINS, Kittredge

Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, p 186 
(portrait p 186)

Kittredge HASKINS, of Brattleboro [Windham County, Vermont], was born 08 
April 1836 in Dover [Windham County, Vermont], son of Asaph and Amelia (WARD) 
HASKINS. His great grandfather, grandfather, and father served, 
respectively, in the French War, the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812. Educated in the public schools of his 
native town by a private tutor; 
commenced the study of law in the office of Messrs. Shafter & Davenport at 
Wilmington [Windham County, Vermont]; admitted to the bar of Windham County 
court 14 April 1858; immediately entered into a copartnership with the Hon. 
Charles N. DAVENPORT at Wilmington, which was dissolved in the spring of 
1861, when he removed to the village of Williamsville [Windham County, 
Vermont], where he opened an office; admitted at various dates a counsellor of 
the Supreme Court of Vermont; a counsellor, attorney, proctor and solicitor 
of the Circuit Court of the U. S. for the District of Vermont at Windsor; and 
counsellor of the Supreme Court of the U. S. at Washington, D. C. In 
November 1863 he removed to Brattleboro, pursuing the practice of his 
profession with marked success.

In politics a Democrat until the breaking out of the Rebellion, when he 
became a supporter of the administration of President LINCOLN; has acted with 
the Republican party since; has been justice of the peace since 01 December 
1861; state's attorney for Windham County; town representative of Brattleboro 
in 1872; elected to the state Senate in 1892; appointed by Presidents HAYES 
and ARTHUR as U. S. Attorney for the District of Vermont, holding the office 
until 21 June 1887; in January 1893 appointed by the Governor of Vermont one 
of the commissioners to establish, in conjunction with a similar commission on 
the part of the State of Massachusetts, a boundary line monument between the 
two states. At the organization of the Brattleboro Free Library in 1883 was 
elected one of its trustees, and has served in that capacity and as president 
of the board of trustees to the present time.

Enlisted as a volunteer, and on the organization of Company I, Sixteenth 
Regiment Vermont Volunteers, 20 September 1862, was elected and commissioned 
first lieutenant of the company. He resigned and was honorably discharged, 
by reason of disabilities incurred in the service. On his return home he 
immediately entered the government service as a civil employee in the office 
of the assistant quartermaster of volunteers at Brattleboro, doing duty there 
and at Burlington , St. Albans, and Montpelier until the close of the war. 
[The Civil War officially ended in April 1865]. Was appointed and 
commissioned captain of Company H, Twelfth Regiment Vermont Militia, and was 
appointed colonel and aid-de-camp of Governor Peter T. WASHBURN.

Is a 32nd degree Mason; has been prominently connected with the order since 
June 1857; has been M. E. Grand High Priest of the Grand Royal Arch Chapter 
of Vermont; was president of the Order of High Priesthood for many years, R. 
E. Commander of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of the state, and in 
the M. W. Grand Lodge of Vermont, has served as Grand Junior and Grand Senior 
Warden, and in June 1893 was elected to the office of R. W. Deputy Grand 
Master, which position he now holds. Has been a member of the Grand Army of 
the Republic for many years.

Episcopalian; for many years has been one of the vestry of St. Michael's 
Church of Brattleboro. Has been quite constant in his attendance upon the 
conventions of the diocese as a delegate from his parish; was elected as one 
of the lay deputies by the diocesan convention to the general convention of 
the church which met in Chicago, Illinois, in 1886, again at the city of New 
York in 1889, and at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1892. On 01 July 1860 he 
[Kittredge HASKINS] married Esther Maria, daughter of Maj. Adna B. CHILDS, of 
Wilmington [Windham County, Vermont], and had one child, who died in 1864.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly