Identifier: newyorkstatesprov2harr (find matches)
Title: New York State's prominent and progressive men : an encyclopaedia of contemporaneous biography
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Harrison, Mitchell Charles, 1870-
Subjects: Civic leaders
Publisher: (New York) : New York Tribune
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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,first president of Harvard College, and of Thomas Oakes, cousinof Uriah Oakes, Harvards fourth president. Their son, RobertHaskins, married Rebecca Emerson, daughter of William Em-erson, a chaplain in the Revolutionary army, and uncle of RalphWaldo Emerson. Thomas Haskins, son of Robert and RebeccaHaskins, married Mary Soren of Boston, and was the grand-father of the subject of this sketch. Charles Waldo Haskins was bom in Brooklyn, New York, onJanuary 11,1852, the son of Waldo Emerson Haskins and AmeliaRowan Cammeyer Haskins, his father being a broker and hismother a daughter of Charles Cammeyer, a merchant of NewYork. He was educated in private schools and in the BrooklynPolytechnic Institute, and was intended for the career of a civilengineer. Preferring commercial life, however, he obtained em-ployment in 1869 in the accounting department of Frederic But-terfield & Co. of New York. After five years service he wentabroad for two years for study and travel. On his return he 148
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CHARLES WALDO HASKINS 149 entered his fathers brokerage office and remained there for someyears. In 1886 he opened an office of his own as a public expert ac-countant, and nine years later he formed a partnership withElijah W. Sells, under the name of Haskins & Sells. That firmnow has a wide reputation throughout the country, and enjoysone of the largest patronages in that line of business. Itsengagements include the special examination of accounts forbankers, investors, and large corporations, the periodical auditingof accounts for railroads and other companies, the reorganizationof bookkeeping systems for corporations, individuals, and mu-nicipalities, and, in brief, all sorts of expert accounting. Whenthe New York State law was passed establishing a Board ofExaminers for the examination of those wishing to become certi-fied accountants, Mr. Haskins was made first president of theboard. He is also president of the New York State Society ofCertified Public Accountants. In 1893 he

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