Thomas H. Haskell

[4] Haskell was accepted to enter Bowdoin College in 1862,[4] but instead served as a soldier in the American Civil War,[3] entering the 25th Maine Regiment of Infantry, Colonel Francis Fessenden, and served as a non-commissioned officer with his regiment in Virginia.

It was a nine months' regiment, and after his discharge, in the summer of 1863, he entered the office of Judge Morrill, of Auburn, Androscoggin County, as a student at law.

[3][4] He served as a member of the Portland City Council, and as county attorney for a part of a term, in 1870, being appointed by the court to fill a vacancy, and again in 1878.

He was for a time the law partner of the late Judge Goddard of the Superior Court for Cumberland County, of former Minister to Sweden W. W. Thomas Jr., and of Nathan Webb at the time Webb was appointed United States District Judge for Maine in 1882.

[4] In 1881 Haskell was appointed by Governor Plaisted to a commission to investigate abuses in the Reform School, and wrote and secured the passage of a law approved March 15, 1883 to govern that institution.