Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
NameJohn HASKINS 
2517
2517BirthGreenbush, Elizabeth, Leeds, Ontario993
FatherJames Beekman HASKINS (1794-1844)
MotherLydia MARTIN (>1796-)
Individual Notes
• Died Southern USA.992
• He drifted away 300 miles north of Ottawa in a wilderness and built a little cabin and lived the life of a hermit for a good many years subsisting on game and such produce as he could raise. Thirty-one years ago he visited the scenes of his childhood and spent a few weeks with his old neighbours. During his stay here it was my privilege to have many interviews with him and indeed it was a rare treat to hear him relate his experiences while living in his little cabin alone in the north. All at once he disappeared and at last account he had spent his declining years living with the negroes of the Southern States. Thus lived and passed away one of the strangest and most intelligent men that was ever born in Greenbush.993
• He drifted away 300 miles north of Ottawa in a wilderness and built a little cabin and lived the life of a hermit for a good many years subsisting on game and such produce as he could raise. Thirty-one years ago he visited the scenes of his childhood and spent a few weeks with his old neighbours. During his stay here it was my privilege to have many interviews with him and indeed it was a rare treat to hear him relate his experiences while living in his little cabin alone in the north. All at once he disappeared and at last account he had spent his declining years living with the negroes of the Southern States. Thus lived and passed away one of the strangest and most intelligent men that was ever born in Greenbush.993