name: Jan Charest email: Jchares2@maine.rr.com message: Taken from "The Centennial History of Harrison, Maine" published in 1909 by the Southworth Printing Company Portland, Maine. DANIEL HASKELL CASWELL, son of Zebina, deserves special honorable mention in this review of the native people of Harrison. During the first fifteen years of his life, he was at home giving faithful service to his parents. At sixteen, he went to the Penobscot River and was employed for the next two years in lumbering. Next he was in Boston one year. In 1856, he left Boston in a ship for Buenos Aires, South America, and stopped at Montevideo six years. In 1863, he embarked in a sailing vessel for San Francisco doubling Cape Horn--a voyage of three months, eight days. He was in Sacremento and Nevada, the next two years and a half; then back to San Francisco, and to New York, via the Isthmus. This adventurer next finds himself settled with a wife and young family in Nashville, Tennessee, where he resided twenty years. Here he erected his first oil mill for the extraction of oil from cottonseed. He continued the business of construction of similar mills in many different places. He is the oldest man in that business now living. He has built oil mills in Alabama and Georgia, and many in Texas. He removed from Nashville to Austin, Texas in 1895, and settled permanently in that city, where he has since operated the cotton-seed oil business on an extensive scale. In 1899, he came home to his native town and in token of his reverence for the place of his birth, and the kind parents, long since passed away, he remodeled and repaired the dilapidated buildings, in substantial manner. He also purchased the old homestead of the first Lowell family at Caswell's Corner and remodeled and improved the house and outbuildings for the purpose of a summer residence for his family. In 1906, Mr. Caswell added to real estate belongings by the purchase of the farm, one -third mile from Harrison Village on the Norway Road overlooking Anonymous Pond, (formerly owned by Thedore Ingalls) and made thorough alteration and improvements to this pleasant lakeside home, to which has been given the pretty title of "Lone Star Cottage", for the great state of their adopted life residence. But our returned townsman was not yet content with these testimonials of his regard for his native town and its people. In 1907, he became impressed with the urgent needs of the Harrison Public Library Association, and at once came to the aid of that institution with a generous gift of $1,700 for the purchase of the eligible site, and for the erection thereon of a costly and substantial building for the reception and accommodation of its growing library, and for the business and social meetings of the association. That building is, in the autumn of 1908, a notable addition to the modern style of architecture in our village, and its exterior and interior construction, is a conspicuous honor to the memory of the noble hearted donor for whom it is appropriately named, "The Caswell Library". His connection back to Taunton, Mass is as follows: Direct Descendants of Job Caswell 1 Job Caswell b: Abt. 1737 . +Elizabeth Caswell m: August 12, 1762 2 Simeon Caswell b: March 1763 in Taunton, Mass. d: October 20, 1844 in Harrison, Maine +Rachael Staples b: August 16, 1766 in Taunton, Mass. d: September 06, 1851 in Harrison, Maine m: December 08, 1785 3 Zebina Caswell b: February 13, 1800 d: 1875 Dorcas A. Haskell b: in Harrison, Maine m: September 22, 1822 4 Daniel Haskell Caswell b: November 14, 1836 +Louise Bradwell b: in Dayton, Ohio 5 Daniel Haskell Caswell b: December 25,1875 in Austin, Texas