Haselton, Ira (1797-1869)

Name:

Haselton, Ira (1797-1869)

Title:

Member, National Republican Party, 1828
Member, Whig Party, 1839

Other Names:

Hazelton, Ira

Born:

09/22/1797

Birthplace:

Haverhill, MA

Died:

12/01/1869

Death Location:

Concord, NH

Residence:

Haverhill, MA 1797-1804
Portsmouth, NH 1804-1868
Concord, NH 1868-1869

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Goldsmith, Silversmith, Jeweler 1818-1835
Stove Dealer 1834-39
Iron Foundry Operator 1845, 1851, 1856, 1860

Father:

Haselton, James (1766-1849)

Mother:

Gordon, Susanna (1772-1857)

Relations:

Partnership, Haselton & Hill, Portsmouth, 1819-1820
(Ira Haselton and Joseph Hill)
Partnership, Ira Haselton, Jonathan Morrison, and George P. Willard, -1835.
Guardian: William Simes of Portsmouth (after he was decreed insane July 14, 1868)

Siblings:
Haselton, Mary (1794-1812; b. Haverhill, MA)
Haselton, Daniel (1795-1852); m. Mary Elizabeth Hill, sister of Joseph Hill
Haselton, Benjamin Baldwin (1799-1872; b. Haverhill, MA; m. Mary Elizabeth Miller)
Haselton, Susanna (1804-1805, Portsmouth, NH)
Haselton, Eliza Mehitable (1806-1880; b. Portsmouth, NH; m. Robert H. Palmer of Dover, NH; res. Pittsburgh, PA; no children)
Haselton, Susan Gordon (1809-; b. Portsmouth, NH; m. Wm. H. Byram of Gardiner, ME, 1838)
Haselton, James (1811-1812, Portsmouth, NH)
Haselton, John (1814-1831; b. Portsmouth, NH)
Haselton, James Cutler (1817-; b. Portsmouth, NH; m. Mary Elizabeth Hanson)

Spouse:

Abigail Gray Kimball, April 24, 1823, Dover, NH

Children:

Ezra Kimball, born February 23, 1824; died April 19, 1829
James Augustine, born February 25, 1827; res. Suncook NH
Mary Abigail, born July 3, 1828
Ann Eliza, born July 19,1831; res. Suncook NH
Ellen Maria, born August 16, 1834; died July 5, 1874
John Burgin, born February 4, 1839; married Hannah P. Gale; res. Suncook NH
Frederick Kimball, born December 30,1840; died October 6,1841

Notes:

Cause of Death: Chronic Insanity; Consumption.

William B. Lapham, Compiler. Genealogical Sketches of Robert and John Hazelton and Some of Their Descendants With Brief Notices of Other New England Families Bearing This Name. (Portland, Maine: F. H. Hazelton, 1892), 39-40, 53.

Henry N. Flynt and Martha Gandy Fales, The Heritage Foundation Collection of Silver. With Biographical Sketches of New England Silversmiths, 1625-1825. (Old Deerfield, Massachusetts: The Heritage Foundation, 1968), 243-44.

Charles S. Parsons, New Hampshire Silver. (Cranbury, New Jersey: Adams Brown Company, 1983), 109.

Portsmouth Directories, 1821,1834,1839,1851,1856,1860.

"New Store, Jewelry, Silver, Plated, & Britannia Ware, Haselton & Hill" Advertisement, Portsmouth Oracle, Portsmouth, NH, July 17, 1819, 4.

"Dissolution of Copartnership" Advertisment, Portsmouth Oracle, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, December 23, 1820, 3.

"Marriage Notice," New-Hampshire Patriot, Concord, New Hampshire, May 5, 1823.

"Watchmakers & Goldsmiths" Advertisement, Portsmouth Journal of Literature and Politics, Portsmouth, NH, March 6, 1824, 1.

"Dissolution of Copartnership" Advertisement, Portsmouth Journal of Literature and Politics, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, April 18, 1835.

"Death Notice," Portsmouth Journal of Literature and Politics, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, December 4, 1869.