Martin A. Sweeney

The Remarkable Life of Albert Haskell, Jr. (eBook, PDF)

The King of Crown City

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Remarkable Life of Albert Haskell, Jr.: The King of Crown City isthe first comprehensive portrait of the Cortland, New York schoolboy who forged a path of his own that garnered him a reputation in New York State and the Northeast of the nation as an accomplished lawyer, politician, banker, civic organizer, supporter of higher education, and promoter of industrial expansion.As a district attorney, Haskell crossed paths with the prohibition government agents, murderers, white slavers, members of the "Black Hand" gang, and the Ku Klux Klan. He successfully prosecuted those who were part of a tubercular cattle scandal. As a state assemblyman, he was an advocate for the state's dairy farmers during the violent milk strikes in the 1930s. Haskell co-founded a chapter of Rotary International in 1919 and played a pivotal role in the 1950s in making the place of his birth "the typewriter capital of the world." Based on a trove of scrapbooks assembled by Haskell through his lifetime and kept by his grandchildren, this biography reveals exactly why Haskell's life of integrity and public service merits the title of "King of 'Crown City.'"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761882145
• Artikelnr.: 74829560

Autorenporträt

Martin A. Sweeney is a retired Unites States history teacher. He currently serves as the historian for the town and village of Homer, New York. As a public historian he has a regular column on local history in Homer's newspaper, The Homer News.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Prologue
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Formative Years
Chapter 2: The Years of Arts and Letters
Chapter 3: A Young, Aspiring Lawyer
Chapter 4: The Great Cortland Rotary Hijinks
Chapter 5: The New D.A. Goes After Bootleggers with Izzy and Moe
Chapter 6: Bathtub Gin, Bootleggers, and the Black Hand
Chapter 7: The People vs White Slavers, Faith Healers and a Murderer
Chapter 8: Haskell Takes on the Klan
Chapter 9: The Tragic Demise of Alton Howe
Chapter 10: Tubercular Cattle Scandal
Chapter 11: Another Murder Case and Retirement
Chapter 12: A Continued Career in the Law
Chapter 13: The Political Arena
Chapter 14: The Milk Strikes
Chapter 15: Civic Engagement
Chapter 16: Promotion of Economic Expansion in the 1950s
Chapter 17: "Elder Statesman" of Cortland's Industrial Growth
Chapter 18: A Man of Faith
Epilogue
Chapter Notes
Sources
Index