LEGEND: He always celebrated his birthday on Thanksgiving Day saying that he had been born in the Fall. After grandson Robert L. Haskin was born November 28, 1948, he insisted that he knew all along that his birthday was November 28!
NATURALIZATION: Chicago, 7 October 1904, Circuit Court, Cook County, Illinois. Witnesses Sigmund Odalski and Andrew Jasinski. Gives birth date as Oct. 15, 1870 (wrong) and arrival in New York as August 5, 1893 (no passenger ships arrived New York on this date). Back of index card says D.I. (Declaration of Intentions) Aug. 5, 1893, Common Pleas Ct. Luzerne Co. (Pennsylvania) shows arrival date as Mar. 26, 1893 (no ships arrived NY on this date)! On this date he lived at 40 Columbia Street, Chicago.