Background
Haswell, Alanson Mason was born on June 29, 1847 in of America missionary parents, Maulmain, Burma, E. India. Son of Review James Madison and Jane Matilda (Mason) Haswell.
Haswell, Alanson Mason was born on June 29, 1847 in of America missionary parents, Maulmain, Burma, E. India. Son of Review James Madison and Jane Matilda (Mason) Haswell.
Education high school, Clinton, New York, and preparatory department Madison (now Colgate) U.
Viewing, classifying and selling 370,000 acres of the United States Government land, granted to Saint L. and San Francisco Railway Company, 1868-1883, and continued in land business on own account till 1918. Member House of Representatives, 1887. An author of Missouri local option law.
Society National Christian Citizenship League, 1894-1897.
Member House of Representatives, 1887. Member State History Society of Missouri, Missouri History Society, League American.
Married Lauretta C. Butler, of Springfield, Missouri, March 11, 1873.