The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 295

GEORGE L. HASKINS.

Among the successful business men of Grandview is numbered George L. Haskins,
who has already built up a very gratifying trade in the automobile business. He
has perceived an opportunity and made good use of the same and is therefore now
on the highroad to prosperity. Being a young man of modern and progressive
ideas, he has made his an up-to-date establishment where practically all kinds
of repair work is done, besides having a good storage capacity for machines. Mr.
Haskins was born in Hudson, Michigan, January 30, 1883, a son of Henry B. and
Mary M. Haskins. The father was a farmer by occupation. In 1901, when our
subject was eighteen years old, the family removed to Paynesville, Minnesota,
and seven years later to Minneapolis, where the father died in 1910. The mother
afterward came to Grandview, Washington, and here passed away in 1914.

George L. Haskins was reared under the parental roof, amid farm surroundings,
and largely acquired his education in Michigan. Removing with the family to
Minnesota in 1901, he subsequently entered the furniture and undertaking
business in partnership with his brother, R. W. Haskins, at Paynesville, that
state, where they continued for seven years. Later he was engaged in the real
estate business in Minneapolis. Having heard favorable reports in regard to
conditions in the far west, he decided to come to Washington and in 1910 arrived
in Yakima. For four years he was engaged in farming on the Naches and at the end
of that time, removed to Grandview. Here his brother had located in 1910 and
together with L. D. Geaney they entered the automobile business in April, 1915.
The business grew so rapidly that in 1916 they built a fine garage and so
quickly was the capacity of this building utilized that in 1917 an addition had
to be erected, so that they now have storage for twenty cars. In their dealings
as well as in their work the firm is reliable and has therefore built up a good
business. They also maintain a thoroughly equipped repair shop which is well
fitted up in order to do any kind of automobile work. In 1917 a garage was also
opened at Mabton and in connection therewith a Ford agency was established which
covers the southern part of Yakima county and a portion of Benton county. In
1917 over one hundred cars were sold, in fact the manufacturers were unable to
deliver all of the machines. In June, 1918, the firm embarked in the wholesale
tire business under the name of the Yakima Tire Service Company at Yakima, the
management of that place being now in the hands of R. W. Haskins and in March,
1919, they opened another place at Toppenish. From there a wholesale tire
business is conducted.

In 1906 George I. Haskins was married to Fanny B. Bump, a native of Hudson,
Michigan, who passed away in 1911. On May 22,	1913, he wedded Blanch
Leisenring, also of Hudson, and they have a daughter, Mary. By the first
marriage were born two daughters, Elizabeth Vaughn and Ruth. Both Mr. and Mrs.
Haskins are very popular among the younger people of Grandview and vicinity and
often entertain their many friends at their hospitable fireside.	

Fraternally Mr. Haskins is a member of Grandview Lodge No. 196, F. & A. M.,
having joined the Masonic order in Paynesville Lodge No. 71, in Minnesota. In
this political views he is a republican but in regard to local affairs is
largely independent and his religious faith is that of the Methodist church. He
has ever been interested in movements which have for their purpose the
development and upbuilding of Grandview and Yakima county and although not a
public man or politician has done much to further prosperity here in a private
way.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.