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From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin, publ. 1901- page 834-835
SAMUEL E. HASSELL, M.D., of Lancaster, Grant county, is numbered among the older physicians of the county in years of practice, as he settled in Lancaster in 1872, and since then has been in continuous and active employment in his profession. Dr. HASSELL was born in Platteville, Grant county, July 9, 1846, and is a son of the well-known and venerated pioneer clergyman, Rev. Richard HASSELL, a native of Leeds, Yorkshire, England, born in 1818.
Rev. Richard HASSELL was married in England to Ann NEWSON, and with his wife came to the United States and located in Grant county, Wis., about 1840. Here he officiated as a Congregational pastor for a number of years, and then removed to Dane county. He was one of the earliest ministers of his denomination in the State, and was a co-worker with the Rev. Samuel W. EATON, who became pastor of the Congregational Church at Lancaster in 1847, and afterward became famous as the chaplain of the 7th Wis. V.I. in the Civil war. Rev. Mr. HASSELL was active in the ministry for the long period of fifty years, but is now with his wife, who is but three months his junior, living in retirement in Seattle, Wash. They have had born to them six children - five sons and one daughter, of whom the latter died in early life. The eldest son, Stoner, was a member of the 32d Wis. V.I. is the war of the Rebellion, and died soon after its close, from the effects of a wound received while in the service; Dr. Samuel E. is the second born of the sons; Kenrich, the third son, resides at Redfield, S. Dak.; Rev. Richard Burton, the fourth son, is a Congregational clergyman, and resides at Everett, on Puget Sound; Angel James, the youngest of the family, is a resident of Seattle.
Dr. Samuel E. HASSELL was primarily educated in the public schools of Dane county, Wis., after quitting which he was, for three years, a student at Beloit College, and then pursued a course of study at Grinnell College, in Beloit, under Drs. JOHNSON and TAGGART, in 1868, and was graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College, in Chicago, in 1872. He first practiced his profession at Jasper, Iowa, but soon decided to settle down to practice in his native county of Grant, Wis., where he has ever since been favored with a large and first-class patronage, and where he stands in the front rank of the practicing physicians of the county and State.
Dr. HASSELL married Miss Ora Norwood COX, a daughter of George H. COX, a pioneer of Lancaster and its first postmaster, the duties of which office he assumed in January, 1838. Mr. COX also erected some of the first buildings on the present site of Lancaster, and his family were among the most prominent of the early settlers of Grant county. To the Doctor and wife has been born one child, Edith, now the wife of Dr. W. T. BROWN, of Platteville, Wis. In politics Dr. HASSELL is a Republican.
This biography generously submitted by Carol Holmbeck