1860 US census Fayetteville, with parents etc.George T Haswell age 22 Grocery Merchant personal estate value S500
135In the early 1860s was one of the agents who assessed destitute families for War Tax Scrip payments in Fayette (from History of Fayette)
In 1862 he appears to have been a member of the firm Haswell brothers of Millican Texas
132in 1864 was in firm of Lewis & Haswell, and by 1866 was with father as Haswell & Son
132According to Todd Farmerie- he also started a second family in Austin, with Caroline _____, but by 1880, she was in Savannah, Georgia, and in 1900 in Manhattan, with her daughter, who is said to have written letters to her proud father.
1321870 census Brazos Texas
1880 census Brazos Texas
According to Tood Farmerie- In 1884, he went to Denver, Col., and appears there in the 1885 census with wife Henrietta ('Etta') M., b. ca. 1849, Germany, and also in the 1888 and 1889 city directories (at 1415 Champa St.).
In 1880 Todd Farmerie says all three wives were alive, making George a triple bigamist!
Galveston Daily news 1 Feb 1882 says that he has been subcontracted to start the foundations of the state capitol at Austin
Galveston Daily news 11 Feb 1882 says that Deputy Sheriff George haswell was added to the committee to join the legislature
1889 Mary Walker says George is in Denver Colorado
111Todd Farmerie- . He worked as business manager for the Live Stock Record, and was pension examiner for much of the southwest. He became an accountant for Field and Farm, and worked for a time as colector of customs in Laredo, Texas, then went to Chicago, then back to Denver in the winter of 1890/1, where he helped with a commercial conference. At the conclusion of the conference, he found himself out of work and in danger of becoming destitute
In articles sent by Todd Farmerie it says that George was in Chicago and meeting up with old and successful friends from Texas, he suggested that they should make a company to sell souvenirs of the World Fair (1893) When this was passed by the World Fair Board, he was overcome, and went mad, believing himself a millionaire and offering everyone homes, gold etc. His second wife, Carrie came and took him back to Denver. It says he was a bosom friend of Tom Ochiltree, member of congress and editor of the Houston Daily Telegraph.
1893 in insane asylum, according to Lucy Haswell
111 Todd farmerie- on 16 Apr. 1892 George was judged to be insane and sent to an asylum at Tyrrell, Texas, where he d. 16 Jan. 1893 of "chronic mania", being called "Capt. Haswell" at the time of his death.
According to a letter from a James G Haswell to a James N Haswell in Margaret Sims notebook in 1874, he was ‘recently a member of the Texas Legislature rather wild.
According to the handbook of Texas Online:
“The Haswell family immigrated to Texas in 1855, settling in Fayette County. Here Haswell assisted his father in a cotton shipping business. On September 11, 1860, George T. Haswell married Susan (King) Ellis in Fayette County. This couple had at least one child, a son. By 1865 Haswell had relocated to Millican, Brazos County, where he continued his activity in the cotton business. In the late 1860s he assumed a prominent role in the public affairs of the county. He was a leader in the campaign to relocate the county seat to Bryan and bring a railroad to this community. In December 1867 he helped establish St. Andrew's Parish, the first Episcopal Church in Bryan. In 1870 he won election on the Republican ticket as representative for Brazos County to the Twelfth Texas Legislature. Following this turn at public service, Haswell resumed his business pursuits which compelled him to relocate to Robertson County where he lived in Calvert in 1872 and Bremond in 1873. Haswell engaged as a railroad agent in the late 1870s before retiring. In retirement Haswell lived in Austin and Galveston. George Tyler Haswell died on January 16, 1893, while visiting Dallas and was buried in Bryan at Bryan City Cemetery.”