Missouri Memories

Agnes Hadley Haskell (1876-1946), Daybooks, 1909-1946

Agnes Lee was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on March 27, 1876. She attended Vassar College and worked as a reporter on the Lawrence, Kansas, Journal before graduating from the University of Kansas in 1899. In 1901, she married Herbert S. Hadley, who served as governor of Missouri from 1909-1913, and as chancellor of Washington University, St. Louis, from 1923 until his death in 1927. She married Henry J. Haskell, editor of the Kansas City Star, in 1931. Agnes died in Kansas City, Missouri, on February 4, 1946.

August 5, 1912

The Unique lay at Gasconade until one o'clock today. We served, read, and roamed around the banks a little. At three o'clock we reached Hermann, and got off the boat for a half hour. I love that nice neat clean place with its old world looking houses and its prim people. At six o'clock we got on a sand bar in the river and the men worked until twelve at night before they got us off. That was the only handicap to the trip.

August 6, 1912

The sail today was lovely the weather wonderful and it was so interesting to pass by these interesting towns like Washington and St. Charles, with age and charm. We arrived at St. Louis at 5:30 and I got the Dickeys to take me to the station at once. Herbert leaves tonight for a week's absence and I could see him by going home at once. I was glad I had done so for that I found he had been sick in bed all day with a bilious attack. He left tonight at 2:45 a.m. for a trip speaking at Chautauquas in Nebraska and Kansas.