Excerpt from The Trial of Ebenezer Haskell, in Lunacy, and His Acquittal Before Judge Brewster, in November, 1868: Together With a Brief Sketch of the Mode of Treatment of Lunatics in Different Asylums in This Country and in England
A brief outline of the facts connected with the confinement of Ebenezer Haskell in the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane.
Ebenezer Haskell, an industrious, sober citizen, more than forty years a resident of Philadelphia, and long and well known amongst the leading business men of that city as an energetic and successful mechanic, on the 8th of April, 1866, being over 60 years of age, files a Petition in the Orphans' Court of Montgomery County, in the right of his wife, Adelaide A., the daughter of Henry Horn, deceased, praying a citation for an account against the Executor, James H Horn, of the said Henry Horn, who had then been more than four years in possession of the trust, without showing any account.
This causes disturbance in the immediate family of Mr. Haskell, consisting of himself, wife, three sons and one daughter.
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