Born: No­vem­ber 6, 1807, Thomp­son, Con­nec­ti­cut.

Died: Feb­ru­a­ry 12, 1887, Shrews­bu­ry, Mass­a­chu­setts.

It was during build­ing of the Meth­od­ist Church (1847-48) or im­med­i­ate­ly af­terwards that Rev. Jefferson Hascall, pre­sid­ing el­der over the Wor­ces­ter Con­fer­ence, whose dis­cern­ing eye saw a field here white for the har­vest, moved into town and thrust in his sick­le. Un­der his la­bors there was a great re­viv­al of re­li­gion, and over one hun­dred per­sons pro­fessed con­ver­sion…He grad­u­at­ed at Wil­bra­ham Acad­e­my about 1829 and im­med­i­ate­ly en­tered up­on the min­is­try. He lived in Shrews­bury about twen­ty years in all, and most of the time was in the pre­sid­ing el­der­ship. He was a man of great abil­i­ty, en­er­gy and in­flu­ence, a pow­er­ful preach­er of his faith and a pub­lic-spir­it­ed ci­ti­zen of the town. In­ter­est­ed in and fa­vor­ing ed­u­ca­tion and all pub­lic im­prove­ments, and an ear­nest ad­vo­cate of a vig­o­rous pro­se­cu­tion of the war to sup­press the slave hold­ers’ re­bel­lion, he was uni­ver­sal­ly re­spect­ed and be­loved by the peo­ple of the town.

History of Worcester Coun­ty Mass­a­chu­setts with Historical Sketches of Ma­ny of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men
Edited by D. Hamil­ton Hurd (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: J. W. Lew­is & Co., 1889), vol. I, pp. 780-810.

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