Albert C. Haseltine

Albert C. Haseltine was a graduate of Harvard in the Class of 1863, and lived much of his time in France. He served with credit, after graduation, in the Army, and was for a time engaged in business in this city, and was secretary of the Harvard Club. He was a connoisseur in the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture, and an expert in horticulture and gastronomy. At his modest little house, surrounded by a large garden, at Maintenon, near Chartres, he lived contented and happy. He there devoted all his time to gardening in its highest development, and his flowers and fruits were the admiration of the neighborhood. He was for many years a willing exile from his own country, and became in many ways more French than American in feeling, yet he never lost his keen affection for and interest in Harvard University, and its choice institution, the Porcellian Club, and The Century, in his membership of which he took great pride. His friends were devotedly attached to him, for he had a genial, unselfish nature which endeared him to all who had ever known him.

Henry E. Howland
1899 Century Association Yearbook