Penn Biographies

Benjamin Maurice Gaskill (born 1845)

• Class of 1865
• Member of Delta Psi fraternity

Publisher

Benjamin Maurice Gaskill was born in Philadelphia on August 6, 1845, the son of Edward Gaskill and Mary Matilda Bywater.

Gaskill enrolled in 1861 as a member of the College Class of 1865, but left the University at the end of freshman year. He was a member of the Delta Psi fraternity.

After his time at Penn he became a publisher and married Emeline Hasletine Whiteman. He remained alive as of 1922 when he appeared in the Alumni Catalogue as living on 13th and Spruce Streets in Philadelphia.