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HACKETT


HACKLEY


managed the Chatham Street theatre. In 1S37 he managed the National theatre in New York and was lessee and manager of the Astor Place theatre at the time of the Macready riot. He introduced to the United States the Italian singers Grisi and Mario at Castle Garden in 1854. As a star actor he toured season after .season anil made a uuml)er of visits to England. He was married a second tune, Marcli '.27, I8G4, to Clara C. Morgan. His hist public engagement was previous to 1871. His best known characters were Falstiiff, which he tirst played, May 13, 18'28; Rip Van Winkle, first phiyed in April, 1830; Morbleau in " Monsieur Touson "; Solomon Swop in "Jonathan in England"; Col. Nimrod Wildfire in "Colonel Wildfire"; Monsieur Mal- lett. and Droniiu. He died at Jamaica, Long Islanl. NY., Dec. •,'>^. 1871.

HACKETT, James Keteltas, actor, was born at Wolfe Island, Ontario, Sept. 6, 1869; son of James Henry and Clara C. (Morgan) Hackett. He was educated in the College of the city of New York and studied law in the New York law school. He made his debut on the stage in Palmer's stock company in 1892 and was leading man at the New York lyceum in 1895, being then but twenty-six years old, and the younge.st lead- ing man in the stage history of New York. He made a notable success in the " Prisoner of Zenda," 1896-97, and its sequel, " Rupert of Hent- zau," 1898-99, vmder the management of Daniel Frohman.

HACKLEMAN, Pleasant Adam, soldier, was born in Franklin county. Ind.. Nov. 15, 1814; son of Maj. Jolin Hacklemau, an officer in the war of 1812. He was admitted to the bar in 1837, practised in Rushville, Ind., was judge of the probate court of Rush county, 1837^1; clerk of the state hou.se of representatives, and clerk of Rush county, 1841-47; and in 1848 and 1858 was an unsuccessful candidate for representative in congress. He was a delegate to the Republican national convention at Chicago, 1860. and to the peace conference in Washington in 1861. In May, 1861, he entere 1 the Union army as colonel, 16th Indiana regiment, served in the first battle of Bull Run and later on the staff of General Banks in Virginia; and on April 28, 1862, was promoted brig idier -general. In June, 1862, he was ordered to the southwest under General Grant. He participate! in the battles of luka and Corinth an.l w;i.s killed in the latter battle near Corinth. ^liss. O -t. 4 ^><C^2.

HACKLEY, Charles Elihu, ])hysician. was born in Unadilla, NY.. F.-b. 22. 1836; son of Archibald and Eliza (Stott) Hackley. He was graduated from the Univarsity of Pennsylvania, A.B.. 18.56. M.D., 1860. He was surgeon in the 2d N.Y. volunteer cavalry, 1861-64, and surgeon-


in-chief of the 3d cavalry division of the army of the Potomac, 1864-65, during the last eighteen months of the civil war. On leaving the army he returned to the practice of his profession in New York city, where he was visiting physician of the New York hospital, 1867-86, and consulting pliysician to the same, 1886. He was also surgeon to the New \'ork eye and ear infirmary, 1865-75, and clinical professor of the disea.ses of the eye and ear at the Women's medical college, 1870-76. He was married, Dec. 16, 1867, to Emma Weth- erby, daughter of Gabriel Kent of New York city. His literary work includes: a translation of Diseases of the Eye, by Stellwag (1867), of Surgi- cal Pa«Ao/o5f?/ by Billroth (1871), and of Niemeyer's Textbook of Practical Medicine, in collaboration with George H.Humphreys, M.D. (1869); besides contributions to periodicals and to Wood's JRef- erence Handbook of the Medical Sciences. He re- tired from the practice of medicine in 1896 and made his residence at Union ville. Conn.

HACKLEY, Charles Henry, lumberman, was boni in Michigan City, Ind., Jan. 3, 1837; son of Joseph H. and Salina (Fuller) Hackley. When quite young his father removed from New York state to Indiana and became a contractor and railroad builder. About 1840 the family removed to Southport, afterward known as Kenosha, Wis., and when fifteen years old Ciiarles Henry left the district school and engaged with his father in railroad building. In 1856 he left home and by working his passage on a schooner reached Muskegon, Mich., where he was employed in a lumber yard and in the fall went into the woods scaling logs. He then took a course at a com- mercial college at the expense of his employers and in 1858 he was made their book-keeper. In 1859 with his father and his employer he purchased the property* of the former firm, then in the hands of a re- ceiver, and es- tablished the firm of J. H. Hackley & Co., and in 1866, with his father and brothers Edwin and Por- ter, organized

the firm of Hackley & Sons In 1874 his father died and the firm of C. H. Hackley & Co. suc- ceeded to the business and in 1880 was changed to Hackley & Hume and their mills were the largest on Muskegon Lake and soon became the


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