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From: Ramona9141 <>
Subject: [HACKETT-L] Hackett biography
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 20:22:38 EDT


This is not my Hackett line but thought it may be of use to someone out there.
Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed.,
1885, McLean Co.

COL. ROWLAND E. HACKETT, a prominent citizen of Livermore, McLean County,
was born October 25, 1825, in Minot, Me., and is a son of Salmon and
Lorana (Noyes) Hackett, natives of Massachusetts; the former was a
soldier of the war of 1812. Col Hackett was brought up in his native
town until he was eighteen years of age, when he went to Massachusetts.
He received a good education, attending the common schools and spending
two years at Philip's Academy. At the age of twenty-two he went to
Holliston, Mass., where he remained until he came to Kentucky in 1858,
locating in Livermore, in this county. Here he engaged in the timber
and lumber business, which he has followed ever since, with the exception
of three years spent in the service of his country. He enlisted on
October 22, 1861, in Company A, Twenty-sixth Kentucky (Federal) Infantry,
of which he was elected first lieutenant. He was in the battles of
Shiloh, Saltville and Nashville, and in the latter battle was severely
wounded, the ball entering his mouth, knocked out two of his teeth,
split his tongue, and passed entirely through him. The peculiar wound,
and his almost miraculous recovery from it, is one of the many remarkable
incidents of the late war. After the battle of Shiloh he was promoted to
captain, and after the battle of Nashville to lieutenant-colonel; he was
in all the battles and skirmishes in which his regiment participated,
except while confined in the hospital. He was discharged in September,
1865, at Louisville, and returned to Evansville, to which place his
family removed during the war; afterward returned to Livermore. He was
married November 19, 1846, to Charlotte S. Mason, of Maine, a daughter
of James and Mary A. (Everett) Mason, of that State. They have had seven
children, five of whom are living: Cora E. Lashbrook, Edgar B., Iola L.,
Everett M. and Frank F. Delmon R. and Eva A. are dead. Col. Hackett is
a Republican in politics, formerly a Whig, but gave his first presidential
vote in 1848 for Taylor.

Hackett Noyes Mason Everett Lashbrook
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