Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Hackney, Robert H 
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Author: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County

ROBERT H. HACKNEY, superintendent of the Fox Pressed Steel Company of Joliet, 
is one of the rising young mechanical engineers of this city and has shown 
decided ability in the discharge of his responsible duties. Much of his talent 
in his chosen occupation is without doubt inherited from his father, Clement 
Hackney, who is a skilled mechanic and machinist, and his grandfather, George 
Hackney, was also a machinist of more than ordinary ability. The latter 
brought his family to the United States and secured employment with the Hoe 
Printing Press Company in New York City, but after a time removed west to 
Milwaukee, Wis., and was employed as superintendent of motive power with the 
St. Paul, NorthWestern, Q and Santa Fe roads successively. He is now living 
retired in Chicago. Following in the footsteps of his father, Clement Hackney 
held positions with the same railroads and followed the same line of work. He 
was also engaged as superintendent of motive power for the Union Pacific 
Railroad at Omaha. From that work he drifted into the manufacturing business, 
and accepted a position as general manager of the Fox Pressed Steel Company. 
He had charge of the building of the company's plants in Joliet and Pittsburg. 
In 1889 the works were started in Joliet and two years later he transferred 
his residence from Milwaukee to this city, where he has since had his home. He 
is a man whose vigor of mind and quickness of comprehension, combined with 
originality of ideas, have made him successful in the various interests with 
which he has been identified. His work has required his entire time, hence he 
has not been identified with public affairs nor has he sought prominence in 
politics, but devotes himself closely to private interests. The only child of 
the marriage of Clement and Mary (Stuart) Hackney is Robert H. Hackney. He was 
born in Milwaukee, Wis., in 1870, and was well and liberally educated, 
attending schools in the various cities where his father resided. He prepared 
for college in Milwaukee Academy. In 1889 he entered the University of 
Wisconsin, where he took a complete course in mechanical engineering, and 
graduated in 1893, with the degree of M. E. Coming to Joliet he at once 
connected himself with the company of which his father was the manager, and, 
beginning in a less important position, he worked his way up until in 1898 he 
was made superintendent, a position that he fills acceptably to the company 
and with credit to himself. He is a member of the Alumni Association and the 
Phi Delta Theta of the University of Wisconsin.

Additional Comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900

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