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Tennessee the Volunteer State 1769-1923: Volume 4
VICTOR NEWTON HACKER.
page 501
The public schools of Greeneville afforded Victor Newton Hacker his early
education and he was graduated from high school in 1901. He then enrolled in
the University of Tennessee and the A. B. degree was conferred upon him in
1906. During his college days he became affiliated with Phi Gamma Delta
fraternity, a national college fraternity of high standing, and he was very
popular on the campus. After leaving college he accepted a position with the
Pruden Coal & Coke Company, as manager of the Knoxville office. At that time
the company had just been formed and Mr. Hacker realized his chances to grow
along with the business. He applied himself diligently to the [p.501] many
duties devolving upon him and in 1908 he was made vice president of the
company and director and president in 1916. The Pruden Coal & Coke Company
owns and operates three mines in Claiborne county, Tennessee, and Bell
county, Kentucky. This company is the heaviest producer in this section of
the country, running forty-five cars a day. Aside from being president of
the Pruden Coal & Coke Company, Mr. Hacker is a director in the Holston
National Bank and a director in the Holston Manufacturing Company. He is
likewise vice president of the Southern Appalachian Coal Operators
Association. The Pruden Coal & Coke Company was named in honor of Thomas
Pruden, and Mr. Hacker is executor and trustee of the Thomas Pruden estate,
a vast estate now in probate in Knox county.