Biography of George W. Hacker, 1902, Baker Co. Oregon: Surnames: Hacker ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access and not to be removed separately without written permission. ************************************************************************ Transcribed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: W. David Samuelsen - November 2001 ************************************************************************ An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 1902 by Western Historical Pub. Co. of Chicago. page 320 George W. Hacker, who has the distinction of being an old and honored pioneer of the west, and who has contributed not a little to the development of Baker county, was born February 8, 1830. He lived with his parents, Eli and Scena (Smith) Hacker, until twenty-six years old, crossing the plains with them in 1854. Their objective point was Sacramento, California, but they soon moved thence to Marysville, where the father and mother died. For three years following 1859, our subject followed teaming, then he passed a couple of yearsin Ureka, coming thence in 1861 to The Dalles, Oregon, where he remained about a year and a half, driving stage between that point and Sylila. Selling out then he engaged in freighting to Boise. In the sixties our subject enlisted at Salem, Oregon, in Company C, First Oregon Infantry, and from that date until the last disloyal gun was forever silenced he followed the fortunes of war, his term of service being of eleven months' duration. Upon receiving his dicharge, he returned to Oregon, locating this time at Baker City, and again engaging in teaming. To this he has given himself almost continuously since until about three years ago, when he homesteaded a quarter section of land near Sparta and engaged in raising horses. For many years, also, he gave a portion of his attention to mining. He is an energetic man and a good, thrifty citizen.