Multnomah-Yamhill-Hood River County OR Archives Biographies.....Hackett, Harry A. July 20, 1861 - 
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     HARRY A. HACKETT, who is successfully engaged in ranching near Hood 
River, has spent an active and industrious life, yet not altogether devoid of 
excitement, and has been a witness of the splendid development of the Columbia 
River valley during the past forty-five years, and in which he has had a part. 
He was born in Colorado, July 20, 1861, and is a son of Nathan and Lavina 
(Thurston) Hackett, the former a native of Maine and the latter of New 
Hampshire. His father went to California in the gold rush of 1850 and there 
followed mining for three years, after which he returned to New England and 
was married. In 1858 he and his wife went to Colorado, where he was engaged in 
mining until 1871, when he came to Oregon and took up a homestead in the Hood 
River valley, where he lived until his death. His wife died in Portland, this 
state.
	Harry A. Hackett attended the public schools in California, the 
district school at McMinnville, Oregon, and the schools of Portland. When 
sixteen years of age he began working on steamboats on the Columbia and 
Willamette rivers, following that line mainly until 1891, during which time he 
held captain’s and engineer’s licenses. For awhile he was employed as a 
fireman on the Oregon Railroad and Navigation line, and during that employment 
was firing on the train that was stalled in the Columbia river gorge for 
twenty-one days during the big snow storm of 1889. In 1891 Mr. Hackett bought 
a homestead right to eighty acres of land in the Hood River valley, about 
eight miles southwest of Hood River. The land was covered with timber and 
brush, but he cleared about twenty acres of it and planted an orchard.  He 
lived there until 1905 when he sold it end moved to Hood River, where he 
bought a home, in which he lived until 1922, when he located on a small ranch 
in the valley, on which he is still living. He is very comfortably situated 
and is spending his later years in an ideal manner.
	In 1887 Mr. Hackett was united in marriage to Miss Bessie Darling, who 
was born in Oregon, and they became the parents of two children Henry, who was 
born in Portland and is now living at Bend, Oregon, is married and has three 
children, Melvin, Russell and Helen. Nina is the wile of Jim Holden, of 
Oswego, Oregon, and they have two children, Beryl and Edward. In 1899 Mr. 
Hackett was married to Mrs. Emma (Mayberry) Crapper, who was born in Tennessee 
and came to Oregon in 1897. They had three children, namely: Theodore A., who 
was born in Hood River, where he is engaged in the radio and electrical 
business, is married and has two children, Dorothy and Virginia May; Hattie 
and Mary Emma remain at home, the latter being in high school. Mr. Hackett is 
a man of earnest purpose and upright life, whose record has earned for him the 
respect of his fellowmen, and he is regarded as one of the worthy and 
dependable citizens of the Hood River valley. He is a man of excellent 
personal qualities and is deservedly popular among his associates and friends.


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 483-484

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