Westmoreland-Perry County PA Archives Biographies.....Hackett, Charles C. August 1, 1845 

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CHARLES C. HACKETT, an active business man, a soldier of the late war, ticket
and freight agent of the P. R. R. Co., at Derry, was born at Elliottsburg, Perry
county, Pa., August 1, 1845, and is a son of James B. Hackett. Tracing his
lineage hack for six generations we come to David Hacectt, who was of
Scotch-Irish extraction and immigrated to Cumberland (now Perry) county prior to
the war of the Revolution. He lies buried in the old graveyard near Duncannon,
Pa. He had three sons: Robert, who lost an arm in the Revolutionary war and was
buried alongside his father; James, who immigrated to Crawford county, Pa.; and
George, who moved to Red Rock, near Loysville, Pa., where he died August 1,
1800. The latter had five sons: Robert, the second son and great-grandfather of
Charles C. Hackett, Settled near Sandy Hill, in Perry county, Pa., where he died
June 1, 1835 and is buried in Centrec graveyard. He had nine sons, of whom the
second was George S. (grandfather). He served as treasurer and director of the
poor of Perry county, died at Bloomfield July 5, 1852, and is buried in old
Centre graveyard. One of his sons is James B. Hackett (father), who was born
September 7, 1819, and is a resident of Bloomfield. He was in the mercantile
business for many years, elected county surveyor in 1856, and was a clerk for
four years in the office of Internal affairs under Hon. J. Simpson Africa,
secretary.

   Charles C. Hackett was reared in Perry county, where he graduated from
Bloomfield academy. Being too young to enter the army as a private he enlisted
as a drummer boy at the age of sixteen years in Co. G, one hundred and
thirty-third reg. Pa. Vols., and participated in all the battles in which the
command to which he was attached was engaged. In February, 1864, he reenlisted
in the Signal Corps of the U. S. A. and served until the close of the war. After
the war he engaged successfully in the grocery and clothing business. In June,
1869, he was employed by the P. R. R. Co. and sent as assistant ticket agent to
Derry. In 1871 he was transferred to Pittsburg, where he acted for three years
as storekeeper. In 1874 Mr. Hackett was appointed ticket and freight agent at
Derry, which position he has held very creditably ever since. On February 8,
1882, he married Annie E. Kunkle, daughter of Rev. Christian F. Kunkle of
Greencastle, Franklin county, Pa. To their union has been born one child, a
daughter, Amanda Belle Hackett. In politics Mr. Hackett is a stanch democrat and
has always been an active worker in that party. He is a member of Derry
Presbyterian church, and an energetic and successful business man of the borough
in which he resides.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.
Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant
1890


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