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Unknown newspaper (top of obit clipped off)
Indiana
(note: Samuel C. Hackett died 29 Sept, 1903)

         SAMUEL C. HACKETT DEAD
         
         Passed Away Monday Night After A Week's Illness
         
         
         In the death of SAMUEL C. HACKETT, which occurred Monday
       night shortly before 12 o'clock, Valparaiso and Porter
       county lost one of its most prominent and pioneer residents.
       For over a half century the deceased had been a resident of
       Porter county. He had been sick just a week and death was
       caused by a general breaking down.
       
         The deceased was born in Seneca county, Ohio, March 1,
       1829, and was the oldest of a family of three children
       born to the late HENRY and SARAH HACKETT. His parents were
       natives of New York state and settled in Seneca county,
       Ohio, in 1825. His father died when he was 5 years of age,
       and his mother passed away a number of years later.
       
         At the age of seventeen MR. HACKETT encountered the world,
       and went to Lake county, Ill., where he worked unti he was
       21 years old, when he was overtaken by the "gold fever,"
       and crossed the plains to California, and engaged in mining,
       with varied success, for two years, when from failing
       health he settled in Laporte county, and after a year
       moved in Pine township, this county.
       
         During his early residence in Pine township he gave
       attention to lumbering and furnishing wood for the Lake
       Shore road and the Chicago markets, at which he contin-
       ued until 1868, when he superintended a large tract of
       land for Loveland & Co., of Janesville, Wis., thus
       continuing until 1879, when he purchased the major part
       of the company's land, and began manufacturing charcoal,
       as well as clearing the said land. MR. HACKETT often
       remarked that he produced more charcoal than any man
       in the state. In 1881 he began farming, retiring in
       1886, and moving to Valparaiso where he has ever since
       resided.
       
         MR. HACKETT was married on January 1, 1855 to ANNA J.
       WESTON, of Laporte county, who survives him together
       with three children, MRS. C. W. BENTON, of Valparaiso,
       MRS. L. C. SNYDER, of Otis, and WILLIAM HACKETT, who
       resides on the old homestead in Pine township.
       
         MR. HACKETT in early days was a republican, but in
       1872 affiliated with the democratic party. During his
       residence in Pine township he held all the township
       offices. During his residence in Valparaiso he served
       as member of the city council from 1894 to 1898.
       
         The funeral will be held from his late residence on
       South Franklin street, Valparaiso, this (Thursday)
       afternoon at 1 o'clock.
       
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