Harry L. Hackett
Harry L. Hackett, general manager of the National Feed Mills Company at Yellow Springs, where he has been continuously engaged in business for nearly twenty years, is a native son of Greene county and has lived here all his life, a resident of Yellow Springs since 1898. He was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of Clifton on September 13, 1879, a son of James and Ellen (Cavenaugh) Hackett, natives of Ireland, who were married in Springfield, Ohio, and who later located on a farm in Miami township, this county, where the former died in October, 1916, and where the latter is still living. James Hackett and wife were the parents of ten children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the last born, and further mention of whom, together with additional details of the history of the Hackett family in this county, is made in a biographical sketch relating to Charles H. Hackett, postmaster at Yellow Springs, the fourth son and sixth child of James Hackett, presented elsewhere in this volume.
Reared on the home farm in Miami township, Harry L. Hackett received his schoohng in the Clifton schools and was graduated from the high school there in 1897. He then took a course in Nelson's Business College at Springfield and on December 19, 1898, became employed in the grocery store of George H. Drake at Yellow Springs, continuing thus engaged for three years and six months, at the end of which time he transferred his services to the general store of C. C. Stevenson & Company and was connected with that concern for three years. He then spent a year in the grocery and meat market of Jacob Diehl and after that became associated with his elder brother, Charles H. Hackett, now postmaster at Yellow Springs, in the general hardware business, continuing that connection until November 10, 1913, when he became the manager for the John Dewein Company, since April, 1914, the National Feed Mills Company, at Yellow Springs, manufacturers of poultry and dairy feeds and engaged in the general grain and coal business, for thirteen years Mr. Hackett has been serving as village clerk.
On August 5, 1902, Mr. Hackett was united in marriage to Lottie J. Loe, daughter of Isaac and Minerva (Sutton) Loe. of Yellow Springs, who were the parents of five children, those besides Mrs. Hackett being William Loe, of Yellow Springs; John and Harry Loe. who are engaged in the lumber business at Springfield, and Cora, who died when about eleven years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Hackett are members of the Catholic church. They have five sons, Ralph and Harold, twins, born on January 4, 1904; Roger, January 22, 1910; Howard. May 23, 1914. and Paul E., January 1, 1918.
From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F.Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918