Hiram was the eldest child of Jacob and Mary (Knouse) Hackenberg, natives of Pennsylvania, and of German descent. They removed to Lagrange County, Ind., at an early day, where they spent the remainder of their lives.
Mr. Hackenberg was born in Pennsylvania, May 20, 1818, and was quite young when his parents removed to Indiana, where he was reared to manhood.
He served as a private through the entire Mexican War.
He then went to Allamakee County, Iowa, and purchased eighty acres of land, from which he constructed a good farm. Later he removed to Benton, in Wright County, but finally returned to Allamakee, about the time of the outbreak of the Civil War.
In 1862 he enlisted, and thereafter participated in some of the most important battles of the war--Chattanooga, Nashville, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge and the siege of Vicksburg, and marched with Sherman to the sea, fighting before Atlanta--in fact going through the entire war, and was mustered out in the spring of 1865. His record was similar to that of thousands of others, prolific with hardships and privations, which were borne with soldierly courage and fortitude.
On receiving his honorable discharge from the army, Mr. Hackenberg resumed farming in Iowa, where he continued until the fall of 1867. He then determined to cast his lot among the pioneers of this county, and accordingly migrated hither overland with a team, bringing with him his family, crossing the Missouri at Brownville, and homesteading a tract of land on Wolf Creek, in Plum Creek Precinct. In due time he added forty acres to the quarter-section he had first selected, and upon this farm he effected most of the improvements which the passerby views to-day with admiring eye. He set out groves and orchards, put up a substantial dwelling, a good barn and other necessary buildings, enclosed his fields, and cross-fenced them with hedge and wire, and brought the soil to a fine state of cultivation. Later he engaged successfully in stock-raising. He died Sept. 22, 1877.
To Mr. and Mrs. Hackenberg there came a bright and interesting family of ten children, of whom George, Hiram, Adeline and John are deceased; Mary is the wife of George Strockey, who is engaged in the grocery trade at Beatrice; Sarah, Mrs. John Haining, lives with her husband on a farm on Sardine Creek; James is married, and farming in Ness County, Kan.; Lizzie is the wife of Webster Cole, a well-to-do farmer of Washington Territory; Lucy remains at home with her mother; Bessie is the wife of A. Summers, of Washington Territory. Mr. Hackenberg uniformly voted the Republican ticket, and was a member of the State Grange.
From: Portrait and Biographical Album of Johnson and Pawnee Counties Nebraska Chapman Bros. 1889
Mr. Hackenberg was born in Pennsylvania, May 20, 1818, and was quite young when his parents removed to Indiana, where he was reared to manhood.
He served as a private through the entire Mexican War.
He then went to Allamakee County, Iowa, and purchased eighty acres of land, from which he constructed a good farm. Later he removed to Benton, in Wright County, but finally returned to Allamakee, about the time of the outbreak of the Civil War.
In 1862 he enlisted, and thereafter participated in some of the most important battles of the war--Chattanooga, Nashville, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge and the siege of Vicksburg, and marched with Sherman to the sea, fighting before Atlanta--in fact going through the entire war, and was mustered out in the spring of 1865. His record was similar to that of thousands of others, prolific with hardships and privations, which were borne with soldierly courage and fortitude.
On receiving his honorable discharge from the army, Mr. Hackenberg resumed farming in Iowa, where he continued until the fall of 1867. He then determined to cast his lot among the pioneers of this county, and accordingly migrated hither overland with a team, bringing with him his family, crossing the Missouri at Brownville, and homesteading a tract of land on Wolf Creek, in Plum Creek Precinct. In due time he added forty acres to the quarter-section he had first selected, and upon this farm he effected most of the improvements which the passerby views to-day with admiring eye. He set out groves and orchards, put up a substantial dwelling, a good barn and other necessary buildings, enclosed his fields, and cross-fenced them with hedge and wire, and brought the soil to a fine state of cultivation. Later he engaged successfully in stock-raising. He died Sept. 22, 1877.
To Mr. and Mrs. Hackenberg there came a bright and interesting family of ten children, of whom George, Hiram, Adeline and John are deceased; Mary is the wife of George Strockey, who is engaged in the grocery trade at Beatrice; Sarah, Mrs. John Haining, lives with her husband on a farm on Sardine Creek; James is married, and farming in Ness County, Kan.; Lizzie is the wife of Webster Cole, a well-to-do farmer of Washington Territory; Lucy remains at home with her mother; Bessie is the wife of A. Summers, of Washington Territory. Mr. Hackenberg uniformly voted the Republican ticket, and was a member of the State Grange.
From: Portrait and Biographical Album of Johnson and Pawnee Counties Nebraska Chapman Bros. 1889
Hiram was the eldest child of Jacob and Mary (Knouse) Hackenberg, natives of Pennsylvania, and of German descent. They removed to Lagrange County, Ind., at an early day, where they spent the remainder of their lives.
Mr. Hackenberg was born in Pennsylvania, May 20, 1818, and was quite young when his parents removed to Indiana, where he was reared to manhood.
He served as a private through the entire Mexican War.
He then went to Allamakee County, Iowa, and purchased eighty acres of land, from which he constructed a good farm. Later he removed to Benton, in Wright County, but finally returned to Allamakee, about the time of the outbreak of the Civil War.
In 1862 he enlisted, and thereafter participated in some of the most important battles of the war--Chattanooga, Nashville, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge and the siege of Vicksburg, and marched with Sherman to the sea, fighting before Atlanta--in fact going through the entire war, and was mustered out in the spring of 1865. His record was similar to that of thousands of others, prolific with hardships and privations, which were borne with soldierly courage and fortitude.
On receiving his honorable discharge from the army, Mr. Hackenberg resumed farming in Iowa, where he continued until the fall of 1867. He then determined to cast his lot among the pioneers of this county, and accordingly migrated hither overland with a team, bringing with him his family, crossing the Missouri at Brownville, and homesteading a tract of land on Wolf Creek, in Plum Creek Precinct. In due time he added forty acres to the quarter-section he had first selected, and upon this farm he effected most of the improvements which the passerby views to-day with admiring eye. He set out groves and orchards, put up a substantial dwelling, a good barn and other necessary buildings, enclosed his fields, and cross-fenced them with hedge and wire, and brought the soil to a fine state of cultivation. Later he engaged successfully in stock-raising. He died Sept. 22, 1877.
To Mr. and Mrs. Hackenberg there came a bright and interesting family of ten children, of whom George, Hiram, Adeline and John are deceased; Mary is the wife of George Strockey, who is engaged in the grocery trade at Beatrice; Sarah, Mrs. John Haining, lives with her husband on a farm on Sardine Creek; James is married, and farming in Ness County, Kan.; Lizzie is the wife of Webster Cole, a well-to-do farmer of Washington Territory; Lucy remains at home with her mother; Bessie is the wife of A. Summers, of Washington Territory. Mr. Hackenberg uniformly voted the Republican ticket, and was a member of the State Grange.
From: Portrait and Biographical Album of Johnson and Pawnee Counties Nebraska Chapman Bros. 1889
Mr. Hackenberg was born in Pennsylvania, May 20, 1818, and was quite young when his parents removed to Indiana, where he was reared to manhood.
He served as a private through the entire Mexican War.
He then went to Allamakee County, Iowa, and purchased eighty acres of land, from which he constructed a good farm. Later he removed to Benton, in Wright County, but finally returned to Allamakee, about the time of the outbreak of the Civil War.
In 1862 he enlisted, and thereafter participated in some of the most important battles of the war--Chattanooga, Nashville, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge and the siege of Vicksburg, and marched with Sherman to the sea, fighting before Atlanta--in fact going through the entire war, and was mustered out in the spring of 1865. His record was similar to that of thousands of others, prolific with hardships and privations, which were borne with soldierly courage and fortitude.
On receiving his honorable discharge from the army, Mr. Hackenberg resumed farming in Iowa, where he continued until the fall of 1867. He then determined to cast his lot among the pioneers of this county, and accordingly migrated hither overland with a team, bringing with him his family, crossing the Missouri at Brownville, and homesteading a tract of land on Wolf Creek, in Plum Creek Precinct. In due time he added forty acres to the quarter-section he had first selected, and upon this farm he effected most of the improvements which the passerby views to-day with admiring eye. He set out groves and orchards, put up a substantial dwelling, a good barn and other necessary buildings, enclosed his fields, and cross-fenced them with hedge and wire, and brought the soil to a fine state of cultivation. Later he engaged successfully in stock-raising. He died Sept. 22, 1877.
To Mr. and Mrs. Hackenberg there came a bright and interesting family of ten children, of whom George, Hiram, Adeline and John are deceased; Mary is the wife of George Strockey, who is engaged in the grocery trade at Beatrice; Sarah, Mrs. John Haining, lives with her husband on a farm on Sardine Creek; James is married, and farming in Ness County, Kan.; Lizzie is the wife of Webster Cole, a well-to-do farmer of Washington Territory; Lucy remains at home with her mother; Bessie is the wife of A. Summers, of Washington Territory. Mr. Hackenberg uniformly voted the Republican ticket, and was a member of the State Grange.
From: Portrait and Biographical Album of Johnson and Pawnee Counties Nebraska Chapman Bros. 1889
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George W Hachenberg
1845–1879
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Hiram Hackenburg
1846–1864
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Mary E. Hackenberg Strockey
1851–1946
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Sarah Ann "Sally" Hackenberg Haining
1853–1931
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James Hackenberg
1854–1950
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Lizzie Jane Hackenberg Cole
1866–1942
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Lucy Hackenberg Gilbert
1867–1958
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Bessie Hackenberg Summers
1870–1943
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John Hackenberg
unknown–1871
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Adaline Hackenberg
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