CW-James Hacking

Bborn 23 November 1827 in Clawthorpe, Westmoreland, England and died 18 December 1898 in Acushnet, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States.

While living in England, he worked at the cotton mills where he met and married Jane Rogerson about 1847 in Preston, Lancashire, England. They had two daughters, Mary Jane and Alice who were born and died before they left England to immigrate to America through New Orleans in October 1849 along with the rest of the Hacking/Fisher family, James having paid the passage for all.

Unlike the rest of the Hacking/Fisher family, James and Jane remained in the St Louis area for many years, Jane giving birth to four more daughters there: Catharine Caroline, Elizabeth (Lizzie), Harriet, and Mary Jeanette (Jennie). James worked in the mines. When the Civil War broke out, James enlisted in the Union Army in Company B, 1st Infantry Regiment Missouri (3 months 1861), and then again 1st Regiment, Missouri Light Artillery Company F. He is listed on the 1890 Veterans Schedule. After the war he came to visit his family in Utah, and traveled to England to claim his inheritance, but he got impatient waiting for afidavits to come from the family and he returned to make his home in Massachusetts with his wife and four daughters. They all worked in the mills there.

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