GEORGE WASHINGTON HACK

GEORGE WASHINGTON HACK is a native of the State of New York, born April 25, 1846, his parents being George and Mary (Jenkinson) Hack. His parents emigrated from England immediately after their marriage in 1844, and were residents of New York State for about four years. In 1849 they move to Calhoun County, Michigan, where Mr. Hack bought eighty acres of land which he cultivated until 1852, when he came to California, leaving his family behind until he should have tried his fortune here. He followed mining for two years, and then went to making shingles in the redwood country one year. In 1855 he bought 40 acres of fruit land on the Sacramento below Freeport, and brought out his wife and three children. Four children were born to them in this county. The mother died in 1882, aged sixty-two years; the father, born in 1818, is still living. George W. Hack received a rather limited education in the district school, as he began to assist upon the farm at an early age. He has plowed more or less from the age of eleven. At twenty-one he was placed by his father in charge of 160 acres bought in 1865, near the Six-mile House on the Lower Stockton road, which he has since paid for and enlarged by other purchases to 515 acres, to which he has given the name of Pleasant Farm, and on which he has erected a handsome two-story brick residence. He does a general farming business, in which wheat is the chief product. Mr. Hack was married in November, 1869, to Miss Berdenia Frances Keys, a native of this county, daughter of William and Harriet (Beach) Keys, both families being American for several generations. Her father died in 1870, aged forty-nine; the mother, born in 1827, is still living. Grandfather Beach lived to the age of eighty-one, and grandmother Beach was about eighty when she died. Mr. and Mrs. Hack are the parents of one daughter, Clara E., born in 1870. She has received a district school education, and private lessons in music. Instead of a higher school education she prefers the quiet but effective tutelage of her parents in the calm seclusion of her happy home. Mr. Hack has more than supplied the deficiency of his early education by private study and extensive reading, and is to-day a well-educated man much above the average. He is a member of Sacramento Grange, No. 12, meeting in Grangers' Hall, Sacramento; also of Sacramento County Pomona Grange, No. 2, which meets in the same hall. In the former he has held four offices ranging from the lowest to the highest, having been master in 1886, and district lecturer in 1888; and has also been district lecturer of Pomona Grange. He is now a director of the Co-operative Business Association of Sacramento Valley, which has its headquarters at Tenth and K streets, Sacramento, having been elected to the office in January, 1889, for three years; and of the Farmers' Mutual Fire Association of Sacramento County, serving his second term. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which meets every Sabbath in the Pacific School building, five miles south of Sacramento on the Lower Stockton road; and in its Sabbath-school Mr. and Mrs. Hack are zealous teachers.

An Illustrated History of Sacramento County, California. By Hon. Win. J Davis. Lewis Publishing Company 1890. Page 276-277.

Submitted by: Nancy Pratt Melton.