Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 
1885, McLean Co.

COL. ROWLAND E. HACKETT, a prominent citizen of Livermore, McLean County, 
was born October 25, 1825, in Minot, Me., and is a son of Salmon and 
Lorana (Noyes) Hackett, natives of Massachusetts; the former was a 
soldier of the war of 1812.  Col Hackett was brought up in his native 
town until he was eighteen years of age, when he went to Massachusetts.  
He received a good education, attending the common schools and spending 
two years at Philip's Academy.  At the age of twenty-two he went to 
Holliston, Mass., where he remained until he came to Kentucky in 1858, 
locating in Livermore, in this county.  Here he engaged in the timber 
and lumber business, which he has followed ever since, with the exception 
of three years spent in the service of his country.  He enlisted on 
October 22, 1861, in Company A, Twenty-sixth Kentucky (Federal) Infantry, 
of which he was elected first lieutenant.  He was in the battles of 
Shiloh, Saltville and Nashville, and in the latter battle was severely 
wounded, the ball entering his mouth, knocked out two of his teeth, 
split his tongue, and passed entirely through him.  The peculiar wound, 
and his almost miraculous recovery from it, is one of the many remarkable 
incidents of the late war.  After the battle of Shiloh he was promoted to 
captain, and after the battle of Nashville to lieutenant-colonel; he was 
in all the battles and skirmishes in which his regiment participated, 
except while confined in the hospital.  He was discharged in September, 
1865, at Louisville, and returned to Evansville, to which place his 
family removed during the war; afterward returned to Livermore.  He was 
married November 19, 1846, to Charlotte S. Mason, of Maine, a daughter 
of James and Mary A. (Everett) Mason, of that State.  They have had seven 
children, five of whom are living: Cora E. Lashbrook, Edgar B., Iola L., 
Everett M. and Frank F.  Delmon R. and Eva A. are dead.  Col. Hackett is 
a Republican in politics, formerly a Whig, but gave his first presidential 
vote in 1848 for Taylor.

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