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Charles Hackley was born on January 3, 1837, in Michigan City, Indiana, United States; the oldest of five children. He was the son of Joseph H. Hackley, a native of New York state, and his wife, Salina Fuller. In early boyhood Charles was taken by his parents to Southport, now Kenosha, Wisconsin.
In the spring of 1856 Charles Henry Hackley worked his passage to Muskegon, Michigan on a schooner and thereafter was identified with that place. After three years in the employ of Durkee, Truesdell & Company, first as laborer, then as foreman, and finally as bookkeeper, he organized the firm of J. H. Hackley & Company in partnership with his father. From the time of the organization of this firm, the name of which was changed several times, Hackley’s rise was rapid. Between 1880 and 1890 his company was cutting more than thirty million feet of lumber annually. As early as 1886 Hackley foresaw the exhaustion of the timber resources of western Michigan and he consequently bought lands in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Louisiana, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina, and British Columbia.
He held at one time or another many public and semi-public offices in Muskegon during the last thirty years of his life. He was city and county treasurer and alderman of his ward, for some time a member of the Board of Public Works, and for many years a member of the Board of Education, serving as its president from 1892 to 1900. He served as director and officer of various banking institutions and when the lumber industry was dying was successful in inducing other industries to establish themselves in Muskegon.
To the development of Muskegon Hackley contributed generously through his philanthropic gifts. In 1888 he gave $125, 000 for the erection and maintenance of a public library, to which he added an endowment of $75, 000 in 1891. Next he presented a square in the central part of the city as a public park and then made gifts for the erection of a manual-training school and of a hospital. While these large benefactions were being announced, Hackley erected statues to beautify the city. When he died, it was estimated that his gifts to Muskegon had the value of almost $1, 500, 000.
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Quotations: "A rich man to a great extent owes his fortune to the public. He makes money largely through the labor of his employees. .. .Moreover, I believe that it should be expended during the lifetime of the donor, so that he can see that his benefactions do not miscarry and are according to his intent. .. .To a certain extent, I agree with Mr. Carnegie. .. .that it is a crime to die rich. "
Charles Henry Hackley was married on October 3, 1864, to Julia E. Moore of Centerville, New York.
