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For the past ten years Francis James Hackett has been engaged in business in Yonkers, Westchester county, and has won an enviable reputation for square dealing, thoroughness and general reliability. He is quite a factor in local Democratic politics, and is now representing the seventh ward, as an alderman. This ward is the largest one in the place, comprising, as it does, about one-third of the territory covered by the city, and its importance, therefore, is obvious. Mr. Hackett was elected to this office in 1897, and has been in thorough sympathy with all movements of public improvement, judicious expenditure of the people's funds, and progress along all lines. The same good judgment which he exercises in the management of his own business affairs he brings to bear in his public office, and thus his friends and the citizens in general place great confidence in his ability and wisdom. Often he has been delegated to attend the various conventions of his party, and for years he has been aggressive in the support of the banners of the Democracy. He belongs to the Seventh Ward Democratic Club and is connected with the city fire department. Socially he is a member of the Improved Order of Red Men and of the Knights of Columbus.

Francis J. Hackett is one of the eight children of Charles and Elizabeth (Fitzpatrick) Hackett, five of the number being sons. He was born November 23, 1865, in the city of New York and there acquired his education in the public and parochial schools. When he was seventeen years of age he left his studies and entered upon the more serious business of life. His father was a stone-cutter by trade, and the son concluded to follow the same line of business. For five years he worked as a journeyman, and at the end of that time, believing that he was master of the trade, he embarked in the same line of work upon his own account, at his present location on Midland avenue, in the seventh ward. He quarries and deals in all kinds of building stone and does a very extensive business, employing as many as sixty-five men at one time, during busy seasons. By well-directed energy and enterprise he has succeeded in building up an extensive trade, and all with whom he has had dealings speak in terms of praise of the manner in which he fulfils contracts and adheres .to the letter thereof. He is a member of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic church and is liberal in his benevolences and contributions to the worthy poor. Kindly by nature, and having himself worked his own way upward, he is ever ready to lend a helping hand to those less fortunate than himself.