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Owner and publisher, Fort Wayne Sentinel, 1880–1916
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Edward Alexander Kelly Hackett learned the printer's trade at the Perry County Democrat, worked in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh newspaper offices, and at twenty-three bought into the Bluffton Banner, soon taking sole control as editor and publisher. In 1880 he came to Fort Wayne and bought the Fort Wayne Sentinel from William Fleming, owning and publishing it until his death. For a number of years he also owned the Indianapolis Sentinel, and he started the American Farmer, published for several years from the Sentinel office. He founded the Hackett Medical College at Canton, China, placing his eldest daughter, Dr. Martha Hackett, in charge. An elder of the First Presbyterian Church, he died of renal calculus on 28 August 1916. He married Mary A. Melsheimer and, on 16 October 1900, Susie Emma Reid.
Sources: Griswold, Pictorial History, Vol. II (1917), biographical sketch and portrait, read first-hand. No second source reached for this profile.