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maker by trade, following this occupation
for many years. Previous to the Civil
War he went West and was there for
about tWO years; that was at a time when
the Western States were in a very unciv-
ilized state. Mr. Shackley was sixty years
of age when he first came t>> Connecticut,
locating in Hartford, and SOOn after pur-
chased a tin peddlar's outfit with which
he traveled through Connecticut during
the summer months, and spent the win-
ters at the home of his son, Franklin W.,
in Hartford, lie married Sarah Morrison,
born May 17, 1816.
Franklin W. Shackley, son of this union,
attended the schools of Dan vers, Massachusetts,
whence his parents had removed
about 1843. Thence they again removed
to Industry, a small town near harming-
ton, Maine. After he was twelve years of
age he did not attend school any longer,
and at the age of fifteen was living in
West Brookfield. Massachusetts. Mr.
Shackley has ever been a keen ohserver
of men and things, and this fact, supple-
mented by wide and judicious reading,
has enabled him to take his rightful place
among his associates as a man of stand-
ing. \< a youth he learned the trade of
shoemaker under his father's direction,
and for six years was thus engaged. Go-
ing to New Bedford, Massachusetts, he
shipped on a whaler and was voyaging
for four years. On his return to his native
home he went West and was among the
pioneers of the State of Illinois, remaining
one and one-half years, removing
thence to Iowa, where he lived for four
years. In 1870 Mr. Shackley came to
Hartford, in which city he has continued
to reside to the present time, and through
his industry, thrift, and uprightness has
attained a high degree of success, not
often achieved by men whose opportuni-
ties are of such a nature. For over a
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quarter of a century, Mr. Shackley \
engaged in general farming at what is
now Pope I'ark. Hartford He conducted
a dairy, producing as much as seven hun-
dred quarts of milk daily, \fter a time
he decided to enter the trucking busim
and iii [893, in a small way, began the
business of general trucking. This has
consistently grown t" it- pre-'-;;! propor-
tions, and a large and flourishing trade is
maintained by Mr. Shackley. lie con-
tinually empli '\ - eight to ten Ik .rses in his
work. In 1904 he built his present attrac-
tive house on Prospect avenue, one of the
choicest residential sections of the city.
Mr. Shackley married Elizabeth R.
Barnes, horn in West Brookfield, Massa-
chusetts, died April II, 1015. i" Hartford.
They were the parents of four children,
two of whom now survive: Gertrude, wife
of James Monks; and Mahle, who mar-
ried a brother of the latter. Samuel M< >nks,
residents of Hartford.
As a citizen Mr. Shackley takes active
interest in all civic affairs. His sterling
business qualities and acumen have won
for him a well deserved and honorable
place among his contemporaries and fel-
low-citizens. He has shown the proof of
his abilities and acquisitions.
SHEPARD, Jean Edward,
Tobacco Grower.
We say that a man's training fitted him
for his work ;
gave him a start in life :
that
his early advantages
that fortunate cir-
cumstances have been the reason for his
success. In the last analysis it is the man
himself who makes his own life. His
training is useless unless he holds the
ground thus won ;
he can squander a pat-
rimony in a night, and float on the tide of
circumstance until adversity overtakes
him, when he finds he has no power to