John Barton Hack |
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| Title : | John Barton Hack |
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| Date of creation : | ca. 1870 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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| Description : |
John Barton Hack came to South Australia in 1837 and established himself as a farmer and merchant. Hack was a Quaker and gave the land on which the Friends' meeting house was eventually erected, in Pennington Terrace, North Adelaide. On his property at Echunga he planted some of the first vines in South Australia. He was a generous man, paying high wages to his employees and allowing generous credit to those he dealt with in business. Hack made and lost several fortunes through farming, shipping, and prospecting on the Victorian goldfields. His losses and ill health forced him to join the railways in 1870, becoming controller of railway accounts in 1879. He died in 1884. |
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| Related names : | Hack, John Barton, 1805-1884 Quaker Meeting House (North Adelaide, S. Aust.) |
| Coverage year : | 1870 |
| Period : | 1852-1883 |
| Place : | Adelaide (S. Aust.); Mount Barker (S. Aust.); Pennington Terrace (Adelaide, S. Aust.) |
| Further reading : | Gilchrist, J. 'Hack, John Barton (1805-1884)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1966, pp.497 Stevenson, Charles. The millionth snowflake: the history of Quakers in South Australia, North Adelaide, S. Aust.: The Religious Society of Friends (Adelaide Meeting), 1987 |
| Internet links : | Australian Dictionary of Biography Online: Search for John Barton Hack |
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