Robert Linford Hackman of Denville, Morris County, NJ was born on January 29, 1923 in Newark, Essex County to Abraham Linford Hackman and Amelia Margaret (Manning). He had siblings Julia (Hackman) Igelheart and Amelia (Hackman) Cortes. He married Barbara Ann Hackman in 1951 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, and had children Linford Burton Hackman, Allison Lydia (Hackman), Margaret Amelia Hackman, and Alecia Stuart (Hackman) Myers. Robert Hackman died at age 73 years old on September 5, 1996 in Denville, Morris County, NJ.