Aili Aleksandra Hakkarainen was born January 22, 1903 in Finland. She was married to John Harold Hacklin, also a native of Finland, around 1925. They emigrated to the United States , John in 1920 and Aili in 1921. She became a naturalized citizen August 7, 1933 while living in San Francisco, California. The couple had a son, John Harold Jr., born in San Francisco in 1930.
The couple had an interesting employment history. In 1930 they were both working for Frank and Adrienne Fuller of Hillsborough, California- John as a butler and Aili as a maid. The Fullers were almost the same age as the Hacklins, but apparently well-off enough to employ servants. John Fuller was a paint manufacturer, and Adrienne was a housewife with a newborn daughter.
Intermittently, John Hacklin worked as a seaman, or sailor, and Aili set up business as a dressmaker. Several late 1930's and early 1940's Palo Alto, California city directories identify John Hacklin as a "hardwood floor contractor." (It is interesting that when John worked as a butler, he was a registered Republican; but when both John and Aili are listed as registered voters, they are Democrats.)
The 1940 census places the family in San Mateo, California, living on Elm Street; but sometime after 1944 they moved to Brooklyn, New York, where they made their home on 43rd Street. In 1947 the three of them traveled to Europe, returning by air from Gardermoen, Norway, to LaGuardia in New York City on October 11, 1947.
In the 1970's John and Aili were living in Voluntown, Connecticut. John H. Hacklin Sr. died October 28, 1972, in Palm Beach, Florida. Aili A. Hacklin died September 19, 1992, at the Vanderbilt Nursing Home in Staten Island, New York, and was buried on Hart Island.
Sources: U.S. Social Security Death Index; Connecticut Death Index, 1949-2012; New York Passenger Lists 1820-1957; U.S. City Directories, 1822-1989; 1930 and 1940 U.S. Federal Censuses; U.S. Naturalization Record Indexes, 1791-1992; California Birth Index, 1905-1995; Florida Death Index 1877-1998; California, Voter Registrations, 1900-1968.