Sacket, Hobart Sterling

Sacket, Hobart Sterling

Male 1844 - 1911  (67 years)

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  • Name Sacket, Hobart Sterling 
    Born 14 Feb 1844  Sackets Harbor, Jefferson County, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Census 20 Aug 1850  Hounsfield, Jefferson County, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Census 21 Jul 1860  Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Census 9 Jun 1870  Aurora, Waushara County, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Census 4 Jun 1880  Berlin, Green Lake County, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Census 7 Jun 1900  Park Ave, Berlin, Green Lake County, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Census 1 Jun 1905  Berlin, Green Lake County, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Census 15 Apr 1910  Berlin, Green Lake County, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    Died 11 Mar 1911  Berlin, Green Lake County, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 10
    Buried Oakwood Cemetery, Berlin, Green Lake County, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I6205  Sackett | Descendants of Thomas Sacket the Elder, Descendants of Simon Sackett the Colonist
    Last Modified 23 Apr 2018 

    Father Sacket, Edward,   b. 27 Feb 1806, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Jan 1866  (Age 59 years) 
    Mother Beckwith, Cornelia E.,   b. 9 Sep 1822, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Nov 1854  (Age 32 years) 
    Married 29 Mar 1843  Watertown, Jefferson County, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [11, 12
    Children 3 children 
     1. Sacket, Hobart Sterling,   b. 14 Feb 1844, Sackets Harbor, Jefferson County, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Mar 1911, Berlin, Green Lake County, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years)
     2. Sacket, George B.,   b. 7 Jun 1849, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 May 1894  (Age 44 years)
     3. Sacket, Frederick W.,   b. 28 Jul 1852, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Unknown
     
    Family ID F2548  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Farley, Martha Ann,   b. 1847, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Apr 1929, Berlin, Green Lake County, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 82 years) 
    Married 7 Mar 1867  Green Lake County, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [13, 14
    • Robert Sackett/Mattie A Farley / 11 Mar 1867 / Green Lake /vol. 01 p. 0065 (Hobart)
    Children 
     1. Sacket, Rodney,   b. 10 Oct 1868, Waushara County, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Dec 1938, Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years)
     2. Sacket, Louise,   b. 9 May 1874, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1949  (Age 74 years)
     3. Sacket, Walter H.,   b. 23 Oct 1877, Berlin, Green Lake County, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1962  (Age 84 years)
     4. Sacket, Harry,   b. 14 Dec 1880,   d. 24 Jul 1881  (Age 0 years)
    Last Modified 28 Jun 2016 
    Family ID F2550  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 14 Feb 1844 - Sackets Harbor, Jefferson County, New York, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 20 Aug 1850 - Hounsfield, Jefferson County, New York, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 21 Jul 1860 - Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 7 Mar 1867 - Green Lake County, Wisconsin, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChild - Sacket, Rodney - 10 Oct 1868 - Waushara County, Wisconsin, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 9 Jun 1870 - Aurora, Waushara County, Wisconsin, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChild - Sacket, Louise - 9 May 1874 - Wisconsin, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChild - Sacket, Walter H. - 23 Oct 1877 - Berlin, Green Lake County, Wisconsin, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 4 Jun 1880 - Berlin, Green Lake County, Wisconsin, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 7 Jun 1900 - Park Ave, Berlin, Green Lake County, Wisconsin, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1 Jun 1905 - Berlin, Green Lake County, Wisconsin, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 15 Apr 1910 - Berlin, Green Lake County, Wisconsin, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 11 Mar 1911 - Berlin, Green Lake County, Wisconsin, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Oakwood Cemetery, Berlin, Green Lake County, Wisconsin, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • of Berlin, Wis.

      He succeeded his father in the cranberry business. Politically he is a Republican, and has held the offices of School Commissioner, Alderman, Mayor, Judge of Municipal Court, Member of Assembly, and State Senator. He has also represented the Republicans of his district in two National Conventions. [Weygant, p. 282]
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      1880 Census; Berlin, Green Lake, Wisconsin
      Film T9-1428; Page 254C
      Hobart S. SACKET, Self M M W 35 NY Cranberry Marsh NY NY
      Martha A. SACKET, Wife F M W 30 IN Keeping House IN IN
      Rodney SACKET, Son M S W 11 WI At School NY IN
      Louisa SACKET, Dau F S W 6 WI At School NY IN
      Walter SACKET, Son M S W 2 WI ------------ NY IN
      Julia KEISEN, Other F S W 24 WI Domestic Serv. GER GER
      Mary LABOT, Other F S W 13 WI Nurse Girl GER GER
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      Commercial Times [Tomah, Monroe Co., WI]

      (Milwaukee)
      April 12, 1875

      Cranberries,
      A Description of Great Marshes.

      The Hitchcock Cranberry Company's Marsh

      (Correspondence of the Commercial Times.)
      Tomah, Wis., April 9, 1875.
      Of the many interests that have been developed from the natural resources of Wisconsin of late years, few people, probably, are aware of the importance of the cranberry production.
      From a small beginning on a marsh near Berlin 18 years since, the cultivation of this succulent berry has widely extednded over the northern section of the state. This undertaking has been stimulated by the enormous yearly yield and the certain profit of the crop.
      The marshes that are the oldest under cultivation are at Berlin where Cary brothers and H. S. Sackett have 300 acres each. J. D. Waters 40 acres and the marshes of Ruddock Mason & Co., and J. D. Williams about 1000 acres in all, under cultivation. The yield is about 100 bushels per acre. These improved marshes are said to be valued at $1000 per acre. Extending west from Berlin there is a cranberry belt embracing a portion of Monroe and Wood counties, from the marshes of which cranberries in their native and cultivated state have been picked in large quantities, and of equal quality to those in any other section to the state. The newly improved marshes on this belt comprise about 2500 acres, and some of those in bearing condition last fall yielded about 50 bushels to the acre. The marshes that have been put under improvement in the section last spoken of are known as those of Balch, F. O. Wyatt, Beers, Remington, Brooks & Wise, and the Hitchcock Cranberry Compahy.
      The completion of the Wisconsisn Valley railroad through this section of the state two years since, has opened up this country, and as a natural consequence, those marshes through whick the road passes, have been treatly enhanced in value on account of this accessibility. The last named marsh is happily located in this reapect, as this road runs directly through it, having a depot on the property 4 miles northeast of the Wisconsin Valley junction, where connection is made with the West Wisconsin road.
      Six miles further on transfer is made to the C. M. & St. Paul R. R. at Tomah which is one terminour of the Wis. Val. road the other being at Wausau Matathon Co., about 95 miles distant. It is noteworthy that trains on this road have been running regularly all winter with the exception of one day. So much has been said concering this marsh perhaps partly from the fact that some of the highest officials of the state are connected with it, that it may be of interest to our readers to know something of the facts with reference to the development of this apparently successful interprise, as it is certainly on the most extensive scale of anything of the kind in this country, the entire property comprising 2000 acres.
      What will first attract attention is the remarkably lay of of the land, as though nature had adapted this spot especially to the growth of cranberries, comprising a walley or basis of peat surrounded by hard land, the surface water from the ajacent country draining into it. To these natural advantages art comes in and supplies additional water to cover all contingencies, by tapping one of the feeders of the Lemoweier river above it, conveying the water through the canal 4 1/2 miles to another feeder of the same river below the property.
      Ditches to the extent of several miles for the purposeof drainage have been located with such care that with the aid of dams the surface of the marsh is under complete control. Some of these dams are used for carriage ways, and while riding over them on dry, hard sand, one would scarcely realize that these are the spots where, a short time since, it would have been impossible to drive a horse. The dams, miles in length, are built of sand protected with peat backs, making a very substantial work. IN these, at proper points, are timber gates of the latest improvements for controling the water. This arrangement form a seeries of marshes, each of which can be cultivated independent of the others. Thes immprovements extend over a territory of one thousand acres.
      At the depot we find a two-story frame building used as a residence and office, and near by are 11 houses, each with a cook stove and calculated to accommodate 250 pickers. With the older cultivated marshes as a basis of results, the imagination will readily take in the situation with reference to this marsh to see, in the near future, thousands of "gay and festive" pickers thronging these grounds with a village of houses in which to lodge and feed them. These pickers can but make a good thing of it, when they can average 2 bushels per day and receive seventy-five cents a bushel. This is about the sum the berries were sold for a few years since, when they nor readily sell at the marsh for $2 to $4 per bushel.
      For this berry there is a never failing market, and no over production is possible, from the very nature of the case. The demand is increasing from year to year. It has become an indispensible article for the tabel, and the people will have it whether the price is eight or twenty dollars per barrel. A writer says that, "it is quite certain thaqt the future cranberry grower will have a more widely extednded market than at present, considering the small amount of land on which the cranberry can be raised, compared with the vast country extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific" comparing our native marsh, with the best cultivated lands in New Jersey, it "will be found that ours is fully equal." In point of fact the largest yiels per acre in New Jersey has been 970, while in this state it has been 1,373 bushels per acre.
      It is a good showing for Wisconsin when it is taken into consideration that the cost per acre of improved cranberry lands at the east is from $400 to $600 while in Wisconsin the expense is $50 at the outside.
      And here is the advantage in placing money in a cranberry marsh, the improvements once made substantially no plowing or dressing is needed to keep it up, it will be growing better and better every year; th only care required, is, to match and regulate the flow of water, and in the fall, to pick and market the crop.
      By reference to an article in the United States commissioner's report of agriculture entitled "the cranberry interest," we find it stated that crop in New Jersey is as follows: "Taking one year with another, averaging the production of cultivated fields, whehever reported, probably one hundred bushels per acre is a fair estimate, at the time the vines come well into bearing."
      On inquiring of our largest growers, as to the average crop, the estimate is, "taking one year with another," at no less rate, and by some of them considerably larger. It is safe to say, however, that when the vines shall have full possession of the ground, one hundred bushels per acre is a fair estimate, although in several places, the pst season, the yield was full two hundred bushels, and in some favored spots, much larger, showing conclusively that our lands are as productive as any others, evern where the greatest amount of labor and capital have been expended.
      Accoundt of the noted Carey marsh at Berlin state that its increase of production has been 8000 barrels in 4 years on 300 acres, and from the "best forty" there whas been taken 3000 barrels in one season, or 300 bushels to the acre, which netted, it is understood, nearly $30,000.
      Of all the fruit bearing plants the cranberry is the hardiest, being unaffected by the extremes of temperature. It needs but little if any care and does not require removal. This fuir is less perishable, continuing good the year through, retaining its long keep qualities in all climates. Its health giving properties are known and acknowledged especially in places where bilious diseases prevail.
      The success of raising cranberries is based on three points. First, plenty of peat destitute of loam or clay, second, drainage in summer, and third, flooding in winter.
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      In Memoriam.

      Hobart Sterling Sacket passed from earth life at his home in the city of Berlin, Saturday, March 11th, 1911, after an illness lasting since early in January. The obsequies were held Monday March 18th; under the auspices of Berlin lodge No. 38 A. F. and A. M., Reverend R. M. Higgins and Reberend Father Davis assisting, and were attended by a large number of friends and neighbors, whose intense sympathy for the sorrowing family was suggested by a wealth of beautiful floral tributes. The funeral cortege was escorted to Oakwood cemetery where the interment took place by the order of Knight Templais, Berlin Commandery No. 10, many out of town members being present.

      Mr. Sacket was born February 14, 1844 in Sacket's Harbor, New York, and lived during his early years in Cleveland, Ohio, receiving a liberal education in the Western Reserve College at Hudson.

      In the year 1866, upon the death of his father, who had developed large cranberry interests in the vicinity of Berlin, he came here to take charge of the property and has ever since been closely identified with the people and affairs of the locality, being for long designated as "the cranberry king."

      He was married in 1867 to Martha Farley of Berlin and in the autumn of 1874 settled with her in the present family home which at once became and has ever since remained a center of social life in the community, both husband and wife possessing rare capacity fot the manifestation of genuinely gracious hospitality.

      Mr. Sacket represented his districts in both branches of the state legislature for a period of eight years in the seventies, was a deligate to the National Republican convention in 1872 and a member of the Republican state central committee in 1879. He has served Berlin as Mayor of the city and as Municipal Judge and in minor official positions.

      As he had been a member of the Quartermaster's Department during the Civil War and acted as a volunteer nurse after the battle of Pittsburg Landing, he was made an honorary member of the John H. Williams Post G. A. R. He was a prominent Mason, also an Odd Fellow and was one of the founders and a constant attendant at the meetins of the X Ray club where he was familiarly knows[sic] as "Bishop Sacket."

      Of his immediate family circle there remain the wife of his yourth, three children, Rodney Sacket, of Washington, D. C., Walter Sacket, of Madison, Wisconsin, Mrs. Charles Smith, of Harrisonburg, Virginia, and his youngest brother, Frederick Sackdet, of this city.

      These details chronicle the outward life story of a distinguished citizen of Berlin, a man of strong individuality, of wide reading, finely appreciative of good literature, music and the beauties of Mother Nature, always keenly interested in affairs of the day, fully consicious of the fact that he was living in a great age and hopeful of a still more wonderful future for humanity. His unique personality made him a marked figure here in the life of Berlin where he filled a place peculiarly his won and where by a multitude of neighbors and fellow townsmen, he will always be remembered as the one and only "Hobe" of whom each may say in the words of Shakespeare, "He was a man, take him for all in all. I shall not look upon his like again." [Submitted by Jan Lavine]
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      U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925
      Name: Rodney Sacket
      Father Name: H S Sacket
      Father's Birth Location: Sacket'S Harbor, NY
      Father's Residence: Dead
      Source: Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925 (M1490)

  • Sources 
    1. [S543] Find A Grave (www.findagrave.com) (Reliability: 3), 28 Jun 2016.
      From Find A Grave Memorial# 134519218
      http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=134519218

      Hobart S. Sacket
      Birth: 1844
      Death: 1911

      Burial:
      Oakwood Cemetery
      Berlin
      Green Lake County
      Wisconsin, USA
      Plot: Section 30

      Created by: Grave Walker(L Kopet)
      Record added: Aug 18, 2014
      Find A Grave Memorial# 134519218

      Researched by Ted Smith

    2. [S1619] Newspapers.com (Reliability: 3), 23 Apr 2018.
      Wausau Daily Herald (Wausau, Wisconsin), 13 Mar 1911, page 1

      SENATOR SACKET DEAD

      Was Prominent in State and National National Politics in Early Days.

      Milwaukee. March 1 3. Hobart Sterling Sacket, thirty years ago one of the best known politicians of Wisconsin, and for many years a member of the state senate, is dead at his home in Berlin. He was 67 years old. Death was due to an attack of heart disease.

      Mr. Sacket was born in Sacket's Harbor, N. Y., Feb. 14, 1844. He was educated in the common schools and took a partial course at Western Reserve college. He came to Wisconsin in 1866, and first, settied in the town of Waushara. Shortly afterward he moved to Green Lake county.

      During the civil war Mr. Sacket was in the employ of the ouartermaster's department and was stationed at Chicago, Pittsburg Landing, Atlanta, and Chattanooga.

      Rodney Sacket, now a clerk in the senate at Washington, who was identified with the Stephenson campaign, is a son.

      Transcribed by Ted Smith

    3. [S506] 1850 U.S. Census (Reliability: 3).
      Year: 1850; State: NY; County: Jefferson; Township: Hounsfield
      Date: 20 Aug
      Roll: M432_514 Page: 163
      577/577
      Sackett, Edward, 44 m merchant NY
      [Sackett], Cornelia, 29 f -- NY
      Sackett, Hobart S , 6 m -- NY
      Sackett, George B., 1 m -- NY
      Bryant, Mary, 23 f -- NY
      Borden, Sally, 30 f -- NY
      Sackett, Elisha, 54 m merchant NY

      "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCYV-8MD : 12 April 2016), Edward Sackett, Hounsfield, Jefferson, New York, United States; citing family 577, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

      Researched by Ted Smith

    4. [S500] 1860 U.S. Census (Reliability: 3), 23 Apr 2018.
      1860 Census, enumerated in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States

      Edward Sacket M 52 New York
      Louisa Sacket F 40 New York
      Hobert Sacket M 16 New York
      George Sacket M 11 New York
      Frederick Sacket M 8 New York
      Walton Sacket M 3 Michigan
      Jane Banan F 30 Ireland

      "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX4L-6BQ : 13 December 2017), Hobert Sacket in entry for Edward Sacket, 1860.

      Researched by Ted Smith

    5. [S501] 1870 U.S. Census (Reliability: 3), 27 Jun 2016.
      1870 Census, enumerated 9 Jun 1870 in Town of Aurora, Waushara County, Wisconsin, United States

      Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
      Hubert Sacket M 26 New York
      Martha Sacket F 22 Indiana
      Rodney Sacket M 1 Wisconsin

      "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNSF-ZHM : 17 October 2014), Rodney Sacket in household of Hubert Sacket, Wisconsin, United States; citing p. 13, family 107, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 553,243.

      Researched by Ted Smith

    6. [S960] 1880 U.S. Census (Reliability: 3), 28 Jun 2016.
      1880 Census, enumerated 4 Jun 1880 in Berlin city, Green Lake County, Wisconsin, United States

      Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
      Hobart S Sacket Self M 35 New York, United States
      Martha A Sacket Wife F 30 Indiana, United States
      Rodney Sacket Son M 11 Wisconsin, United States
      Louisa Sacket Daughter F 6 Wisconsin, United States
      Walter Sacket Son M 2 Wisconsin, United States
      Julia Keisen Other F 24 Wisconsin, United States
      Mary Labot Other F 13 Wisconsin, United States

      "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN42-V7G : 24 December 2015), Rodney Sacket in household of Hobart S Sacket, Berlin, Green Lake, Wisconsin, United States; citing enumeration district ED 63, sheet 254C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1428; FHL microfilm 1,255,428.

      Researched by Ted Smith

    7. [S954] 1900 U.S. Census (Reliability: 3), 27 Jun 2016.
      1900 Census, enumerated 7 Jun 1900 on Park Ave in Berlin city, Green Lake County, Wisconsin, United States

      Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
      Hobert S Sackett Head M 56 New York b. Feb 1844 (married 33 yrs)
      Matie A Sackett Wife F 48 Wisconsin b. Dec 1852 (married 33 yrs)
      Rodney Sackett Son M 31 Wisconsin b. Oct 1869
      Walter Sackett Son M 23 Wisconsin b. Oct 1877
      Louise Smith Daughter F 25 Wisconsin b. May 1875 (married 2 yrs)
      Charles W Smith Son-in-law M 27 Wisconsin b. Sep 1873 (married 2 yrs)
      Mary Myers Servant F 21 Wisconsin

      "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMV9-Q28 : 22 January 2015), Rodney Sackett in household of Hobert S Sackett, Berlin city Ward 1, 4-5, Green Lake, Wisconsin, United States; citing sheet 6B, family 141, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,241,791.

      Researched by Ted Smith

    8. [S457] Wisconsin, State Census, 1905, (FamilySearch.org) (Reliability: 3), 28 Jun 2016.
      1905 Census, enumerated 1 Jun 1905 in Berlin city, Green Lake County, Wisconsin, United States

      Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
      H S Sacket Head M 61y New York
      Martha Sacket Wife F 40y Wisconsin
      Rodney Sacket Son M 34y Wisconsin
      Walter Sacket Son M 28y Wisconsin
      Emma Novokowski Servant F 20y Wisconsin

      "Wisconsin State Census, 1905," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MM3W-9H7 : 14 November 2014), Martha Sacket in household of H S Sacket, Berlin city, ward 1, Green Lake, Wisconsin; citing p. 14, line 59, State Historical Society, Madison; FHL microfilm 1,020,450.

      Researched by Ted Smith

    9. [S57] 1910 U.S. Census (Reliability: 3), 27 Jun 2016.
      1910 Census, enumerated 15 Apr 1910 at 907 Park Ave in Berlin city, Green Lake County, Wisconsin, United States

      Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
      Hobart Sacket Head M 66 New York
      Martha Ann Sacket Wife F 60 Wisconsin
      Celia Chappa Servant F 19 Wisconsin

      "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPVD-W4H : 29 October 2015), Martha Ann Sacket in household of Hobart Sacket, Berlin Ward 1, Green Lake, Wisconsin, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 103, sheet 9A, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,375,726.

      Researched by Ted Smith

    10. [S1404] The Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin), (Ancestry.com) (Reliability: 3), 28 Jun 2016.
      13 March 1911, p. 11

      FORMER STATE POLITICIAN
      Hobart Sterling Sackett Dies at Berlin at Advanced Age

      Milwaukee, Wis., March 13.--Hobart Sterling Sacket, thirty years ago one of the best konwn politicians of Wisconsin, and for many years a member of the state senate, is dead at his home in Berlin. He was sixty-seven years old. Death was due to an attack of heart failure.

      Mr. Sacket was born in Sacket's Harbor, N.Y., February 14, 1844. He was educated in the common schools and took a partial course at Western Reserve college. He came to Wisconsin in 1866, and first settled in the town (sic) of Wasuahra. Shortly afterward he moved to Green Lake county.

      While in Waushara county he served two terms as chairman of the town of Aurora and represented his district in the assembly in 1872. The same year he was a delegate to the Republican national convention in Philadelphia. He later represented Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara counties in the state senate during the session of 1877 and 1878, and again in 1879 and 1880. For several year (sic) he was a member of the Republican state central committee. After retiring from political life Mr. Sacket became interested in the hardware business from which he retired a few years ago.

      During the civil war Mr. Sacket was in the employ of the quartermaster's department and was stationed at Chicago, Pittsburg Landing, Atlanta and Chattanooga.

      Rodney Sacket, now a clerk in the senate at Washington, who was identified with the Stephenson campaign, is a son.

      Transcribed by Ted Smith

    11. [S1309] Early Settlers of New York State, Janet Wethy Foley, (Heritage Books) (Reliability: 2).
      Early Settlers of New York State, Their Ancestors and Descendants, Extract from: Vol. 4, No. 1

    12. [S1911] New York City, Compiled Marriage Index, 1600s-1800s, (Ancestry.com).
      Name: Edward Sacket
      Spouse Name: Cornelia E. Beckwith
      Marriage Date: 1843
      Marriage Place: Watertown, Jefferson, New York

      Marriage ID: 2220281903

      Source: Early Settlers of New York State, Their Ancestors and Descendants, Extracts from Vol.4, No.1 (Jul 1937)
      Publisher: Foley, Thomas
      Publication Place: Akron, NY

      Researched by Ted Smith

    13. [S1282] North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, (Ancestry.com).
      The Sacketts of America : their ancestors and descendants, 1630-1907
      p. 282

      2016. Hon. Hobart Sterling Sacket, 1844-, of Berlin, Wis., son of (783) Edward and Cornelia Beckwith Sacket, was married, Mar. 7, 1867, to Martha Ann Farley, 1848-, daughter of Robert Farley and Jane McClellan.

    14. [S1403] Wisconsin, U.S., Marriage Index, 1820-1907, (Ancestry.com) (Reliability: 2), 28 Jun 2016.
      Name: Mattie A Farley
      Marriage Date: 11 Mar 1867
      Marriage Place: Green Lake, Wisconsin, USA
      Volume: 01
      Page: 0065

      Ancestry.com. Wisconsin, Marriage Index, 1820-1907 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2000.


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