1860 - Unknown
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Name |
Sackett, Clarence |
Born |
22 Feb 1860 |
Brooklyn, New York City, Kings County, New York, USA [1] |
Gender |
Male |
Census |
9 Jun 1860 |
Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York, USA [2] |
Census |
2 Jun 1875 |
Brooklyn, New York City, Kings County, New York, USA [1] |
Census |
7 Jun 1936 |
Bloomfield Township, Essex County, New Jersey, USA [3] |
Died |
Unknown |
Person ID |
I6991 |
Sackett | Descendants of William Sackett and Elethea Higgins |
Last Modified |
29 Jul 2018 |
Father |
Sackett, William Edgar, b. 5 Apr 1823, Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York, USA , d. 25 May 1895, Brooklyn, New York City, Kings County, New York, USA (Age 72 years) |
Mother |
Findlay, Josephine, b. Feb 1826, Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York, USA , d. 1901 (Age ~ 74 years) |
Married |
3 Mar 1847 |
Children |
13 children |
| 1. Sackett, Frances, b. Abt 1847, New York, USA , d. Unknown | + | 2. Sackett, William Edgar Jr., b. 23 May 1848, New York City, New York, USA , d. 18 Nov 1926, East Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, USA (Age 78 years) | | 3. Sackett, Washington Irving / Evans, b. Oct 1849, d. 8 Jan 1858 (Age ~ 8 years) | | 4. Sackett, Josephine Finley, b. 3 Aug 1851, Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York, USA , d. Unknown | | 5. Sackett, Florence Maud, b. 1 May 1853, Brooklyn, New York City, Kings County, New York, USA , d. Unknown | | 6. Sackett, Teressa, b. 20 Dec 1853, New Brighton, Staten Island Borough, New York City, Richmond County, New York, USA , d. Unknown | | 7. Sackett, Louisa, b. 20 Dec 1854, d. Aug 1855 (Age 0 years) | | 8. Sackett, Findlay, b. 9 Mar 1856, New Brighton, Staten Island Borough, New York City, Richmond County, New York, USA , d. 7 Jun 1936, West Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, USA (Age 80 years) | | 9. Sackett, Henry, b. 9 Feb 1858, Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York, USA , d. Sep 1888 (Age 30 years) | | 10. Sackett, Clarence, b. 22 Feb 1860, Brooklyn, New York City, Kings County, New York, USA , d. Unknown | | 11. Sackett, Clara / Claire, b. 22 Feb 1860, Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York, USA , d. Unknown | | 12. Sackett, Eugenia, b. 5 Apr 1861, Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York, USA , d. Unknown | | 13. Sackett, Eugene, b. 5 Jul 1864, d. Abt 31 Aug 1864 (Age 0 years) | |
Family ID |
F2834 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family 1 |
Livingston, Burd B., b. 1856, d. 12 Sep 1899, Essex County, New York, USA (Age 43 years) |
Married |
17 Nov 1885 |
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA |
Children |
| 1. Sackett, Blair Livingston, b. 16 Sep 1886, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA , d. 27 Apr 1960, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA (Age 73 years) |
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Last Modified |
29 Mar 2011 |
Family ID |
F2844 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Event Map |
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| Born - 22 Feb 1860 - Brooklyn, New York City, Kings County, New York, USA |
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| Census - 9 Jun 1860 - Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York, USA |
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| Census - 2 Jun 1875 - Brooklyn, New York City, Kings County, New York, USA |
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| Married - 17 Nov 1885 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA |
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| Child - Sackett, Blair Livingston - 16 Sep 1886 - Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA |
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| Census - 7 Jun 1936 - Bloomfield Township, Essex County, New Jersey, USA |
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Notes |
- attorney-at-law, of Newark, N. J.
Mr. Sackett was confidential secretary to Governor Leon Abbott of New Jersey. [Weygant, p292, 398]
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Biography posted with his picture on EBay:
Clarence Sackett "was born in New York City, February 22, 1860. He is the son of William E. and Josephine (Findlay) Sackett. On the paternal side he traces his descent from an old family of English origin, being ninth in the direct line from Simon Sackett, the earliest ancestor of the Sacketts of America. Simon Sackett came to this country from England in 1630, settling in Connecticut[sic].[Massachusetts]
Clarence Sackett is largely a self-educated man, having left school at fourteen years of age in order to go to work. At fifteen years of age he entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, at Pier 38, North River, under John Whittaker, then the agent, and he remained thus engaged for five years. In the meantime he studied shorthand writing, having no teacher but applying himself to his books with an energy and persistence that were bound to bring knowledge of the science. He acquired speed, accuracy and practical expertness as a stenographic reporter by attending church lectures, especially the Friday night talks of the late T. DeWitt Talmage, in his Tabernacle on Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn, in which city young Sackett then lived with his parents. By taking down these discourses, the lad became so excellent a reporter that when he was twenty years old, he was accepted as private secretary by the former United States Senator Alexander McDonald, of Arkansas, who was then extensively engaged in the promotion and development of mining enterprises in New York City.
Three years later, Mr, Sackett took up the work of a professional law reporter and from the very beginning he displayed great aptitude for the work, winning success and reputation. In 1884, when he was twenty-four years old, having removed to New Jersey, Governor Abbett, of that State, selected him from a number of others as the official stenographer of the Governor, a very important position in those days. Mr. Sackett performed the duties of the place with such ability and satisfaction that in the spring of 1884 he was appointed as the stenographer to report the testimony out of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Mr. Sackett served as the official stenographer of the Essex Circuit Court in Newark for a period of ten years and in 1902 became associated with the late Judge Kirkpatrick, United States District Judge, being since that time recognized and employed by litigants in the United States Courts in New Jersey as the official stenographic reporter of those courts.
Having decided to take up the practice of law in connection with his other duties, Mr. Sackett undertook its study without outside aid, just as he had done with shorthand, and he was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1902, without having attended a law school. It taking him but a single year to sufficiently equip himself and obtain his sheepskin. His success as a practitioner was immediate.
Mr. Sackett was a member of the Twenty-second Regiment, National Guard of New York, for five years. He held membership in the Montclair Club, at Montclair, New Jersey, for eight years and is at this time, in 1909, a member of the North End Club, of Newark. In religious faith, he is a member of the Second Presbyterian Church of Newark.
He married, November 17, 1885, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Burd Blair Livingston, daughter of John B. and Elizabeth (Morris) Livingston, direct descendants from the Livingstons and Morrises of Revolutionary fame. Of this marriage there is one child, a son, Blair Livingston Sackett, who was born September 16, 1886, was graduated with the degree of Engineer of Mining, in May, 1909, from the Colorado School of Mines, and is now occupying an important position in a large smelting and refining works at Grand Forks, British Columbia. Mrs. Sackett died in 1899 and Mr. Sackett was again married in the Fall of 1909 to Laura C. Milner, of Bloomfield, New Jersey."
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1900 > NEW JERSEY > ESSEX > 3-WD MONTCLAIR
Series: T623 Roll: 970 Page: 120
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A People Awakened; The Story Of Woodrow Wilson's First Campaign Which Carried New Jersey to the Lead of the States in the Great Movement for the Emancipation of the Government; By: Charles Reade Bacon; of the Staff of the Philadelphia Record; Garden City, New York; Doubleday, Page & Company; 1912
Pages 64-65
Mr. Wilson writes few of his addresses in advance. Of course, he makes some mental preparation for them, but he has been such a prolific writer and such a deep student that elaborate preparation is not necessary. He never consults a note or a memorandum, but stands up firmly, his keen eyes fastened upon his audience, which he invariably wins with the first terse sentences and holds to the end of his beautiful perorations, and the well-rounded sentences, clean-cut diction and faultless rhetoric flow from him like the silvery waters over the rocks of a forest brook. Sometimes the newspapermen who have followed him thus far in the campaign catch their breaths, halt their pencils and consider how he is going to extricate himself from a seemingly linguistic pitfall when, in the most natural manner in the world, he will come smoothly out, smiling and effectively, amid a fresh outbreak of applause from his audience.
When the Democratic State Committee learned that it would not be possible for the candidate to prepare his addresses so that copies could be sent out to the newspapers in advance, Chairman Nugent organized a corps of stenographers and typists to accompany him on the tour of the state to take the speeches as they are delivered each night. The task was assigned to Clarence Sackett, an expert of Newark, who has been a stenographer in the Supreme Court for years. The system is now working to a nicety. Mr. Sackett takes the first fifteen minutes of the address, retires to the most convenient room \emdash it was the office of a bottling establishment at Plainfield last Thursday night \emdash and reads from his notes to a swift typewriter, while one of his assistants is "taking" the next fifteen minutes, retiring for a second assistant, who usually gets the last of the speech, Mr. Wilson usually talking forty-five minutes. In this manner the correspondents are able to get carbon copies of the first part of the address before all of it is delivered and to put it on the wires for transmission to their papers in the candidate's exact language with no chance of misquoting or misunderstanding.
Sackett, warm and excited, emerged from a dressing room of the Beach Casino, at Long Branch, last Saturday night just as Mr. Wilson had concluded his address and was leaving the stage.
Former Senator Smith presented the stenographer to the candidate.
"Glad to meet you, sir," said Mr. Wilson. "I do hope I am not hard to follow."
"Oh, not hard to follow," said Sackett, gripping the sturdy hand; "only I get so absorbed in your speech that it is hard for me to keep my pen going."
Mr. Wilson appeared greatly pleased at the unique tribute to his power as an orator. The correspondents feel pretty much the same way as the stenographer. They want to listen and cut the work.
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National Floodmarks: Week by Week Observations on American Life as Seen by Collier's;
Edited by Mark Sullivan; New York; George H. Doran Company; 1915
- Page 65
W. W.'s Conviction
We are indebted to Mr. Clarence Sackett of Newark, N. J., for one of the best
epigrams we have seen concerning the situation in Washington. Mr. Sackett
says the epigram came originally from the Boston (Mass.) "Transcript":
"None of the Democrats in Congress have the courage of their own
convictions -- but they all have the courage of Mr. Wilson's convictions."
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- [S919] 1875 New York State Census (Reliability: 3), 28 Jul 2018.
1875 Census, enumerated 2 Jun 1875 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, United States
William Sackett Father M 50 New York County
Josphene Findley Wife F 42 New York County
Josephene Sackett Child F 18 New York County
Finley Sackett Child M 27 New York County
Florence Sackett Child M 15 Kings County
Henry Sackett Child M 13 New York County
Terrecea Sackett Child F 13 New York County
Clara Sackett Child F 11 New York County
Clarance Sackett Child M 11 New York County
Eugenie Sackett Child F 10 New York County
"New York State Census, 1875," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VNJW-6NZ : 11 March 2018), Finley Sackett in household of William Sackett, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States; citing p. 3, line 25, State Library, Albany; FHL microfilm 1,930,212.
Researched by Ted Smith
- [S500] 1860 U.S. Census (Reliability: 3), 28 Jul 2018.
1860 Census, enumerated 9 Jun 1860 in New York City, New York County, New York, United States
Wm E Sacksett M 36 New York
Josephine Sacksett F 32 New York
Frances Sacksett F 13 New York
Wm C Sacksett M 9 New York
Evans Sacksett M 8 New York
Josephine F Sacksett F 7 New York
Florance Sacksett F 5 New York
Thresia Sacksett F 4 New York
Findley Sacksett M 3 New York
Henry Sacksett M 2 New York
Clara Sacksett F 0 New York
Clarance Sacksett F 0 New York
Harriet M Brown F 42 New York
Hester Williams F 32 England
Ann Tobins F 19 England
Wm Brown M 11 New York
"United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC7J-CB9 : 12 December 2017), Findley Sacksett in entry for Wm E Sacksett, 1860.
Researched by Ted Smith
- [S62] New York Times (Reliability: 3), 28 Jul 2018.
New York Times (New York, New York), 8 Jun 1936, page 6
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/06/08/87947546.html?pageNumber=6
FINDLAY SACKETT, 80, ENDS LIFE IN NEW JERSEY
Body of Retired Customs Broker Found in Eagle Rock Park With Shotgun Near By,
Summary: Sackett had been ill for some time, had become despondent, and appeared to have taken his own life with the shotgun. "No notes were found."
"Mr. Sackett was unmarried and lived at the Marlborough Hotel in East Orange. He had retired from business about two years ago. He is survived by a brother, Clarence Sackett of Bloomfield, N.J., and by two sisters, Mrs. Claire Randall and Miss Eugenie Sackett of East Orange."
Researched by Ted Smith
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