Isaac Sackett

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of Westfield, Mass., Buffalo, NY., Providence, RI., and Durand, IL.

He was born at Westfield, Mass., and when a young man engaged for a considerable period in traveling from farm house to farm house, and from village to village, through New England and the western portion of New York State, purchasing from farmers and others, sheepskins, to be used in the manufacture of drum heads. Tiring of this business, he settled for a time at Buffalo, NY., and there learned the cabinet making trade, becoming an expert workman in that line. From Buffalo he went to Providence and there became foreman of a furniture factory, conducted by Rhodes G. Allen. A few years later he became associated with Judge Branch in the manufacture of furniture, in same city, under the firm name of Sackett & Branch, holding meantime the office of Justice of the Peace, and giving some attention to surveying. After a time the firm moved their business to Brooklyn, NY., locating on Fulton Street, where they opened salesrooms and became dealers as well as manufacturers. Meeting with gratifying success, they soon determined to remove to New York City, where they established warerooms at 322 Broadway and gave their principal attention to buying and selling, rather than to manufacturing. Here their business rapidly increased and their future prospects were most encouraging, when they were overtaken and carried under by the great tidal wave of disaster, known as the financial panic of 1837. Mr. Sackett then removed from New York City to Winnebago County, IL. There fortune again attended him and he speedily became and remained to the day of his death, a prominent, wealthy and greatly esteemed citizen. It is a most unusual fact that had his oldest son Isaac lived, he would have been 53 years of age when the youngest son, Pomeroy, was born.
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Year: 1850; State: IL; County: Winnebago; Township: Laona
Roll: M432_134 Page: 325
66/67
Sackett, Isaac, 53, m, farmer, MA
[Sackett], Mary, 44, f, --, RI
Sackett, Caroline, 19, f, --, RI
Sackett, Richard S., 12, m, --, NY
Sackett, Almeny R., 9, f, --, IN [not listed by Weygant]
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1880 Census; Durand, Winnebago, Illinois,
NA Film T9-0261; Page 29B
Isaac SACKETT, Self, M, M, W, 82, MA, Retired Farmer, MA, MA
Theressa SACKETT, Wife, F, M, W, 38, IL, ---, NY, NY
Adnah SACKETT, Son, M, S, W, 7, IL, At School, MA, IL
Pomroy SACKETT, Son, M, S, W, 3, IL, ---, MA, IL

Isaac married Mary Johnson, daughter of John Johnson and Mary Lyon, on 29 Dec 1832 in Newport, Newport Co., RI. (Mary Johnson was born in 1808 and died in 1869.)

Isaac next married Theressa Ella Gage, daughter of John Gage and Bethania Randall, in 1872 in Beloit, Rock Co., WI. (Theressa Ella Gage was born about 1842 in IL and died after 1880.)