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From: "Thurmon King" <>
Subject: 2016-Hobart Sterling Sacket obituary
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:56:03 -0700


Hello Sackett Searchers,

Another obituary from the material Jan Lavine via Eileen Russell in April, 2002. This is part of the Sackett material in the Flower Memorial Library, Watertown, New York. The name of the news paper is not given.

Regards,
Thurmon
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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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