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Category: Brief Lives

Was Elizabeth Sacket kidnapped by the Indians?

5 April 2020 Chris Sackett Leave a comment

A rather startling assertion is made in the book Western Massachusetts history: the Westfield area. The author, Stephen Pitoniak, writing…

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Dr David Sackett, pioneer of clinical epidemiology

26 May 2019 Chris Sackett Leave a comment

David Sackett MD (1934–2015) was a Canadian medical doctor and a pioneer in evidence-based medicine who proved that aspirin helps…

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Frederic Moseley Sackett, US Ambassador to Germany

19 December 2018 Chris Sackett Leave a comment

Frederic Moseley Sackett (1868–1941) was the US Ambassador to Germany in the critical early 1930s when Hitler and the Nazi…

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Carl Leroy Sackett, frontiersman and US district attorney

12 May 2018 Chris Sackett Leave a comment

Carl Leroy Sackett (1876–1972), frontiersman and US district attorney, was born in Nebraska but lived all his life from early…

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Thomas Baker Sackett, convicted highway robber

2 March 2018 Chris Sackett Leave a comment

On 13 September 1827, at London’s central criminal court, the Old Bailey, Thomas Baker Sackett was found guilty of assaulting…

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Augustine Sackett, inventor of drywall

1 March 2018 Chris Sackett Leave a comment

Augustine Sackett (1841–1914), born in Connecticut and later of New York City, son of Homer and Flora (Skiff) Sackett, was…

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Posted in: Brief Lives, Military

Arthur LaVerne Sackett dies

27 August 2017 Chris Sackett Leave a comment

Arthur LaVerne Sackett has died aged 85 in Omaha, Nebraska, on 4 August 2017.Arthur was born in Omaha and lived…

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Posted in: Brief Lives, Obituaries

J E Sackett identified as Jacob Edwin Sackett, son of Orsemus

3 June 2016 Chris Sackett Leave a comment

A long-standing mystery of the identity of J E Sackett, found in numerous newspaper stories in the 1880s as the…

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Posted in: Brick Walls & Other Mysteries, Brief Lives

Jim Sackett, Korean War veteran, dies

29 June 2015 Chris Sackett Leave a comment

James M “Jim” Sackett, a veteran of the Korean War, died in Chicago, Illinois, on 20 June 2015. He was…

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Posted in: Brief Lives, Members, Military, Obituaries

Centenarian Willis “Bill” Sackett is remembered

26 October 2013 Chris Sackett Leave a comment

Willis Alden “Bill” Sackett died aged 100 years 8 months 10 days in Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa, on 19…

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Posted in: Brief Lives, Military, Obituaries

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