{"id":823,"date":"2016-06-03T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/?p=823"},"modified":"2025-04-24T18:31:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:31:58","slug":"j-e-sackett-identified-as-jacob-edwin-sackett-son-of-orsemus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/?p=823","title":{"rendered":"J E Sackett identified as Jacob Edwin Sackett, son of Orsemus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"133\" height=\"161\" src=\"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/sackett-jacob-edwin-1850-1898.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-824\" style=\"width:200px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A long-standing mystery of the identity of J E Sackett, found in numerous newspaper stories in the 1880s as the proprietor of the Dime Museum in Minneapolis, has been solved. Despite his obvious gift for self-promotion, he was only ever referred to by his initials.<br>It had been assumed that a bizarre marriage announcement in New Zealand, &#8220;<em>Married. Sackett\u2013Brewer\u2014Mr. J. E. Sackett, Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A., to Miss Margaret Brewer, Melbourne, Victoria. No cards. No cake. Nobody&#8217;s business.<\/em>&#8221; also referred to the same man.<br>Recent research findings, in particular a divorce in Denver, Colorado, and the 1896 will of Orsemus Sackett, have established that J E was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sackettfamily.info\/g4\/p4173.htm#i125170\">Jacob Edwin Sackett<\/a>, a son of Orsemus. Father and son were not close\u2014indeed, Orsemus was not close to any of his sons, cutting off all three of them (Jacob, Henry, and Fitch) with a derisory $1 inheritance each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long-standing mystery of the identity of J E Sackett, found in numerous newspaper stories in the 1880s as the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brick-walls","category-brief-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}