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Harry T. Sackett is the owner of the Twin Oaks Farm, which
comprises one hundred and eleven acres on sections 25 and 26,
Honey Creek township. It is devoted to the general cultivation of
grains and to the raising of graded stock. Mr. Sackett was born
in Clayton county, Iowa, July 10. 1860, and is one of a family of
seven children whose parents were Charles T. and Phoebe (Baldwin)
Sackett. The father and mother were both natives of New England
but were married in Ohio and in the early '50s settled in Clayton
county, Iowa. In 1872 they came to Delaware county, taking up
their abode near Oneida, where the father carried on general
farming and also engaged in raising graded stock. He was much
interested in public affairs and his aid and support could be
counted upon to further measures and movements for the general
good. He passed away in 1893 and his wife died in 1899, being
laid to rest by his side in the Edgewood cemetery.
Of their five sons and two daughters, four
are yet living. The record is as follows: Moses and Charles, both
of whom are deceased; Willis, a resident of Strawberry Point;
Lysander, of Arlington; Laura, the wife of Charles Smith; Mary,
the deceased wife of Lester Clark; and Harry T., of this review.
The last named spent the first twelve years
of his life in his native county and then accompanied his parents
on their removal to Delaware county, acquiring his education in
the public schools of both counties. When not busy with his text
books he worked with his father in the fields upon the home place
and when about twenty five years of age he started out in life on
his own account, cultivating a rented farm for a time and
afterward purchasing property. Today he is the owner of one
hundred and eleven acres and the Twin Oaks Farm is one of the
pleasing features of the landscape. He has added to it many
modern improvements and his methods of cultivating the soil are
progressive and accord with the advanced ideas of scientific
farming.
Mr. Sackett was married March 20, 1888, to Miss
Lily May Martin, a daughter of George W. and Mary Ann (Scrivens)
Martin of Honey Creek township, and the little daughter born of
this union was buried with the mother in February, 1889. On the
9th of August, 1893, Mr. Sackett was united in marriage to Mrs.
Hattie Bryans, the widow of John Bryans and a daughter of Elisha
and Jane (Clugston) Miller. By her first marriage she had a
daughter, Carrie, who is now the wife of Harry Coon. By the
second marriage there have been born four children, as follows:
Harry E., who passed away on the 6th of December, 1895; Harold
T., who died February 4, 1898; Lilly May, whose demise occurred
June 2, 1900; and Howard Carl, who was born on the 11th of
September, 1903. The Miller family were among the early settlers
of this part of the state. Mrs. Sackett's father came from New
York and her mother from Indiana, and they were married in
Delaware county on the 12th of April, 1857. Their remaining days
were passed in Delaware county and they were numbered among its
citizens of sterling worth. They had six children, five of whom,
together with the parents, now sleep in the Greeley cemetery.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Sackett are widely known in
Honey Creek township and in other parts of the county. He has
lived in Delaware county for forty two years and has therefore
witnessed much of its growth, development and improvement. His
interest has led to cooperation in many plans for the public good
and at the same time he has carefully managed and conducted his
business affairs, so that both his farming and stock raising
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