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MARCUS SACKETT is a son of Niran and Catherine T. (Thorn) Sackett and was born November 28, 1830 in Irving, Chautauqua county, New York, at that time called La Grange. His paternal great-grandfather, Samuel Sackett, and his grandfather, Jehial Sackett, were natives of Dutchess county, New York, where they were farmers. His grandfather was married to Samantha Knapp, who bore him twelve children, eight sons and four daughters. In religion he belonged to the Baptist church. John I. Thorn, his maternal grandfather, was also a native of Dutchess county but emigrated to Chautauqua county, village of Irving, in 1830, having previously stopped for a short time in the town of Portland. Here at Irving he purchased a small farm from the Holland Land company which he cultivated and at the same time carried on his trade of cabinet-making. He joined in marriage with Esther Thorn, by whom he had eight children, two sons and six daughters. Niran Sackett (father of Marcus Sackett) was born October 31, 1797, on the old Sackett homestead in Dutchess county, N. Y. He received a common school and academic education, migrated with his wife and three children to Chautauqua county, and in 1834 built the first saw-mill on Cattaraugus creek at Irving. In conjunction with his manufacture of lumber, he also carried on farming and merchandising. He gave his political support to the Democratic party, and in 1844 he became an associate judge of the Court of Common Pleas, which office he held about four years. He received his appointment from William L. Marcy. Mr. Sackett has also filled the office of justice of the peace and other town offices a number of times.

Marcus Sackett gained his education in the common schools of Chautauqua county and at the Fredonia academy, Chautauqua county, New York. He read law, entered the Albany Law School — in 1851-52 — and was admitted to the bar in March of 1852. He first located in Buffalo, New York, where he practiced for four years, after which he removed to New York city and continued his profession until the year 1881, when he again returned to Buffalo. Two years later he retired from the active practice of his profession and removed to the town of Hanover, Chautauqua county, where he now lives on a farm at Hanover Center and also works the old home farm at Irving of which he is now possessor. He is in politics a Prohibitionist, but was formerly a democrat. With his family, he attends the Presbyterian church and is also a member of the Free and Accepted Masons and the Grange.

On June 16, 1857, Marcus Sackett was united in marriage to Henrietta Seaman, a daughter of John M. Seaman of New York city. To them has been born one son, John S. (born June 13, 1858), married to Stella McKean and now lives in Harvey, Illinois, where he is employed in the car-works. They have one child, Marguerite. Subject was married the second time to Mrs. Susan M. Sloan, (nee Grand Girard) widow of Rev. Samuel P. Sloan, who bore him one child, Marguerite. Upon the death of his second wife, he married the third time to Mrs. Annie Ainsworth (nee Sloan), widow of Joel Ainsworth.