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ON. GEORGE SACKETT, one of the prominent citizens of Cuyahoga Falls, and an old resident, springs from an old New England family which was among the founders of Connecticut, and the early settlers of Litchfield county.
Homer Sackett, grandfather of our subject, was born in Kent, now Warren, Litchfield county, married Sarah Carter and lived on a farm in Warren township, which farm is still in the Sackett name. Homer Sackett was the father of Theron, Augustine, Polly, Aurelia. Aaron, Seth (a Congregational minister). Orange, Homer, Sarah, Pattie, Maria and Chester (who died young). Mr. Sackett and family were members of the Congregational
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church; he was a prosperous farmer and sub- stantial man and the family was one of promi- nence and sterling worth; he lived to be about ninety years of age and died on the homestead --- a farm originally owned by the family prior to Homer Sackett's birth.
Aaron Sackett, father of our subject, was born January 7, 1891, on the old Sackett homestead, received the usual common educa- tion and became a school-teacher. He fol- lowed farming all his life and married in War- ren, Conn., Hulda C. Tanner, a native of Warren and daughter of Deacon William Tanner, a lieutenant of the Revolutionary war, who fought under Gen. Anthony Wayne at Stony Point. In 1836 Aaron Sackett moved to Canandaigua, N. Y., where he lived two years in order that his children might attend its excellent academy and seminary.
In 1838 he came to Ohio and settled in Tallmadge township, Summit county, where he bought a farm of 160 acres, but in 1868 re- tired and lived with his son William, at Copley, until his death, in 1872, at the age of eighty-four years. He was a man of stanch traits of character, temperate and moral, pros- perous through life, and reared an excellent family. His children were Theodosia, Har- riet T., George, Sarah, Emiline, William, Seth, Maria, Francis and Sarah (who died in childhood.)
Hon. George Sackett, son of above, was born January 6, 1821, at Warren, Litchfield county, Conn., and received his education in the common schools and then attended the academy two years, at Canandaigua, N. Y., and at the academy in Tallmadge, Ohio, three terms. He has always been a farmer. Mr. Sackett married the first time. September 10, 1848, Miss Helen Williams, a native of Au- burn, N. Y., and a daughter of Nelson Will- iams, of Connecticut. They had no children, and Mrs. Sackett died June 10, 1851. Mr. Sack-
ett next married February 9, 1854, at Tall- madge, Ohio, Frances V. Grant, who was born December 8, 1882, at Orange, New Haven county, Conn., daughter of William and Esther (Treat) Grant. William Grant was born in North Fork, Va., July 30, 1807, son of Richard and Elizabeth A. Grant. Mr. Grant went to New Haven, Conn., when a boy of sixteen, with his employer, Andrew Smith, a shoe manufacturer for the southern market, who setttled in Orange township, New Haven county, Conn., about 1823 or 1824. William Grant remained in Orange all the rest of his life, was long in the employ of Mr. Smith, and afterward engaged in the manu- facture of shoes on his own account.
William Grant married, at Orange, and his children were Matilda E., Frances V., Henry Clay, Frederick, Anna Elizabeth, Charles R., and Emily A. Mr. Grant and wife were members of the Congregational church. He was an honored citizen, a justice of the peace many years, and was a member of the Connecticut state legislature in 1843-4. He lived to be seventy-five years old and died in July, 1882, in Orange, a highly respected man. His wife, Esther Treat, was born at Orange, Conn., March 2, 1810, a daughter of Samuel and Clarissa (Wetmore) Treat.
Samuel Treat enlisted as a soldier in the Revolutionary war, at the age of sixteen years. He was the son of Maj. Samuel Treat, of the same war, and well known as Deacon Samuel Treat. He was born August 6, 1728, at Mil- ford, Conn., descended from Gov. Robert Treat, of Connecticut, who was descended from Richard Treat, who came from England in 1630. Maj. Samuel Treat was first ap- pointed ensign in the continental army, August 31, 1768, was promoted to second lieutenant, then promoted to lieutenant in 1772, and to captain in the Revolutionary army in May, 1775, and resigned in 1779, being injured.
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He died August 17, 1787, aged fifty-nine years, a man of the highest character.
Samuel Treat, son of Maj. Treat, was the grandfather of Mrs. Sackett. He was born August 16, 1760, at Milford, Conn., married April 22, 1794, Clarissa Wetmore, and their children were Sarah, Mary, Samuel, Orin and Oriel ( twins), Clarissa, Erastus Scranton, Almira and Esther F. Samuel Treat lived to be fifty-three years old, was a prosperous farmer and a member of the Congregational church and gave the land for the church in his town. He was a private in a regiment of light-horse artillery, commanded by Maj. Beckus, served under Washington, was dis- charged October 30, 1776; in May, 1777, enlisted under Col. Joseph Thompson and marched, October 5, 1777, to Becksville and was discharged October 27, 1777.
At marriage Mr. and Mrs. Sackett settled on their present homestead, which Mr. Sackett had bought, in 1847, the farm then consisting of 200 acres, which he had acquired when a young man, being very industrious and hard working and of great energy. He engaged in the wheat raising and wool business, and had good prices, rapidly accumulating property and bought more land, until he owned about 1,400 acres, but laid out and sold property in town lots. He laid out Sackett's addition to Cuyahoga Falls, also Sackett's addition to Salida, Colo., and part of Laredo, on the Rio Grande, Tex. For several years he engaged in papermaking at Cuyahoga Falls, and has been engaged in mining silver and gold in Colorado and Nevada. In politics he was one of the founders of the republican party in Summit county, Ohio, was chairman of the Fremont and Dayton club and took a very active part in all the early campaigns. He was present at the first inauguration of Abra- ham Lincoln, and was county commissioner of Summit county in 1868, and a member of
the state board of equalization in 1880-81; also member of the town council, and treas- urer of the township before the organization of Cuyahoga Falls, and assisted in its organiza- tion. Both Mr. and Mrs. Sackett are mem- bers of the Congregational church. Mr. Sackett has lived a most remarkably active life, and has been generally successful. Mr. and Mrs. Sackett adopted a daughter, Mary Pauline Sackett, now married to Augustus F. Smith, of Cleveland, Ohio, in the Pennsyl- vania railroad office, and they have one son -- Leslie Grant Smith.
LBERT H. SARGENT, a prominent citizen of Akron, Ohio, was born in Bloomfield, Prince Edward county, Ontario, Canada, October 31, 1846, a son of George A. and Lydia (Blount) Sar- gent, the mother being of English Quaker ex- traction.
John Sargent, paternal grandfather of sub- ject, was a native of Battle, Sussex county, England, and was the third in the family bear- ing that name, being a son of John, who was a son of John, both the latter farmers of Sus- sex county. John Sargent, grandfather of subject, was a carpenter by trade, and came to America about 1825, settled in Jefferson county, and there died early in the 'fifties. His wife, Susan Luff by birth, was a native of Sussex county, England. Her father was a miller by occupation, and an early pioneer of Jefferson county, N. Y.
George A. Sargent, the second son of John and Susan (Luff) Sargent, was born in Hast- ings, Sussex county, England, Septemcer 6, 1813, was brought to America by his parents, was reared from twelve years of age to man- hood in Jefferson county, N. Y., and after learning the carpenter's trade from his father, went, after reaching his majority, to Prince
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Edward county, Canada, where he worked at carpentering and contracting until 1878, when he retired on a competency and lived in comfort until his death, which occurred June 3, 1888. His wife, although a native of Prince Edward county, Canada, was of New England Quaker descent or parentage. She bore her husband four children, in the following order: John G .; Walter W. (deceased), who left one son; Marshall B., a resident of Chicago, Ill .; Albert H., our subject, and Marshall B., de- ceased.
Albert H. Sargent received a good com- mon-school education, taught school two years, and was also graduated from the Com- mercial college of Montreal in 1866. In 1867 he located in Rochester, N. Y., where he read law in the office of his uncle, Henry Sargent, four years, and then became bookkeeper for James Vick, the famous florist and seedsman, which position he filled ten years. He next studied landscape gardening and engineering under Charles W. Seelye, and was engaged in the laying out and adornment of the city parks of Rochester until February 1, 1880, when he was called to the superintendency of the Ak- ron (Ohio) Rural cemetery, which position he has filled with consummate ability until the present time. In 1882 Mr. Sargent was ap- pointed by the Akron city council on the com- mittee to organize the board of health, and of this committee he was clerk for three years. As a republican, he was elected, in the spring of 1885, a member of the board of education of Akron, served six years, and for the last two years of his term was president of the board. In 1886 he was elected coroner of Summit county and in 1888 was re-elected, thus serving a double term of four years. Again, as far as political positions are con- cerned, Mr. Sargent was elected a member of the board of health and served during 1892- 93-94, and in the incumbency rendered effi-
cient service in quelling the small-pox epidemic that waged during the winter of 1892-93.
Mr. Sargent was united in marriage June 26, 1873, with Miss Sue S. Sargent, whose ancestry on the paternal side was the same as that of subject, and on the maternal side the descent is traced through Capt. Nathan Seelye, for five years a soldier of the Revolu- tion, to Nathaniel Seelye, who came from Wales in 1695 and settled in Bridgeport, Conn. Mrs. Sne S. Sargent is also a great- granddaughter of George Morehouse, who, in the same glorious war, was quartermaster on the staff of Col. Morris Graham, under com- inand of Brig .- Gen. Clinton. This lady is a member of the Cuyahoga-Portage chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution; Mr. Sargent is a thirty-second-degree Mason, is past eminent commander of knights templar and past master Akron council No. 42, royal and select Masons. To Mr. and Mrs. Sargent have been born two children-Albert H., de- ceased, and Jennie L.
ENRY K. SAUDER, of the well- known and highly reputable firm of Sauder & Rogers, attorneys at law. Nos. 34 and 35 Savings Bank build- ing, Akron, is a native of Smithville, Wayne county, Ohio, was born in March, 1852, and is a son of Benjamin and Caroline (Kreiter) Sauder, the former of whom is now deceased, but the latter still living. They were both born in Pennsylvania, of German descent.
Benjamin Sander, father of Henry K., was reared in Lancaster county, Pa., in the Men- nonite society. He there married Miss Krei- ter, whose father was a man of great intelli- gence, was one of the pioneers of Canal Dover. Ohio, and was one of the founders of the Mo- ravian church of Tuscarawas county. Shortly after marriage, Benjamin Sauder came to Ohio
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and established a wagon factory in Wayne county, employing several hands, and to this interest he devoted himself until within a few years of the close of his life, which were em- ployed in farming. He was a radical anti- slavery advocate, and his early party affiliations were with the whigs, but on the organization of the republicans became an ardent member of that party. He died at the comparatively early age of forty-nine years, the father of fif- teen children, viz: Elvina, who died in early childhood; Joseph K., a molder of Akron, Ohio; John M., with William Buell & Co., druggists of Akron; Elizabeth, wife of Joseph M. Morrett, carpenter, also of Akron; Jacob, a lumberinan of Wilson, Mich .; Mary Ann, married to Jesse Hare, a farmer of Portland, Mich .; Henry K., the subject of this memoir; Ellen, who died in infancy; Benjamin, a life- insurance agent, of Akron, Ohio; William M., lumberman, of Wilson, Mich .; Elmer E., a carpenter, of Akron, Ohio: Caroline, wife of Perry Krummell, of Barberton; Emma, de- ceased wife of Milton Sell; Edwin T., of Pe- oria, Ill., and Minnie L., wife of E. A. Kra- mer, dentist, of Wadsworth, Ohio.
Henry K. Sauder, the subject of this biog- raphy, was reared until he had nearly reached his majority in Smithville, Wayne county, Ohio, received a common-school and academ- ical education, and for some time worked as a farm hand in the summer season; he learned the trade of printing subsequently, also taught school and filled a position as clerk in the post- office. In 1875 he came to Akron, studied law for two years with Green & Marvin, was ad- mitted to practice in 1877, and for two years carried on an initiatory business in this city. He then went to Seville, Medina county, but, on account of failing health, relinquished prac- tice for about three years, but in 1882 re- sumed his profession in Akron, and in his leis- ure hours practiced shorthand. In 1884 he
was appointed court stenographer of Summit county, which position he held for seven years, performing its duties in conjunction with his legal practice. In 1893 he formed his present partnership with Mr. Rogers. Together they do general law business and a first-class one, and owing to the fact that Mr. Rogers was prosecuting attorney, a great deal of criminal practice was brought to their office.
In politics Mr. Sauder is a democrat, and for three years was a member of the library board, two years of the time being its secre- tary. He had always been a devoted student. of literature and was admirably well fitted for the position. In 1893 he was nominated for the probate judgeship, and in 1896 was renoin- inated. In 1894-95 he was president of the Ohio Stenographers' association. He is still un- married and resides with his mother at No. 229 North Main street. He is one of the best known men in the county and is recognized as one of its brightest legal lights. He is urbane and gentlemanly in his deportment, and is highly esteemed by the profession as well as by the public at large.
ICTOR P. SAWYER, a prosperous farmer, was born in Brimfield town- ship, Portage county, Ohio, Septem- ber 12, 1848, and here he has always made his home.
Uriah Sawyer, paternal grandfather of Vic- tor P., was a native of Massachusetts, was a cooper by trade, and settled in Brimfield town- ship in 1817, and here followed his trade and also engaged in farming. He married Miss Sallie Spofford, the union resulting in the birth of eight children, of whom only one -- Hannah -- is now living; the deceased were named Oliver, Henry. Uriah, William B., Frank B .. Lockhart and Sallie. Mrs. Sallie (Spofford) Sawyer died at the age of eighty-two years,
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and Mr. Sawyer at the age of eighty-four, in August, 1862.
1 Uriah Sawyer, Jr., father of subject, was born in New Hampshire, July 14, 1810, and was brought to Ohio by his parents in 1817; here he was reared a cooper, and likewise a farmer. July 3, 1836, he married Miss Caro- line Pike, daughter of Jeremiah and Rebecca (Walbridge) Pike. Jeremiah Pike was also a native of Massachusetts, and settled in Brim- field township in 1820. Miss Caroline Pike was born in Massachusetts December 28, 1816, and came to Ohio with her parents; by her marriage to Mr. Sawyer she became the mother of two children -- Adelaide R., who died Jan- uary 6, 1861, aged fourteen years and four months, and Victor P., the subject of this me- moir. Mrs. Sawyer died February 23, 1879, at the age of sixty-two years. Her husband, Uriah Sawyer, when he started in life on his own account, located on lot No. 20, in Brim- field township, which he cleared up and im- proved, and on which he resided until 1860, when he purchased the farm on which Victor P. Sawyer now resides. Uriah was a very successful farmer and a popular gentleman, and for a number of years served as a justice of peace. His death took place on his last- named homestead, November 2, 1881, at the age of seventy-one years.
Victor P. Sawyer attended the public schools until twenty years of age and continued to work for his father until the latter's death, when he fell heir to the farm on which he still lives. September 27, 1870, he married Miss Eunice S. Kelso, daughter of William R. and Lucy (Sawyer) Kelso, and this union has been blessed with three children, of whom two -- Lucy C. and Addie C. -- are still living; Frank E. died April 20, 1876, at the age of four years. The parents of Mrs. Victor P. Sawyer were natives of the state of New York, and the father was a blacksmith, but having lost
an eye while at work, he afterward engaged in hotel keeping for a number of years; he also served as county commissioner several terms. Their marriage took place October 16, 1834, Lucy Kelso being a daughter of Asa and Eunice (Bruce) Sawyer, and of their twelve children four still survive, viz: Mary, wife of E. D .. Sawyer, of Cleveland; Sarah, wife of A. T. Porter, of Brimfield; George, and Eunice S. (Mrs. V. P. Sawyer). Two of the twelve chil- dren died in infancy unnamed; the six others were Albert, Eunice, Franklin, Carrie, Cornelia and Alice. Mr. and Mrs. V. P. Sawyer and children are members of the Universalist church, and Mr. Sawyer is superintendent of the Sunday-school, as well as a trustee. So- cially, the family hold a very high position.
ILLIAM T. SAWYER, one of the most astute young attorneys of Akron, was born near the center of Springfield township, Summit county, Ohio, December 3, 1862, a son of Robert V. and Martha Ann Sawyer, natives of Penn- sylvania, but now deceased, the father having died March 7, 1877, and the mother February 3, 1892. They were the parents of six chil- dren, viz: Mary, wife of Isaac Madlem, at- torney at law, Omaha, Neb .; Robert V., who was engaged in the secret service, and died in Chicago, Ill. in 1889; Jennie and Anna, who died in early childhood; Elizabeth Adell, wife of T. O. Spessard, baker and confectioner, of Knoxville, Tenn., and William T., the subject of this notice.
The great-grandparents of subject were Benjamin and Margaret (Haynes) Sawyer, who were the children of English colonists. Their children were Thomas, William, Hannah Peters and James.
Thomas, paternal grandfather of subject.
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was born in Dauphin county, Pa., in 1782, and was married to Elizabeth Day, March 6, 1806. In ISI0 they moved to Union county, Pa., and in October, 1829, they moved to the "Old Sawyer " farm in Springfield town- ship, Summit county, Ohio, bringing with them their ten children. The trip was made in covered wagons and they were on the road fourteen days. Their children were James S., Thomas H., Matilda M., John B., Ann E., Robert V., father of subject, Hannah S., William G. W., Benjamin F. and Mary J. Margaret C., was born after her parents came to Ohio.
James Sawyer, youngest child of Benjamin and Margaret Haynes Sawyer, was the mater- nal grandfather of subject. His wife was Mary Fife, granddaughter of John Fife, who was born in Fifeshire, Scotland, in 1721, and came to America from county Tyrone, Ire- land, in 1756. The children of James and Mary (Fife) Sawyer were Benjamin, Margaret Kelly, Martha Sawyer, mother of subject, Hannah, Mary, Thomas, William, John and Isabel List.
William T. Sawyer was reared on his fa- ther's farm in Springfield township, where he attended the district school. After his father's death his mother moved to Akron. so that the children could have better educational advan- tages. After spending two years in the city schools and two years in the preparatory de- partment of Buchtel college he was admitted to the college proper, where he studied four years and graduated with his class June 23, 1887.
He then made an extensive trip through the west and south, visiting nearly twenty states, and finally settled down at Knoxville, Tenn., where he read law under the direction of the firm of Kornic & Caldwell. After pass- ing the examination for admission to the bar of Tennessee, in May, 1888, he returned to
Akron, making the trip on a bicycle. He was employed as a reporter on the Akron Daily Telegram for about six months, at the same time diligently prosecuting his studies of law, and was admitted to practice at the Ohio bar in June, 1890. He at once opened an office, and some months later formed a partnership with James V. Welsh, his present associate. They transact a general law business and are meeting with more than ordinary success. Their firm ranks well up toward the head of the Summit county bar, and they are known throughout northeastern Ohio as conscientious and successful lawyers.
Fraternally, Mr. Sawyer is an Odd Fellow and is a member of Summit lodge, No. 50. Politically, he is a democrat, is particularly active in his party, and has done earnest work in its behalf. His voice has been heard on the hustings in every campaign since 1884. He is a fluent speaker and has frequently held the attention of his audience for two hours and a half at a time. He has repeatedly served his party as a member and twice as chairman of the county executive committee. He has held the office of police prosecutor, and in 1895 was elected treasurer of Portage township and re-elected to that office in 1897.
At the solicitation of his ardent party friends he made the race for state representa- tive in 1895 and has ever since rejoiced in the fact that he was defeated. In 1896 he was the nominee of his party for representative in congress, made a thorough canvass, and re- ceived twice as many votes as any other dem- ocratic nominee for that office ever received in the district since its organization.
He was instrumental in the establishment of the Daily Democrat in 1892 and is still a director and treasurer of the company by which it is published. For several years after the paper was started he was frequently re- ferred to as the "Daddy of the Democrat."
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He is a member of the Akron club and is a trustee of Buchtel college.
Mr. Sawyer was married October 15, 1889, to Miss Bessie C. Voris, youngest daughter of Gen. A. C. Voris, and their union has been crowned by the birth of one child, Lucy Martha.
Mrs. Sawyer is a woman of artistic and literary tastes. The walls of her home are covered with pictures from her brush, in oil and water colors, which show much more than ordinary ability. In addition to her familiar- ity with all the standard authors, she has written a number of short stories, which her friends have fruitlessly urged her to offer for publication. She is a member of the Univer- salist church and the Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution.
The family residence stands on the brow of North Hill and is surrounded by spacious rus- tic grounds, upon which many of the native forest trees still flourish. Mr. Sawyer and his wife are among the most respected resi- dents of Akron.
ROF. FREDERICK SCHNEE, a prominent educator of Summit county, Ohio, and for the past twelve years superintendent of schools at Cuyahoga Falls, was born at Freeburg, Pa., April 30, 1848, a son of John F. and Hannah (Young) Schnee.
The great-great-grandfather of subject, Johannes Schnee, came from Germany in the ship Phoenix in 1743 and settled in Pennsyl- vania. After the Revolutionary war there were four Schnees, and three of them changed or translated the name to Snow. Johannes Schnee was a member of the Lutheran church. His son, John, settled in Lebanon county, Pa., was a miller and business man, and mar- ried Elizabeth Stehr. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. His son, Joseph, was the
grandfather of Prof. Schnee, and was born in Lebanon county, Pa. His brothers are John, Jacob, Henry, Philip, and George. John Schnee married Elizabeth Fisher, and their children were William, Mary L., Joseph F., John F., Jacob F., Sarah, Susannah, Peter F., Ann M., Henry F., and Elizabeth.
Joseph Schnee learned the printer's trade and surveying. He moved to Union county, Pa., and bought a large farm near and partly on the Shade Mountain. He also engaged ex- tensively in the manufacture of coverlets, and had three manufactories, at Lewisburg, Free- bury and Schnee's Mill, or Mount Pleasant. Mr. Schnee was a colonel in the Pennsylvania state militia, and was in the war of 1812. He was well educated for his time and kept school on his farm. He was an active politician and well and favorably known; he lived to be about forty-eight years old and died at Free- burg, Pa. He was justice of the peace at one time and married many people. He surveyed a great deal of land in Pennsylvania and taught others the surveying business.
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