WI BIO - Pepin Co - SACKETT, F. W.

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, v 2, p 767 

F. W. SACKETT was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, 05 November 1847. Was 
brought to Wisconsin by his parents in 1852. Lived on a farm in the town of 
Osceola, Fond du Lac County [Wisconsin] until the summer of 1863, when he 
enlisted as a Private in Company A, Thirty-eighth Wisconsin Volunteer 
Infantry. He served until the close of the war, and was in several 
engagements, commencing at the close of the Wilderness fight and ending at 
the surrender of LEE [April 1865]. He was on the advance line at the battle 
of Hatch's Run, and again at the Petersburg fight.

After being discharged from the service, F. W. SACKETT entered the printing 
office of the Fond du Lac "Journal," and after serving an apprenticeship of 
eighteen months, started in business with a fellow typo, J. C. WALEHON, and 
established the Weyauwega "Times" in Waupaca County, the first Weyauwega 
"Times" being issued 20 February 1869.

Mr. SACKETT was nominated for as a member of the Assembly in 1876 and made a 
very creditable run, receiving about five hundred more than his party vote. 
He sold the paper [the "Times"] in Weyauwega in the winter of 1876, and on 06 
January 1877 started the Phillips "Times" in Price County. Upon the 
formation of Price County [20 March 1879, from parts of Chippewa and Lincoln 
Counties], he was appointed County Clerk, served the balance of the term, and 
was elected by a large majority to the same position at the general election 
of 1880.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly