Yolo-Solano-Fresno County CA Archives Biographies.....Sackett, Harry E. 1864 - 
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Author: Tom Gregory

HARRY E. SACKETT

    One of the most prosperous and well known places of Yolo county, Cal., and
indeed of the entire state, is the Golden Star orchard, owned and operated by
Harry E. Sackett, whose able and efficient conduct of this place has brought it
to a high state of cultivation, so that its product has gained world-wide fame
for its particularly fine quality.

    The son of an old pioneer in this state, and one who built up a fine and
extensive property in this county, Mr. Sackett belongs to a family whose members
have counted greatly in the history of this as well as the countries of Great
Britain, and he has inherited the sturdy elements of the race and carried on the
excellent work of his father, being a credit to his family, a worthy bearer of
the honored name.

    Born January 13, 1864, in Solano county, a half mile across Putah creek from
Winters, the eldest son of Buel R. and Susan (Williams) Sackett, Harry E.
Sackett was here reared to manhood, receiving an excellent training, attending
the Lafayette grammar school in San Francisco. Upon completing his studies he
engaged in horticulture, spending eight years in Fresno county, Cal., after
which he became proprietor of a commission business in San Francisco, his trade
being entirely wholesale: In 1907 he purchased one hundred and sixty-three acres
adjoining his father's place, which he now operates, having twenty-eight acres,
in a vineyard of the tokay variety. Much of the land is in meadow and pasture,
but the most important department is the fifty-acre orchard of plums, apricots
and peaches, which vie with the grapes in their profitable cultivation and
enormous crops. During the season of 1910 the apricots yielded twenty tons and
the peaches eighty-five tons, while the table grapes produced fifty tons and
were marketed in thirty-five hundred crates. Mr. Sackett's packing house is
equipped so extensively that it allows for all the packing of the fruit raised
on the place to be handled for shipping-there. The product is shipped to
different cities in the east under the brand "Golden Star," and is in demand by
many who handle it throughout the country. Mr. Sackett has named his place the
Golden Star orchard because of the brand his goods carry and its reputation is
wide and favorable.

    Mr. Sackett was married to Lena Bryce, who is a native of Kentucky. She is
very popular in their community and is an active worker in the Rebekah Lodge in
Winters, while her husband holds membership with the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows and the Woodmen of the World.

    Mr. Sackett has followed closely in the footsteps of his eminent father,
devoting all his time and all of his splendid energies to the cultivation and
improvement of the property, and his energies have been abundantly justified by
the returns he has received. Personally he is practical and thorough in all his
undertakings, temperate in all his habits, and he holds the confidence and
respect of all with whom he is associated.


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HISTORY OF YOLO COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth
and Development From the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
TOM GREGORY
AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1913]

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