Solon Philo Sackett MD, son of
Philo Sackett and Grace
Perkins, was born on 7 October 1818.
1 He died aged 74 on 18 July 1893.
1 He married on 17 September 1844,
Lovedy Keturah Woodward.1 Lovedy was born in about 1823
2 and died aged 89 in
Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York StateG, on 23 July 1912.
3[Solon Sackett] studied medicine and was graduated from Geneva Medical College. After a few years of practice in a country village he removed to Ithaca, N. Y., where he practiced his profession with marked success for upwards of thirty years. He was thoroughly devoted to his profession and long held high rank among physicians of central New York. As Health Officer of Ithaca, a position to which he was repeatedly chosen, he instituted a sewerage system of great value to the city. He held the office of coroner for several terms and was secretary of the Thompkins County Medical Society for many years. He was the author of "Mother, Nurse and Infant," a most valuable work, which obtained a wide recognition, and was a frequent contributor to the principal medical periodicals. Dr. Sackett was for the greater part of his life a consistent member and deacon of the First Baptist Church of Ithaca, where he was greatly beloved and his counsel was ever highly valued.
—Weygant, The Sacketts of America