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Author: Brackett, Joseph Warren

Biography:

BRACKETT, Joseph Warren (1775-1826: ancestry.com)

He was the son of Joseph and Mary Weeks (Nye) Brackett, born in Lee NH on 10 Aug. 1775. As secretary of Phi Beta Kappa at Dartmouth College, where he received an AM in 1800, he was a friend of Daniel Webster (1782-1852). He read law and practised in New York City, where he became an alderman. With Charlotte Wiggins, whom he married in New York on 21 Nov. 1808, he had six children, one of who died in early childhood. He died in New York on 31 Mar. 1826 after "a lingering illness." (ancestry.com 15 July 2025; George T. Chapman, Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College [1967], 99; Commercial Advertiser [New York], 31 Mar. 1826) HJ

 

Other Names:

  • J. Warren Brackett
 

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