Cumberland County, Maine - Albert Brackett
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Biography
Albert Brackett
Biographical Review
Cumberland County, Maine
Boston
Biographical Review Publishing Company
1896
Page 362-363

Albert Brackett, residing at 173 Lincoln Street, Portland, is a worthy
representative of the manufacturing interests of this busy city, being engaged
as a contractor in the manufacture of boxes of all kinds, carrying on a
flourishing business. He was born February 23, 1847, at Windham, Cumberland
County, that being the place of nativity of his parents, Thomas and Martha
(Trott) Brackett, both of whom were born in July, 1814, the mother on the fourth
day, and the father the twenty-sixth. The Brackett family were early residents
of Portland. Jeremiah Brackett, father of Thomas, above mentioned, was born near
Brackett Street, which was named in honor of one of his ancestors. He
subsequently removed to Windham, where he bought a farm, which he managed for
many years.

Thomas Brackett spent his entire life in Windham, where he engaged in
agricultural pursuits. His demise occurred on Christmas Day, 1882. His wife was
the daughter of Thomas Trott, a prosperous farmer and one of the early settlers
of Windham. She has been a member of the Baptist church for many years, and is
now spending her declining years at Cumberland Mills. She has eight children,
Albert being the fourth in succession of birth.

Albert Brackett grew to man's estate in the town of his birth, there acquiring a
substantial common school education. During the last years of the late Rebellion
Mr. Brackett went South, being under contract with the United States government
as a teamster, and traveling through Nashville, Chattanooga, and over Lookout
Mountain. At the close of the war he continued in that occupation for a few
years, going westward, and teaming through Colorado, Wyoming, Indian Territory,
thence to Salt Lake City, Virginia City, and Santa Fe, seeing much of the
country, and having a realistic experience of the rough side of frontier life,
being twice attacked by the wily savages, from whom he barely escaped. Returning
to Portland in 1868, Mr. Brackett learned the trade of a box-maker with his
uncle, J. L. Brackett, who was then employing a force of five men in the work.
Mr. Brackett was an apt pupil, mastering the trade in a few months, after which
he was made foreman of the factory, a position he retained until 1879, his uncle
since then employing him as general manager of the business. Under his judicious
management the business has been greatly increased, his manufactures exceeding
that of any other box factory in the city, requiring an average force of
eighteen men.

Politically, Mr. Brackett is a stanch supporter of Republican principles,
uniformly casting his vote with that party. Socially, he is prominent in Masonic
affairs, being very active in advancing the interests of that Order. He is a
member of the Ancient Landmark Lodge, A. F. & A. M.; Greenleaf Chapter; Portland
Council; St. Albans Commandery, Knights Templars; Yates Lodge of Perfection;
Portland Council, Princes of Jerusalem; Dunlap Chapter, of Rose Croix; and of
the Maine Consistory. Mr. Brackett belongs also to the Knights of Pythias, being
a member of Ivanhoe Lodge, and Uniform rank; also to Maine Lodge, No. 1,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and to the Eastern Star Encampment, having
been through all of the chairs in the last two; and to the Cagawasco Tribe of
Red Men. He is likewise a member of the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, a
beneficiary organization of Portland.

Mr. Brackett married on November 24, 1871, Miss Eva McAllister, a native of
Franklin; Me. The children born to them are three in number, namely: Edith M.,
wife of Levi Strout; Alice, wife of C. O. Spear; and Albert M.