Alameda County Biographies

D. P. SACKETT, A. M.

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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(Principal of Sackett School).  Was graduated from Yale College.  Soon after 
graduating he became head-master of Temple Hill Academy at Geneseo, Livingston 
County, New York.  One year thereafter he was chosen principal of Leicester 
Academy, Leicester, Worcester County, Massachusetts.  This institution is, 
excepting Phillips (Andover) Academy, the oldest endowed academy in 
Massachusetts.  Three years later he was called to the principalship of the 
Female College of the Pacific, Oakland, California, under the presidency of Rev. 
E. B. Walsworth, D. D.  In August, 1871, the Golden Gate (now Hopkins) Academy 
was opened with D. P. Sackett as Principal.  The number at the beginning was 
ten.  At the close of  the year the attendance had increased to sixty, when Mr. 
Sackett resigned his position to spend a year in foreign travel.  Since his 
return to this State, in the following  year, he has been mainly engaged in 
educational work, and for the past four years in the school that bears his name.
 
History of Alameda County, California�, Oakland, M.W. Wood Publ., 1883, p. 971