Edgar T. Brackett

Edgar Truman Brackett (July 30, 1853 – February 27, 1924), was a lawyer, businessman, and a member of the New York State Senate.

Biography

Edgar Brackett was born on July 30, 1853, at Emerson's Corners (now Gurn Spring) in Wilton, New York, to William Brackett and Elizabeth Ann Sherman. After spending his youth in Iowa he returned to Saratoga Springs in 1872 to practice law. In 1882, he married Mary Emma Corliss and they had several children, among them the screenwriter Charles Brackett.

His accomplishments included participation in the impeachment of New York Governor William Sulzer in 1913

Business interests In 1889 Brackett was a founder, with Sidney Rickard and George F. Harvey, of the G.F. Harvey Company, a pharmaceutical manufacturer in Saratoga Springs, and was a director of the company. In 1901, Edgar Brackett founded the Adirondack Trust Company and remained as president until his death in 1924.

Postscript In 2013 a large cache of Senator Brackett's personal records and correspondence was discovered concealed by a dropped ceiling in Saratoga Springs City Hall, where he had a law office. The records, dating from the 1890s to 1905 are now being digitized "and hopefully they'll be available to the public."