Silas Sadler Packard

Biography

Silas Sadler Packard, born in 1826, carried the steady values of the mid-nineteenth century into a life of quiet but meaningful civic and familial care, witnessing the nation through the Civil War and the years of reconstruction.

He is remembered at Green-Wood Cemetery as part of the broad tapestry of citizens whose daily work and dignified presence helped sustain New York's expanding communities.