Trivia
- The Brackett School at 66 Eastern Avenue, Arlington, Massachusetts, built in 1931, was named after him.
- Brackett was the executor of the estate of Abijah Ellis who was brutally murdered on Presidential Election Day (1872) and dumped in the Charles River just days prior to the Great Boston Fire of 1872. Although Leavitt Alley was tried for the murder, he was acquitted. The murder remains unsolved.
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