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Subject: John Jackson-Biography
Date: 6 Mar 2005 20:56:47 -0700

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Surnames: Jackson, Colbert, Chapman
Classification: Biography

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John Jackson farmer and stock raiser, is a native of the "Sucker State", born February 15, 1830, son of Daniel and Alice (Colbert) Jackson, and is of Iris descent, and the seventh of thirteen children. His father was born in N.Y. in 1797, and his mother in Ohio in 1804. The grandfather was born in Ireland, but came to America and died in Pennsylvania. The Jackson family came to Daviess County Ind., about 1830, and settled in Washington township for a few years and then moved to Harrison Township, where the father died in 1879, and his mother in 1880. Our subject spent his boyhood days on a farm, and received but little schooling. At the age of twenty-one he began for himself and worked by the month for two years, and then began farming on is own responsibility. In 1880 he moved on his present farm and now owns 713 acres of land, nearly all of which is well improved. He was married in November, 1856, to Miss Melinda Chapman, born in Harrison Township in 1837, daughter o!
f R. S. Chapman. They have six children, viz.: Eli M., Milton M., Charles M., Anna M., Stella M. and Harlie M. Mr. Jackson is a Republican in his political views, and is a member of the I.O.O.F. he takes great interest in the advancement of agriculture, and is noted as a breeder of short-horn cattle and fine hogs. He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is one of the leading farmers of the county.
History of Knox and Daviess Counties Indiana
Goodspeed Publishing; Chicago; 1886
Pages:777-778
Note: All the middle names were listed as being M.

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