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From: "Maggie Stewart" <>
Subject: Fw: BIO: JACKSON, Tower in Erie County
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 08:25:33 -0500


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A new message, "BIO: JACKSON, Tower in Erie County," was posted by William
M. Cooley on Fri, 29 Oct 1999

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NAME: William M. Cooley
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DATE: Oct 29 1999
QRYTEXT: Two biographical sketches from Huron Township in the "History of
Erie County", Lewis Cass Aldrich (ed.), D. Mason & Co. Publishers, 1889.

"Tower Jackson, probably the oldest remaining settler on the fire-lands at
this writing, came to Huron in 1819 from Milan. He was married at
Monroeville in 1822 to Sarah Clock, a lady widely known and highly
respected, and an aunt of D. H. Clock, editor and proprietor of the Erie
County Reporter, now published at Huron.

"Mr. Jackson engaged with H. W. Jenkins in the dry goods and grocery trade
on his settlement at Huron, remaining with him for several years. In 1830 he
went into partnership with R. E. Cole in the general merchandise bad vessel
building business. They built the steamer Delaware in 1832. Mr. Jackson
removed to Racine, Wis., in 1846, and in 1848 to Cleveland, O., where Mrs.
Jackson died in 1854. He returned to Huron a year or two later, and was
married to Miss [Lucy] Button, with whom he is still enjoying domestic
felicity at the advanced age of ninety years.

"Mr. Jackson is a very vigorous and hospitable gentleman, and though not
blessed with a college education, he takes a deep interest in all
educational matters of a local nature. He built the Huron House in 1832 and
the American House in 1840, and has taken a lively interest in all matters
pertaining to Huron's welfare for a great number of years."

"Jackson, Town [Tower], Huron p.o. a pioneer of Erie County, was born in
Woodstock, Vt, in 1798, and was a son of Morris and Lucina (Sheldon)
Jackson, who were natives of Rhode Island, and settled in Hudson, N.Y., in
1804, and in 1819 emigrated to Norwalk, Huron county, O., where Town [Tower]
Jackson commenced life as a clerk, with the firm of Ralph and George
Lockwood. He was married November 18, 1821, to Sarah Clock, at Cleveland.
She died in 1854, leaving one daughter [Sarah Elizabeth], now the widow of
James S. Griffith. She has two children. Mr. Jackson married his second
wife, Lucy M. Button, in 1856. She was born in Ohio, in 1817. Mr. Jackson
settled in Huron in 1824, and in 1826 became engaged in the general
merchandise business, grain, and stock shipping, and boat building. He was
one of the ever active business men of his township, and retired from an
active business life at age of seventy, and now at the age of ninety is hale
and hearty."

William M.
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