Biographical Sketch of Elisha Davis Jackson - Henderson County, Illinois

A short biography of Elisha Davis Jackson and family of Monmouth Township,
Shawnee County, formerly of Oquawka, Henderson co., Illinois, is on p. 599,
of the "History of the State of Kansas" by Wm. G. Cutler, published in 1883
in Chicago by A.T. Andreas. It reads:

"E. D. Jackson, farmer, Section 32, P.O. Topeka, owns 160 acres, about 100
acres under cultivation and the rest in meadow and pasture. Wheat average
in 1882 is twenty-three bushels to the acre and oats forty-five, has five
horses, twenty-five head of cattle and ten hogs. Born in Indiana, 
July 4, 1820, in June, 1845, he moved to Iowa and spent two years there,
and removed to Illinois, and came from there to Kansas in the fall of 1869.
In 1850 he went to California crossing the plains and was there for two
years. Was married Oct. 12, 1842, to Miss Isabel C. Milholland, they have four
children -- Martha J., Mary D., Amanda L. and Lewis E. Are members of the
Christian Church." 

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