Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Jackson, John W. 1823 - 1910
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

JOHN W. JACKSON.

   John W. Jackson died in the state of Washington, January 10, 1910. He was
born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, July 28, 1823. His father, William
Jackson, was born in London, England, in the year 1801, and emigrated to
Pennsylvania in 1803. The subject of this sketch came to Delphi, Indiana, May
27, 1847. He was married to Virginia Reynolds, and to this union were born two
daughters. He shipped grain on the Wabash and Erie canal for Speares, Case &
Company to Toledo for several years. He was a number of times a member of the
city council. He was elected county sheriff in 1866 and 1868. In 1861 he entered
the service of the regimental band of the Ninth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer
Infantry.

   Several years before his death he went to his son-in-law, Thomas Wellock, in
Washington state, and when he died his remains were brought here and interred in
the Odd Fellows' cemetery, under the auspices of Lodge No. 28. Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, of which he was one of the oldest members.


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HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana

CHAPTER IX.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF DECEASED PIONEERS OF CARROLL COUNTY.


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