Lake-Wayne-Jasper County IN Archives Biographies.....Jackson, Lorenzo D. 1850 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

DR. L. D. JACKSON.

    Dr. Lorenzo D. Jackson, physician and surgeon at Hammond, has been engaged
in active practice in this city for nearly fifteen years, and in this useful
profession has attained considerable distinction both in Hammond and the
surrounding country. He is not only an able and sympathetic practitioner, but is
also a man of broad experience and capacity in other lines of work. He had been
successfully engaged in various activities and kinds of business before taking
up the practice of medicine, and his life has been spent in different parts of
the country. He is an active, public-spirited citizen, and is held in high
esteem by his many friends and business associates.

    Dr. Jackson was born in Wayne county, Indiana, January 15, 1849, a son of
Joseph and Mary E. (Harvey) Jackson, natives of Virginia and Indiana,
respectively. Mrs. Mary E. Jackson was a daughter of William Harvey, who was
born in North Carolina, and became a pioneer settler of Wayne county, Indiana,
where he took up government land and became a thrifty and prosperous farmer. He
and his wife lived to advanced years, and were the parents of five children. He
was of Welsh descent.

    Caleb Jackson, the paternal grandfather of Dr. Jackson, was a native of
Virginia, and a descendant of English ancestors who had come from the north of
Ireland and settled in Virginia. He grew to manhood in that state, and in the
early days of the last century he came direct from the Old Dominion state to
Wayne county, Indiana, where he figured as one of the prominent pioneer settlers
and where he spent the remainder of his long and useful life. He took up
government land, on which he reared his six children. He was foremost in the
promotion of railroad building in those days. He had the contract for building
the Pennsylvania road through Wayne county, and was afterward for a number of
years a director in that railroad company.

    Joseph Jackson, the father of Dr. Jackson, was about eight years old when he
came west with his parents to Wayne county, where he grew to manhood and spent
the remainder of his life, his occupation being farming. He lived to be
seventy-six years old, and his wife died at the age of fifty-six, They were
brought up in the faith of the Friends, but she later joined the Christian
church. They were the parents of thirteen children, all of whom are living, as
follows: Rebecca J., the wife of William Q. Elliott, of Sterling, Kansas; John
W., of Cambridge City, Indiana; Olive, wife of John Coddington, of Wayne county,
Indiana; Salina J., widow of Lemuel Morgan, of Indianapolis; Caleb B., of Wayne
county; Joseph W., of Lebanon, Ohio; Lorenzo D., of Hammond; Lafayette, of Wayne
county; Columbus, of La Grange, Indiana; Mary E., wife of Nathan Ray, of
Sterling, Kansas; Charles, of Wayne county; Sarah, wife of George McConaha, of
Wayne county; and Lincoln, of Arkansas City, Kansas.

    Dr. Jackson spent his youth in the environments of country and farm life.
After completing the district school course he entered Earlham College, in Wayne
county, and later taught school for two terms. He then went out west to
California and Nevada, where he was engaged, principally, in milling quartz for
the miners. After four years spent in the west he returned to Wayne county, and
for a time devoted his efforts to farming. He then began the study of medicine
in the Physio-Medical College at Indianapolis, from which he was graduated in
1889. For about a year he practiced in Rensselaer, Jasper county, but in 1890
opened his office in Hammond, where he has carried on his practice ever since.

    Dr. Jackson is a member of Calumet Lodge No. 601, I. O. O. F., and his
political cleavage is Republican. He married Miss Mary E. Blease, a daughter of
James and Hannah Blease. They had three children, Eva, John and Sarah, but John
died in infancy. Mrs. Jackson is also a physician and surgeon, being a graduate
of the Physio-Medical College, and she also has an extensive practice in Hammond.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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