Tipton-Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Jackson, Adam 1824 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   ADAM JACKSON is a member of the firm of A. Jackson & Co., dealers in dry
goods, groceries, boots and shoes, carrying a stock of $3,000, and doing a
business of $12,000 annually. He was born in Wayne County, Ind., February 21,
1824. His father, Thomas B. Jackson, came to Tipton County in 1841, and located
on 820 acres of timber land, where he cleared out a good farm. Adam Jackson
engaged in farming until February, 1862, when he enlisted in Company K,
Forty-second Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He was in battle at Port
Gibson, Miss., and Champion Hills, Miss. He was wounded and sent to the United
States hospital at St. Louis; subsequently was transferred to the Invalid Corps,
and sent to Indianapolis, and Camp Burnside, where he remained until his term of
three years expired. He then returned to Tipton County and worked on a farm most
of the time till 1870. He then engaged in mercantile pursuits in Tipton, where
he has met with good success. Mr. Jackson was married, November 26, 1870, to
Miss Mary S. George, of this county. They have had four children-Ida Belle,
Tessie, Arthur and Minnie May (deceased).

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COUNTIES OF HOWARD AND TIPTON, INDIANA.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.

CHARLES BLANCHARD. EDITOR.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
1883.


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