Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Jackman, Daniel 1822 - 
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    DANIEL JACKMAN. The gentleman of whom this article is written, a leading
agriculturist of Cosmos township, is one of the early settlers of 1867. In that year
he came here and took up a homestead upon section 26. He returned to Minneapolis the
following spring, but immediately returned here, and has made this his home ever
since.

   Mr. Jackman is a native of Kennebec county, Me., born April 5, 1822, and is the
son of Eben and Hannah (Hutchinson) Jackman, both of whom were also natives of the
“Pine Tree State.” Both of his grandfathers served in the continental army during
the struggle for independence, and after their term of service had expired, settled
in Maine, and there died. Eben Jackman, who was a farmer, also lived and died in the
same locality. For a number of years after reaching his eighteenth year, our subject
was engaged in the pineries of Maine and Canada, taking charge of the lumber camps,
etc. In 1858 he came to Minneapolis, and went into the logging business towards the
headwaters of the Mississippi, and remained there for seven years. In 1865 he gave
up the lumbering business and renting a farm near Minneapolis, remained there three
years engaged in farming. He then came to Meeker county, as above mentioned. On his
return May 4, 1868, he brought his family, and putting up his house, made a
permanent settlement. In 1877 he made a trip to the Black Hills, and spent the
season in gold mining, but returned in the fall.

   Mr. Jackman is the oldest resident settler, all the others having passed from
this world or moved to other localities. On his arrival here, until he could get up
his house, he lived in a tent, and cooked at an open fire. When the township was
organized, the first election was held at the house of our subject. He was elected
the first chairman of the board of supervisors and served as such some three years.

   Mr. Jackman and Annette K. Page were united in marriage February 15, 1852. The
lady is a native of Bangor, Me. By this union there have been born four children—
Frank P., Ellra P., Lettie G. and Mabel M. Frank is the proprietor of the American
house at Hector, and the rest are at home.


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Extracted from:
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888

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