CARROLL COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: JACKSON, WILLIAM M. - (published 1925)

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HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume IV, page 198-199

        WILLIAM M. JACKSON.  Few men are better known to the people of
Youngstown as capable and public-spirited citizens that William M. Jackson,
who after considerable business experience is now in charge of the
Soldiers' Relief Commission and secretary of the board of Youngstown.
Having himself, during his young manhood fought to maintain the Union, he
has lost his love for the flag he so honored, and is patriotic instructor
in connection with his post of the Grand Army of the Republican, in which
he has held all of the offices, including that of commander. With such a
record behind him he is the right person to look after the veterans of a
later war that the one in which he participated so bravely.
        William M. Jackson was born in Augusta, Carroll County, Ohio, April
1, 1845, a son of Isaac and Mary (Manfull) Jackson, natives of England, who
came to the United States in 1818, and settled on a farm in Carroll County,
Ohio, becoming prominent pioneer settlers of that county. This property
they bought, and lived on it until 1866, when they sold it and moved to
Wisconsin. After a brief period spent in that state, however, they again
changed, and settled permanently in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, where
he died in 1868, aged sixty-seven years. The wife and mother, who was born
in 1811, survived him until 1900.
        Residing with his parents until he enlisted in the Union army,
William M. Jackson was enrolled in Company A, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, August 15, 1862, under Capt. Jacob Weyland, and
was assigned to the Army of the Potomac. In October, 1864, Captain Weyland
was succeeded by Capt. John W. Cook. Mr. Jackson participated in the
battles of Martinsburg, West Virginia, June 14, 1863; Wapping Heights,
Virginia, July 23, 1863; Culpeper Court House, Virginia, October 11, 1863;
Bristone Station, Virginia, October 14, 1863; Realton and Rappahannock
Bridge, Virginia, October 24, 1863; Kelly's Ford, Virginia, November 7,
1863; Locust Grove, Virginia, November 27, 1863; Mine Run, Virginia,
November 28, 1863; Wilderness, Virginia, May 5-7, 1864; Alsop's Farm,
Virginia, May 8, 1864; Spotsylvania, Virginia, May 8-18, 1864; North Ann
River, Virginia, May 23, 1864; Tolopotomy Creek, Virginia, May 30-31, 1864;
Cold Harbor, Virginia, June 1-12, 1864; Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, June 18,
1864; Monocacy, Virginia, July 9, 1864; Snickers Ferry, Virginia, July 18,
1864; Charleston, West Virginia, August 21, 1864; Smithfield, Virginia,
August 29, 1864; Opequon, Virginia, September 19, 1864; Flint Hill,
Virginia, September 21, 1864; Fisher's Hill, Virginia, September 22, 1864;
Cedar Creek, Virginia, October 19, 1864; Petersburg, Virginia, March 25,
1865; and a second engagement at Petersburg, April 2, 1865. On May 6, 1864,
during the battle of the Wilderness, Mr. Jackson was wounded in the right
shoulder, and he still carries the ball. Because of this injury he was
confined in Jarvis Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, for two months. On
October 19, 1864, he was wounded in the right leg, during the battle of
Cedar Creek, but was able to report for duty within a month's time. His
honorable discharge bears the date of May 14, 1865.
        Returning home following his discharge from the army Mr. Jackson
took a much-needed rest, and then became a clerk in the dry-goods store at
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For the succeeding fifteen years he maintained
his connection with this house as clerk and later as traveling salesman,
and then, going to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he became a traveling
salesman for a wholesale notion house, and represented it on the road for
two years. Going then to Sharon, Pennsylvania, he opened a furnishing goods
store, and conducted it very profitably for fourteen years, but, selling
it, went on the road for ten years, at the expiration of which period he
came to Youngstown, and for four years owned and conducted an oil
warehouse. Disposing of this business, he spent ten years as assistant
superintendent of the Metropolitan Insurance Company at Youngstown, and
then assumed his present duties.
        On September 28, 1868, he married Miss Laura I. Shaffer, born near
Waynesburg, Ohio, a daughter of David and Eliza Shaffer, natives of Ohio
and Scotland, respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson became the parents of the
following children: Alice M., who is at home; Albert, who died at the age
of twenty-one years; Harry, who resides at Elyria, Ohio; Isabel, who is a
public school teacher; Mabel, who is the wife of James Burnett, of
Coitsville, Mahoning County, Ohio. The First Christian Church of Youngstown
holds Mr. Jackson's membership, and he has served it in several official
positions. He is a strong republican. His comfortable residence at 273
Scott Street is his property and he is also a stockholder in the
Metropolitan Loan Association.


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