BIOS: COOLEY, William 1889 ERIE COUNTY OHIO

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"History of Erie County", Lewis Cass Aldrich (ed.), D. Mason 
& Co. Publishers, 1889.

"Tower Jackson, probably the oldest remaining settler on the 
fire-lands at this writing, came to Huron in 1819 from Milan. 
He was married at Monroeville in 1822 to Sarah Clock, a lady 
widely known and highly respected, and an aunt of D. H. Clock, 
editor and proprietor of the Erie
County Reporter, now published at Huron.

"Mr. Jackson engaged with H. W. Jenkins in the dry goods and 
grocery trade on his settlement at Huron, remaining with him for 
several years. In 1830 he went into partnership with R. E. Cole 
in the general merchandise bad vessel building business. 
They built the steamer Delaware in 1832. Mr. Jackson
removed to Racine, Wis., in 1846, and in 1848 to Cleveland, O., 
where Mrs. Jackson died in 1854. He returned to Huron a year or 
two later, and was married to Miss [Lucy] Button, with whom he is 
still enjoying domestic felicity at the advanced age of ninety years.

"Mr. Jackson is a very vigorous and hospitable gentleman, and though not
blessed with a college education, he takes a deep interest in all
educational matters of a local nature. He built the Huron House in 
1832 and the American House in 1840, and has taken a lively 
interest in all matters
pertaining to Huron's welfare for a great number of years."

"Jackson, Town [Tower], Huron p.o. a pioneer of Erie County, 
was born in Woodstock, Vt, in 1798, and was a son of Morris and 
Lucina (Sheldon) Jackson, who were natives of Rhode Island, and 
settled in Hudson, N.Y., in 1804, and in 1819 emigrated to Norwalk, 
Huron county, O., where Town [Tower]
Jackson commenced life as a clerk, with the firm of 
Ralph and George Lockwood. He was married November 18, 1821, 
to Sarah Clock, at Cleveland.
She died in 1854, leaving one daughter [Sarah Elizabeth], 
now the widow of James S. Griffith. She has two children. 
Mr. Jackson married his second wife, Lucy M. Button, in 1856. 
She was born in Ohio, in 1817. Mr. Jackson settled in Huron in 1824, 
and in 1826 became engaged in the general
merchandise business, grain, and stock shipping, and boat 
building. He was one of the ever active business men of his 
township, and retired from an active business life at 
age of seventy, and now at the age of ninety is hale
and hearty."

William M. Cooley............spade@northlink.com
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