HISTORY: JACKSON, Sidney 1881 HAMILTON COUNTY OHIO
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Sidney Jackson
History of Hamilton County, OH; published in 1881 by Ford
                              between pgs 306-307
                            Transcribed by Patti Graman
                                       

        Sidney S. Jackson, a horticulturist of Green township, was born
in the year 1803 in the city of
Philadelphia. His father, Isaac H. Jackson, was a native of that city,
and was bred to the mercantile
profession. In 1804 he removed to New York, where he established himself
in that business and
continued in the same until the breaking out of the last war with Great
Britain, when he sold out and quit
the business altogether. In 1813 he removed his family to the State of
Ohio, purchased three quarter
sections in Green township, and after settling upon them remained there
until his death, which occurred
in the seventy-ninth year of his age, October 20, 1849. 
        Although Mr. Jackson was unacquainted with the business of
farming he soon gained sufficient
knowledge of it to support his family very nicely by that kind of
employment, and, notwithstanding much
of his time was taken up with commercial transactions of life, there were
few men of his day who found
time to read so extensively as he had done; very few men read so much to
so good advantage, he
becoming simply by his fondness for reading a walking history of the
transactions of his country and of
matters pertaining to his government ever since he arrived at the age of
maturity. He was also 
designated by his fellows as a leader in the affairs of his county,
having held among other offices that
of commissioner of Hamilton district. Mr. Sidney S. Jackson received some
education in Long Island
before coming west, but it was limited, as he was but ten years old when
he left for Ohio, which 
was but a barren wild region for great schools or colleges; nor had he
ample opportunities for receiving
much of the log cabin instruction then in vogue, but was compelled to be
content with what he could
obtain from contact with the world and by reading good books and papers. 
        He remained with his father until the age of maturity and in the
year 1826 married Miss Elizabeth
Hutchinson, whose father, John Hutchinson, was an early settler of
Whitewater near Harrison; he came
to Cincinnati about 1807, and to this place one year before she was born;
she is now in the 
seventy-fourth year of her age. In 1830 Mr. Jackson began the nursery
business, and his green-house
established then is now one of the oldest in the United States. He deals
extensively in rare exotic
plants, and is a widely and well known horticulturist of the great west.
He was one of the founders of
the Horticultural society of Cincinnati, and has been identified with it
many years. His farm consists of
about eighty acres of which his nursery comprises thirty plat of these
acres, and contains three 
green-houses. He has also one of the best amateur workshops in the
country; formerly he was divided in
his inclinations for following the floral business with that of the
mechanical; being of an ingenious turn
of mind he was capable of handling tools in many kinds of manufacture,
and has his shop well supplied
with them. Mr. Jackson has now but two children living--having lost three
sons, two of whom, John H.
and Isaac H., born July 22, 1836, were twins, and were much alike, the
family always found difficulty
in distinguishing them apart. They were much in each other's company,
dressed alike, and took pride in
their similarity of resemblance; their loss to the family was keenly
felt. John H. was shot during the
desperate attack his regiment, the Eighty-third Ohio volunteers, made at
Vicksburgh, and from the 
effects of which he died. He had received a flesh wound at Arkansas Post,
and could have received a
furlough to come home, but preferred to remain, and soon after engaged in
the siege of Vicksburgh. He
was sent to the Cincinnati hospital, but died a few days after reaching
that place. The Cincinnati 
Horticultural society, Peter Gibson in the chair, upon receiving news of
this sad occurrence, passed
resolutions very eulogistic of his character, both as a citizen and as a
member of that body. 
        Isaac, the other twin, and his brother Lewis, the youngest of the
family, were drowned in the Big
Miami, while bathing. They were in company with a number of their
companions on a gala excursion, but
the brothers going too near a whirlpool were drawn in and under one after
the other and were lost 
before help could reach them, and thus lost their lives. 
        Mr. and Mrs. Jackson lately celebrated their golden wedding. Rev.
Mr. Challen, the pastor who
officiated at the former nuptials fifty years before, was present to
sanctify the occasion and assist in
bringing remembrance of the former times.


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