BIOGRAPHIES:  Elijah JACKSON, Drammen Township, Eau Claire County, WI

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Elijah Jackson, farmer, P. O. Mondovi, Buffalo county, was born in Madison 
county, N. Y., January 9, 1824, and is the son of John and Silinda (Briggs) 
Jackson.  His father was born in 1798 in Connecticut, and died at the age 
of seventy-seven years.  His mother was born in 1800, on the battleground 
of Plattsburg, and died in 1840.  The house in which his mother was born 
had a cannon ball shot through it, and the ball was kept by the family for 
many years.  Daniel Briggs, the maternal grandfather of our subject, was 
born in Dutchess county, N. Y., in 1758, and died at the age of ninety years.  
He was in the Revolutionary war and was in the battle of Plattsburg, where 
he was surrounded by the British at his old home, but by the help of the 
ladies of the house escaped.  His ancestors were here in colonial times.

At the early age of nineteen years Elijah Jackson bought a piece of land and 
commenced farming for himself, but sold out, and in 1855 came west, and 
located at La Crosse, securing a clerkship in the New England hotel.  In 
1856 he served as deputy marshal of that place, and was one of the first 
officers under the city charter.  He afterward moved to Onalaska and ran a 
hotel and farm for a short tim, then bought a piece of land in Holland 
township and remained upon it until 1873, when he sold out and moved to 
Drammen township, Eau Claire county, and bought the farm upon which he now 
resides.  He has 115 acres under cultivation with a good residence and out-
buildings, and his farm well stocked.  

Mr. Jackson married, in 1843, Percis Chatman, and they have one child, 
Levant, born November 17, 1845.  Mrs. Jackson died November 1, 1859, and Mr. 
Jackson married Almina Elizabeth, a daughter of John and Phoebe Sadlemire, 
born March 31, 1839.  John Sadlemire was born in 1808 and his wife in 1818.  
Mr. and Mrs. Jackson have six children, namely:  La Sira Malissa, born March 
16, 1861; John M., December 16, 1862, died March 26, 1863; Morris Edward, 
March 4, 1864; Rodney Barney, June 23, 1866; Daniel Briggs, November 12, 1869, 
died January 1, 1871, and Mary Amanda, November 24, 1873.  Mr. Jackson is 
conservative in politics, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

--Taken from "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa Valley
Wisconsin" Including A General Historical Sketch of the Chippewa Valley;
Ancestral Records of Leading Families; Biographies of Representative 
Citizens, Past and Present; and Portraits of Prominent Men.  Edited by
George Forrester.  Chicago, Illinois: A. Warner, Publisher.  1891-92
Pages 825 - 826