GEORGE L. JACKSON

JACKSON

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/21/2020 at 15:36:30

GEORGE L. JACKSON is a native of Delaware county, Ohio, born May 6, 1844. His father, Leonard M. Jackson, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, of Scotch- Irish extraction; his mother, nee Clarissa Clark, was a native of the Green Mountain State. His parents were married in Delaware county, Ohio, and the family lived in that State until 1855, when they came to Mahaska county, Iowa, and settled on the frontier. The father died at the age of seventy-nine years. He was a shoemaker and followed that trade most of his life. In politics he was first a Whig, and later a Republican; in religion a Protestant. The mother died in Delaware county, Ohio, in 1854, leaving five sons and one daughter. The subject of our sketch was the third born in the family, and he was eleven years old when his father moved to Mahaska county, Iowa. There he grew to manhood on a farm and received his education in the public schools.

During the late war Mr. Jackson was one of the first to go out in defense of his country. He enlisted in November, 1861, in Company C, Fifteenth Iowa Infantry, and served until August, 1865. He participated in the battles of Pittsburg Landing, Corinth, Vicksburg, Black River, and was with General Sherman on his memorable march from Atlanta to the sea. He was at the grand review at Washington, after which he returned west and received an honorable discharge at Davenport, Iowa. Then going to his home in Mahaska county, he remained there until he came to Adams county and bought his present farm, eighty acres, located on section 14, Carl township. His farm is well improved and cultivated, and its general appearance shows the owner to be a man of enterprise.

At the age of twenty-three Mr. Jackson was married in Mahaska county, Iowa, to Miss Marie Hoff, a native of Pennsylvania, and a daughter of Samuel Hoff, of that State. He and his wife have eight children: Clarissa, Leonard, William, Emmory, Emma, Huldah, Charles and Ray. Clarissa is the wife of James Bohannan.

Mr. Jackson cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln, and has ever since affiliated with the Republican party. He is a man in the prime of life, frank and cordial, and has the good will of all who know him.