JACKSON, William H. - 1914

JACKSON, SMITH, MCDONALD, MCCONNELL

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HISTORY OF
Cherokee County
IOWA
VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1914
by Thomas McCulla

WILLIAM H. JACKSON.

William H. Jackson, an enterprising and successful agriculturist of Cherokee county, is busily engaged in the operation of his fathers farm of three hundred and forty acres on section 12, Sheridan township, and owns a tract of eighty acres on section 8, Cherokee township. His birth occurred in Michigan on the 4th of July, 1869, his parents being Edward and Nina Catherine (Smith) Jackson, the former a native of England and the latter of Ireland. Edward Jackson emigrated to the United States and located in Michigan in an early day, working in the timber and in the mines. In 1873 he came to Cherokee county, Iowa, and purchased land near Meriden, in Sheridan township, devoting his attention to its cultivation and improvement until 1900. In that year he put aside the active work of the fields and in 1907 took up his abode at Sioux City, where he has since lived in honorable retirement, having now reached the ripe old age of seventy-eight years. His wife was called to her final rest on the 10th of April,

1909.

William H. Jackson acquired his early education in the district schools and continued his studies in the public schools of Meriden. After putting aside his textbook he assisted his father with the work of the fields and early became familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops. At the time of his fathers retirement he took charge of the home farm and has since operated the same with excellent success. The property comprises three hundred and forty acres of rich and productive land on section 12, Sheridan town- :ship, and annually yields bounteous harvests in return for the care and labor which he bestows upon it. He owns an eightyacre tract on section 8, Cherokee iownship, and is widely recognized as a progressive and esteemed citizen of his

community.

On the 4th of February, 1902, Mr. Jackson was joined in wedlock to Miss Mary E. McDonald, a daughter of William and Sarah (McConnell) McDonald, who are natives of Michigan and Wisconsin, respectively. Mr. McDonald took up his abode in Wisconsin in an early day and there carried on farming until 1891, when he came to Cherokee, Iowa, here engaging in railroad contracting and doing considerable work for the Illinois Central. He is now engaged in general agricultural pursuits in Minnesota.

Since age conferred upon him the right of franchise Mr. Jackson has supported the men and measures of the democracy, believing firmly in its principles. In religious faith he is a Catholic, while fraternally he is identified with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Royal Neighbors. He has resided in Cherokee county for four decades or throughout almost his entire life and is widely and favorably known within its borders.