Jackson, J. S.

JACKSON

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 11/13/2008 at 14:33:41

J. S. Jackson

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.258, Waveland Twp.)
J. S. Jackson, farmer, P. O. Griswold, Cass County, was born in Sweden in October, 1843; he came to America in 1868; landed at Galesburg, Ill., where he remained, employed as a day laborer, for about six years; then he rented a farm in Illinois one year; then sold out and came to Pottawattamie County, Iowa, with his brother, N. Jackson. They bought 160 acres in 1874; since then they have added 160 acres, all of which they have placed in a good state of cultivation. Mr. Jackson's sister Celia came to America in 1873, and keeps house for the brothers. Mr. Jackson turns his attention largely to raising and feeding stock. Mr. Jackson's father, Swan Jackson, born in Sweden about 1813, died in 1858. His mother, Ellen Peterson, born in Sweden about 1822, died in 1860. They parents' children are J. S., Peter, Nelson, Andrew and Celia. In politics, Mr. Jackson is a Democrat; religiously, he is a Lutheran. These two brothers and their sister are deserving of great credit for their industry, enterprise and improvements. Their parents died when the children were small, and left them to care for themselves, which they have nobly done.