Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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ISAAC A. JACKSON

Isaac A. JACKSON, a respected pioneer of Dunlap, came to Harrison County October 19, 1869, from Clinton County, Iowa, where he had resided since November 4, 1863. He came from Canada to Iowa and was reared in the Dominion on the old JACKSON homestead in Dundas County, Ontario. The date of his birth was May 7, 1836, and he is the son of James JACKSON, and was reared to farm life, and attended the public schools common to that country. At the age of sixteen he entered a general mercantile establishment at South Mountain, where he spent two years, and then went to Dixon's Corners, remained there a short time and then went to Kemptville where he engaged as a salesman and book-keeper. He remained here for five years. When he first commenced clerking he received $8.00 per month and board, but later was advanced to twelve dollars. When he had attained his twenty-third year he left the store and began teaching in the public schools at the old home for three terms, after which he turned his attention to farming, opening up a small farm and making substantial improvements.

January 2, 1862, marked a new era in our subject's life, for it was upon that day he was united in marriage to Mary J. WINEGARD, who was a native of New York State, born April 16, 1841. She is the daughter of John and Maria (BARKLEY) WINEGARD, who were natives of the Empire State. After the marriage our subject he went to farming for a short time, but in October 1863, he came to Chicago, and from that city drove across the country to Clinton, Iowa, a trip which he will ever remember, as it was his introduction to Western pioneer life. He remained in Clinton County, engaged at farming, until 1869. The first winter he taught school, and was a resident of the city of Clinton for one year. Since coming to Harrison County he has made it his home in Dunlap and on his farm, consisting of one hundred and sixty acres, on section 14, of Harrison Township. He bought wild land which, under the touch of good husbandry, has come to be a finely improved place. He clerked in a hardware store two and a half years, from 1872, and then retired to his farm where he remained until 1889, when he returned to Dunlap, and has since been engaged as a salesman in the lumber yard of H. L. PRESTON.

Politically, Mr. JACKSON believes in the principles of the Republican party.

He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, and is a member of hospitable Lodge No. 244, A. F. & A. M., of which he is secretary.

Mr. and Mrs. JACKSON are the parents of three children--James W., a resident of Randolph, Neb.; Caroline L., deceased; Lou J., the wife of H. L. PRESTON, of Dunlap. They are acceptable members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

James W., their son, was united in marriage at Dunlap, September 10, 1886, to Eva J. WEED, a native of Iowa.

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