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CHAPTER VI -- PIONEERS (CONT'D)JACKSON TOWNSHIP.Subsequent to the settlement of the northwest part of Jackson township, constituting a part of Bowman’s Grove, which settlement began in the fifties and continued through the sixties, there came, beginning about 1870 to 1880, a rapid settlement on the prairie lands south and southeast of Bowman’s Grove. The first persons to settle in Jackson township were undoubtedly Leonard Bowman and his son, Daniel, about 1853 or 1854. Other very early settlers were James B. McConnell, Jacob B. Stutzman, J. R. Dalton and others at Bowman’s Grove. Other settlers, beginning with about 1868 or 1869, and running down to about 1880, were J. R. Boyd, J. H. Philson, George Littleton, J. W. Black, Eliab Meyers, D. Barkman, T. J. Caldwell, H. C. McConnell, W. T. Plummer, George McQueen, John Fritz, Silas Fritz, James Dunnington, P. F. Philson, H. W. Patterson, Ole Hansen, M. C. Rasmussen, Lars Nelson, P. Nelson, John Schouboe, W. D. Fritz, John Watson, D. W. Uptegrove, C. L. Drake, John Wilson, J. C. Rold, H. Pulver, J. W. White, Hans Hoogensen, Mathias Sorensen, Claus Ohms, J. D. Lorenzen, H. C. Hendrickson, Hans Hansen (father of Knud Hansen and others), Peter Anderson, R. Brodersen, Jacob Brodersen, Peter Madson, M. F. Kerwin, J. G. Gassnick, George W. Allen, the McElfresh brothers, R. M. Dickson, Philip Armentrout, William Pringle, Nels Mathiesen, Peter Hansen, Andrew Hansen, A. H. Christensen, A. D. Ross, Matt Thompson, J. C. Petersen, Anthony Jacobsen, L. J. Buck, J. D. Vandeburgh, James Stewart, J. J. Harter, Christian Damm, Charles Damm, Henry Mizner, Peter Kroman, Hans Nissen, Jens Tolstrup, George Waugh and others. Probably four-fifths of these men settled in the township prior to 1877. The first settlements skirted the north, west and south sides of the township.
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