William W. Jackson    

WILLIAM W. JACKSON, farmer, P.O. Tamarac, was born in 1819, in East Fallowfield Township, this county, son of Abraham and Elizabeth (Gelvin) Jackson; the former a native of Susquehanna County, Penn., died in 1853; the latter a native of Maryland, died in 1876. Our subject remained on the farm till May 16, 1834, when he went to Meadville, and there learned blacksmithing, which he followed for some time. In July, 1840, he opened a shop at Shermanville for custom work, and sharpened tools used in digging the canal then in process of construction. In 1852 he moved to Summit Township, this county, where be carried on farming and blacksmithing till October 13, 1864, when he moved on his present farm. He does his own blacksmithing. April 22, 1841, he married Miss Jane Stewart, and to this union were born ten children, viz.: Lovilla, married in 1866 to Isaac B. Gehr, who was a soldier in Company E, One Hundred and Eleventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and died in 1882, leaving two children: Aggie, and Ray; David S., married to Eugenia Boon, September 8, 1867 (have two children: Flavel S., and Orvie); Walker, married to Esther Gehr, in 1871 (have the following children: Ida M., J. Park, and Stewart W.); Cyrus A.; Albert C., married to Lucy Burch, in 1877; Emma L., married to William M. Hull, in 1872; Homer E., Alta M., Ella M. and Martin W. Mr. Jackson was elected in 1881, and. is now serving as Justice of the Peace; is a member of the I.O.O.F. in politics he is Greenbacker.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885. View image of this page of the book on line at ancestry.com.  Free access  More Crawford County History Books  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com

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