“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


JOHN S. JACKSON,  farmer, Sec. 19;  P.O. Palmyra; born in Sullivan 
Co., N.Y., June 7, 1809; came to Wisconsin in 1846, and is one of the 
hardy pioneers who saw much of the hardship of those times; settled on 
the farm he now owns of fifty-nine acres in 1848.  Married Miss Mary 
Doty in 1831; they have seven children:  Sarah A., Huldah, William, 
Mary, Eliza, Amanda, Martha.  Mr. Jackson is a Republican; he united 
with the Baptist Church at the age of 19, and has been an active and 
earnest supporter of the Gospel, and, with his wife, has done good work 
in a good cause.


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