Joseph Jackson (American politician)

Joseph Jackson (October 4, 1793 – May 27, 1888) was an American politician who served one term in the Michigan House of Representatives.

Joseph Jackson
Member of the Michigan House of Representatives
from the Monroe County district
In office
November 2, 1835 – January 1, 1837
Personal details
Born(1793 -10-04)October 4, 1793
Minisink, New York
DiedMay 27, 1888(1888-05-27) (aged 94)
Wapello, Iowa
Political partyDemocratic

Biography

Joseph Jackson was born October 4, 1793,[1][2] in Minisink, New York, the son of James Alexander Jackson and Martha Drake.[3] When he was a few years old, his family moved to the area of present-day Rochester, New York, which at the time consisted of a single log house. Jackson served in the War of 1812, fought under Major General Jacob Brown at the Battle of Lundy's Lane, and settled in Cayuga County, New York, following the war. He went into the mercantile business in Alleghany County, New York, and then moved to Rochester for seven years before moving to Michigan.[4]

Jackson, a Democrat,[4] was elected in 1835 to the Michigan House of Representatives in the first election following adoption of the state's constitution, and he served one term.[5]

Jackson moved to Lake County, Indiana, in 1837, locating a claim there with his son Clinton that spring, and moving his family from Monroe County in October 1837. Jackson opened the first store in the area.[2] In October 1846, he moved his family to Crown Point, Indiana, where Jackson served as county auditor and ran a hotel named the Hack House with his son-in-law, Z. P. Farley.[2][6]

Jackson moved to Wapello, Iowa, in 1857, and served as justice of the peace.[2] He died at home on May 27, 1888, and is buried in Wapello.[1][4]

Family

Jackson was married in Scipio, New York, on December 14, 1815, to Amarilla Durkee of Scipio.[1][3][7] They had five children: Ursula Ann, who died as an infant, Clinton, Amarilla Valeria, Helen Augusta, and another daughter named Ursula Ann who became the teacher of the first school in West Creek Township, Indiana, in 1838.[2][8] Amarilla Jackson died on December 3, 1885.[4]

Notes
  1. Find A Grave 2014.
  2. Ball 1974, p. 115.
  3. Bonnelle 2006, pp. B1, C1.
  4. Bonnelle 2006, p. C1.
  5. State of Michigan 1877, p. 549.
  6. Ball 1873, pp. 162–163.
  7. Storke 1879, pp. 418–419.
  8. Bonnelle 2006, p. B1.

References
  • Ball, Timothy H. (1873), Lake County, Indiana, from 1834 to 1872, Chicago: J. W. Goodspeed, retrieved 2018-12-15
  • Ball, Timothy H. (1974) [1904], Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of Lake County, Indiana, Evansville, Ind.: Unigraphic, retrieved 2018-12-15
  • Bingham, Stephen D. (1888), Early History of Michigan: With Biographies of State Officers, Members of Congress, Judges and Legislators, Lansing: Thorp & Godfrey, retrieved 2018-12-15
  • Bonnelle, Frank Jackson (2006) [c. 1899], Genealogical Notes, F. J. Bonnelle, retrieved 2018-12-15 – via Brigham Young University-Idaho
  • Michigan Manual (1877–78 ed.), Lansing: State of Michigan, 1877, retrieved 2018-12-15
  • Storke, Elliott G. (1879), History of Cayuga County, Syracuse, New York: D. Mason, ISBN 978-5-87813-480-4, retrieved 2018-12-15
  • "Tombstone of Joseph Jackson", Find A Grave, September 23, 2014, retrieved 2018-12-15
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