William A. Jackson    

WILLIAM A. JACKSON, farmer, post-office West Middlesex, Penn., is a son of William and Anna (Carmichael) Jackson. He was a son of William Jackson, one of the prominent families of Washington County, Penn., and a nephew of Philip Jackson, noted as the praying elder of the Cross Roads Church in Washington County, which had for its pastor the Rev. E. McCurdy, a famous preacher of the Presbyterian Church in pioneer days. The paternal grandfather of our subject was William Jackson; he had ten children and settled originally about eight miles northeast of New Castle, subsequently removing to the place where our subject now lives. He purchased the patent for 640 acres of land, being located in the donation lands. The father of our subject had eight children: Thomas and James, deceased; Sarah, wife of John Carnahan, of Kansas; Mary J., wife of John Pinkerton, of Illinois; Margaret L. and Elizabeth E., who reside upon a part of the homestead; Hugh, who enlisted in 1861 in Company B, One Hundredth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and died, from exposure received in the service, at Newport News, July 25, 1802. Our subject was born in 1832 on the old homestead; was reared and educated at the common schools; learned the carpenter’s trade, and subsequently engaged in farming. He married, in 1858, Miss Adelaide, daughter of Thomas Mathews, of Ohio, who died in 1861, leaving one son, Albert, who is now principal of the Wyman Institute of Upper Alton, Ill. He married for his second wife, October, 1864, Miss Maggie, a daughter of John and Harriet Ayres of Butler, Butler Co., Penn. By this marriage they have seven children: William A. (principal of Wilmington High-school), Thomas C. (teacher), Alfred H., Harry L., Charles E. , Anna H. and Mary. Mr. Jackson has been officially identified with the schools of his township as a director. He belongs to the A. O. U. W., Lodge No. 12, of West Middlesex, and is a member and ruling elder of the West Middlesex Presbyterian Church.

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