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† Source #1: History of
Pike County, Illinois. - 1880
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E. C. JACKSON was born in
Indiana in 1845; he is the son of Samuel and Harriet
(Twichell) Jackson, natives of New York
State. He is a farmer and owns 100 acres of land.
He was educated in a seminary in Orland Town, Ind.
At the present time he is running a "leveeing" machine,
throwing up embankments along streams of water, so as to
make bottom lands tillable. It has proved a
success. This machine will throw a cubic yard of
dirt in a minute, and the expense is only 5 cents per
yard. It takes 12 horses and 3 men to do the work.
Over 100 acres of wheat was raised in1879 on lands that
had been ponds of water before; the machine had been
used for grading roads, but Mr. Jackson has
improved it till he can do all kinds of work with it.
In 1876, he married the daughter of Mr. Gardner,
one of the early settlers of this county. |
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A. W. JAMES, farmer, sec.
32; was born in 1818, Rutherford county, Tenn., son of
Casey and Martha James, natives of Virginia.
In 1838 he married MAtilda Clardy, who was born
in Bedford county, Tenn., and died in Sept., 1844.
March 19, 1848, he married Elizabeth Sartain, who
was born in 1827, in Tenn., and they had 6 children.
Mr. J. came to Adams county in 1852, and in 1862
to this county, where he has since resided. He has
held the offices of Constable, School Director and Road
Commissioner. |
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