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Born 1862
From Biographical review of Des Moines County, Iowa (1905)
FRANK OSCAR JACKSON.
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Iwrn Aug. 5. 1862: Andrew Peter lives in Mediapolis, Iowa; Anna deil when very young; John Wictor also resides in Mediapolis; Ellen Caroline married Albert Jackson, of Huron township; Jacob Albert died when twenty years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson were both devoted members of the Swedish Lutheran church, and were active workers in the same. Mrs. Jackson died Feb. 22, HJ05, and is buried in the Swedish Lutheran cemetery.
Our subject received his education in the district schools of Huron township, and was reared a farmer. He is carrying on his father's farm of fift_\-nine acres in Section 26, Huron township), and also farms fifty-five acres outside of this.
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Mrs. Swanson was one of the charter members of the Swedish Lutheran church, and died Nov. 30, 1903, and is buried in the cemetery of this church. Mr. Jackson is progressive and enterprising, and by close attention to all the details of agriculture has won much success in business, and by his fair and many dealings he has established a good reputation, and county his friends by the hundreds.
As printed in Biographical review of Des Moines County, Iowa (1905). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
The printed record stops around 1905. We trace your line from there down to you, with every source cited.