Biography of Cyrus Jackman, pages 622 / 623.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Cyrus Jackman, one of the pioneers of Franklin Township, and an honored 
citizen of the county, was born in Carroll County, Ohio, Feb. 14, 1822, a 
son of Edward Jackman, a native of Virginia.  When a young man Edward 
Jackman, in company with his brother Adam, settled in the wilds of Ohio, 
remaining there till 1840, when he moved his family to De Kalb County and 
settled where our subject was born on section 18, Franklin Township, and 
again prepared to make a farm in the wilderness.  They reached De Kalb 
County May 28, and after building a rude cabin cleared a piece of land, and 
raised the first year thirty bushels of potatoes, six or eight acres of 
wheat, and got out enough logs by fall to build a hewed log house and make a 
comfortable home for the winter.  There were 240 acres in the Jackman 
homestead, 140 of which Cyrus Jackman now owns.  He remained at home 
assisting his father till manhood.  He was married Sept. 20, 1949, to Sarah 
Taylor, daughter of John Taylor.  They have one son, John Fletcher, who was 
born July 8, 1850, and married Nora E. Gutridge.  They have two children-
Burton and Bertha (twins), born May 18, 1876.  Fletcher Jackman owns 
eighty acres of valuable land, and is a successful agriculturist.

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