Biography of Edward M. Jackman, pages 770 / 771.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Edward M. Jackman was born in Carroll County, Ohio, July 13, 1835, a son of 
Edward Jackman.  His parents moved to De Kalb County, Ind., in 1840, and 
here he was reared and educated, and with the exception of four years 
residence in Iowa has since lived here.  He was married in 1856 to Margaret 
A. Taylor, a native of Stark County, Ohio, born in 1833, daughter of John 
Taylor, who settled in De Kalb County in 1848, and in 1865 moved to Cedar 
County, Iowa, and subsequently moved to Carroll County where he died.  Mr. 
and Mrs. Jackman have had six children; but two are living---Margaret Ella 
and Charles F.  A daughter, Sarah F., died in July, 1879, aged twenty-two 
years. The others died in early childhood.  Mr. Jackman has a pleasant home 
on section 1, Smithfield Township, which he purchased in 1878.  He is one of 
the most successful an influential farmers in the township, and is a public-
spirited, liberal citizen, doing all in his power toward the promotion of 
enterprises of public benefit.  His eldest sister, Mrs. Sarah Boyer, is a 
widow of Joseph Boyer, who died in 1881.  She has five children---Edward 
H. and Oliver in Kansas; Cyrus C., in Franklin township; Alma Celestia, 
wife to William Boyles, of Wilmington Township; Electa L., wife of Walter 
Thompson, of Steuben County.

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