Biography of  Wesley Jackman, pages 771 / 772.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Wesley Jackman was born in Carroll County, Ohio, in 1827, a son of Edward 
Jackman.  In 1837 Edward Jackman came to De Kalb County, accompanied by his 
brother Robert, and entered 440 acres of land on sections 17 and 18, 
Franklin Township, and 160 acres on section 12, Smithfield Township.  He 
then returned to Ohio, and in 1840 moved with his wife and nine children, 
and settled on the east half of his land on section 18, Franklin Township, 
where he lived till his death in 1848.  His wife died Jan. 1, 1855.  One 
son, John, was married in Ohio, but followed the family to Indiana in the 
fall of 1840.  Five of the ten children are living---Sarah, widow of Joseph 
Boyer; Cyrus resides on the homestead in Franklin Township; Wesley and 
Edward M. in Smithfield; and Adam C. in Grand Rapids, Mich.  Wesley Jackman 
settled on the land entered by his father in Smithfield Township in April 
1853, and now has one of the finest farms in the county.  He was married to 
Sarah M. Baxter, daughter of Moses Baxter, of this township.  They have 
had eight children; but seven are living---Edith L, a teacher in the 
normal school at Mitchell, Ind.; Mary E., a teacher; Florence V., teaching 
in the State Normal School of Alabama; Charles S. and Harry E. (twins), 
Minnie A. and Addie.  Florida V., a twin sister of Florence, died March 4, 
1881, at the age of twenty-two years.  She was at that time a student at 
the normal school at Danville. Mr. Jackman has taken great pains to 
educate his children and fit them for any position in life to which they 
may be called.  Edith is a graduate of the normal school of Lebanon, Ohio, 
and the others, save Minnie of Danville, Ind.  He left the farm and 
resided in Danville several years, that his children might have the 
advantage of school of that place.

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