Biography of Amos Jackson, page 688.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Amos Jackson was born in Niagara County, N.Y., April 15, 1827, the second 
son and sixth of eleven children of Jesse and Edith (Smith) Jackson.  In 
1834 his parents moved to Michigan, and in 1837 to De Kalb County, Ind.  His 
father entered 120 acres of Government land in Butler Township, which he 
improved and made his home the rest of his life.  Amos was ten years of age 
when his parents moved to De Kalb County, and hence by far the greater part 
of his life has been identified with her interests.  Reared a farmer, he 
chose the  vocation as his life work, and is now one of the most prosperous 
and enterprising agriculturists in the township.  He owns 160 acres of land, 
all well improved.  Mr. Jackson was married March 24, 1863, to Catherine 
Simon, a native of Columbiana County, Ohio, daughter of George Simon and 
early settler of Allen County, Ind.  They are the parents of three children---
Charles A., Dora O. and Vesta L., the latter deceased. Politically Mr. 
Jackson is a Democrat.  He was reared in the society of Friends, but he 
and his wife are now members of the Lutheran church.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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