DANIEL JACKSON
“Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley..” Vol. 3
Author: Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921
New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1913.
Pg. 1038 JACKSON
This branch of the JACKSON family came from New England at the close of the eighteenth century.The first known progenitor, DANIEL JACKSON, who was a native of Connecticut, came to Warren County, Pa., from near Ithaca, New York, in the year 1797.He was the first settler in what later became known as Conewango Township, locating on JACKSON run, about a half mile from its mouth, this run still bearing his name.The county was subsequently divided into two townships, Brokenstraw and Conewango, each comprising about one-half.DANIEL JACKSON built the first saw mill and later the first grist mill in the county.The saw mill was completed in about the year 1800, and the first raft of pine lumber, comprising about 30,000 feet, to seek a market down the river from Warren County, was manufactured at this mill and landed in Pittsburgh in the spring of 1801...In 1805 DANIEL JACKSON moved from Conewango Township to what is now Warren Borough, and erected the first frame building with lumber sawed at his mill,, on the lot now occupied by the Citizens' National Bank building, at the corner of Water and Hickory streets; the building was know for years as JACKSON'S Tavern.Three other edifices erected prior to this were made of hewn timbers.DANIEL JACKSON was licensed by the governor in 1806 to keep an inn...He was the first constable in this township, being appointed in 1807, and was commissioned a justice of the peace by Governor Snyder on May 31st, 1817...The Wetmore farm, adjoining and immediately south of the village of North Warren, was the location chosen by DANIEL JACKSON in 1797 for his homestead; this he deeded, conjointly with his son DANIEL, as shown by the Warren County records, to William Hodges, May 4, 1814, in consideration of a sum of $1,600, the property sold including in all nearly 600 acres...
DANIEL JACKSON died June 20, 1830, in the 79th year of his age, from blood poisoning caused by a bite on the thumb of his right hand by one Nehemiah Waters, who made an unprovoked attack upon him while he was performing his duty as magistrate; it is said that he was buried on his old homestead in Conewango Township.He bequeathed his property to his children and grandchildren as named.His children were: DANIEL, EBENEZER, ETHAN, DAVID, SYLVIA, RACHEL.
DANIEL JACKSON, JR. lived in Conewango Township and vicinity during the early years (pg. 1039) of his life, but finally moved to Muchmore bottom, Brooke County, Virginia, now West Virginia.He was an active Methodist.. He had a brother DAVID near Warren, Warren County, Pa..
THOMAS W., son of DANIEL JACKSON, JR., was born Dec. 16, 1804, and died May 21, 1842, in Warren, Pa., in the old house built by him on the southeast corner of the intersection of Liberty and Third streets.This house was owned in 1910 by Mr. W. A. Talbot.MR. JACKSON was buried in Oakland Cemetery, his wife EVELINE, who died Aug. 2, 1885, being buried beside him.MRS. JACKSON was a MISS EVELINE GILSON KING, daughter of JOHN and BETSEY (GILSON) KING, born Dec. 5, 1807.A son, DANIEL, was born May 5, 1835, and died Sept. 5, 1838; another son, GILSON A.; JOHN A.; BYRON J., ISADORE and SARAH.
GILSON ADELBERT, son of THOMAS W. and EVELINE GILSON (KING) JACKSON, was born in Warren, Pa., Jan. 26, 1836, on the old house in which his father lived and died...He learned the printer's trade which he followed in Warren and Quincy, Illinois.Prior to his two years residence in Quincy he had resided for a while in Honeywell, Missouri, where he had located upon his marriage and where his eldest son was born.After an absence of about three years in all from Warren County, he returned to Youngsville, where he resided for the remainder of his life...In1858, MR. JACKSON was married to MISS HELEN MARR TRASK, four children being born to them, as follows: FREDERICK B.; ADA, who became MRS. M. E. DUNHAM; BELLE, who became MRS. C. H. JACOBS; DORA, who became MRS. A. R. BAILEY.All are living except the eldest daughter, ADA, who died in 1884.
FREDERICK BRANT, son of GILSON ALELBERT and HELEN M. (TRASK) JACKSON, was born at Honeywell, Missouri, Oct. 3, 1859.While he was still very young his parents returned to Pa. And took up their residence in the village of Youngsville, in Warren County...At the end of this time he sold out his business and went to Walker's Station, Georgia, where he purchased a half interest in a plantation of 3,200 acres.At the end of two years he sold out his half interest to his partner, C. G. Herrick, and returned to Pa., located at Warren...He has a handsome residence at No. 305 Fifth Street, Warren, which was built in 1907.
On October 14, 1889, MR. JACKSON was married to MISS DONNA ANNA CUMMINGS, a daughter of WASHINGTON PARKER and SARAH McKAY (WELD) CUMMINGS, who was born Nov. 3, 1858, near Sugar Grove, Pa...MR. And MRS. JACKSON are the parents of two children: HELEN SARAH, born Oct. 15, 1890; and ALLAN CUMMINGS, born Nov. 21, 1893; both of whom are at home.
THE CUMMINGS LINE
The CUMMINGS family is of Scotch Presbyterian stock, JOHN CUMMINGS, the immigrant ancestor, having come over from Scotland and settled at Sandy Lake, Mercer County, Pa.He married ABIGAIL ___ by whom he had the following children: SARAH, MARTHA, PERRY, MARGARET, JANE, HERVEY, JULIA, and WASHINGTON PARKER.
WASHINGTON PARKER, son of JOHN and ABIGAIL CUMMINGS, was born at Sandy Lake, Pa., in the year 1826, and died at Sugar Grove, Warren County, Pa., in 1866.. About the year 1848, he moved to Sugar Grove, where he purchased a farm where he remained until his death...He was a member of the Presbyterian church.In politics he was a Republican.He was married, April 13, 1853, at Sugar Grove, to MISS SARAH McKAY WELD, who was born in Steuben County, New York, July 25, 1826, and died March 4, 1905; she was the daughter of ROBERT and CLARISSA (HOWE) WELD.After the death of her husband, Feb. 18, 1865, on the farm near Sugar Grove and the old WELD homestead, she moved into the village of Sugar Grove with her four small children, and died there March 26, 1905, at the age of 79 years; she was buried beside her husband and her daughter IDA, in the Wesleyan Cemetery two miles east of Sugar Grove Village.The children were as follows: 1. IDA, born 1854, died 1866.2. ADA, married ROBERT C. BLODGETT, April 11, 1877, and lives in Bakersfield, California.3. DUANE, married JANET DUNBAR, and lives in Peoria, Illinois.4. DONNA ANNA, married to FREDERICK B. JACKSON...
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