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W. M. JACKSON, grocer, Waveland, was born in Montgomery county, Indiana, July 13, 1847, and is the son of Hugh Jackson, who was a native of South Carolina, and came to Indiana in 1835, and in 1850 removed to Iowa, where the subject of this sketch was raised until December, 1863, when he enlisted in Co. K, 33d Iowa, and faithfully served his country until Sept. 5, 1865, when he was honorably discharged.   He participated in the  battles of Chickamauga, Helena, Jinkins' Ferry, Spanish Fort, and others, to the amount of fourteen engagements, passing through them without being wounded or taken prisoner.  In 1866 he married Miss Mary E. Smith, a native of Montgomery county, Indiana, and the same year emigrated to Kansas, where he remained four years, during the time when that state was infested with grasshoppers, from which cause he lost what property he had and returned to Montgomery county a poor but wiser man.  In 1878 he embarked in the grocery business at Waveland with a limited amount of means, but by a strict attention to business, and honest dealing with his many customers, he has not only given general satisfaction but has increased his trade to the amount of $10,000 per year.  He is a member of the Masonic and A.O.U.W. fraternities, and is a staunch republican.
Source:  History of Mongtomery County, Illinois - Part 2 - Publ. 1881 - Page 361