Brown Twp. -
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 Montgomery County, Indiana - Part 2 - Publ. 1881 - Page 361

Crawfordsville -
F. N . JOHNSON, county treasurer, Crawfordsville, was born in Gallatin county, Kentucky, in 1842.  He resided there with his parents until he was twelve years old, when they removed to Montgomery, county, Indiana, and settled in Brown township, which has since been his residence.  In 1867 he began clerking for the firm of Davis & Hanna, general merchants, of Waveland, and in 1873 he became a member of the firm, the firm now being Hanna & Johnson  He continued busily engaged in merchandising until 1878, when he was elected to the office of county treasurer by the democratic party, which gave him a majority of 104 votes.  He was elected for two years, and has since been renominated for a second term.  He is a member of Waveland Lodge, No. 217, I. O. O. F., and has been a member of the Christian church for twenty years, and is at present superintendent of that church's Sunday-school at Crawfordsville.   Jan. 10, 1869, he was married to Miss Julia F. Durham, a native of Kentucky.  She died Jan. 6, 1880, leaving two children, Henry F. aged eleven, and John A., aged four years.
Source:  History of Montgomery County, Indiana - Part 2 - Publ. 1881 - Page 270