BIO: SAMUEL H. JACKSON, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 244-245
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    SAMUEL H. JACKSON, of the firm of James Jackson & Son, dealers in
  agricultural implements at No. 46 West Louther street, Carlisle, traces his
  lineage back to his grandfather, Samuel Jackson, who for a number of years
  was a resident of Shermans Dale, Perry Co., Pa. He was a cooper by trade. In
  middle life he removed to Cumberland county, and settled on what is known as
  the Happy Retreat, where he died at the age of about fifty-five or sixty
  years. He married a Miss Mortan, of Perry county, and they had four daughters
  and three sons: James; Nancy, married to John Guse, of Fairview; Richard,
  deceased; Annie, deceased; Rose, of Scranton; Samuel Parker, a stock dealer
  of Carlisle; Emaline, widow of Samuel Shearer, of Carlisle.
    
    James Jackson was born in Perry county in 1838, and was brought up to work
  upon the farm in the summer and attended school in the winter, and learned
  the coopering trade with his father. When about twenty-one years old he
  married, and he followed farming until 1901, when he retired from active
  business life. The homestead farm is pleasantly located two and one-half
  miles northwest of Carlisle, and has been held by four different owners since
  1863, but since it passed into the possession of Mr. Jackson, in 1882, it has
  been much improved. About that time he also began to sell farm implements,
  and until 1892 he transacted his business at home, then moving his office to
  Carlisle. He enjoys the distinction of selling the largest number of binders
  in Cumberland county, as well as other farm machinery, his sales sometimes
  reaching as many as sixty-four in a season.
    
    James Jackson married Sarah Ann Snyder, of North Middleton, a daughter of
  Henry Snyder, an alderman and leading undertaker in his day, and she died in
  May, 1884, aged forty years, leaving five children Samuel H.; Simon B., a
  miller of Carlisle; Annie, who married John Raudabaugh, of North Middleton
  township, this county; Mary Ellen, who married William Brymesser, of North
  Middleton township; and Emma J., unmarried, a teacher in the public schools
  of this county.
    
    Samuel H. Jackson was born Sept. 12, 1861, and was educated in the public
  schools. His boyhood was spent upon the farm, but he early learned to sell
  machinery, and when the business was moved to Carlisle, in 1892, he assumed
  full charge, it having been conducted under the name of James Jackson & Son
  from the time he was twenty-one years of age. The business is a very large
  one, and is constantly increasing, while the stock carried is large and
  complete.
    
    In 1882 Mr. Jackson was married to Miss Annie Wise, a daughter of Isaac
  Wise, a farmer of Middleton township, and they had one child, Clarence E.
  Mrs. Jackson died in the spring of 1884. On Dec. 31, 1885, he married Miss
  Ida Sutton, a daughter of Jonathan D. Sutton, of Tidioute, Warren Co., Pa.,
  and they reside at No. 134 North Pitt street. Mr. Jackson is one of the most
  progressive men of Carlisle, and is very highly esteemed. His son graduated
    
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  at the Villa Nova College in the class of 1903, in the commercial course,
  taking honors of the class, and is a very promising young fellow.