My Genealogy Hound

SAMUEL H. JACKSON, of the firm of ames 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., Va. 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 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.