from "A Standard History of Lorain County"
by Geo Frederick Wright
Andrew J. Jackson.
Much attention is paid to that type of business man who makes a specialty of reorganizing run down plants and rehabilitating industrial enterprises that have been mismanaged. A place of equal usefulness is that of the practical agriculturist who finds his province and sphere of activity in reorganizing old farms and putting into effect a system of efficiency which restores the fertility and value of the land.
In this class one of the best examples in Lorain County is Andrew J. Jackson, who is proprietor of Riverside Villa, a ninety-six acre farm about two and a half miles south of Elyria on the Grafton and Elyria Pike at Stop No. 12 on the Interurban Railway. Mr. Jackson has made somewhat of a specialty of giving vitality to misused acres and is well known in several communities in this section of Ohio.
He was born on a farm in Elyria Township three miles north of Elyria March 9, 1854, a son of James W. and Samantha (Cheney) Jackson. Both his parents were natives of New York State, where they grew up and married, and later came from Buffalo to Cleveland by boat and secured a small farm in Elyria Township, where the father spent the rest of his days. It was on that farm that Andrew J. Jackson grew to manhood, had a fair common school education, and was with his father until the age of twenty-one. He had strength, self-reliance, industry and with experience he soon became very competent in handling all kinds of matters connected with farm industry. He started out on his own account as a farm laborer, and did different lines of work. During one summer of his early manhood he was in Minnesota, and another summer he spent in the copper regions of northern Michigan.
On December 15, 1885, at Elyria, Mr. Jackson married Miss Lucy E. Ives of Columbia Township, Lorain County, daughter of Ambrose and Mary J. (Lapham) Ives. Mrs. Jackson was reared and given a good common school education. For five years after his marriage Mr. Jackson worked by the year in Eaton Township, and then took a farm on the shares, looking after one place for two years, and then following that was on another farm for ten years. In the meantime he had bought 109 acres in Eaton Township, though he never occupied it as his home. In the fall of 1902 Mr. Jackson bought his present place. Here in particular his work as a farm manager has been exemplified. Both the land and the buildings had been badly neglected, and in the past fifteen years he has remodeled practically every feature of the farm and has introduced improvements so as to make it one of the most valuable and attractive estates in Lorain County. In 1905 he sunk a gas well and now has heat and light for all his buildings while his residence includes such modern comforts and facilities as bathroom, running water, electric power system for pumping water and all his buildings are wired for electricity. He has also laid more than three carloads of tile on his land.
An important feature of his farm industry is dairying, and he has also been successful in raising grain. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson have two sons: Jay C., who was born in Eaton Township August 12, 1887, was given a good education, and is now living in Youngstown. Ohio. This son has been twice married. He first married in Lorain County Miss Frances Prindle and by her has one son named Theodore. His second wife was Blanche Piekard of Youngstown. Mr. Jackson's second son is Ray, who had two years in high school and is a successful young farmer in Eaton Township. He married Miss Fern Sayles and they have two children, named Lawrence and Doris Lillian.
Mr. Jackson is a republican, having cast his first vote for Hayes in 1876. He has never sought any office and has done his duty most thoroughly by looking after his own interests. His wife is a member of the Disciples Church.
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by Geo Frederick Wright
Andrew J. Jackson.
Much attention is paid to that type of business man who makes a specialty of reorganizing run down plants and rehabilitating industrial enterprises that have been mismanaged. A place of equal usefulness is that of the practical agriculturist who finds his province and sphere of activity in reorganizing old farms and putting into effect a system of efficiency which restores the fertility and value of the land.
In this class one of the best examples in Lorain County is Andrew J. Jackson, who is proprietor of Riverside Villa, a ninety-six acre farm about two and a half miles south of Elyria on the Grafton and Elyria Pike at Stop No. 12 on the Interurban Railway. Mr. Jackson has made somewhat of a specialty of giving vitality to misused acres and is well known in several communities in this section of Ohio.
He was born on a farm in Elyria Township three miles north of Elyria March 9, 1854, a son of James W. and Samantha (Cheney) Jackson. Both his parents were natives of New York State, where they grew up and married, and later came from Buffalo to Cleveland by boat and secured a small farm in Elyria Township, where the father spent the rest of his days. It was on that farm that Andrew J. Jackson grew to manhood, had a fair common school education, and was with his father until the age of twenty-one. He had strength, self-reliance, industry and with experience he soon became very competent in handling all kinds of matters connected with farm industry. He started out on his own account as a farm laborer, and did different lines of work. During one summer of his early manhood he was in Minnesota, and another summer he spent in the copper regions of northern Michigan.
On December 15, 1885, at Elyria, Mr. Jackson married Miss Lucy E. Ives of Columbia Township, Lorain County, daughter of Ambrose and Mary J. (Lapham) Ives. Mrs. Jackson was reared and given a good common school education. For five years after his marriage Mr. Jackson worked by the year in Eaton Township, and then took a farm on the shares, looking after one place for two years, and then following that was on another farm for ten years. In the meantime he had bought 109 acres in Eaton Township, though he never occupied it as his home. In the fall of 1902 Mr. Jackson bought his present place. Here in particular his work as a farm manager has been exemplified. Both the land and the buildings had been badly neglected, and in the past fifteen years he has remodeled practically every feature of the farm and has introduced improvements so as to make it one of the most valuable and attractive estates in Lorain County. In 1905 he sunk a gas well and now has heat and light for all his buildings while his residence includes such modern comforts and facilities as bathroom, running water, electric power system for pumping water and all his buildings are wired for electricity. He has also laid more than three carloads of tile on his land.
An important feature of his farm industry is dairying, and he has also been successful in raising grain. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson have two sons: Jay C., who was born in Eaton Township August 12, 1887, was given a good education, and is now living in Youngstown. Ohio. This son has been twice married. He first married in Lorain County Miss Frances Prindle and by her has one son named Theodore. His second wife was Blanche Piekard of Youngstown. Mr. Jackson's second son is Ray, who had two years in high school and is a successful young farmer in Eaton Township. He married Miss Fern Sayles and they have two children, named Lawrence and Doris Lillian.
Mr. Jackson is a republican, having cast his first vote for Hayes in 1876. He has never sought any office and has done his duty most thoroughly by looking after his own interests. His wife is a member of the Disciples Church.
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from "A Standard History of Lorain County"
by Geo Frederick Wright
Andrew J. Jackson.
Much attention is paid to that type of business man who makes a specialty of reorganizing run down plants and rehabilitating industrial enterprises that have been mismanaged. A place of equal usefulness is that of the practical agriculturist who finds his province and sphere of activity in reorganizing old farms and putting into effect a system of efficiency which restores the fertility and value of the land.
In this class one of the best examples in Lorain County is Andrew J. Jackson, who is proprietor of Riverside Villa, a ninety-six acre farm about two and a half miles south of Elyria on the Grafton and Elyria Pike at Stop No. 12 on the Interurban Railway. Mr. Jackson has made somewhat of a specialty of giving vitality to misused acres and is well known in several communities in this section of Ohio.
He was born on a farm in Elyria Township three miles north of Elyria March 9, 1854, a son of James W. and Samantha (Cheney) Jackson. Both his parents were natives of New York State, where they grew up and married, and later came from Buffalo to Cleveland by boat and secured a small farm in Elyria Township, where the father spent the rest of his days. It was on that farm that Andrew J. Jackson grew to manhood, had a fair common school education, and was with his father until the age of twenty-one. He had strength, self-reliance, industry and with experience he soon became very competent in handling all kinds of matters connected with farm industry. He started out on his own account as a farm laborer, and did different lines of work. During one summer of his early manhood he was in Minnesota, and another summer he spent in the copper regions of northern Michigan.
On December 15, 1885, at Elyria, Mr. Jackson married Miss Lucy E. Ives of Columbia Township, Lorain County, daughter of Ambrose and Mary J. (Lapham) Ives. Mrs. Jackson was reared and given a good common school education. For five years after his marriage Mr. Jackson worked by the year in Eaton Township, and then took a farm on the shares, looking after one place for two years, and then following that was on another farm for ten years. In the meantime he had bought 109 acres in Eaton Township, though he never occupied it as his home. In the fall of 1902 Mr. Jackson bought his present place. Here in particular his work as a farm manager has been exemplified. Both the land and the buildings had been badly neglected, and in the past fifteen years he has remodeled practically every feature of the farm and has introduced improvements so as to make it one of the most valuable and attractive estates in Lorain County. In 1905 he sunk a gas well and now has heat and light for all his buildings while his residence includes such modern comforts and facilities as bathroom, running water, electric power system for pumping water and all his buildings are wired for electricity. He has also laid more than three carloads of tile on his land.
An important feature of his farm industry is dairying, and he has also been successful in raising grain. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson have two sons: Jay C., who was born in Eaton Township August 12, 1887, was given a good education, and is now living in Youngstown. Ohio. This son has been twice married. He first married in Lorain County Miss Frances Prindle and by her has one son named Theodore. His second wife was Blanche Piekard of Youngstown. Mr. Jackson's second son is Ray, who had two years in high school and is a successful young farmer in Eaton Township. He married Miss Fern Sayles and they have two children, named Lawrence and Doris Lillian.
Mr. Jackson is a republican, having cast his first vote for Hayes in 1876. He has never sought any office and has done his duty most thoroughly by looking after his own interests. His wife is a member of the Disciples Church.
(info provided by Msmith # 47320929)
by Geo Frederick Wright
Andrew J. Jackson.
Much attention is paid to that type of business man who makes a specialty of reorganizing run down plants and rehabilitating industrial enterprises that have been mismanaged. A place of equal usefulness is that of the practical agriculturist who finds his province and sphere of activity in reorganizing old farms and putting into effect a system of efficiency which restores the fertility and value of the land.
In this class one of the best examples in Lorain County is Andrew J. Jackson, who is proprietor of Riverside Villa, a ninety-six acre farm about two and a half miles south of Elyria on the Grafton and Elyria Pike at Stop No. 12 on the Interurban Railway. Mr. Jackson has made somewhat of a specialty of giving vitality to misused acres and is well known in several communities in this section of Ohio.
He was born on a farm in Elyria Township three miles north of Elyria March 9, 1854, a son of James W. and Samantha (Cheney) Jackson. Both his parents were natives of New York State, where they grew up and married, and later came from Buffalo to Cleveland by boat and secured a small farm in Elyria Township, where the father spent the rest of his days. It was on that farm that Andrew J. Jackson grew to manhood, had a fair common school education, and was with his father until the age of twenty-one. He had strength, self-reliance, industry and with experience he soon became very competent in handling all kinds of matters connected with farm industry. He started out on his own account as a farm laborer, and did different lines of work. During one summer of his early manhood he was in Minnesota, and another summer he spent in the copper regions of northern Michigan.
On December 15, 1885, at Elyria, Mr. Jackson married Miss Lucy E. Ives of Columbia Township, Lorain County, daughter of Ambrose and Mary J. (Lapham) Ives. Mrs. Jackson was reared and given a good common school education. For five years after his marriage Mr. Jackson worked by the year in Eaton Township, and then took a farm on the shares, looking after one place for two years, and then following that was on another farm for ten years. In the meantime he had bought 109 acres in Eaton Township, though he never occupied it as his home. In the fall of 1902 Mr. Jackson bought his present place. Here in particular his work as a farm manager has been exemplified. Both the land and the buildings had been badly neglected, and in the past fifteen years he has remodeled practically every feature of the farm and has introduced improvements so as to make it one of the most valuable and attractive estates in Lorain County. In 1905 he sunk a gas well and now has heat and light for all his buildings while his residence includes such modern comforts and facilities as bathroom, running water, electric power system for pumping water and all his buildings are wired for electricity. He has also laid more than three carloads of tile on his land.
An important feature of his farm industry is dairying, and he has also been successful in raising grain. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson have two sons: Jay C., who was born in Eaton Township August 12, 1887, was given a good education, and is now living in Youngstown. Ohio. This son has been twice married. He first married in Lorain County Miss Frances Prindle and by her has one son named Theodore. His second wife was Blanche Piekard of Youngstown. Mr. Jackson's second son is Ray, who had two years in high school and is a successful young farmer in Eaton Township. He married Miss Fern Sayles and they have two children, named Lawrence and Doris Lillian.
Mr. Jackson is a republican, having cast his first vote for Hayes in 1876. He has never sought any office and has done his duty most thoroughly by looking after his own interests. His wife is a member of the Disciples Church.
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