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Bio: Jackson, Gilbert J. (1881) Contact: Janet Schwarze ----Surnames: Jackson, Dickinson ----Source: History of Northern Wis. (Wood County, Wis.) 1881, page 1208 GILBERT J. JACKSON, miller, Centralia, was born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, May 4, 1843. Came to the United States in 1856, and settled in Delaware Co., N. Y. Soon after the Rebellion broke out, he joined the 8th Independent N. Y. Battery, October, 1861, and served during the war. Among other engagements, he was at the siege of Yorktown, battles of Williamsburg and Fair Oaks, was before Petersburg and was engaged most of the time in the latter part of the war in raiding. After he was mustered out, July 6, 1865, he came to New York City, and remained there about nine months; then came to Eureka, Wis., near Oshkosh, in the Spring of 1866, and engaged in various kinds of labor. Went into the steamboat business in the Spring of l869 on the Wolf and Fox rivers, under the name of the Wolf River Transportation Company, and continued this business about five years. Came to Centralia in March, 1874, and bought into the Centralia Flouring Mills, now owned by Coleman, Jackson & Co. Mr. Jackson was married in 1867, to Miss Flora Dickinson, daughter of W. C. Dickinson, of Eureka, Wis. |
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