Sedgwick County KSGenWeb

Portrait And Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kan.

Chapman Brothers 1888

Pages 968 - 969

CAMILUS M. JACKSON, a leading farmer and stock-raiser of Lincoln Township, is pleasantly situated on section 31, about seven miles from Valley Center and four and one-half miles from the rising little town of Furley. He ranks among the pioneers of Sedgwick County, and superintends the operations on his farm of eighty acres, where he makes a specialty of high-grade Short-horn cattle and Clydesdale horses, keeping of the latter some of the best animals to be found in this township.

            Mr. Jackson is a product of the Blue Grass State, and was born in Simpson County, March 6, 1850. He is the fourth child of John W. and Sarah A. (Stanley) Jackson, who were the parents of six children. John Jackson and his wife were also natives of Kentucky, while the grandparents on both sides of the house were born in Virginia. The parents of John Jackson were Benjamin and Winnie (Carpenter) Jackson, and the mother's parents were Meredith and Edith Stanley. The father of our subject was born in Allen County, Ky., where he was engaged as a carpenter and contractor, and died in Simpson County on the 20th of August, 1854. The wife and mother is still living, and makes her home with our subject. She was born in 1819, in Logan County, Ky.

            The subject of this biography was reared to farming pursuits, and educated in the district schools of his native county. There also he engaged in agriculture for himself until coming westward, which journey he made in the fall of 1883. He at once purchased eighty acres of improved land on section 31, in Lincoln Township, and in 1887, after effecting other improvements, put up one of the finest farmhouses in that locality. He makes a specialty of stock-raising, and in addition to his fine horses and cattle, contemplates in the near future the breeding of swine.

            Mr. Jackson has had little time to devote to political affairs, but is an earnest supporter of Republican principles. His marriage took place on the 5th of October, 1886, in Wichita Township, his bride being Miss Sarah C. Ittner, who was born in Logan County, Ill., Aug. 9; 1862. Mrs. Jackson was the eldest of the five children born to Leonard and Elizabeth (Weeks) Ittner, who were natives of Pennsylvania, and a sketch of whom will be found on another page of this volume.

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