Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

Charles JACKSON, farmer, Sec. 9; P. O. Wilmington; owns eighty acres of land, valued at 
$50 per acre; born in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, March 18, 1815; left his native place for 
the West in 1850, stopped one year in Boston, where he worked at the carpenter trade; then 
set out for the West again, and arrived in Illinois in May, 1851, and located in this 
(Florence Twp.), Will Co. Married Martha E. CATING in this county, Nov. 6, 1851; she was 
born in Ross Co., Ohio, Oct. 30, 1825, and came here with her sister Vernelle (now Mrs. 
Charles DILLE); have five children living, and one deceased; Hannah died Sept. 28, 1854; 
Fannie, Malcolm, Estella, Margaret and Josephine. Mr. JACKSON's residence has been in 
Florence Township ever since he came to Illinois in 1851; purchased his present farm in 
1856; traded and repurchased the; same in 1869.