Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson, attorney-at-law of Ravenna, is a grandson of John Jackson, of Plymouth Rock, Mass., and son of Col. John E. Jackson, a native of Chester, Mass.. who immigrated to the West in 1812, and settled in this county, clearing a farm in Aurora Township, and owning and operating there a woolen-mill and saw-mill. At Garrettsville he met and married Clara, daughter of John Tinker, of Granville, Mass., whose family settled in Nelson Township, this county, in 1804. His place of residence was called the "Centerville Mills," in the north part of Aurora Township. Having been elected, and served one term, as County Surveyor, he disposed of his factory and sawmill in 1839, and continued the business of surveying, and began preaching the Gospel, having been ordained a Baptist Elder. He was elected State Senator from this district in 1841, serving in that position two terms, and in 1845 was appointed Appraiser of Lands of this county. While delivering a discourse in 1868, he was stricken with paralysis, and died in April. 1869. Our subject was born in Aurora Township, October 4, 1824, and worked in the factory until seventeen years old, when he was sent to Granville College, Licking Co., Ohio, the only Baptist College in the State. He began the study of law in 1846, under Gen. Knox, of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar of Canton, Ohio, in 1848, commencing practice in Ravenna soon after. Subsequently he was appointed Examiner of School Teachers, and in 1852 elected County Recorder, serving three years, and was three times elected Justice of the Peace, for Ravenna Township. He enlisted in the Union Army, August 12, 1862, in Company I, One Hundred and Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry; was subsequently appointed Ordnance Sergeant; was at the front from the time he entered the service till close of the war, and participated in the battles of Fort Mitchel, Ky., siege of Knoxville, Gen. Sherman's Atlanta campaign, and battles of Franklin and Nashville, Tenn., Columbia, Wilmington and Fort Fisher, being mustered out of the service at Cleveland, in July, 1865. In 1866 he was elected Clerk of the Common Pleas Court, occupying the position six years. In 1875 he secured a charter for the "People's Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of which he is Secretary and Treasurer, and a member of the Board of Directors. Mr. Jackson has since conducted an extensive insurance business, and ceased the practice of law. He was married in 1848 to Mabel, daughter of Guy Doolittle, of this county, and to this union has been born one child—Frances J., wife of L. P. Seymour, of Ravenna, Ohio. Mr. Jackson is, and has been for twenty-five years, an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and also an ardent Mason; became a member of Unity Lodge, No. 12, in 1853, of which he is a Past Master, a member of Tyran Royal Arch Chapter, and a frater of Commandery No. 25, Knights Templar and Malta.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885