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WILLIAM JACKSON, farmer, P. O. Negley, was born in the county of Durham, England, Oct. 9, 1830, a son of Robert and Margaret (West) Jackson, former of whom was killed when William was nine years old; the mother lived to the age of eighty-seven years. William Jackson, paternal grandfather of William, was a mason, and John West, the maternal grandfather, was captain of an English merchant-ship; was taken prisoner by the French, and served twenty-one years in French prisons. Mr. Jackson came to New York city in 1852, and following year to Pittsburgh, where he worked four or five years at the West Point forge, and then went to the rolling-mills, remaining there fifteen years. He enlisted in February, 1864, in Co. I, 61st P. V. I., which was consigned to the Sixth corps, Army of the Potomac, and was discharged in June, 1864. He then worked in the Pittsburgh mills until 1872, when he moved to his present farm, which he had bought in 1867. In 1851 he married Sarah Pescot, a native of Newcastle, England, a daughter of Thomas and Sarah Pescot. Ten children were born to them: Isabella Ann, Thomas P., Mary (Mrs. Samuel Anderson), Robert (married to Ann Bryan and lives on the farm), Sarah (Mrs. George Kime), William, Margaret, John, Henry and Charles. The family are members of the Episcopal Church, but there being no church of that denomination here, they joined the U. P. Church. Mr. Jackson owns 120 acres of land.