Source: Unknown, I bought this book on Ebay it has no cover, and no index, but full of Indiana biographies. Typed by Lora Radiches. I am not researching this family. Surnames in this biography are: Jackson, Whitecotton, Cook, Hines, Troy, Harvey, Shull, Miller, Jones, OLIVER WILLIAM JACKSON, county superintendent of schools of Madison County, was a born and grew up in Hancock-County, and his first contact with education institutions was in a country school, and later he taught in a rural district for several years. He has had a wide and successful experience as an educator and is splendidly qualified for the duties and responsibilities of looking after the common school system of the county. Mr. Jackson was born on a farm in Green Township, Hancock County. The Jackson’s were pioneers of Indiana, his great-grandparents having come from North Carolina and after a few years of residence in Kentucky moved into the wilderness of Indiana. Mr. Jackson’s grandfather, Frederick Jackson, secured a tract of timbered land in Green Township, Hancock County, and his hard labor over a period of years resulted in a well-improved farm home. He acquired the land cheap and went through the pioneer hardships when it was necessary to haul all surplus products many miles to market. He died in 1864. His wife was Athiel Whitecotton. Francis Marion Jackson, father of Oliver William, was born on the old homestead in Green Township in 1843, and his early memories were likewise associated with pioneer conditions and with few of the comforts of our modern civilization. He helped clear new tracts of timber for cultivation, and was educated in some of the old-time log schoolhouses. In 1862, when he was nineteen years old, he enlisted in Company B of the Eighty-ninth Indiana Infantry. He saw his first service in Kentucky, and later his regiment was moved into Missouri and assisted in driving General Price out of that state. There were also numerous skirmishes and fights with the bushwhackers of Missouri and Arkansas, and he also participated in the battle of Nashville, Tennessee, and was at Mobile, Alabama, when the war closed. At the close of the war he was granted an honorable discharge and returned home to engage in farming, which was his Occupation until late in years. He moved his home to Pendleton and lived retired until his death at the age of seventy-eight. He married Lucinda Cook, who was born in Green Township, Hancock County, daughter of William and Barbara (Hines) Cook, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Kentucky. The Cook families were early settlers in Rush County, Indiana, and later moved to Hancock County. Mrs. Lucinda Jackson also attained the age of seventy-eight. She was the mother of four children, Oliver W., Frederick E., Minnie M., who married Walter A. Troy, and Charles Harvey. Oliver William Jackson has always been grateful for having grown up on a farm, where there were chores and a busy routine of duties that engaged all his active time when not in school. After completing the course of the local public schools he secured a license and taught in country districts. From his earnings as a teacher he paid his way through Indiana University, being graduated in 1905. For one year following his graduation he was superintendent of schools at North Judson and then became superintendent of schools at McCordville, where he remained until 1912. From that time until 1918, he was superintendent of schools at Eden, Hancock County, and then for a period of about ten years was engaged in farming. Mr. Jackson for a number of years has owned a farm in Fall Creek Township, and in the intervals of his educational work has given it his superintendence. He is a member of the Christian Church, a Republican in politics, and is affiliated with Eden Lodge No. 477, A. F. and A. M., and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason Mr. Jackson married, in 1891, Miss Stella Shull, also a native of Green Township and daughter of Azel J. and Nancy (Miller) Shull. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson’s only child, Marcus, was a student in Purdue University when the United States entered the Great War. He at once left his books and studies to enlist and was assigned to the Twenty-third Engineer Corps. With this outfit he went overseas, participated in the Saint Mihiel drive, and was on duty at other points along the western front until returned home in June, 1919. He is now engaged in farming. Marcus Jackson married Bessie Jones, daughter of Philip and Sarah Jones, of Pendleton, Indiana.