Person:Mitchell Jackson (4)

U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907 Name: Mitchell Y Jackson (together with his brother Alexander E. Jackson) Issue Date: 15 Aug 1854 State of Record: Minnesota Acres: 129.54 Accession Number: MN2100__.260 Metes and Bounds: No Land Office: Stillwater Canceled: No US Reservations: No Mineral Reservations: No Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566) Document Number: 1186 http://search.ancestry.com/browse/view.aspx?dbid=1246&iid=RHUSA2007B_MN2100-00260&pid=1057274&ssrc=&fn=Mitchell+Y&ln=Jackson&st=g

Jackson Scholl has referred this researcher to the Minnesota History Magazine article about the Minnesota Farmers' Diaries found here: http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/18/v18i03p284-297.pdf. A quote from the magazine article: Page 287: "Occasionally, however, a diarist shows some literary skill, as, for example, Mitchell Y. Jackson. The first of the following extracts from his diary was written In 1856 on his fortieth birthday: 'The stream of time flows with accellerated velocity as we grow older. Forty Years! How long when looked at from the head of the stream and yet how short when viewed from the other end. How vividly and how indellibly is impressed upon the tablet of our memory all the windings and ripplings and little eddies of the miniature stream of our childhood.'

In the second, Jackson recalls, after his removal to Minnesota, the maple sugar camps of Indiana: 'But we have no sugar making here. No making of sugar troughs —spiles — furnaces camps etc. My boys will know nothing of the pleasant excitement of the hurry & bustle of the "sugar-making". Sugar camps are perhaps the strongest marked localities of my boyhood.. . . And now at this distance I can almost smell the smoke and see the blazing fire as it used to shine upon the huge forest trees through the thick black darkness of an Indiana sugar-making night. With equal distinctness can I see the pearly drops and hear the peculiar trickling of the sacharine fluid as it flows from the spiles upon a bright, frosty, sunshiny morning — such as this.' Occasional bits, such as these, color and enliven the diaries, but they are all too few." Source: Jackson Diary, April 13, August 10, 1856. Jackson's farm was in Lakeland Township near Lake St. Croix.

Page 290: "Jackson contrasted methods used In 1860 with those followed in his boyhood: 'Commence the new harvest by cutting my Rye. The old familiar clatter of the reaping machine sounds quite natural Though there is nothing about it that reminds me of harvest as conducted in the days of my boy hood. Then the old simple crooked sickle then the more formidable looking cradle were the only implements known. Now the machine drawn by 2 or 4 horses cuts its throng of four to six feet as fast as the team can walk, and from four to six men are busy binding and setting up the sheaves.'" Source: Jackson Diary, July 13, 1860.

Page 295 "Sometimes the comments take a sharper form. Jackson wrote in 1857 that the new state constitution "allows all whitemen that have been here 10 days to vote. And the way the 'dear Irish' are marched up to vote the 'Dimmicratic ticket' is a sin against heaven & earth. . . . I think there were from 50 to 100 votes polled here by persons having no interest in the affairs of Minnesota."

This 1870 Census record is easy to miss as the URL will take you to TWO pages which is unexpected. Scroll right to see the second page. This appears to be an error and may be corrected by ancestry.com later. Right now their index shows Mitchell Jackson age 53 living by himself. That is not correct as the actual image shows Mitchell with wife and children and next hh to Mitchell is his brother Alexander. http://search.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=7163&path=Minnesota.Washington.Lakeland.18&sid=&gskw=Mitchel+Y+Jackson&cr=1 1870 Census Lakeland Twp, Washington Co., Minnesota Post Office: Stillwater; Family #30 Jackson, Mitchel Y. 53 M W Farmer Ohio Jackson, Martha 44 F W Keeping House IN Jackson, Preston 20 M W Works on farm IN Jackson, Frank 17 M W works on farm IN Jackson, Willie 11 M W attending school Minnesota Peterson, Sarah 21 F W domestic Sweden

1880 Census Dist 44, Mason City, Cerro Gordo Co., Iowa Jackson, M. Y. W M 65 married Insurance Agt. OH PA PA Jackson, Martha W F 55 wife married housekeeping IN NC NC Jackson, Willie W M 21 son - R.R. work Minnesota OH Ind. Jackson, Prudence W F 48 sister-in-law Wd in family IN NC NC Jackson, Eva W F 14 niece Minnesota OH NC Jackson, Harry W M 11 nephew Minnesota OH NC

Iowa Cemetery Records at ancestry.com Name: M. Y. Jackson Death Date: 17 Mar 1900 Page #: 57 Birth Date: 3 Aug 1816 Cemetery: Elmwood Town: MC Level Info: Tombstone Records of Cerro Gordo County, Iowa

1. ↑ United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432)
   Noble, Wabash Co., Indiana.
2. ↑ United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publications M593 and T132)
   Lakeland, Washington Co., Minnesota.
3. ↑ United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T9)
   Dist 44, Mason City, Cerro Gordo Co., Iowa.
4. ↑ United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M653)
   Lakeland Twp, Washington Co., Minnesota.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Iowa Cemetery Records.
6. ↑ Minnesota Farmers' Diaries collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/18/v18i03p284-297.pdf..
7.   Email from Robert Jackson Aug 2003 robert.jackson1 add the at mchsi add the dot com.
8.   Robbins, Oscar Burton. History of the Jackson family of Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., Ohio and Indiana: descendants of Robert and Agnes Washburn Jackson. (Loveland, Colo.: Robbins, 1951)
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