The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-04-29
Death of Colonel John E. jackson of Au-

Death of Colonel John L. jackson of Au-
rOra.
Col. John +. Jackson, of Aurora,
died at his residence in that town on
the 18th inst, of congestion of the
heart, aged IS years.
The Colonel was born in Chister.
Hampden County, Mass, on the 22d
day of February, 1874. His parents
were of the Puritan school, and of
Scotch origin. He enjoyed only the
ordinary advantages of what was then
a common school education. He was
a close student, and at the early age of
15 he taught his first school, which
occupation he followed winters while
he remained in New England dur
ing which time he applied himself to
the study and practice of surveying
in which he become quite proficient,
and which induced him to leave the
stony hills of Hampdin county, for
the then almost wilderness of Ohio,
where he practiced surveying in con-
junction with his other avocations in
Portage and adjoining counties, dur
ing the balance of his life. &c s45 ifai fl7
The Colonel came to Ohio early in
the year 1872. In January, 1920, he
married Clarissa, eldest daughter of
John Tinker, of Nelson, in this coun-
ty. who still survives him. They
raised a family of eight children, all
of whom were present at, tbeiflfaths
er's funeral. In the military he served
from the ranks to Colonel, inclusive.
He was an ardent polititian, and held
various posts of public trust.
Tn 1870. he was elected Justice of the
Peace i'll Aurora in 1882, he was elect
ed County Assessor; in 1886, he was
elected County Surveyor; in 1912, he
was chosen Senator from the Portage
and Summit Districts: in 1915, Land
Appraiser for the county of Portage.
His early religious training was of
the Plymouth Rock "Saybrook Plat
form y stripe Famd although he didn't
profess religion till near middle life,
| yet he was rigidly moral and pune
tual in his attendance upon religious
worship. In th ose early days they
had no newspapers, and the whole
township assembled in the old town
house on q Sunday, as well to get the
news osseethe new 1coiners, alidL TO
talk with their neighbors as to
enjoy religious worship; and if a
minister happened to be pres
ent, (Which was seldom) it was a
notable day, if not, John E. was
called upon to read sermon from
John Earskine's volume of sermons.
The Colonel made profession of reli-
gion in 1927, but, being an INNER
sionist, as to the rite ofbaptism, and
restricted communionist he had no
opportunity to connect himself with
sthe same faith and order" for several
| years. When an opportunity afforded
he was baptised and subsequently uni
ted with the Baptist Church of Au-
burn, Geauga county of which Church
he afterwards became Pastor
He was ordained Elder in the Bap-
tist Church in 1851, and was an efffe-
lent minister of the Gospel till within
a few months of his death. On the
14th day June 1868, while preaching
| in hn Of nf so h.
stricken with paralysis. from which
he never recovered. Through life he
was great reader, possessed a mem
ory as retentive marble. He was
thoroughly posted in the current. lit
erature and news of the day, and took
half dozen or more newspapers and
periodicals. He was a Radical in Re-
sligion in Temperance and in Politics,
and eminently SO in family govern
ment, having for his motto :: Spare the
rod and spoil the child" He was al
SO distinguished for his sober gravity
and candor.
The Colonel was physically one of
the most powerful men of his time and
entered with relish into the athletic
sports of his day.
In his death the Church has sus-
tanned the loss of one of its ablest de-
Tenders and most energetic and pre-
sistent laborers, the community a
fpublic spirited and valued citizen, and
his family an inValuahle counsellor n
genial friend and partner, and kind
and doting father.
Aurora April 25. 1869. T..