The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-12-02
ANDREW JACKSON.
Sc,nctbivg About His Early Life In North
Carolina.


Sc,netbips About His Early Life IN North
Carolina.
Foremost among the distinguished men
/. who resided for season, i'll Salisbury
WAS Andrew Jackson. The reader, ac-
quainted with his public career Us n
soldier and q statesman, will not object
to II brief account Of his sojourn in Sails.
bury. In 17G5 Andrew Jackson, with
his wife, two sons aud three ncighbors,
John Robert, and Joseph Crawford cmi
grated from Carrickfargus, Ireland, to
America, and settled at the "Waxhaws,"
on the boundary between North and
South Carolina. While some ofthe COM
pany settled on Twelve Mile Creek, in
Mecklenburg (now Unioi) County,
North Carolina. In the spring OF l1G7,
Andrew Jackson died, and in rude farm
wagon his body was carried to the Wax
law church and deposited inthc grave
yard The family did not return to their
home on Twelve Mile creek, hnt went TO
The housc of George Mckenzie, broth
erin law, not far from the church ana
oi,artcr OF mile from the boundary OF
Inc States but in North Carolina. Ihcro
Andrew Jackson, the younger, was born
The nirl,t after his fathers funeral, March
IJ,h 11G7 Evidence for all this most
rouciusiye and convincing, was collected
by Gen. Saml II. Walkup. of.Union
county, in 1853, and may be found in the
first Volume Of Parton's Life Of Jack con-
Three weeks after his birth, his mother
removed with the family to the residence
of her hrothcr-in law, Mr.. Crawford, in
South Carolina. Here Andrew grew up,
wild, reckless, daring. working on the
farm. riding horses. hunting, going to
old-ticld schools, and picking up II little
education here and there. He also ut
tended n school of q higher grade ut Wax
haw church, kept by Rev. DIR. Hum
the Queens Museum College in Char
lotto, n. c. In these schools he ac-
qured the rndimr IS of IN English cd
ucation, aud pcrh. .,s litllo Latin and
less Greek. Though only fifteen years
old ut the close Of tile Revolution, young
Andrew Jackson took part in several
skirmisIies and other adventures in his
ncigi,borhood. At tho close Of the war
he was an orphan, without brother
or sister without fortune 81 sick and
sorrowful orphan. After year
or two of reckless life. he began to look
at life in earnest and prepare for it lie
tuugilt school for awhile, AMI gaining
little money, lie came 10 Salisbury in
1885, and entered rs law student in the
Office of Spruce Macay Esq. He lodged
in the "Rowan House" but he studied in
tho Office Of Mr.. Spruce MIacay, along
with two fellow students, Crawford and
McNairy. The reader may remember
this little Office on Jackson street. rs it
stood until four years ago. Immediately
in front of the residence Of the Hon.
Nathaniel Doydcn Parton describes it
as "a little box of house, fifteen by six
teen feet, and one story high," and built
of"shingics," C., Il framed and weather.
boarded house, covered with shingles.
This little house was purchased by m
cnlcrprising individual and carried to
Philadelphia TO the centennial exposi-
tion, in 1876, rs Il speculation, though it
proved to be very poor investment.
While Jackson certainly devoted good
part of his time to study, yet lie was no
doubt, as Parton describes him, "a roar
ng, rollicking fellow. ouerfowing with
life aud spirits, rejoicing to engage
in MI the fun that was going"
lie played cards, ran horses, threw the |
long bullet Cannon ball, slung in
strap, aud thrown as trial Of strcngth) |
carried off gates, moved out.houscs to
remote fields, and occasionally indulgcd |
in down right drunken debauch."
Upon certain occasion tho three law |
students and friends held n banquet ut |
the tavern. At the conclusion it was
resolved that it would be improper thnt
the glasses and decan,ers that had pro-
noted the happiness of such m evening
should ever be profhned by any bascr |
use. Accordingly they were smashed.
The same reasoning led to destruction Of
the table, the chairs and the bed, were
all broken and torn to splnters and rib.
bons, and the combustible parts heaped
on the fire and burned OF course there |
was big bill 10 settle next day. But
it is snid that Jackson's landlord was |
fond of cards, and Jackson won large sums
from him, which entered rs credits against |
his board bill. Jackson was certain
ly not a model young man, and not one
in ten thousand yonng men who began |
life ~ lie did ever attain to distinction. |
But there was in him indomitablc will |
tirelcss energy, and unilinching courage"
lie wns always willing to take the respon-
siblity, aud he moved on to his aims |
will. a purpose that could not be turned |
aside. After spending less than two |
years in the Office of Spruce Macay,
Jackson completed his studies for tile |
bar in the oilico of Col John Stokes, n |
brave soldier of the revo.u i'm After this :
he lived awhile ut Martinsvillc, in Gull. /
ford county, and from that place hc re.
moved 10 Tennessee, in l7SS, and |
settled in Nashville. The reader may
follow his course in the legal profession,
in The battle of Now Orleans, IN lhe
presidential chair, in tho racy aud
readable volumes that record his life, by |
james Parton