WILLARD C. JACKSON is a son of Eldad and Olive Jackson, the former a native of Kentcuky, the latter of New York. Willard Jackson was born in New York, Delaware County, April 3, 1818, and there remained until he came to La Grange County, in 1844. Here he remained about seven years, then moved to Steuben County, and in 1865 to Kendallville, since which time he has made this place and vicinity his home. He owns valuable town property, besides a farm of 80 acres. Mr. and Mrs. Jckson have a family of twelve children; the eldest was born in 1840.
Counties of La Grange and Noble, Indiana, Historical and Biographical, Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, © 1882, Part 2, p. 305.
Transcribed by Denise Wells, May 2013.