Washington

JACKMAN, A. M.

Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, pp 218-219 
(portrait p 219)

A. M. JACKMAN, of Barre [Washington County, Vermont], was born 02 March 1813 
in Corinth [Orange County, Vermont], son of Abel and Dorothy (TRUE) JACKMAN. 
His father came from Salisbury [Essex County], Massachusetts, and was one of 
the early settlers of Corinth. The son, left an orphan at an early age, went 
to Barre and learned the trade of a wool carder and cloth dresser. His 
opportunities for education were limited to the common schools of Corinth and 
a few terms at the Barre district schools. Working with untiring industry 
and living prudently, laying up and not squandering the liberal wages he 
received, he was enabled in 1836 to hire and three years after to purchase 
the mill in which he was employed, and he conducted the business until the 
factory was destroyed by fire in 1853. In February 1856 Mr. JACKMAN bought 
an estate in Barre. Much of this he has sold, and this portion of the 
property is now occupied by the thriving village of Barre. When he commenced 
his business everyone, with perhaps the exception of the doctor, lawyer, and 
clergyman, wore homespun, the product of the family loom, woven and fashioned 
in the home circle, and there was but one cloth manufactory in the state, 
that of Governor PAINE of Northfield [Washington County], the only product of 
whose mills was exclusively indigo blue broadcloth.

Mr. .JACKMAN has lived to see an entire change in the population of the town 
of Barre, and he is the only one that remains of the bygone generation of 
Barre village. He has always been a Democrat, and has taken an active 
interest in town and county affairs. For twenty-five years he was the 
sheriff or deputy sheriff, and also justice of the peace. He was strongly in 
favor of a resolute prosecution of the war for the preservation of the Union, 
and one of his sons lost an arm in the service. Mr. JACKMAN carries the 
cares and labors of his eighty years bravely, with form still erect and his 
mental faculties unimpaired. On 11 April 1837 he [A. M. JACKMAN] married 
Christina, daughter of David and Delia (FRENCH) FRENCH. Their union was 
blessed with four sons and one daughter: Orvis French (a soldier of the 
Union, deceased in 1885), John, George W., Eveline (Mrs. F. H. ROBERTS), and 
Charles Edgar (deceased). Mrs. JACKMAN departed this life in 1885.

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