S. T. Jackman, of Allen Twp.

S. T. Jackman, p. 752

        S.T. JACKMAN is of Teutonic ancestry, his grandparents, William
        and Barbara (Shively) Jackman, having been natives of the country of
        the Rhine. They emigrated from Germany before their marriage, which
        ceremony took place in a fort on the Monongahela river, in
        Westmoreland county, Penn. In 1788 William Jackman took out a
        patent for 368 acres of land called "Hobson's choice," in Washington
        county. He paid the Indians, for their right, $15, a gun, and a blanket.
        He made a permanent home on this tract, where seven children were
        born to him, all now deceased. The parents were members of the
        Baptist Church. 

        Simeon Jackman, son of William and Barbara (Shively) Jackman, was
        born, in 1795, in East Pike Run township, Washington Co., Penn., and
        there attended the subscription schools. In 1819 he was married to
        Mary Dunlevy, who was born in 1800, in East Pike Run township, and
        the young couple settled permanently on 100 acres of the original tract
        (above mentioned) in Allen township. He afterward bought 100 acres
        from his brother Cyrus, paying him $10 per acres. The following
        children were born to them: one deceased in infancy; Joseph Wilson, of
        Henry county, Ill.; Anthony D., a resident of El Dorado, Butler Co.,
        Kans.; Melissa, wife of George Morton, a Presbyterian minister of
        Indiana county, Penn.; Elizabeth, wife of James Wilson, of McLean
        county, Ill.; Mary, married to John Steele, of Fayette county, Penn.;
        Harriet, wife of George Hill, of McLean county, Ill.; William H., living in
        Wayne county, Ohio; S.T., whose name opens this sketch; Isaac K.,
        living in Los Angeles, Cal., and Sarah D., wife of William Dunlevy, of
        Butler county, Kans. Of these children Mary, William H., S.T., and
        Isaac K. are yet living. The father was a Republican, and served for
        many years as justice of the peace; was also captain in the State Militia.
        He died in 1881, having been preceded by his wife in 1873. Both were
        members of the Presbyterian Church.

        S.T. Jackman, the only living representative of his family in Washington
        county, was born October 23, 1835, in Allen township, Washington
        Co., Penn. He received his earlier education in the subscription schools
        of the neighborhood, and then took the sophomore year at Washington
        College. In 1862 he enlisted at Pittsburgh, Penn., in Company F,
        Eighteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, for three years or during the war, and
        was afterward promoted to the rank of first lieutenant of Company E, in
        the same regiment. He served in the battles of Gettysburg, Wilderness,
        also in the Shenandoah Valley and the Seven Days' fight before
        Richmond. In 1865 he received an honorable discharge at Cumberland,
        Md., and returned to the home farm in Allen township, Washington
        county. On May 20, 1868, he was married to Florence J., daughter of
        Azariah and Sarah A. (Murphy) Crow, pioneers of Washington county,
        now living in Howell county, Mo.

        Mr. Jackman yet owns ninety-five acres of the original patent. In
        politics he votes with the Republican party, and served as a member of
        the school board, assessor and road commissioner of Allen township.
        Since the Howe cemetery has been established Mr. Jackman has
        served as treasurer and trustee, and is also a trustee of the Ebenezer M.
        E. Church, of which he and his wife are members. Their children have
        been born as follows: Nora Elsie, wife of William Steele, a grocer of
        West Belle Vernon; Leslie T.; H. Roscoe; Ruby C.; Mary S.; A.
        Parker; J. Riley (deceased at the age of six years) and Morton Hanson
        (deceased when seventeen months old). In 1891 Mr. and Mrs.
        Jackman moved to their present home in West Belle Vernon. 


        Text taken from page 752 of:
        Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington
        County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893). 

        Transcribed January 1997 by Julie Jolly of Knob Noster, MO as part of the Beers
        Project.