JACKSON BIXLER

BIXLER

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/22/2020 at 20:20:16

JACKSON BIXLER was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, August 4, 1850, son of Charles Bixler, who was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania. Grandfather Jacob Bixler was also a native of Pennsylvania. He was a son of Joseph Bixler, a native of New Jersey and a descendant of German ancestors. Charles Bixler married Mary Ann Markley, and Jackson, the subject of this sketch, was the second born of their ten children, live of whom are now living. He was four years old when the family emigrated to Iowa. They came by steamboat down the Ohio and up the Missouri river to St. Joseph, from whence they made the journey to Adams county with ox teams. The father settled in Douglas township, where he still lives.

Jackson was reared on his father’s farm and received his education in a log school-house, remaining under the parental roof until he was twenty-six years old. He purchased eighty acres of wild land in section 21, Douglas township, which he has since developed into a line farm, with good buildings, fences, orchard, grove, etc. He is engaged in general farming and stock-raising,
and is ranked with the enterprising and go-ahead farmers of the community.

In December, 1876, he was united in marriage with Anna Penton, a native of Ohio and a daughter of John and Lavina (Terry) Penton, both natives of Ohio, for several years residents of this county, and now of Taylor county, Iowa.

Mr. and Mrs. Bixler have one son, Roy Morris, born August 28, 1881. Mr. Bixler is a Republican.