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Person Record
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Jackson, James Henry |
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James Henry Jackson was born and raised in Sullivan Township, Grey County. By the turn of the century, he was a blacksmith in Keady, and by 1906 he was living in Saskatchewan. During his time in Grey County, he patented several things including a bob sled (Canadian Patent 41917), wagon (Canadian Patent 47492), bolster stake (Canadian Patent 52625), sleigh (Canadian Patent 64188), vehicle wheel (Canadian Patent 70203) and a root puller (Canadian Patent 84452). The root pullers have "J.H. Jackson Allenford Ont" forged into them, and they match the drawings in the patent schematics. The root pullers were designed to be used to harvest turnips, mangles, and other root vegetables, and the new part of the design is the concave nature of the "grappling jaws" which are meant to rest around the vegetable, while allowing the user to wrest it from the ground more easily. They would have been manufactured by Jackson while living briefly in Allenford between 1903 and 1906. |
