History of Dansville, (Livingston County) New York United States of America

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James Caleb Jackson, author, was born in Manlius, N.Y., March 28, 1811; son of James and Mary Ann (Elderkin) Clark Jackson, and grandson of Col. Giles and Sarah Atwood (Orton) Jackson. He was educated at the Chittenango Polytechnic institute, and became a temperance lecturer in 1827; entered the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery society as lecturer, in 1838, and left the field to become corresponding secretary of the society, in 1840-42. He was editor of the Madison County Abolitionist, 1842-43, at Cazenovia, N.Y., and formed a partnership with Abel Brown, of Troy, N.Y., and purchased the Albany Record, which he edited and managed, 1844-47. In 1847 he founded a hydropathic institute at Skaneateles Lake, N.Y., and in 1858 he founded Our Home Hygienic institute at Dansville, N.Y., which became, as the Jackson sanatorium, one of the largest institutions of its kind in the world. He is the author of: The Sexual Organism and Its Healthful Management (1861); Consumption: How to Prevent It and How to Cure It (1862); How to Treat the Sick Without Medicine (1870); American Womanhood: Its Peculiarities and Necessities (1870); The Training of Children (1872); The Debilities of Our Boys (1872); Christ as a Physician (1875); Morning Watches (1882), and a large number of monographs. He died at Dansville, N.Y., July 11, 1895.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

David Litchard Kiehle, educator, was born in Dansville, N.Y., Feb. 7, 1837; son of James and Elizabeth (Litchard) Kiehle and grandson of Abraham Kiehle and of John Litchard. His first ancestor in America emigrated from Germany in the eighteenth century and settled in Lehigh county, Pa. David attended the State normal school at Albany, N.Y., in 1856, and was graduated from Hamilton college, A.B., 1861, A.M., 1864, and from the Union Theological seminary in 1865. He was married, July 17, 1863, to Mary Gilman. He was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1865, and was pastor of the Presbyterian church at Preston, Minn., 1865-75; county superintendent of schools in Fillmore county, Minn., 1869-75; president of the State normal school at St. Cloud, Minn., 1875-81; state superintendent of public instruction of Minnesota, 1881-93, and was elected professor of pedagogy in the University of Minnesota in 1893 and president of the department of superintendence of the National Educational association in 1894. His son, Frederick A. Kiehle, was graduated M.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1901. Professor Kiehle received the degree of LL.D. from Hamilton college in 1887.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor