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Augustus Jackson (April 16, 1808 – January 11, 1852) [1] was an African American businessperson, chef, ice cream maker, and confectioner from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [2] He is credited as inventing a modern method of manufacturing ice cream and for new flavor development. [ 3 ]
Historian Lorman Ratner described Jackson as a boy without a father, and a man without sons, which may have motivated him to accept guardianship of dozens of young people who lived with him at various times or whom he assisted legally, financially, or socially. [10] Jackson's motives in adopting Theodore, Charley, and Lyncoya were likely complex.
This is a list of people for whom Andrew Jackson, seventh U.S. president, acted as pater familias or served as a guardian, legal or otherwise. As Tennessee history writer Stanley Horn put it in 1938, "Jackson's friends had a habit of dying, and leaving their orphans to his care."
Rebbie Jackson, born in 1950, is the eldest child of the Jackson family. She didn't join show business until the 1970s, when she began to join her already-famous brothers on stage. Rebbie then ...
The musical family — comprised of nine siblings — first came to prominence in the '60s. With news of Tito Jackson's death in Sept. 2024, look back at their memorable photos
Mariah Reddick was enslaved by McGavock and continued to work for his family after the Civil War. [211] James McGill (1744–1813), Scottish businessman and founder of Montreal's McGill University, was a slave owner. [212] Henry Middleton (1717–1784), 2nd President of the Continental Congress, he enslaved about 800 people in South Carolina. [213]
Known for already having famous family members thanks to being part of the Jackson family, the icon is the younger sister of Rebbie, 74, Jackie, 73, Tito, 70, Jermaine, 69, La Toya, 68, Marlon, 67 ...
Andrew Jackson Jr. Andrew Jackson Jr. (December 4, 1808 – April 17, 1865) was the son of seventh U.S. president Andrew Jackson.Andrew Jackson Jr., a biological child of Rachel Jackson's brother Severn Donelson and Elizabeth Rucker, was the one child among their more than three dozen wards that they considered to be their own child.