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Michigan Jackson
B. F. Eggleston came to Jacksonburg July 7, 1836, and at once commenced working at his trade as a tailor. In 1849 he formed a copartnership with Wm. Aldrich and opened a merchant tailoring establishment. He has continued in that business to the present time. In 1854 he purchased the store in which he then was and now occupies. Mr. Eggleston has always maintained an honorable position as a business -man, and has uniformly been one of the most active of our citizens in all works of charity or benevolence, as well as in all meaures tending to forward the growth of the town.
Silas W. Stowell was another acquisition to the business men of Jackson in 1836, he at that time moving here with his family and opening a grocery store on the south side of the public square. In 1837 he was one of the firm of Stowell & Collier, in the same branch of business. In 1838 he took the contract to build the west wing of the state prison and the keepers' house. In order to be nearer his work Mr. Stowell built a store in the then entirely new part of the town, near the prison, into which he moved his stock of groceries. For the first two years after convicts were received their rations were furnished under contracts by Mr.
Stowell.
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