PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO
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File contributed to the Ohio Biographies Project by:
Betty Ralph
bralph@HiWAAY.net
November 13, 2000
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Copyright Betty Ralph bralph@HiWAAY.net November 2000


EDWIN CACKLER, farmer, P.O. Kent, was born in Franklin Township, Portage
Co., Ohio, April 10, 1824, and is a son of Christian and Theresa (Nighman)
Cackler.  His paternal grandfather, a native of Pennsylvania, settled in
Hudson, Ohio, in 1804, and his maternal grandfather, Adam Nighman, a native
of Maryland, settled in Franklin Township, this county in 1809.  Our subject
was reared in Franklin Township, where he received a limited education in
the common schools.  He was married February 11, 1847, to Mary J., daughter
of Oliver and Mary (Jerrils) Crosby, of Shalersville, who settled there
about 1825, and were from New York.  Her maternal grandfather was John
Jerrils, a soldier of the Revolutionary war.  Mr. Cackler and wife are
members of the Disciples Church of Kent.  In politics he is a Democrat.