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A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
Henry Jackson is born in the state of Virginia. He moved to St. Paul in 1842 and rented a place from Pierre "Pig's Eye" Parrant. A trader and merchant, he served as the city's first postmaster and its first justice of the peace.
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