J. H. JACCO, proprietor of billiard saloon, Patch Grove; was born in Missouri Jan. 16, 1827; emigrated to De Kalb Co., Ill., in 1832; then to Wisconsin in the spring of 1837; settled at Cassville; was in Capt. Knowlton's company in the Mexican war; owns town property. His wife, Amanda J. Parrish, was born in Kentucky March 16, 1827; came to Wisconsin in 1828; married in 1858; they have had two children - Ned, born Feb. 2, 1859, now of the firm of Jacco & Brown, Bloomington; William P., Jan. 19, 1865. In politics, Democrat; liberal in religion. Has been School Treasurer.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.