Jackson Administrations - Early Life
Early Life
Andrew Jackson was the only member of his immediate family to be born in the United States. In 1765 his father, also named Andrew, and mother, Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, had come to America from the northeastern coast of Ireland with two sons, Hugh and Robert. The family immigrated to the Waxhaw settlement in South Carolina, where Elizabeth's sisters lived. The elder Andrew tried with difficulty to cultivate the red clay soil of South Carolina, but he had little success and died suddenly in 1767. A few days after his burial, on March 15, Elizabeth Jackson gave birth to her third son, whom she named Andrew after his dead father.
For the first 10 or 12 years of his life, Andrew was raised in the home of his aunt and uncle. His mother, a devout Presbyterian, always hoped Andrew would some day become a minister, but from the start Andrew gave few indications that he was destined for the clergy. As a boy he was wild...
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