Biography extracted from History of Sauk County, Wisconsin Chicago: Western Historical Company, published 1880.

Ironton:

John Jessop, farmer, Sec. 3; P.O. Ironton; son of John and Mary (Saville) Jessop; was born in Brairley, Yorkshire, England, the last Tuesday in July, 1820; came to America, arriving in New York, May 2, 1849, and in Sauk Co. May 17, same year; settled on Sec. 3, Town 12 north, Rabge 3 east, now Ironton; helped to organize the town of Marston, of which the present town of Ironton then formed a part. Mr. Jessop was married Oct. 22, 1862, in Ironton, to Mrs. Betsey Markham, daughter of Amos and Mary (Greenwood) Grunshaw; Mrs. Jessop was born in Lancashire, England; came to the United States in 1827. Was married February, 1838, at Fall River, Mass., to James Markham; they had six children- Mary, deceased; Sarah, now Mrs. R. R. Gatley; John, married to Elizabeth All, and living in Dakota; in 1855, Mr. Markham went to Chicago on business, and has never been heard from since by his family; Mrs. Markham took care of her children, and saved a few hundred dollars, with which she came to Wisconsin in 1862. Mr. John Jessop was one of the very earliest settlers in Ironton; a couple of hunters were his only neighbors within the limits of the present town of Ironton the first year of his residence here; he has 140 acres of land; they have two adopted children- John J. Cludeary and Ella Atkinson.

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