[1] Andrew Jackson was born to Olaf Jakobson and Petronella Olofsdotter in the parish of Valla on the island of Tjörn in the province of Bohuslän, Sweden.
He joined the immigrant Swedes and became a schoolmaster in the area for the fall and winter term of 1858–1859 until he moved to Minnesota in the summer of 1859, where he met Rev.
Additionally he served interim terms as president of the Minnesota Conference of the Lutheran Augustana Synod of America, the starting in 1862 and ending in 1880.
Following this role, he spent the final years of his life as the pastor of Rush Lake Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chisago County, Minnesota.
[6] Jackson and his first wife, Kristina Swenson of Becksville Meeker County, had three children: Hanna, Esther, and Joseph Ausgarius.