When Margaret Angeline Jackson was born on 22 December 1848, in Forest Grove, Washington, Oregon, United States, her father, John Henderson Jackson, was 27 and her mother, Sarah Sutton Parker, was 26. She married John Dorland in 1866, in Oregon City, Clackamas, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Oregon, United States in 1870 and Washington, Oregon, United States for about 30 years. She died in 1927, in Oregon City, Clackamas, Oregon, United States, at the age of 79.