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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: JACKSON, Hon. James O.
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
SSpradling@aol.com
September 20, 1999
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History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia and Representative
Citizens
W.S. Laidley
Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, ILL.
1911
p. 356-357
HON. JAMES O. JACKSON, who conducts a mercantile business at Clendenin, W.
Va., and is additionally interested in numerous successful enterprises of
this section, was born January 18, 1873, at Osborn's Mills, Kanawha County,
W. Va., and is a son of Almarine B. and Rosanna (Atkinson) Jackson.
Almarine B. Jackson was born in Virginia, seventy-four years ago, and during
his active period followed farming and was in the lumber business, but now
lives retired. His father was Thomas H. Jackson. To Mr. and Mrs. Jackson the
following children were born 0. J. A., of Clendenin, W. Va., J. T., of
Clendenin; Flora D., widow of W. H. Orton; Rose F., wife of John T. Campbell,
of Clendenin; Sarah Pearl, wife of William Kelly, of Roane County; J. 0.
Laura, wife of J. Hendershot, of Clendenin; and Myrtle, wife of W. Kinder, of
Roane County.
After his school days were over, James 0. Jackson engaged in farming and at
the same time taught school one term and afterward embarked in a mercantile
business in Roane and Clay Counties. In 1899 he came to Clendenin. He is
manager, secretary and treasurer of the King Hardware Company; is a director
of the Clendenin Oil & Gas Company, and is second vice president of the
Koontz Oil and Gas Com-pany. While his business interests are numerous. Mr.
Jackson handles them with ease, having much practical knowledge and a fine
sense of business.
Mr. Jackson was married to Miss Florence C. Taylor, who was horn May 11,
1876, a daughter of B. J., and Lucy J. (Woodey) Taylor The father of Mrs.
Jackson, who is deceased, was formerly a member of the state legislature from
Roane County. The mother resides with Mr. and Mrs. Jackson. The latter have
one daughter, Lucy Atkinson, who was born November i8, 1899. The family
belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church, South, in which Mr. Jackson is
secretary and recorder. In politics he is a Democrat and in 1909 he served as
mayor of Clendenin.
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