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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: JACKSON, John Thomas
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Sandy Spradling
SSpradling@AOL.com
September 26, 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. 424
JOHN THOMAS JACKSON, a member of one of the well known families of Kanawha
County, is a representative business man of Clendenin, W. Va. He was born at
Osborne's Mills, October 12, 1867, and is ason of Al-marine and Rosanna
(Atkinson) Jackson, and a grandson of Thomas H. Jackson, the father now
living retired at the age of seventy-four years.
After his school days ended, John Thomas Jackson, then eighteen years old,
started to teach school, and taught for thirteen terms in Roane and Kanawha
Counties, where he was also engaged in farming for five years. In 1903 he
came to Clendenin, where he conducted a grocery store for three years, when
he lost his stock by fire. Since 1907 he has been associated with his
brother in the feed business and is also considerably interested in oil and
gas in this vicinity. He is one of the solid and representative men of the
town, taking a good citizen's interest in everything but desiring no
po-litical office. He is a Democrat.
Mr. Jackson was married to Miss Effie B. Young, who was born in 1879, a
daughter of James'A. and Josephine (Swan) Young, and they have two children:
Glenn and Clair, aged respectively eight and six years. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson
are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
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