Person:John Jackson (404)

Rockaway records state that both he and his father were doctors.

1870 Censu Rockaway, Morris Co., New Jersey Jackson, John W. 51 M W Physician NJ Jackson, Fannie 33 F W blank NJ Jackson, Agnes D. 73 F W blank NJ Chandler, Clara 22 F W blank NJ Williams, Ellen 15 F W .....servant NJ Cumonings, James 67 M W laborer Ireland

1880 Census finds John Walter and his wife Sarah living in Rockaway, Morris, NJ and his mother, Agnes along with an Irish servant girl and a gardener are living with them.

Obituary contributed by Dr. Anthorny Troha: from "The Iron Era", Friday, May 8, 1896 (Volume XXVI, Number 24, Page 3, Column 3)

"DR. JACKSON DEAD. For Fifty Years a Practitioner in Morris County.

Dr. John Walter Jackson, one of the best known and most highly esteemed physicians of Morris County, died on Sunday evening at his home in Rockaway. Dr. Jackson was born in the house in which he died, on June 3, 1820. He was the son of Dr. John Darbee Jackson, for many years the sole practitioner in Rockaway. His mother was Agnes Doughty, daughter of General Solomon Doughty. Dr. Jackson began the study of medicine in his father's office, and was graduated from Jefferson Medical College, in Philadelphia, in 1865. He began the practice of medicine in Berkshire Valley, Morris County, from where he went later to Somerville, in Somerset County. Subsequently, when his father's health began to fail, he returned to Rockaway, succeeding to his father's practice on the latter's death in 1859.

Dr. Jackson was twice married. His first wife, whom he wedded on June 23, 1861, was Miss Frances McCarthy, daughter of John McCarthy, of Rockaway. She died on June 28, 1872, and on October 1, 1879, he married Mrs. Sarah Reed, who survives him.

In June of last year, Dr. Jackson celebrated his 75th birthday and the 50th anniversary of his practice, on which occasion he entertained a small circle of relatives and intimate friends.

Dr. Jackson took to his bed on Friday of last week, after suffering from a severe cold for a week or more. The immediate cause of his death was heart failure.

Three sisters, Mrs. A. Robertson, of Morristown; Mrs. A. B, Gardner [sic: Gardiner], of Providence, R. I., and Mrs. C. A. McCarthy, of this place, and one brother, Edward E. Jackson, of Blackwell street, survive him.

While Dr. Jackson was of a retiring, unassuming disposition, he held a number of public offices, and in every instance it may be truly said that the "office sought the man." He was for a number of years a member of the Morris County Board of Freeholders, and for several terms Director of that body. He was a member of the Board of Commissioners of the Morris Plains Asylum [later called "Greystone Park State Psychiatric Hospital"], in which institution he took a deep interest. Other offices hold by him were County Collector, school trustee, and, for one term, engrossing clerk of the State Senate. His practice was very extensive and he had a wide circle of friends who esteemed him as one of nature's noblemen. Dr. Jackson was one of the organizers of the Union Bank of Dover, and a director from the date of its organization. His is the third death in the board within the past year, the two other directors being John H. Pierson, of Dover, and Josiah Meeker, of Succasunna.

The funeral was held on Wednesday afternoon, at 2:30 o'clock, at Dr. Jackson's late home. The Rev. T. A. Reeves officiated, assisted by the Rev. C. C. Clark.

The pallbearers were George W, Stickle, Dr. F. E. Flagg, Dr. G. E. Foster, H. D. Tuttle, Henry J. Misel and Frederick H. Beach."

1. ↑ Doty, Ethan Allen. The Doty-Doten Family in America: Descendants of Edward Doty, an Emigrant by the Mayflower, 1620. (Brooklyn, New York: E.A. Doty, 1897)
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2. ↑ Crayon, J. Percy. Rockaway records of Morris County, N.J., families: cemetery records, church history, military records, local history, genealogies of old families, nearly 20,000 data. (Rockaway, N.J.: Rockaway Pub. Co., 1902).
3. ↑ Find A Grave
   Memorial# 29098875.
4.   Crayon, J. Percy. Rockaway records of Morris County, N.J., families: cemetery records, church history, military records, local history, genealogies of old families, nearly 20,000 data. (Rockaway, N.J.: Rockaway Pub. Co., 1902).
5.   Robbins, Oscar Burton. History of the Jackson family of Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., Ohio and Indiana: descendants of Robert and Agnes Washburn Jackson. (Loveland, Colo.: Robbins, 1951)
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6.   Biographical and genealogical history of Morris County, New Jersey. (New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1899).
7.   Research of Anthony L. Troha, Ph.D..