Person:William Jackson (310)

From "Portrait and Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley", page 886

As a blacksmith and a dealer in all kinds of hardware, buggies and wagons, William C. Jackson supports both commercial and industrial lines of business in Shedds, Linn county. His business probity and sterling character have made him one of the most popular men in the town and one deserving the confidence and esteem of his fellow-townsmen. Mr. Jackson was born March 6, 1862, in Whiteside county, Ill., the son of Barney K. and Malinda (Constant) Jackson, the former being born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, December 21, 1827, and the latter being a native of Illinois. When only a boy B.K. Jackson removed with his parents to Illinois, and there grew to manhood and married, following teaching and clerking until the breaking out of the Civil war, when he enlisted in Company E, Twenty-seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in which he served about sixteen months. He then returned to Illinois, where he lived until 1866, when he removed to Franklin county, Iowa, and there followed farming for twenty years. In the year 1886 he came to Linn county, Ore., locating near Brownsville, where he lived retired until his death at the age of sixty-nine years. Both himself and wife were members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. After the death of his wife, which occurred at the age of fifty-one years, Mr. Jackson married a Mrs. Wilson, who still survives him. Besides William C. Jackson of this review, there were the following children: Charles L. located in the home place; Mary, the wife of Charles Sickle, of Topeka, Kans; and Anna, wife of Charles Manas, located in Porto Rico. Her husband served as a lieutenant in the regular army during the war with Spain.

In tracing the life of William C. Jackson we find that it has been very much like that of many other early Oregon pioneers. He enjoyed a comparatively brief time of school attendance in his hime district, after which, at the age of nineteen years, he took up the blacksmith trade, in 1883 taking up his residence in California, where he earned his livelihood by the prosecution of his trade. At the close of eight successful years in this locality he changed his location to Shedds, Ore., succeeding E. Becker in a blacksmith shop of this place. Having met with a success in his work he felt financially able in 1902 to enter into a hardware business, now handling all kinds of farm implements, buggies, wagons, etc. He owns both his business and residence property here, and is enjoying a well earned prosperity.

In Califoirnia in 1885, Laura Brummett, a native of Missouri, became the wife of Mr. Jackson, and they now have three children, all of whom are at home - Gladys, Ellsworth and Mildred. in his fraternal relations Mr. Jackson has held all the chairs in the Woodmen of the World, in which he is past consul. In religion he is a member of the United Presbyterian Church, and in politics cast his vote with the Republican party.

1.   United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T9).
2.   Website: Genealogy Trails www.genealogytrails.com/.