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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
General History of Macon County, Missouri
- Vols. 1 & 2 -
Publ.
Chicago: Henry Taylor & Company
1910
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WILLIAM PITTS JACKSON.
Although he bears names of high
distinction in English and American
history, William Pitts Jackson,
one of the successful and progressive
farmers and stock men of Morrow township
in this county, with his residence and
interests located near the town of
College Mound, has done them no
discredit. He has not aspired to
eminence in either public or private
life, but he has met in a commendable
manner every requirement of elevated
citizenship, and has given in his career
a fine illustration of the commanding
might of enterprise, industry and
resolute determination under the
guidance of capable American manhood in
their application to the opportunities
afforded for their exercise in this land
of boundless resources.
Mr. Jackson is a native of Randolph county,
Missouri, where he was born in 1863.
His father, James Robert Jackson,
was a native of Virginia and came to
this state in 1857, taking up his
residence in Randolph county. Here
he met with and married Miss Sallie
W. Allin, a native of that county in
which her parents were early settlers
from Kentucky. William P.
is the fourth of the ten of his parents
twelve children who are now living, the
other eight being Mollie, Amanda,
Elizabeth, Sallie, Anna, Vertah, Fred
and Lucy. The parents were
prosperous and energetic farmers and
accumulated a considerable estate by
their continued and well-directed
industry and frugality. They were
also held in high esteem as worthy and
useful citizens. The mother died
on Dec. 4, 1872, and the father on
Apr. 13, 1909, he having attained the
ripe old age of eight-two years before
he passed away.
Their son William P. began his education in the
local schools near his home, continued
it in a graded school at Huntsville and
completed it at William Jewell College,
which is located at Liberty, Missouri.
After leaving college he began the work
of farming and raising live stock in
which he has passed all his subsequent
years. He has acquired by his own
efforts a fine farm of 114 acres and
built up a considerable business in
raising stock. He also has
improved his farm with good buildings
and cultivated it with great energy and
success, making every acre of it that
yields to the plow produce excellent
results for the labor bestowed upon it.
In connection with the development and advancement of
his township and county he has been very
active and serviceable. Every
worthy enterprise in which the welfare
of the people is involved commands his
close attention and has the benefit of
his intelligent and efficient aid.
Political affairs also interest him
greatly and he takes a leading part in
giving them what he considers proper
direction and control. He is a
zealous member of the Democratic party
and always gives it his earnest and
effective support. He served as
census enumerator in 1900 and has for
some years been the clerk and one of the
directors of the school board. He
is also a deacon and the clerk in the
congregation of the Baptist church to
which he belongs. In connection
with his other duties he is now looking
after the interests of his father's
estate, of which he is the
administrator. He is a very busy
man, but he has the faculty of doing his
work easily and without worry, and so
gets through with it without any waste
of effort. In 1890 he was united
in marriage with Miss Mallie Banta,
a native of Macon county. They
have had five children and have now
three living, their daughters Bernice
R., Lillian A. and Margery W.
The people of the township esteem all
the members of the family highly, and
wherever they are known they are
accounted as worthy of cordial regard
and good will, and also as useful to
their community and giving good examples
of proper living in every respect.
Source:
General History of Macon County, Missouri - Vol. II - Publ.
Chicago: Henry Taylor & Company - 1910 - Page 323 |
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