Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Jackson, William 1852 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

    WILLIAM JACKSON, one of the early pioneers of Santa Monica, was born in
Yorkshire, England, September 27th, 1852. He was a son of Richard Jackson, a
tailor by trade and occupation. He came to America in the year 1855 and located
about forty miles northeast of Toronto, Canada, in the town of Peel. Later the
family went to Detroit, Michigan, where the father died leaving, the widow and
two sons of whom William was the youngest. They soon thereafter went to Oil
City, Penna., where Mrs. Jackson married John A. Donald, a Scotchman who in
1875, with the family came to Santa Monica. At the auction sale of lots in the
then new townsite, young Jackson purchased Lot S., Block 194, now No. 134 North
Fifth Street (old number) and still owns the same. He also owns five acres of
the Old Lucas Tract on Front, now Fremont Street, opposite Twelfth, which is his
present home, one of the most sightly and pleasant family homes in the city.

    John A. Donald became a well known and useful citizen of Santa Monica. From
1877 to 1883 he was the efficient local agent for the Jones & Baker interests.
He died in 1886, highly respected and lamented by a wide circle of friends and
business acquaintances. Mrs. Donald survived until 1899.

    Mr. Jackson married in Santa Monica in 1891, Miss Amy, a daughter of R. D.
Saunders, now of the Los Angeles Times editorial staff, and they have one
daughter, Dorothy S., an efficient teacher in the Santa Monica public schools
and two sons Lawrence R. and Leland W. Mr. Jackson took an active part in local
affairs of the new town of Santa Monica. He may be regarded as one of the
founders of the first fire department of the town, since he and the late Robert
Eckert agitated the subject for nearly two years and finally induced the city
trustees to provide a hose cart and a hook and ladder truck. The first fire
company was duly organized with twenty-two volunteers who served without pay.
Mr. Jackson is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.


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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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