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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)

OSCAR E. JACKSON.

    Oscar E. Jackson, attorney at law and grand secretary of the grand lodge of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is widely known as one of the
representative residents of Denver and is numbered among the citizens that Ohio
has furnished to this state. His birth occurred at New Petersburg, Ohio,
November 9, 1857, his parents being John and Elizabeth (Spence) Jackson, the
former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Ohio. The father belonged to
one of the old families of the Keystone state of Scotch-Irish descent, the
original American ancestor settling at Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He was a farmer
by occupation and in boyhood removed to Ohio, where he resided until 1871. He
was married in that state to Elizabeth Spence, who belonged to one of the
pioneer Ohio families established in the state in 1809. Her ancestors originally
lived in Virginia and were of Scotch-Irish descent. Her father was Robert Spence
and he was a son of the progenitor of the American branch of the family. John
Jackson continued a resident of Ohio until 1871, when with his wife and the five
children who had been born to them in that state, he removed to Boulder county,
Colorado, where he again gave his attention to general agricultural pursuits, in
which he engaged throughout the remainder of his life. He died in Denver in 1893
at the age of seventy years. His wife, however, passed away in 1871, when but
thirty-eight years of age. In the family were five children.

    Oscar E. Jackson, the third in order of birth and the only son, began his
education in one of the little country schoolhouses of Ohio and afterward
continued his studies in the town school at Valmont, Colorado, and in the high
school at Boulder, from which he was graduated with the class of 1S77. In the
fall of that year he entered the University of Colorado and completed his course
there with the first class that was graduated from the university, the date
being June 8, 1882, at which time he won the Bachelor of Arts degree. His early
life had been spent upon the home farm with the usual experiences of the
farmbred boy and during his college days he devoted his vacation periods to work
in stores and in the postoffice and also with surveying parties, thus providing
the means for his college education. Subsequent to his graduation he taught
school and became the first principal of the Centennial high school of Pueblo,
acting in that capacity for two years. He later devoted a year to study in the
Columbia Law School and in the fall of 1885 removed to Denver and in June, 1886,
was admitted to the bar. Through the intervening years, covering almost a third
of a century, he has continued in active practice, specializing in probate,
abstracts and office work. He belongs to the Denver City & County Bar
Association and he has many friends among his colleagues in the profession.

    On the 5th of March, 1889, Mr. Jackson was married in Longmont, Colorado, to
Miss Evalyn Cole, a native of Illinois and a daughter of Samuel and Lurancy
Cole, both of whom have now passed away. The father was a representative of an
old pioneer family of Illinois, originally from Lawrence county, New York. Mr.
and Mrs. Jackson have hecome parents of two sons, Lawrence O., born March 26,
1890, and John D., born March 7, 1892, both natives of Denver. The family home
is at No. 2347 King street.

    Mr. Jackson turns to fishing and camping for diversion, rest and recreation
and is a student and lover of nature. Fraternally he is connected with Highlands
Lodge, No. 86, A. F. & A. M., of which he is a past master. He was made a Mason
in that lodge in 1903 and has since attained the thirty-second degree in the
Scottish Rite. He is also very prominent in the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, having joined Union Lodge, No. 1, in 1887, and since that time he has
taken a most active and helpful part in its work, filling many offices, and at
present is grand secretary of the grand lodge. He was also at one time president
of the Philosophical Society, of which he has been a member for more than twenty
years, and for thirty years he has held membership in Unity church—associations
which indicate much of the nature of his interests and the rules which govern
his conduct. He has always been a man of studious habits, carrying his
investigations far and wide into many realms and continually adding to his rich
mental stores.


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HISTORY OF COLORADO

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THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918


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