Bio of JACKSON, Anson Blake, Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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ANSON BLAKE JACKSON  -  Vol III, pg 125-126
Anson Blake Jackson has been a factor of importance in the legal history of this
city and state since he came here from New York city in 1880. He organized,
successively, the law firms of Jackson & Pond, with Charles M. Pond, who was
after­ward for many years a judge of our district court; Jackson & Atwater, with
the late John B. Atwater, whose attainments as a lawyer of high standing
received general recognition; and Jackson & Lancaster, with Judge William A.
Lancaster, who has become one of the best known members of the state bar. In
recent years Mr. Jackson has carried on his practice alone.
Throughout his long residence here Mr. Jackson has taken a prominent part in
many important litigations, some of which have involved large public interests
in this and neighboring states, and he has enjoyed a wide practice as counsel
for many business corporations, individuals and estates. Few lawyers have taken
a more sincere and helpful interest in the younger members of the profession. He
has been a lecturer on "Conflict of Laws" to the senior class at the State
University Law School and at the Minnesota College of Law.
Mr. Jackson graduated from Hobart College, Geneva, New York, in 1870, and, after
spending some months as a law student in the office of Senator Roscoe Conkling,
a friend of his father, at Utica, New York, he attended the Columbia Law School
in New York city, graduating in 1873.
Mr. Jackson is a member of the college societies of Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta
Kappa, a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, and is a republican in
politics.
Mr. Jackson comes of a line of sturdy New England ancestry with an admixture of
good English blood through his maternal grandmother.
In 1881 he married Miss Eugenie Cheney Adams, daughter of the late Dr. Ripley E.
W. Adams of Springfield, Illinois, who was for many years the family physician
and a warm personal friend of President Lincoln.
Two children of this marriage are now living: Anson Blake Jackson, Jr., who
graduated from Yale in 1907 and is vice president and general manager of the
Bovey, Shute & Jackson Lumber Company, with his headquarters at Devils Lake,
North Dakota; and Margaret E. Jackson, wife of John A. Bovey, Esq., of this
city. Through these children Mr. and Mrs. Jackson have six grandchildren, four
boys and two girls.