Bio of Jackson, William S. (b.1832) Wabasha Co., MN
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Jackson, William S., (deceased), one of the pioneer business men of
Wabasha, was born near Brownville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, June 13,
1832, and when he was thirteen years of age removed with his father's
family to Millington, Illinois, and spent the next five years of his life
upon the farm there, assuming charge of the same at fifteen years of age.
At about eighteen years of age he commenced clerking in Millington, and
followed that business some four or five years, several of his winters
while on the farm and in the store having been spent at a school near
Richmond, Indiana. He completed his education, so far as attending school
was concerned, by a course at Jones' Business College, St. Louis, which he
finished in the spring of 1856. The same season he came to Minnesota; was
for a few months in Red Wing; then located, late in the fall, in this
city, which was his home until his decease, February 8, 1882. He
immediately entered the mercantile house of Campbell, Gambice & Pendletons
as clerk, and continued with them until the house went down in the
financial crash of 1857, when he was appointed one of the assignees of the
suspended firm, and in that capacity settled up the business. The
following year, 1858, he entered into partnership with S. S. Kepler, in
general merchandise business, and was associated with that gentleman until
he removed to Eau Claire in 1876. During the twenty- six years of Mr.
Jackson's residence, he acquired a considerable estate in city property
and farming lands. He was one of the organizers of the Congregational
church of this city-a warm supporter of all church institutions, and the
efficient clerk of the church from the date of its organization to the
time of this death. He was a man of warm, generous impulses, greatly
beloved in the community, by whom, as well as by the church, his loss was
deeply felt. He left one child, Fred. Jackson, born in this city August
16, 1861. Young Jackson entered the preparatory department of Carleton
College, Northfield, Minnesota, in 1877; the classical course in 1879, and
would hve graduated in the class of 1883, B. S. had not his studies been
intermitted by ill health. Mr. Jackson is now completing his course there
under special arrangement with the faculty of that institute.