FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: JACKSON, Clifford Webster (published 1928)
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WEST VIRGINIA, In History, Life, Literature and Industry
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1928 - Volume IV, page 345-346

        CLIFFORD WEBSTER JACKSON, principal of the high school of
Bluefield, is an educator of mature experience and equipment, and has been
connected with West Virginia schools for twenty years. He enjoys a place of
well earned leadership among the state's school men.
        He was born in Russell County, Kansas, March 26, 1879, son of Isaac
Newton and Sarah Emmaline (Gates) Jackson. His father was born and educated
in Illinois, moved to Russell County, Kansas, for some years was in the
real estate business at Topeka, and he and his wife spent their later years
in Columbus, Ohio, where she died in 1905. He passed away in March, 1925,
both being buried in Greenlawn Cemetery of that city. They had two
children, Clifford Webster and Mayme Ida. The daughter is the wife of Carl
H. Young, a prominent attorney practicing law at Columbus, Ohio, who served
as public defender in that city until the office was abolished. Mr. and
Mrs. Young have five children, Clifford and Clay, twins, Earl, Robert and
jean Eleanor.
        Clifford Webster Jackson attended school in Kansas and at
Portsmouth, Ohio, prepared for college at Washington Court House, Ohio, and
spent four years in Ohio State University at Columbus, where he was
graduated with the A.B. degree in 1904. He took the Master of Arts degree
there in 1912 and has also done post-graduate work in Columbia University
at New York and at Harvard University. Mr. Jackson spent four years in
school work in Ohio, two and one-half years at Plain City and a year and
one-half as principal of the high school at Uhrichsville. Since coming to
West Virginia his work has been done in two localities. For nine years he
was principal of the high school at Elkins, and in September, 1917, took up
his duties as high school principal at Bluefield. He has the resources of a
fine personality, a highly trained mind, and broad experience to give to
his work, and his influence is not limited to the Bluefield High School,
which has enjoyed growth and improvement along all lines under his
principalship. He is a member of the National Education Association, the
National Association of Secondary School Principals, the West Virginia
State Principals Association and the West Virginia State Education
Association. He was president of the State High School Division in 1922-23
and in 1923-24 was a member of the State Legislative Committee. He was
president of the Southern West Virginia Round Table in 1920-21 and is a
member of the National Travel Club of America, having spent a hundred days
on a literacy tour of the British Isles in 1910, and his summers in 1925,
1926 and 1927 in Europe. During the World war he was a four minute speaker,
and for his service in promoting the success of the Liberty Loan campaigns
he received a certificate of commendation signed by President Wilson and
the Secretary of War. He also had charge of the occupational classification
work in Mercer County. Mr. Jackson is a Knights Templar Mason, member of
Beni-Kedem Temple Nobles of the Mystic Shrine at Charleston, the Bluefield
Rotary club, Bluefield Chamber of Commerce, is independent in politics, a
deacon in the First Baptist Church at Bluefield and was president of the
Men's Club of that church for three years.
        He married at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in June, 1910, Miss
Leslie Fargher Purdy, of that city. She was educated in the public schools
at Michigan City, Indiana, in Rockford College at Rockford, Illinois, and
was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin. She was a teacher at the
high school at Elkins prior to her marriage and always took a deep interest
in the Presbyterian Church, of which she was a member. She died in April
1912, and is buried at Michigan City, Indiana. Her one child, Eloise Mae,
now lives with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Purdy, at Cincinnati.
Mr. Jackson on June 27, 1917, married, at Elkins, West Virginia, Miss Velma
Belle Currence. She was reared and educated at Elkins, and graduated at
Davis-Elkins College in the class of 1914. She taught in the high school at
Elkins before her marriage and for a number of years has been one of the
instructors in the Bluefield High School. She keeps in close touch with the
church and educational and community work. Mr. and Mrs. jackson have one
son, Craig Currence Jackson, who was born at Elkins, West Virginia, March
23, 1920. Another son, Clifford Webster Jackson, Jr., died in infancy and
is buried in Maplewood Cemetery at Elkins.


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