F. E. Jackson Biography


	This biography appears on pages 443 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				F. E. JACKSON. 

	F. E. Jackson is the well known and efficient president of the 
Turner County Bank at Hurley and is a business man of laudable ambition 
and enterprise. He was born in Davis City, Iowa, on the 21st of 
February, 1876, and is a son of Thomas C. and Ella Jackson. The father 
died when his son, F. E. Jackson, was fourteen years of age. The latter 
was educated in the public schools of Leon, Iowa, and in Simpson 
College at Indianola, Iowa. After completing his high-school course he 
accepted a position in a bank at Corning, Iowa, and was also secretary 
for the Brookmont Farm, at Odebolt, Iowa, then the largest in the 
state, comprising seven thousand three hundred and sixty acres. 

	Mr. Jackson was connected therewith for two years and then 
removed to Hurley where, in association with W. H. Robertson, he 
engaged in the conduct of the Turner County Bank. Mr. Robertson later 
sold his interest to Mr. Jackson, who remains at the head of the 
institution and has made it one of the strong and growing financial 
concerns of the county. The capital has been increased from ten to 
twenty-five thousand dollars and for the past eight years Mr. Jackson 
has been the president of the institution, carefully guiding its 
affairs so that its business and patronage has steadily increased. He 
is also interested in pure bred stock and owns an excellent stock farm 
at the edge of Hurley, on which he is engaged extensively in the 
breeding and raising of Shorthorn cattle, Poland China hogs and 
Shetland ponies. His stock farm has made him widely known and he is one 
of the foremost stockmen of his part of the state. He has been 
president of the local commercial club and is a man of progressive 
public spirit who finds in opportunity the incentive for active work 
for the benefit and upbuilding of his town and county.