Cyrus L. Jackson Biography This biography appears on pages 575-576 in "History of Dakota Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was scanned, OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, mkrueger@iw.net. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the SDGENWEB Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://usgwarchives.org/sd/sdfiles.htm CYRUS L. JACKSON. Cyrus L. Jackson, editor and manager of the Tribune, published at Ipswich, South Dakota, has been a permanent resident of Edmunds county since December, l 908, and in the intervening period has made for himself a creditable place in business circles. He was born on a farm in the little settlement of Jacksonville, in Adrian township, Monroe county, Wisconsin, on the 9th of September, 1862, and continued to live on the old home place with his parents until he reached the age of sixteen years, when his father, Judge Nil. W. Jackson. retired from active farm life and with his family took up his residence in Tomah, about four miles east of his old home. Cyrus L. Jackson had previously been a pupil in the district schools and after attending high school in Tomah for two years he entered the office of the Badger State Monitor, a newspaper published at Tomah by his former high school professor, Jay R. Hinckley, with whom he served his apprenticeship and secured his first lessons in newspaper work. At the age of twenty years he forsook the printing trade and for about ten years devoted his attention to railroading. He held some excellent positions with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company, first as a clerk in his home town and then for two years as cashier at Red Wing, Minnesota. Later he became agent for the St. Paul Duluth Railway Company at White Bear Lake, Minnesota, and in 1889 he accepted the important position of cashier for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company at Sioux City, Iowa, which position he continued to hold until 1891, when he resigned in order to enter the real-estate and insurance business in Sioux City. lee devoted his energies toward work of that character until 1897, when he was chosen by popular vote to the office of city clerk of Sioux City, and later served as chief deputy in the office of the county sheriff. Mr. Jackson came to Edmunds county, South Dakota, as a permanent resident in December, 1908, and entered the service of J. W. Parmley, the pioneer newspaper man, abstracter, real-estate dealer and publicist. He was made manager of the South Dakota Tribune, a newspaper which had been founded by ax-Postmaster Arthur B. Chubbuck in May, 1883. After a period of two years Mr. Jackson, in company with his wife, purchased from Mr. Parmley that newspaper, together with its goodwill, and after rechristening it the Ipswich Tribune, proceeded together to sustain its long record of usefulness. The Tribune is republican ill politics and fearless in its expressions and is recognized as one of the best edited weekly newspapers in the state. It was in Sioux City, Iowa, that Mr. Jackson was united in marriage to Miss Betina P. Day, a daughter of John C. and Mary L. (Jenkins) Day, and they have become the parents of one son, Donald Lester, now five yeas of age.