Biography of D. W. Jackson

	This biography is from "Memorial and biographical record; an illustrated
 	compendium of biography, containing a compendium of local biography,
	including biographical sketches of prominent old settlers and 
	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & 
	Co., Chicago, 1898. Page 256.

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HON. D. W. JACKSON, state senator and one of the prominent men of 
Carthage, Miner county, South Dakota, who is also engaged in the coal, 
grain and feed business at that place, was born in DeKalb county, 
Illinois, May 22, 1855, a son of Sylvester and Almira Ann (Austin) 
Jackson, both natives of Cattaraugus county, New York. They moved to 
DeKalb county, Illinois, about 1854, and from thence to Redstone 
township, Miner county, South Dakota, in about 1884. The father was 
reared on a farm and always followed that calling. He enlisted during 
the Civil war, but was rejected upon examination, as he was not an 
able-bodied man. They were the parents of four children: The first died 
in infancy; our subject; Fred; and Frank.

	The subject of this sketch received his education in the public 
schools of Illinois, and at the age of twenty years began the battle of 
life for himself as a farmer. In 1879 he was married to Miss Hattie L. 
Kendrick, also a native of Illinois, and a daughter of John and Polly 
(Johnson) Kendrick, both deceased.' Mrs. Jackson was born august 21, 
1856. After their marriage our subject and his bride made their home in 
Illinois until the fall of 1882, and then moved to Miner county, South 
Dakota, and located a claim in Redstone township, and moved into their 
new home in the spring of 1883. In the fall of 1892 Mr. Jackson moved 
to the village of Carthage and there entered into partnership with Hon. 
J. H. Patton and opened a coal, grain and feed business, and has since 
been engaged in that business. His homestead, which he still owns, is 
well improved, and one hundred and thirty-five acres is under 
cultivation. He is a member of the M. W. A. of Carthage, and was worthy 
counsel during the first year. Politically Mr. Jackson was always an 
advocate of the principles of the Republican party, but since the 
organization of the free-silver movement he has been an earnest 
exponent of the same. He has served as a member of the township board 
of supervisors of Redstone township, and has served several years as 
school treasurer of that township, and is the present treasurer of the 
Carthage independent school district. He was elected to the state 
senate in the fall of 1896 and in that capacity has served as chairman 
of the committee on charitable and penal institutions, and also served 
as a member of the following committees: Temperance committee, 
committee on apportionments, schools and public lands, corporations, 
and legislature expenses.

	Mr. and Mrs. Jackson are parents of three children: Pearl, Mattie 
and Daisy. Mrs. Jackson is a member of the Free Methodist church, and 
her husband,' although not a member, takes an active part in the work 
of the church, and especially in the Sunday-school, and is the present 
superintendent of the Congregational Sunday-school at Carthage. The 
publishers take pleasure in presenting a portrait of Mr. Jackson on 
another page of this volume.