MAURY COUNTY, TN - BIOGRAPHIES - W.P. Jackson
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TENNESSEE The Volunteer State 1769-1923
The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1923
Volume II, page 463-464

W.P. JACKSON - Prominent in the real estate circles of Columbia is W. P.
Jackson, who was born in Marshall county, on the 18th of January, 1890, a
son of John W. and Ida (Hayes) Jackson. His father was one of the pioneer
settlers of Marshall county and his mother has the distinction of being the
first woman in that county to be appointed county superintendent of
schools. Extended mention of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson may be found on another
page of this work.
W.P. Jackson was taken by his parents to Maury county in 1891, when they
took up residence in Columbia. He attended the public schools of this city
and spent the year 1906 as a pupil in the Columbia Military Academy. From
1907 until 1910 he was in the employ of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad
as telegraph operator and during that time continued his education,
attending the Maury County high school. He was graduated in 1910 and then
took a postgraduate course in the same institution. In 1912 he was promoted
to the position of manager of the Postal Telegraph Company, where he was
serving when he put all personal interests aside and enlisted in the United
States army for service in the World war. He was promoted to the rank of
sergeant, First Class Signal Corps, and in December, 1917, he took the
examination for master signal electrician and passed successfully, leading
his class. there were two hundred and seventy-four applicants for the
position and out of this number but two hundred and seventy-four applicants
for the position and out this number but two passed the examination. In
September, 1918, he was sent to the Officers' Training Camp at Camp Meade,
Maryland, but before his training was concluded the armistice was signed,
closing hostilities. He is now an officer in the reserve corps. After his
honorable discharge from the army Mr. Jackson went to Gulfport Military
Academy. Subsequently he severed his connections with the telegraph company
and the academy and returned to Tennessee. He has since resided in
Columbia, where he is prominently identified with the real estate business.
He is thoroughly familiar with land values throughout the county and has
won an enviable reputation as a most reliable real estate man. He is
enjoying an extensive and ever-increasing patronage.
Politically Mr. Jackson is a stanch supporter of the republican party and
the principles for which it stands. Although he has never sought nor
desired public preferment he is active in party affairs and is now chairman
of the Maury county republican primary board. His religious faith is that
of the Christian church and fraternally he is identified with the Masons
and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks.