Logan County, West Virginia Biography of NAAMAN JACKSON This biography was submitted by Valerie Crook, E-mail address: ********************************************** ***The submitter does not have a connection*** ********to the subject of this sketch.******** ********************************************** This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. 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 WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II, pg. 578-579 Logan NAAMAN JACKSON, president of the First National Bank of Logan, which he helped organize, is a lawyer by profes- sion and also made a very successful record as an educator. He is a citizen of well balanced character and ambitions, and has found his best satisfactions in work somehow asso- ciated with the welfare and vital interests of his fellow men rather than in money seeking. Mr. Jackson was born at Trace in Boyd County, Ken- tucky, November 13, 1873. His grandfather, Richard Jack- son, was a native of Russell County, Virginia, and was an early settler in Lawrence County, Kentucky. Richard Clay- ton Jackson, father of the Logan banker, was born in Law- rence County, Kentucky, grew up in Boyd County, in 1900 moved to Greenup County, and is now living at the Town of Greenup. He is sixty-nine years of age. He married Anne Elizabeth Campbell, who died in 1915. She was a daughter of Nimrod Campbell, formerly of Metz, Marion County, West Virginia. Richard C. Jackson is a member of the Methodist Church and a republican. Naaman Jackson is the oldest in a family of four chil- dren. His brother John W. was formerly a teacher and is now a resident of Barboursville, West Virginia. Lora Deane has devoted most of her active life to teaching, stud- ied in the Universities of Kentucky and West Virginia, and is now a teacher in the Lincoln High School at Charleston, West Virginia. Inez Ota, who also had some experience as a teacher, is the widow of Charles A. Vinson and lives at Greenup, Kentucky, with her father. Naaman Jackson acquired his early education in Law- rence and Boyd counties, Kentucky, and set the example for the younger children in the teaching profession. After teaching five terms of school he entered, in 1896, the Na- tional Normal University of Lebanon, Ohio, taught after he left that school, and during 1900-01 completed his legal education in the Huntington Law School at Huntington, Tennessee. After coming to West Virginia he taught in different rural districts, and also taught a private normal school of his own at Effie in Wayne County, where he had many pupils as old or older than himself. He was princi- pal of the Oak Hill School in Fayette County and of the school at Mount Hope. Mr. Jackson has been admitted to the bar in Greenup and Carter counties, Kentucky, and in Logan, Cabell, and Fayette counties, West Virginia. He began practice in 1903 at Aracoma, the little community which subsequently was renamed Logan and is the county seat of Logan County. Mr. Jackson retains a strong liking for the practice of law, though after helping organize the First National Bank of Logan in 1906 he accepted the post of cashier, and has been continuously in the service of that institution. In February, 1921, he was elected its president. In 1906, the same year that he became a banker, he mar- ried Julia Yantus Dingess, of Chapmanville, West Virginia, daughter of Allen Dingess. Mrs. Jackson is a member of the Baptist Church. Fraternally Mr. Jackson is affiliated with Aracoma Lodge No. 99, A. F. and A. M., which he served as master two years, is a member of Logan Chapter, R. A. M., Huntington Commandery, K. T., and Beni-Kedem Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Charleston. He is a re- publican in politics.