Webster County, West Virginia    Biography of GEORGE W. JACKSON

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., 
Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 88-89

GEORGE W. JACKSON is giving most effective service as
clerk of the Circuit Court for Webster County, and is one
of the popular citizens of Webster Springs, the county
seat. He was born in Greenbrier County, West Virginia,
October 18, 1883, and is a son of William A. and Nannie
B. (Brant) Jackson, both likewise natives of that county,
where the former was born in 1861 and the latter in 1862,
each having been reared on a farm and each having re-
ceived the advantages of the local schools of the period.
They still reside on the farm upon which they established
their home at the time of their marriage and which is the
stage of successful agricultural and live-stock industry,
William A. Jackson being the owner of a valuable landed
estate of 320 acres and having become one of the repre-
sentative agriculturists and leading stock-growers of his
native county. His political allegiance is given to the dem-
ocratic party, and both he and his wife are members of the
Baptist Church. Of the seven children all are living except
one: Henry C. is a graduate of the Dunsmore Business
College at Lewisburg, judicial center of Greenbrier County;
Naomi is the wife of W. P. Via; George W., of this sketch,
was the next in order of birth; Gordon is a successful
farmer in his native county; and Jennie and Clowny remain
at the parental home.

In the public schools of Greenbrier County George W.
Jackson continued his studies until his graduation from the
high school at Lewisburg, and thereafter he graduated also
from the Dunsmore Business College, besides which he took
a course in the Moore School of Telegraphy in the City of
Cincinnati, Ohio. Thereafter he served as telegraph opera-
tor and relief agent in the employ of the Chesapeake &
Ohio Railroad Company. He was for nine years with Mc-
Graw on the narrow-gauge line, was a station agent eight
years, and for one year was treasurer of the narrow-gauge
railroad. He was appointed postmaster of Webster Springs
under the administration of President Wilson, and after
retaining this office five years and four months and giving
a most satisfactory administration he was, in the autumn of
1920, elected Circuit Court clerk for Webster County, the
duties of which office he assumed January 1, 1921. He is
the owner of one-half interest in the Webster Echo, a dem-
ocratic weekly paper published at Webster Springs, and
is a stockholder in the People's Store, a leading mercan-
tile concern of this village. Mr. Jackson has wielded much
influence in connection with the councils and campaign
work of the Webster County contingent of the democratic
party. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, South, of which he is a steward, and he is a
past master of Addison Lodge No. 116, Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons.

On the 4th of July, 1906, was solemnized the marriage of
Mr. Jackson and Miss Virgie Cool, and they have two
daughters: Helen, born December 22, 1916, and Jean, born
November 10, 1920.