Notes for: William M JACKSON

William was an oil producer, lawyer, judge, and mayor. Sometime after 1881, Jackson Brothers owned a hardware store until 1888 in Sumner Co., Kansas (according to the "Milan Story Book" by Bud Leslie Yates, Sumner Co., Kansas)
In 1893 the newspaper reported he had a large closing-out ad for his grocery business (page 70). Jackson and Hutchinson were building a coal house in 1883 (p.113). A fire on Sunday night, Nov. 18, 1894 burned out the business buildings occupied by B. F. Zook, a bank, W. M. Jackson, and the Post Office. The losses included: W. M. Jackson - on stock and fixtures, $1,000; notes, accounts, ect. from $600-700; insurance expired in October and he had failed to renew (p.141). He then served as Register of Deeds for Sumner Co., Kansas from about 1895-1902.

Although William was born in Indiana, in his early youth he moved with his parents to Iowa, and later to Kansas where he grew to manhood. While in Kansas , he was schooled in law. There he married and had one child. They lived in Wellington, Sumner Co., Kansas until 1902 when they moved to Okmulgee, Oklahoma. He was in banking there, then owner of an abstract company. William was Mayor of Okmulgee 1904 - 1905 and Police Judge for the city for some years. He spent his adult life in a wheelchair. He was a successful man and well liked by the townspeople. An article about his mother's funeral, says he was accompanied by Miss Let Cannon of Wellington, to the funeral in 1899.