Pickmore Jackson
Pickmore Jackson (November 7, 1822 – February 9, 1892) was an American shoemaker and politician.
Pickmore Jackson | |
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Born | |
Died | February 9, 1892 69) Saugus, Massachusetts, US | (aged
Occupation | |
Spouse(s) | Lura Nourse
(m. 1848; died 1892) |
Children | 5 daughters |
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from Saugus | |
In office 1844–1844 | |
Preceded by | Benjamin F. Newhall |
Succeeded by | Sewall Boardman |
Born in Saugus, Massachusetts on November 7, 1822 to William and Mary (Stocker) [Stanford] Jackson, Pickmore Jackson married Lura Nourse on September 14, 1848. They had five daughters, all born in Saugus: Louise Abby Jackson (May 28, 1850 – January 9, 1870), Mary Ella Jackson (born April 18, 1852), Susan Stanford Jackson (June 12, 1855 – September 7, 1870), Gertrude Jackson (November 18, 1858 – May 27, 1880), and Addie Augusta Jackson (born December 2, 1862). Lura died in Saugus on January 29, 1892, and Pickmore died there eleven days later on February 9, 1892.[1]
In 1842, Jackson joined the shoemaking renaissance in Saugus, following the lead of the Raddin and Newhall families. Soon thereafter, Jackson was elected by a majority of Saugus voters as their 1844 representative in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, replacing Benjamin F. Newhall. In 1845, no representative was sent as nobody received a majority of votes, so Jackson wasn't succeeded until Sewall Boardman served from 1846–47.[2] By 1862, Jackson had also served on the Saugus school committee.[3]
References
- Seward, Josiah Lafayette (1921). A History of the Town of Sullivan New Hampshire: 1777–1917. II. Keene, New Hampshire. p. 1239.
- Hurd, D. Hamilton, ed. (1888). "Saugus". History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men. I. Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis & Co. pp. 391–423.
- Massachusetts Board of Education (1862). "Report of the Secretary of the Board". Twenty-fifth Annual Report of the Board of Education together with the Twenty-fifth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board. Boston: William White. pp. 47–111.