James Knox Polk Jackson

Born 10 January 1843 at Franklin, Delaware County, New York

Died 7 December 1924 at Binghamton, Broome County, New York

James was the son of James Harvey Jackson and Annis M. Terry Jackson. His father named him for the James Knox Polk, who at the time of his birth, was the Democratic hopeful for President in the 1844 election. He was raised at Franklin where his father was the owner and operator of a farm. The family relocated to Meredith, New York about 1851 where his father was first the owner and operator of a farm and later a drover. James was educated at district schools and Delaware Literary Institute at Franklin. In February 1870, James bought a half interest in the Franklin Register and the Walton Chronicle. In June of 1870, he was admitted to practice as a lawyer and started his legal career at Franklin. James married to Julia Alice Grant, most commonly known as Alice, on 10 January 1871 at Franklin and they made their home at that place. James and Alice were the parents of five children; Julia Alice Grant Jackson who survived only two months, Alexander Grant Jackson, Mary Lulu Jackson, James P. Jackson who died at age five, and Fanny Myra Jackson. They relocated to Oneonta, New York in the fall of 1872 where he was the publisher of the Oneonta Liberal. In 1877, the family returned to Franklin where James once again practiced law. In 1879, he purchased the Utilitarian and the family relocated first to Dean’s Corners, a village in the town of Middletown, New York and later to Margaretville, another village in the town of Middletown, where he was a publisher and lawyer. His wife died in 1919 and he then made his home at Rockland, New York with his daughter, Fanny, who had married Charles Moore Allaben, a physician. They relocated to Binghamton about 1923 where James suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in the fall of 1924 and died that December. He was buried with his wife at Margaretville Cemetery at Margaretville. James was John More Association cousin #M1411 and the husband of my third cousin three times removed. 

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