A. W. Jackson

JACKSON, CASTERLINE, SWART

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 9/14/2017 at 08:30:08

16 May 1929 - The Tipton Advertiser

Pioneer Publisher and Former Cedar County Legislator Passes On

Mr. A. W. Jackson, highly respected resident of Tipton for the past three years, died last Friday in the hospital at Eugene, Oregon, following only a few days' illness. The old home friends in Cedar county were grieved when it became known that Mr. Jackson, who only a month ago had left this community to make his home with his daughter and family, had survived but a few weeks to enjoy a well deserved rest from active business life.

Last winter he had suffered a severe attack of flu-pneumonia. The journey west proved too great a strain on his weakened physical powers and soon after his arrival in the west he contracted a cold which developed into pneumonia, death following within a few days.

Mr. Jackson had been active in the middle Iowa newspaper field for more than half a century, had owned papers in Cedar, Dallas, Calhoun, Muscatine and Fremont counties, and for the past three years had been in the employ of the Tipton Advertiser, an absolutely dependable and trustworthy gentleman in every respect. Owing to impaired health Mr. Jackson and wife took their departure from Tipton, April 9th, anticipating much enjoyment in their new home with their daughter, Mrs. Annette Casterline and family, at Mabel, Oregon.

A. W. Jackson was for many years editor of the West Liberty Index, was a printer in the West Branch Times office under the late C. E. Wickersham at the time Herbert Hoover was a boy in that community and was an oft-quoted extemperaneous biographer of President Hoover's boyhood days in the West Branch community. The Hoover and Wickersham youths were companions and frequent visitors in the Times office, engaging in many boyhood pranks, which Mr. Jackson recalled vividly. Mr. Jackson represented Cedar county in the 37th General Assembly, was past master of West Liberty Masonic lodge, and held many offices of public trust and importance.

Funeral services were held Sunday in Mabel, Oregon, with burial in that city.

His widow, two sons Lewis of Peoria, Ill., and Elmer of Los Angeles, Calif., a daughter Mrs. Annette Casterline, survive. Also four brothers, and four sisters, one of whom, Mrs. J. Swart, resides in the West Liberty community.