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J. P. JACKSON
Vol. 3, 1304

A pioneer oil man in the Bartlesville district, J. P. Jackson has
spent most of his life on the frontier, and has witnessed or
participated in practically every Oklahoma opening. On the day
following the original opening in April, 1889, he bought a lot on
Broadway in Oklahoma City, and was well acquainted with the first
postmaster of the town, Samuel Rodabaugh, the two having been friends
back in Iowa. Mr. Jackson when he came to Bartlesville in 1902 found
only a few shacks marking the site of the town, and while he had
previously been chiefly identified with grain and general farming, he
has since devoted all his activities to oil and gas, and is now an
official in several prominent companies.

J. P. Jackson was born in Lebanon, Indiana, December 22, 1852, a son
of Thomas H. and Elizabeth (Snethen) Jackson. His father was a native
of North Carolina and his mother of Indiana. His father came to
Indiana in the early days, was married there, and in 1863, when J. P.
Jackson was eleven years old, the family moved out to Iowa. Twelve
years later they located in Cowley County, Kansas, where the mother
died. The father is now living retired at Altus, Oklahoma. He was
born in 1826, and is now upwards of ninety years of age. For ten or
fifteen years he has lived in Oklahoma, and during his active career
was a farmer and mechanic. Both parents were strict Christians. Of
the thirteen children born to them, nine grew to maturity and are
still living.

J. P. Jackson had an education in the common schools, and as most of
his life has been spent in new countries his advantages were limited
so far as books were concerned. He lived at home with his parent
until 1880, and came to manhood with a practical knowledge of
farming. For a number of years he engaged in the grain business both
in Kansas and Oklahoma, and that was his chief work until he entered
the oil business in 1902. The first two years after coming to
Bartlesville he was mainly engaged in securing leases to oil lands.
He was identified with the Copan Oil & Gas Company in its first
drilling around Copan but later sold out his interests. He is now
secretary and treasurer of the Coombs, Coombs & Jackson Oil Company,
which was organized in 1906. He is also one of Sheets Brothers &
Jackson Oil Company, and has extensive holdings in the southwestern
oil and gas district.

Mr. Jackson is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks. He married Miss Lena Hurst, a native of Indiana. Their two
children are; Stella, wife of S. A. Brown, of Elk City, Kansas; and
Roscoe P., who is an irrigation farmer in Delta, Utah.

Mr. Jackson at the opening of the Cherokee Strip in 1893 went into
Kay County, and secured a claim, where he lived and engaged in
farming, grain dealing and also politics. As a democrat, he was the
nominee of his party for a number of offices, but as not elected
owing to the republican dominance of that section of the state. For a
number of years his home was in Southern Kansas, and he was in close
touch with Oklahoma beginning with 1876. In that year he hunted
buffalo in the territory now included in the forty-sixth state.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Charmaine Keith, October 3, 1998.