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3094 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSserved in the Upper House of the Legislature in 1902-05, and in the latteryear was sent to the Fifty-ninth Congress of the United States. By successiveelections he has been returned to that body since, his present term expiringin 1917.JAMES U. JACKSON. As a financier, railroad builder and developer of theindustrial affairs of Georgia, probably no name has more conspicuous associations than that of James U. Jackson, of Augusta.Born at Augusta, June 24, 1856, he is a son of George T. and Catherine(Mixer) Jackson, his father also a native of Georgia. His mother, who wasborn in Massachusetts, came to Georgia with her parents as a child, and grewup in Augusta. George T. Jackson was a manufacturer, was likewise connected with some of the early railroads of the state, and had the distinctionof building the first street railroad system in Augusta. It was originally ahorse car line, but out of that nucleus has been developed one of the mostefficient street railway systems in Georgia. Mr. Jackson, the elder, was formany years head of the company. During the war he served as major of theAugusta Battalion, and fought in many battles. His death occurred atAugusta in 1899 at the age of seventy-seven. His wife died in that city in1903 at the age of seventy-three.The fifth in a family of nine children, James U. Jackson as a boy attendedcountry schools near Augusta, was graduated in 1873 from RichmondAcademy, and in 1876 took his bachelor's degree at the University of Georgia.During the next eighteen years he was engaged in handling securities, stocksand bonds, at Augusta, and during that time negotiated the sale of bondswhich gave the funds for the building of the Augusta and Knoxville, theGeorgia Southern and Florida, the Augusta Southern and the Marietta andNorth Georgia railways. He was president of the Marietta and North Georgia,and through the construction of that road was made possible the developmentof the magnificent Georgia marble quarries. The first column of marble takenfrom those quarries was utilized by Mr. Jackson in the building of his beautifulhome at North Augusta. Mr. Jackson negotiated the sale for the Georgiamarble used in the construction of the Minnesota State Capitol Building, theNew York Stock Exchange Building, and a number of other notable structures throughout the United States.At the present time he is president of the Augusta-North Railway, and theNorth Augusta Land Company, and industrial agent of the Augusta-AikenRailway, and of the Electric Light Company at Augusta. He was the realbuilder of the Augusta-Aiken Railway, and brought about the constructionof the Hampton Terrace Hotel.Mr. Jackson is a democrat in politics, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order ofElks. In 1877 at Athens, Georgia, he married Miss Minnie S. Falligant,daughter of Louis Falligant, of Savannah, and a sister of Judge RobertFalligant, The one child of this union is "Walter M. Jackson, Jr., of Augusta.Mrs. Jackson died in 1883. On March 19, 1889, at Savannah he marriedMiss Edith B. King, daughter of Rev. Charles B. King, a prominent ministerof Savannah. By this union there are four children: Daisy Jackson, who isa graduate of Shorter College and of the National School at Washington,District of Columbia, and is now Mrs. A. Bandry Moore, Jr.; Edith B., whograduated from the Lucy Cobb Institute at Athens, and is now Mrs. J. BishopAlexander, Jr.; James U. Jackson, Jr., and John Williams Jackson.iJAMES ALLEN JOHNSON. The ability to rise superior to early limitationshas been one of the chief contributing factors in the success of James AlienJohnson, prominent farmer and business man of Baxley, Appling County,and a citizen who has contributed to his community's welfare both through