Jay G. Cisco, editor and proprietor of the Forked Deer Blade, was born in the city of New Orleans, April 25, 1844, and is the son of Louis J. and Loretta (Wezinski) Cisco, natives, respectively, of France and Austria. Jay G. was reared in his native city, and was prepared to enter college, when the war broke out. He enlisted in the Confederate Army, serving as a private, and in the secret service until the cessation of hostilities. He then secured an engagement as a newspaper correspondent, in the Northwest Territories, with Hancock and Custer; but in 1867 went to Europe, to visit his mother, Countess Ullenhoff, who is a resident of Austria, and upon his return to the United States, he engaged in the book business at Tuscaloosa, Ala., and came to Jackson in 1875, continuing the same business. In November, 1883, he established his present newspaper venture, which has proved highly successful and satisfactory. Independent Democracy is the politics of the paper. In January, 1879, Mr. Cisco was united in marriage with Miss Georgie Pursley, of Wilson County, Tenn. By a former marriage Mr. Cisco has a daughter, who is the wife of an aid-de-camp of Gen. Tosi, of the Austrian Army. Mr. Cisco is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and owns a valuable collection of prehistoric relics, and an excellent library of early American history.

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