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Banks of Jackson: The first bank in Jackson was simply an agency of the old State Bank, which had its agent in the various cities of the State; Wm. E. Butler was the agent at Jackson. The next was the branch of the Union Bank, which was established here in 1831-32, with J. W. Campbell as cashier. This well known institution continued operations until it was closed by the war. On the resumption of business after the war, a savings bank was established in Jackson; this continued until the organization of the First National Bank. This institution was chartered August 24, 1874; James W. Anderson was chosen president. The directors were J. W. Anderson, Jno. M. Parks. W. K. K. Walsh, Milton T. Brown and W. A. Caldwell. The report of the cashier for October, 1886, shows the bank to have capital stock paid in, $50,000, surplus $15,000; undivided profits, national bank notes outstanding, dividends unpaid, individual deposits, etc., to the total amount of $208,649.85. The present directors of the bank are J. L. Wisdom, president; Hon. Howell E. Jackson, vice-president; W. A. Caldwell, cashier; Chester G. Bond, attorney; John A. Greer, Samuel M. White, assistant cashier; W. A. Caldwell, book-keeper and accountant; H. B. Gilmore, collector. The Second National Bank has just been opened for business (1886); the capital stock is $75,000. The officers are John A. Pitts, president; W. T. Nelson, vice-president; N. S. Moore, cashier. The board of directors are John A. Pitts, W. T. Nelson, Clifton Dancy, C. T. Bates, T. C. Abbott, S. D. Hays, H. H. Swink, L. J. Brooks and M. H. Meeks. The Bank of Madison began operations under charter, in June, 1866, with A. W. Campbell as president, and D. J. Merriwether as cashier. The capital stock was $50,000, at which it still remains. The present officers are N. S. White, president, and J. W. Theus, cashier.
Bond's Shoe Store - 100 E. Main established in 1870.
Center City Mills was incorporated for a period of thirty-three years, with the usual power, by P. D. W. Conger, B. B. Hurt, B. A. Hays, James Harrison and N. H. Whitlow. Champion Mills was incorporated in June, 1884, by J. L. Wisdom, H. W. McCorry, A. H. Duke and J. J. Rushing.
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Greyhound Bus Station 2008 photo by Mary Bearden -- Greyhound Bus Station on old postcard
Jackson Building & Saving Association was chartered March 22, 1880, by E. S. Mallory, J. W. Allison. J. T. Stark, J. H. Freeman, J. H. Hirsch, Howell E. Jackson, W. P. Robertson, J. T. McCutchen, B. A. Sneed and J. T. Beverage. The present officers (1886) are J. H. Hirsch, president; F. W. Adamson, secretary; N. S. White, treasurer; E. S. Mallory, attorney. The semi-annual report, ending April 30, 1886, shows that the association held $175,200 in mortgages on real estate, $3,716.45 in unpaid dues; interest, etc.; $203.95 in office furniture; $490 in real estate, and $3,049.61 cash in the treasury. Jackson Compress Company was incorporated April 3, 1880, by George St. John, John O. White, W. H. Long, B. R. Cameron and Thomas St. John. This company does an extensive business.
Jackson Gas Works was founded in 1868. The company was to be known as the Jackson Gas Light Company, and was composed of .J. H. Harper, J. L. Tomlin, Robert Hart, B. I. Chester, J. Beverage, Wm. Alexander and Charles Leatherman. The company (1886) now has about sixty lamps, and mains reaching to every part of the city. Jackson Ice Company was incorporated by Howel E. Jackson, A. W. Campbell, N. S. White, R. A. Allison and J. W. Allison. It was incorporated in 1883, for the purpose of manufacturing ice, mineral water, cider, aerated beverages; to bottle and vend beer and ale; to vend wood, coal, lumber and building material. Capital stock was limited from $20,000 to $40,000. Jackson Milling and Manufacturing Company was chartered in the spring of 1885 by J. H. Duke. J. M. McGathery, S. D. Hays, W. A. Caldwell, W. M. Johns and C. Dancey. Its object was to manufacture flour, meal, barrels, kegs, and to buy and sell grain, seeds, wood, lumber and coal. Jackson Oil Mills was established at Jackson in 1879 and 1880. An amended charter was obtained in April, 1886. The firm consists of J. L. Wisdom, P. J. Murray, H. E. Jackson and A. J. Porter. The officers are J. W. Allison, president, and P. J.. Murray, secretary. This is an extensive establishment and manufactures all the various products of the cotton seed, including the "Jackson Fertilizer." Jackson Woolen Mills were incorporated in January, 1884, by J. L. Wisdom, H. W. McCorry, S. D. Hays, J. H. Duke, B. H. Harris and W. A. Caldwell. The company manufacture jeans, linseys, blankets, wool rolls and yarns. NEWSPAPERS: 1823 - The Pioneer was the first newspaper but lasted only a year, quickly replaced by the Jackson Gazette. The JACKSON GAZETTE, the first newspaper, was issued first on May 29, 1824, by Col. Charles De McLean and Elijah Bigelow, and Ed. Hays. Col. McLean was a native of Virginia, where he was born in 1795, and came to Jackson in 1823-24. The Gazette was continued until 1830, when it became the Southern Statesman, and was edited by Judge Read and Timothy P. Scurlock. The Statesman was merged into the Truth Teller, in the fall of 1832, and was edited by James H. McMahon. This was continued by him until 1836, when he left for the Seminole war. The next newspaper venture was the Telegraph, a Whig paper, by B. H. Shepherd. This was not a success, and was discontinued after about one year. The next paper was a Democratic paper, by a learned Virginian, named Street. This paper was short-lived, as was a Whig paper published by Henry Swan. The Jacksonian was published by Rogers & Acton, in 1844. W. F. Doherty began the publication of a small Democratic paper in 1845-46, but it was soon after suspended. In 1855 J. H. Young started the Jeffersonian, but it, too, suspended in 1856. The paper, and it might be said, its editor, passed into the hands of Col. W. W. Gates. The next effort at a Whig paper was by ______ Mitchell, in 1841-42, but this suspended in a short time. The West Tennessee Whig was established by Col. W. W. Gates, who continued its publication until the office was closed and destroyed by the war. After the war Col. Gates with Don Cameron revived his paper, and continued its publication until 1870, when it was consolidated with the Tribune, which had been started by the Milligan Bros., but edited by Col. D. M. Wisdom. This partnership continued until 1872, when Col. Gates retired. The JACKSON SUN was first published in September, 1873, by Conner & Harald, and in 1877 by Gates & Enloe. In 1878 the Tribune and Sun were consolidated under the name of Tribune and Sun, under which name it is still published. It is published by the Tribune and Sun Publishing Company. John W. Gates retired from the firm in 1884. The Tribune and Sun is a widely circulated paper, and is edited with very marked ability. The Jackson Sun newspaper archives are on microfilm at the Jackson Madison County library. The years 1936 to the present are complete and can be viewed and copies made off of the microfilm reader. In 1877 Col. W. W. Gates again started in the newspaper business. He again took the name of his old paper, West Tennessee Whig, which he edited about one year, when he sold it to William H. Brutin, L. J. Brooks, W. A. Ward and D. L. Balch. In September of that year Mr. Balch retired, and in July. 1883, L. J. Brooks and W. A. Ward became proprietors, Since January, 1885, the paper has been issued as a semi-weekly. It is now the only semi-weekly paper in West Tennessee. It is a twenty-eight column four-page paper, and is owned and managed by 1. J. Brooks. The Whig is a Democratic paper. The first number of the Jackson Dispatch was issued in October, 1873, by J. J. Worrell, who is its present editor. Notwithstanding the misfortune of two fires, opposition of rivals, the Dispatch has to-day a wider circulation than ever before. Its circulation extends throughout West Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas. The Dispatch is a conservative Democratic paper. It is strictly a peoples’ paper. The True Baptist is a new religious journal, which was founded by Rev. Frederick Howard, D.D., in April, 1885. He is its editor, publisher and proprietor. The True Baptist is an able exponent of the doctrines of the Missionary Baptist Church. It also gives general news, and discusses the various theological questions and church ethics. The Forked Deer Blade, a spicy, breezy, independent Democratic paper, was founded by J. G. Cisco in 1883. The paper is printed on a steam-power press, and has a circulation in thirty States. J. G. Cisco, its editor and proprietor, is an excellent writer. Sherman Manufacturing Company was incorporated in June, 1884, by Nathan S. Sherman, W. B. Cole, A. E. McGarey, M. F. Murdock and W. A. Caldwell. They manufacture and repair farm implements, engine boilers and saw-mill machinery.
H.W. Smith Plumbing Company Plumbing & Heating Quick Meal Steel Ranges Phone 193 Jackson Tenn Southern Engine & Boiler Works started as a small shop owned by two men - Sherman & Cole in 1874. It was known as the Sherman Mfg. Company located at the corner of Lexington and M. & O. Railroad. They made small engines, boiler and iron works. In 1896 they sold their shop to local stockholders. They moved the plant to a 3 acre location on Royal, Mill St. and the Railroad (334 North Royal). About 400 workers were employed there around 1900. The business was sold in 1917-1918. A separate divison became known as the Southern Supply Company. W.H. Collier bought the remaining Souther Engine & Boil in 1922 and operated it until 1926 when the business closed. The building is still used by various business.
Telephone Company of Jackson was incorporated in January 1884 by H. W. McCorry, C. G. Bond, D. F. Haney, L. S. Woods and W. T. Logan. The company now has in use over 100 instruments. Tennessee White Oak Cooperage Co. was located on Mobil St., produced staves and headings for Seagram. At one time white oak was the only wood which would impart characteristic taste and color to distilled spirits. The white oak barrels would not allow the spirits to seep out. They could age in these barrels for upwards of 25 years. The plant in Jackson not only depended on white oak but also purchased the wood from Kentucky and Illinois. (From D.N. English/ The City News January 2007).
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The Bemis Mills/Jackson Fiber Company/Tennessee Textiles, was the first national company to locate a factory in this area. Judson Moses Bemis of the Bemis Bag Company instructed J.B. Young, who became the first resident manager of Bemis to build the finest mill town in the south - on the 300 acres of land denoted by Madison County and the City of Jackson. Requirements that had to be carried out were the fact that it had to be close to cotton fields; on a good railroad and close to an abundant supply of Anglo-Saxon labor.
On January 2, 1900 the Madison County court passed the resolution for the purchase of 300 acres for $6,000 six miles south ofJackson which was known then as the H.E. Jackson plantation. Bemis Company paid over $200 in taxes the first year, more than repaying for the land in three years. Labor was quickly attracted. By 1915 the plant had doubled. More homes were added in 1920 and later. At one time arrangements were made to have a small clinic one or two days a week staffed by Jackson doctors. When the mill was running full time, there were about 1500 employes. There are about 600 working there in 1988. The mill was purchase din June 1980 by Humayun Shaikh and the name changed to Tennessee Textiles. The Bemis area was annexed to the city of Jackson on December 29, 1977 courtsey of Byrnes Butler, Tennessee Textiles.
