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Hon. W. B. Jackson, a prominent lawyer and present representative of Logan County, Ark., owes his nativity to Mississippi, born in 1851, and is the eldest living child in the family of John L. and Elizabeth C. (Pearson) Jackson, the parents natives of Georgia and Mississippi respectively. The paternal grandparents were natives of North and South Carolina respectively. W. B. Jackson’s early impressions were at once directed toward the channels of agricultural pursuits, and he received a good, practical education in the common schools. In 1869 he began the study of medicine at the University of Philadelphia and graduated from Washington University, Baltimore on February 22, 1871. He immediately began practicing in Mississippi, but in 1874 went to New York, where he practiced in Bellevue Hospital for some time. He then returned to Mississippi and began the study of law in 1876, being admitted to the bar the following year. In 1879 he came to Arkansas, located at Paris, and here he has since been engaged in the practice of law. He is a business-like and painstaking lawyer, is concise in argument and well read, and has a steadily increasing practice. In 1889 he formed a partnership with C. B. Fontaine. He has been an active Democrat in politics and has ever voted with that party. His superior intelligence and fine ability became recognized by the numerous friends whom he had gathered around him, and he was elected to represent this county in the Legislature in 1890. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity. Though a young man he is one of the rising attorneys of this judicial district.