ED JACKSON

"Death Claims Ed Jackson"
Beginning as a Newsboy, He Acquired a Fortune
San Angelo Tex., Dec 23, -Ed Jackson, who began his career thirty-five years ago as a newsboy on the streets of Kansas City, and later worked as a sheep herder in West Texas, died today, leaving an estate of more than $1,000,000 in land, cattle, goats. Jackson was 50 years old and a bachelor.    
    Jackson supported his widowed mother by the sale of newspapers in the streets of Kansas City. Later he worked as a street lamp cleaner in Kansas City, and the two managed to save enough to remove to Austin, Tex., where the boy drove a mule street car. In 1880 Jackson came to San Angelo and herded sheep at a salary of $10 a month, taking his pay out in sheep from his employer. Two years later he had a flock of his own, and in 1885 he took up 100 sections from the State, which he sold for $300,000 in 1898 to St. Louis parties.- San Antonio Express

Concho Herald
Friday December 29, 1911 page 1
Submitted by Carolyn Moody