Harold Stanley Jackson

25 November 1895–20 January 1970 (Age 74)
Kamloops, Thompson-Nicola, British Columbia, Canada

The Life Summary of Harold Stanley

When Harold Stanley Jackson was born on 25 November 1895, in Kamloops, Thompson-Nicola, British Columbia, Canada, his father, James Albert Jackson, was 33 and his mother, Alice Jane Grayell, was 29. He married Alice Blanche Collett on 2 June 1915. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Yale County, Fraser Valley Regional District, British Columbia, Canada in 1911 and Seattle Election Precinct, King, Washington, United States in 1940. He died on 20 January 1970, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Seattle, King, Washington, United States.

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Family Time Line

Harold Stanley Jackson
1895–1970
Alice Blanche Collett
1898–1987
Marriage: 2 June 1915
Ruth Usona Jackson
1915–2011
Dorothy Marie Jackson
1919–1984
Harold Stanley Jackson Jr
1928–1931

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    2 June 1915
    • Children

    (3)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (4)

    World Events (8)

    1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
    Age 1
    A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
    1897 · Seattle Grows Quickly
    Age 2
    The Klondike gold rush started in 1896 in Canada, but by 1897 as miners started moving and following the gold it caused for Seattle to rapidly grow as more miners joined the search for gold.
    1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
    Age 21
    Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

    Name Meaning

    English, Scottish, and northern Irish: patronymic from Jack . In North America, this surname has absorbed other patronymics beginning with J- in various European languages, in particular those derived from equivalents or short forms and other derivatives of the personal name Jacob , e.g. Norwegian Jacobsen or Jakobsen and, in some cases, Slovenian Jakše (from a derivative of the personal name Jakob ). This surname is also very common among African Americans (see also 2 below).African American: from the personal name Jackson (or Andrew Jackson), adopted in honor of Andrew Jackson, the 7th president of the US; or adoption of the surname in 1 above, in many cases probably for the same reason.History: This extremely common British name was brought over by numerous different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. One forebear was the father and namesake of the seventh US president, Andrew Jackson, who migrated to SC from Carrickfergus in the north of Ireland in 1765. The Confederate General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson came from VA, where his great-grandfather John, likewise of Scotch–Irish stock, had settled after emigrating to America in 1748.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

    Possible Related Names

    Jack

    Sources (23)

    • Harold Stanley Jackson in entry for Harold Stanley Jackson, Jr., "Washington, County Birth Registers, 1873-1965"
    • Harold S Jackson in household of James I Jackson, "Canada Census, 1901"
    • Harold Stanley Jackson, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"

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