Bennett Barron Jackson
Surnames: Barron, Harrington
Regions: Troy, Rensselaer Co., NY; Primrose, Dane Co., WI
Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the
Upper Lake Region;
Containing Biographical Sketches
of Prominent and Representative Citizens and Many of the Settled
Families;
Illustrated; J.H. Beers & Co. Chicago 1905; Page 295
Bennett Barron Jackson, B.A., superintendent of schools in Superior, Douglas County, Wisconsin, was born in Belleville, Dane Co., WI, Nov. 6, 1867. He is a son of George and Julia (Barron) Jackson, the former a native of Norway, who came to this country in 1840 when a mere lad. The Jackson family located on a farm in the town of Primrose, Dane County, and the father died soon after.
George Jackson, father of Bennett Barron, grew up on the Primrose farm. He became a member of Company I, 43d W.V.I., which he helped to recruit and of which he was commissioned captain, and he served about eighteen months in the Civil war under Gen. Thomas. After this he travelled many years in the interests of a hardware and agricultural implement house. His home is now in Chicago.
Mrs. Julia (Barron) Jackson was born near Troy, Rensselaer Co., New York. She comes of an English family, one branch of which settled in Virginia, and another in Massachusetts in Colonial days. Mrs. Jackson is descended through her father, Moses Barron, from the Massachusetts branch of the family. Her mother was a Miss Harrington. Mr. and Mrs. Moses Barron settled at Waukesha, Wisconsin, about 1855, and there Mr. Barron pursued his calling of carpenter. His son, Henry D. Barron, was a member of the State Legislature for many years, and became a circuit judge in northern Wisconsin; Barron County was named in his honor.
Bennett Barron Jackson received his early education in Boscobel, Wisconsin, whence he went to Beloit College, graduating in the Ancient Classical course with the class of 1890. He began teaching in the Beloit High School; was subsequently in the Hillside Home School, in Iowa County; was principal of city schools four years at Bayfield, Wis.; spent another four years as superintendent of schools at Ashland; was principal of the school at Hudson, Wis., for a year; and since 1900 has been superintendent of schools of Superior. A manual training department with ample apparatus, has been added to the schools under Mr. Jackson's supervision, and he has in every way maintained the high standard always characteristic of the schools of Superior. Mr. Jackson is a member of the executive committee of the State Teachers' Association, and active in various local educational societies. Fraternally he is a Mason.