Bio: Jackson, Walter & Mary
Surnames: JACKSON OLSON CASPERSON MARTIN
----Source: ABBOTSFORD, WIS. CENTENNIAL BOOK - 1973
Jackson, Walter & Mary
Walter Jackson, born in Neenah, Wis., grew up working in a barrel factory making
staves.
He then became a cigar maker, having learned his trade in Neenah as an
apprentice. He moved to Medford and was foreman in the Dumpke Cigar shop where
there were eight employees working as cigar makers.
Shortly after his marriage to Mary Martin of Lake Isadore, the Jackson’s with
their three children, Miles, Katherine, and Frances, moved to Abbotsford and
opened a cigar shop with six cigar makers and three girls to strip tobacco.
Among the employees was Laura Olson, who became a long time resident of
Abbotsford. The names of the various brands of cigars manufacture in the shop
were “The Northern Real”, “ The Wisconsin”, and “The Anything.”
He had shops located at various places during the next sixty years. One was over
the old print shop, after which he moved upstairs over the post office. He
purchased the big brick building on Main Street that housed the bowling alley
and conducted his cigar business upstairs and the bowling alley and ice cream
parlor downstairs. Later he built a shop near his home which was the last move.
He saw the cigar business go down with the advent of the cigarette.
When the family first moved to Abbotsford they rented the Denny house about two
blocks from Scharf’s store, which is now Abbotsford Hardware. They moved to a
home owned by Carl Thompson on Highway 13 and 29. Mr. Jackson then purchased a
home northwest of the school which remained the family residence the rest of
their lives.
Mr. Jackson, interested in Abbotsford’s welfare, was treasurer on the school
board for many years and was instrumental in the construction of the annex to
the school.
He was assessor for sixteen years until he died in 1953 at the age of
seventy-six. Mary had preceded him in death in 1948. His two sons, Mile and
Otto, are deceased. Otto remained in Abbotsford until his death in 1968.
Surviving are the two daughters, Katherine Olson of Neenah, and Frances
Casperson of Neenah. Frances opened and operated the first beauty shop in
Abbotsford in 1930.
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