James U. Jackson

Jackson worked as a financer, a railroad builder, and as a developer of industrial affairs for Georgia.

George Jackson was a native of Georgia and Catherine was from Massachusetts but grew up in Augusta.

James went to school at and graduated from Richmond Academy in 1873, he then went on to get a bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia.

Jackson's funeral took place in his home with the Reverend T.C O'Dell from Grace United Methodist church conducting the services.

During which time, he sold bonds; the money earned from the sales went toward building the Augusta and Knoxville, the Georgia Southern and Florida, the Augusta Southern and the Marietta and North Georgia railroad systems.

[2] On March 24, 1890, Jackson bought a deed for $100,000 that gave him rights to 5,600 acres of what is now North Augusta, SC from Mrs. Mattie Butler Mealing.

After Jackson was re-elected in 1897 (the vote was unanimous) to be the president of the Augusta Southern Railroad, he went to Columbus, GA for a meeting to reorganize the Eagle and Phoenix Manufacturing Company.

However, in 1916 on New Year's Eve, the hotel was burned to the ground with nothing left standing but the brick chimney.

After this event, Jackson did not have the same amount of momentum to develop and improve North Augusta.

Then in 1908, Jackson invited William Howard Taft to join him in his home in North Augusta for the Christmas holiday.

He then returned to his home in North Augusta to have the fragments of birdshot removed and recover from the injury.