Biography

07/08/1801 - 01/24/1869

JACKSON, Evan Owen, a Representative from Columbia County; born, July 8, 1801 in Berwick, Columbia County, Pa.; publisher and editor, The Argus (1837); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1836-1837 term; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1837); appointed, clerk, office of the Secretary of State (1839-1844); editor, Pottsville Emporium (1844); attorney; enumerator, United States Census, Philadelphia (1860); died, January 24, 1869 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.