In 1936, when the Lone Star State was basking in the limelight of 100 years of freedom, H.H. “Jack” Jackson was named 59th president of Texas Press Association at the June convention.

Climate and health reasons were what brought Jack to Texas in 1915 after being raised in the newspaper business at Clyde, Ohio.

Jackson was born Dec. 7, 1885, and attended Kenyon Military Academy in Gambier, Ohio.

In 1906 he worked on the Panama Canal for the U.S. Posts, Customs and Revenues and there met Aimee Moore, whom he married in 1909. Their two children were born in Ancon, Canal Zone, Panama.

In 1914 Jackson brought his family back to the States where he purchased the Sebring (Ohio) Times. After prospecting all over the Southwest, he finally bought the Coleman Democrat-Voice. At Coleman he also had an interest in KSTA radio station, retiring in 1944.