Jackson, Charles Samuel, 1860-1924.

Jackson was born in Virginia in 1860 and arrived in Portland in 1880.

Jackson was born in Virginia in 1860 and arrived in Portland in 1880.

He was the publisher of the Portland journal.

Charles Samuel A. (Sam) Jackson (1860-1924) was born in Virginia and moved to Pendleton, Oregon, in the early 1880s. He gradually acquired ownership of the East Oregonian newspaper. He married native Virginian, Maria Clopton (1862-1956), in Pendleton in 1886. They had two sons, Francis Clopton Jackson (1887-1919) and Phillip Ludwell Jackson (1893-1953).

In 1902, Sam Jackson moved to Portland and acquired the newly established Oregon Journal, an evening newspaper which he promoted as a civic-minded people's newspaper. The paper's success necessitated building new quarters at Broadway and Yamhill in 1912, a location which was itself subsequently outgrown. In 1948, the Journal relocated to the former Public Market building on Front Street between Yamhill and Taylor.

Maria Jackson was active in civic and Episcopal Church affairs. The family home on Salmon Street became the site of the clubhouse for the Portland Federation of Women's Clubs. The Jacksons' son, Phillip, and their grandson, C. S. Jackson, II (1914-1947), were active in management of the Oregon Journal and other family enterprises. In addition to their Portland home, the family built a log lodge on Clear Creek near Carver, Oregon.