Sunday, February 05, 2012

Walter Bassel Jackson, M.D. (1879-1955)

Dr. Walter Bassel Jackson of Waxahachie, Texas, died at his home on June 29th, 1955 of a kidney ailment.  He was born February 5th, 1879 in Ozro, Texas, to John and Susan Jackson.  After receiving his early education in Maypearl, he attended Northern Indiana Normal School and was a graduate in pharmacy from Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana in 1906.  He took his medical training at the University of the South in Nashville, Tennessee, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Dallas, from which he received his doctor of medicine degree in 1907.

After practicing briefly in Alvarado, Texas, Dr. Jackson settled in Waxahachie, where he practiced from 1915 until his death.  He was past president of the Ellis County Medical Society, and was a member of the Texas Medical Association and the American Medical Association.  He served as city health officer in both Alvarado and Waxahachie and as a medical examiner during both World Wars.  He was a member of the Christian Church, the Odd Fellows Lodge and the Knights of Pythias.

Dr. Jackson and Miss Alice Mansfield were married on September 21, 1900 in Tullahoma, Tennessee.  Survivors include Mrs. Jackson, one daughter, Mrs. A.W. Simpson of Dallas; three sons, Buford Jackson, Hayden Jackson and Dick Jackson, all of Waxahachie; and two brothers, Calvin Jackson and Jack Jackson, both of Maypearl.

= = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, August 1955.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family or the doctor's career. 

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