~~ Charles Bacon "Chic" Jackson ~~
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Family:
Father - William Nelson Jackson
Birth: Dec. 22, 1827
Death: Nov. 20, 1902
Civil War veteran; Union, Company E, 19th Indiana Infantry
Mother - Sarah Leonard (Collins) Jackson
Birth: Dec. 16, 1833
Death: Apr. 22, 1879
Siblings -
Mary Minerva Jackson who married John Dennis Mock
Laura Ellen Jackson who married Lafayette P. Ebright
Melville Edgerly Jackson
Dr. Frank Gallahue Jackson who married Jessie Freemont Ice
Willie Meredith Jacskson died at the age of two
Henry Marsh Jackson who married Emma Shewmaker
Warren Adamson Jackson who married Margaret B. Irvin
Wife - Margaret (Wagner) Jackson
Children -
Richard Wagner Jackson
William Charles Jackson
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Newspaper Kokomo Tribune (Indiana), June 4, 1934
Chic Jackson, Cartoonist, Is Heart Victim
Creator of "Bean Family" Is Fatally Stricken When Leaving Office.
Indianapolis, June 3—(AP)—Chic Jackson, who created "The Bean Family," cartoon strip for the Indianapolis Star nineteen years ago, died suddenly today. He was 57 years old.
He was stricken with a heart attack a few feet from his office door as he left his office this afternoon, and died a few minutes later.
The activities of the "Beans" had spread in recent years to other middle western and eastern newspaper comic pages, but they remained a typically Hoosier family. One feature of the strip drew especial notice—the characters grew older as the years passed. "Woodrow Bean," a foundling on the Bean doorstep in 1914, now is a freshman in college.
Chic Jackson was born Dec. 31, 1876, in Muncie, Ind., where he attended school and was employed on the Muncie News when it was absorbed by the Muncie Star.
There he met Margaret Wagner of Springport, also employed on the newspaper, and they married on 1902. He was an illustrator and front page cartoonist.
Jackson and his bride went to Chicago, where he studied at the art institute, and then came to Indianapolis in 1907 to become artist on the Star. At first he did Sunday feature illustrating, later developing the Bean family.
Mrs. Jackson survives, with two sons, William Charles Jackson of Indianapolis, and Richard Wagner Jackson of South Bend. Two brothers are Dr. Frank Jackson and Warren Jackson, both of Muncie.
Funeral arrangements had not been complete tonight.
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[According to the 1880 U.S. Federal Census, Charles Bacon Jackson was the youngest of four sons born to William and Sarah, whose name was not recorded; her name was found in the 1870 census. The Jacksons lived in Muncie, Indiana. He and his father were recorded in the 1900 census; they resided at 1100 East Main Street in Muncie. Jackson married on September 17, 1902 (Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 at Ancestry.com). His father passed away on November 20, 1902 (Muncie County Health Office). In 1910, Jackson, his wife and two sons lived in Indianapolis at 924 Hamilton Avenue. His comic strip Roger Bean began in the Indianapolis Star on April 22, 1913. Jackson signed his World War I draft card on September 12, 1918; this document had his middle name. The family remained in Indianapolis at 3029 Broadway Avenue in the 1920 and 1930 censuses. Lastly, there was a Roger Bean Coffee advertised in the Indianapolis Star.]
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Along with Mark Twain, Indiana writers James Whitcomb Riley and Edward Eggleston are credited with bringing regional vernacular to the printed page. Eggleston, for example, wrote his 1871 novel The Hoosier Schoolmaster, "in the dialect spoken in my childhood by rustics on the north side of the Ohio River."
In the early twentieth century, Muncie-born cartoonist Chic Jackson continued the work of representing regular folks—and the way they spoke–in the popular press.
Charles Bacon "Chic" Jackson's comic strip The Bean Family ran in the Indianapolis Star from 1913 to 1934. The strip charted the daily goings-on of the self-important Roger Bean and his family—wife Sylvia, children Cynthia and Woody, a dog, several relatives, and two servants.
Story lines follow the curmudgeonly Mr. Bean's frustrations at not being served breakfast, the clucking criticisms of the next-door neighbor, and the subversive machinations of Jose, the African-American laundry maid.
The strip introduced the convention of continuity to the medium and showed the characters aging, an innovation sometimes attributed to Frank King, creator of Gasoline Alley. An infant at the strip's inception, son Woody, for example, is bound for college in Jackson's last strips.
Jackson's reproduction of the way servants Golduh and Jose spoke was one of the strip's curiosities. Modern audiences will note Jackson's liberal use of jargon long since retired from general circulation—from "booby hatch" to "celluloid opera."
Though Jackson had attended the Art Institute of Chicago for a year, his drawing often matched the characters' speech in its homespun quality. Lacking the slickness of commercial draftmanship, Jackson's figures display what has been called a "tortured anatomy".
Born in Muncie in 1876, Chic Jackson dropped out of high school to pursue employment in a shoe factory, grocery store and iron works, before landing an illustrator's job on the Muncie News (later the Muncie Star). In 1907, he was hired as a feature illustrator at the Indianapolis Star, where he developed The Bean Family.
After its debut in 1913, the strip was syndicated regionally, eventually appearing in the Chicago Daily News. Jackson received plenty of fan mail, along with notes pointing out the occasional discrepancy.
Even James Whitcomb Riley could be counted among Jackson's fans. The cartoonist recalled a visit the poet paid him in 1915, only two years after the debut of The Bean Family. Riley shared his appreciation for "the pleasure the good wholesome humor had afforded him." Jackson later memorialized Riley in a strip captioned "But His Songs Go On Forever".
On the occasion of his own passing, Chic Jackson was artfully memorialized in turn. The June 5, 1934 edition of the Indianapolis Star featured a drawing by William Heitman of the Bean family members, gathered around an empty chair and drawing-board.
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1880 United States Federal Census about Charles B. Jackson
Name: Charles B. Jackson
Age: 3
Birth Year: abt 1877
Birthplace: Indiana
Home in 1880: Muncie, Delaware, Indiana
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: William N. Jackson
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Birthplace: Indiana
Household Members:
Name Age
William N. Jackson 52
Frank G. Jackson 21
Marsh Jackson 14
Warren A. Jackson 11
Charles B. Jackson 3
1900 United States Federal Census about Charles B Jackson
Name: Charles B Jackson
Age: 23
Birth Date: Dec 1876
Birthplace: Indiana
Home in 1900: Center, Delaware, Indiana
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: William N Jackson
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Birthplace: Indiana
Occupation: View on Image
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
William N Jackson 72
Charles B Jackson 23
Indiana, Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 about Charles B Jackson
Name: Charles B Jackson
Spouse Name: Margeret M Wagner
Marriage Date: 17 Sep 1902
Marriage County: Henry
1910 United States Federal Census about Charles B Jackson
Name: Charles B Jackson
Age in 1910: 33
Birth Year: abt 1877
Birthplace: Indiana
Home in 1910: Indianapolis Ward 9, Marion, Indiana
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Margaret Jackson
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Birthplace: Ohio
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Charles B Jackson 33
Margaret Jackson 33
Richard W Jackson 5
Wm C Jackson 2
1930 United States Federal Census about Charles B Jackson
Name: Charles B Jackson
[Charle B Jackson]
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1880
Birthplace: Indiana
Race: White
Home in 1930: Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana
Map of Home: View Map
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouse's Name: Margaret Jackson
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Birthplace: Indiana
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Charles B Jackson 50
Margaret Jackson 50
Wm C Jackson 22
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Family:
Father - William Nelson Jackson
Birth: Dec. 22, 1827
Death: Nov. 20, 1902
Civil War veteran; Union, Company E, 19th Indiana Infantry
Mother - Sarah Leonard (Collins) Jackson
Birth: Dec. 16, 1833
Death: Apr. 22, 1879
Siblings -
Mary Minerva Jackson who married John Dennis Mock
Laura Ellen Jackson who married Lafayette P. Ebright
Melville Edgerly Jackson
Dr. Frank Gallahue Jackson who married Jessie Freemont Ice
Willie Meredith Jacskson died at the age of two
Henry Marsh Jackson who married Emma Shewmaker
Warren Adamson Jackson who married Margaret B. Irvin
Wife - Margaret (Wagner) Jackson
Children -
Richard Wagner Jackson
William Charles Jackson
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Newspaper Kokomo Tribune (Indiana), June 4, 1934
Chic Jackson, Cartoonist, Is Heart Victim
Creator of "Bean Family" Is Fatally Stricken When Leaving Office.
Indianapolis, June 3—(AP)—Chic Jackson, who created "The Bean Family," cartoon strip for the Indianapolis Star nineteen years ago, died suddenly today. He was 57 years old.
He was stricken with a heart attack a few feet from his office door as he left his office this afternoon, and died a few minutes later.
The activities of the "Beans" had spread in recent years to other middle western and eastern newspaper comic pages, but they remained a typically Hoosier family. One feature of the strip drew especial notice—the characters grew older as the years passed. "Woodrow Bean," a foundling on the Bean doorstep in 1914, now is a freshman in college.
Chic Jackson was born Dec. 31, 1876, in Muncie, Ind., where he attended school and was employed on the Muncie News when it was absorbed by the Muncie Star.
There he met Margaret Wagner of Springport, also employed on the newspaper, and they married on 1902. He was an illustrator and front page cartoonist.
Jackson and his bride went to Chicago, where he studied at the art institute, and then came to Indianapolis in 1907 to become artist on the Star. At first he did Sunday feature illustrating, later developing the Bean family.
Mrs. Jackson survives, with two sons, William Charles Jackson of Indianapolis, and Richard Wagner Jackson of South Bend. Two brothers are Dr. Frank Jackson and Warren Jackson, both of Muncie.
Funeral arrangements had not been complete tonight.
=========================================================
[According to the 1880 U.S. Federal Census, Charles Bacon Jackson was the youngest of four sons born to William and Sarah, whose name was not recorded; her name was found in the 1870 census. The Jacksons lived in Muncie, Indiana. He and his father were recorded in the 1900 census; they resided at 1100 East Main Street in Muncie. Jackson married on September 17, 1902 (Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 at Ancestry.com). His father passed away on November 20, 1902 (Muncie County Health Office). In 1910, Jackson, his wife and two sons lived in Indianapolis at 924 Hamilton Avenue. His comic strip Roger Bean began in the Indianapolis Star on April 22, 1913. Jackson signed his World War I draft card on September 12, 1918; this document had his middle name. The family remained in Indianapolis at 3029 Broadway Avenue in the 1920 and 1930 censuses. Lastly, there was a Roger Bean Coffee advertised in the Indianapolis Star.]
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Along with Mark Twain, Indiana writers James Whitcomb Riley and Edward Eggleston are credited with bringing regional vernacular to the printed page. Eggleston, for example, wrote his 1871 novel The Hoosier Schoolmaster, "in the dialect spoken in my childhood by rustics on the north side of the Ohio River."
In the early twentieth century, Muncie-born cartoonist Chic Jackson continued the work of representing regular folks—and the way they spoke–in the popular press.
Charles Bacon "Chic" Jackson's comic strip The Bean Family ran in the Indianapolis Star from 1913 to 1934. The strip charted the daily goings-on of the self-important Roger Bean and his family—wife Sylvia, children Cynthia and Woody, a dog, several relatives, and two servants.
Story lines follow the curmudgeonly Mr. Bean's frustrations at not being served breakfast, the clucking criticisms of the next-door neighbor, and the subversive machinations of Jose, the African-American laundry maid.
The strip introduced the convention of continuity to the medium and showed the characters aging, an innovation sometimes attributed to Frank King, creator of Gasoline Alley. An infant at the strip's inception, son Woody, for example, is bound for college in Jackson's last strips.
Jackson's reproduction of the way servants Golduh and Jose spoke was one of the strip's curiosities. Modern audiences will note Jackson's liberal use of jargon long since retired from general circulation—from "booby hatch" to "celluloid opera."
Though Jackson had attended the Art Institute of Chicago for a year, his drawing often matched the characters' speech in its homespun quality. Lacking the slickness of commercial draftmanship, Jackson's figures display what has been called a "tortured anatomy".
Born in Muncie in 1876, Chic Jackson dropped out of high school to pursue employment in a shoe factory, grocery store and iron works, before landing an illustrator's job on the Muncie News (later the Muncie Star). In 1907, he was hired as a feature illustrator at the Indianapolis Star, where he developed The Bean Family.
After its debut in 1913, the strip was syndicated regionally, eventually appearing in the Chicago Daily News. Jackson received plenty of fan mail, along with notes pointing out the occasional discrepancy.
Even James Whitcomb Riley could be counted among Jackson's fans. The cartoonist recalled a visit the poet paid him in 1915, only two years after the debut of The Bean Family. Riley shared his appreciation for "the pleasure the good wholesome humor had afforded him." Jackson later memorialized Riley in a strip captioned "But His Songs Go On Forever".
On the occasion of his own passing, Chic Jackson was artfully memorialized in turn. The June 5, 1934 edition of the Indianapolis Star featured a drawing by William Heitman of the Bean family members, gathered around an empty chair and drawing-board.
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1880 United States Federal Census about Charles B. Jackson
Name: Charles B. Jackson
Age: 3
Birth Year: abt 1877
Birthplace: Indiana
Home in 1880: Muncie, Delaware, Indiana
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: William N. Jackson
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Birthplace: Indiana
Household Members:
Name Age
William N. Jackson 52
Frank G. Jackson 21
Marsh Jackson 14
Warren A. Jackson 11
Charles B. Jackson 3
1900 United States Federal Census about Charles B Jackson
Name: Charles B Jackson
Age: 23
Birth Date: Dec 1876
Birthplace: Indiana
Home in 1900: Center, Delaware, Indiana
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: William N Jackson
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Birthplace: Indiana
Occupation: View on Image
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
William N Jackson 72
Charles B Jackson 23
Indiana, Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 about Charles B Jackson
Name: Charles B Jackson
Spouse Name: Margeret M Wagner
Marriage Date: 17 Sep 1902
Marriage County: Henry
1910 United States Federal Census about Charles B Jackson
Name: Charles B Jackson
Age in 1910: 33
Birth Year: abt 1877
Birthplace: Indiana
Home in 1910: Indianapolis Ward 9, Marion, Indiana
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Margaret Jackson
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Birthplace: Ohio
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Charles B Jackson 33
Margaret Jackson 33
Richard W Jackson 5
Wm C Jackson 2
1930 United States Federal Census about Charles B Jackson
Name: Charles B Jackson
[Charle B Jackson]
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1880
Birthplace: Indiana
Race: White
Home in 1930: Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana
Map of Home: View Map
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouse's Name: Margaret Jackson
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Birthplace: Indiana
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Charles B Jackson 50
Margaret Jackson 50
Wm C Jackson 22
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~~ Charles Bacon "Chic" Jackson ~~
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Family:
Father - William Nelson Jackson
Birth: Dec. 22, 1827
Death: Nov. 20, 1902
Civil War veteran; Union, Company E, 19th Indiana Infantry
Mother - Sarah Leonard (Collins) Jackson
Birth: Dec. 16, 1833
Death: Apr. 22, 1879
Siblings -
Mary Minerva Jackson who married John Dennis Mock
Laura Ellen Jackson who married Lafayette P. Ebright
Melville Edgerly Jackson
Dr. Frank Gallahue Jackson who married Jessie Freemont Ice
Willie Meredith Jacskson died at the age of two
Henry Marsh Jackson who married Emma Shewmaker
Warren Adamson Jackson who married Margaret B. Irvin
Wife - Margaret (Wagner) Jackson
Children -
Richard Wagner Jackson
William Charles Jackson
=========================================================
Newspaper Kokomo Tribune (Indiana), June 4, 1934
Chic Jackson, Cartoonist, Is Heart Victim
Creator of "Bean Family" Is Fatally Stricken When Leaving Office.
Indianapolis, June 3—(AP)—Chic Jackson, who created "The Bean Family," cartoon strip for the Indianapolis Star nineteen years ago, died suddenly today. He was 57 years old.
He was stricken with a heart attack a few feet from his office door as he left his office this afternoon, and died a few minutes later.
The activities of the "Beans" had spread in recent years to other middle western and eastern newspaper comic pages, but they remained a typically Hoosier family. One feature of the strip drew especial notice—the characters grew older as the years passed. "Woodrow Bean," a foundling on the Bean doorstep in 1914, now is a freshman in college.
Chic Jackson was born Dec. 31, 1876, in Muncie, Ind., where he attended school and was employed on the Muncie News when it was absorbed by the Muncie Star.
There he met Margaret Wagner of Springport, also employed on the newspaper, and they married on 1902. He was an illustrator and front page cartoonist.
Jackson and his bride went to Chicago, where he studied at the art institute, and then came to Indianapolis in 1907 to become artist on the Star. At first he did Sunday feature illustrating, later developing the Bean family.
Mrs. Jackson survives, with two sons, William Charles Jackson of Indianapolis, and Richard Wagner Jackson of South Bend. Two brothers are Dr. Frank Jackson and Warren Jackson, both of Muncie.
Funeral arrangements had not been complete tonight.
=========================================================
[According to the 1880 U.S. Federal Census, Charles Bacon Jackson was the youngest of four sons born to William and Sarah, whose name was not recorded; her name was found in the 1870 census. The Jacksons lived in Muncie, Indiana. He and his father were recorded in the 1900 census; they resided at 1100 East Main Street in Muncie. Jackson married on September 17, 1902 (Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 at Ancestry.com). His father passed away on November 20, 1902 (Muncie County Health Office). In 1910, Jackson, his wife and two sons lived in Indianapolis at 924 Hamilton Avenue. His comic strip Roger Bean began in the Indianapolis Star on April 22, 1913. Jackson signed his World War I draft card on September 12, 1918; this document had his middle name. The family remained in Indianapolis at 3029 Broadway Avenue in the 1920 and 1930 censuses. Lastly, there was a Roger Bean Coffee advertised in the Indianapolis Star.]
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Along with Mark Twain, Indiana writers James Whitcomb Riley and Edward Eggleston are credited with bringing regional vernacular to the printed page. Eggleston, for example, wrote his 1871 novel The Hoosier Schoolmaster, "in the dialect spoken in my childhood by rustics on the north side of the Ohio River."
In the early twentieth century, Muncie-born cartoonist Chic Jackson continued the work of representing regular folks—and the way they spoke–in the popular press.
Charles Bacon "Chic" Jackson's comic strip The Bean Family ran in the Indianapolis Star from 1913 to 1934. The strip charted the daily goings-on of the self-important Roger Bean and his family—wife Sylvia, children Cynthia and Woody, a dog, several relatives, and two servants.
Story lines follow the curmudgeonly Mr. Bean's frustrations at not being served breakfast, the clucking criticisms of the next-door neighbor, and the subversive machinations of Jose, the African-American laundry maid.
The strip introduced the convention of continuity to the medium and showed the characters aging, an innovation sometimes attributed to Frank King, creator of Gasoline Alley. An infant at the strip's inception, son Woody, for example, is bound for college in Jackson's last strips.
Jackson's reproduction of the way servants Golduh and Jose spoke was one of the strip's curiosities. Modern audiences will note Jackson's liberal use of jargon long since retired from general circulation—from "booby hatch" to "celluloid opera."
Though Jackson had attended the Art Institute of Chicago for a year, his drawing often matched the characters' speech in its homespun quality. Lacking the slickness of commercial draftmanship, Jackson's figures display what has been called a "tortured anatomy".
Born in Muncie in 1876, Chic Jackson dropped out of high school to pursue employment in a shoe factory, grocery store and iron works, before landing an illustrator's job on the Muncie News (later the Muncie Star). In 1907, he was hired as a feature illustrator at the Indianapolis Star, where he developed The Bean Family.
After its debut in 1913, the strip was syndicated regionally, eventually appearing in the Chicago Daily News. Jackson received plenty of fan mail, along with notes pointing out the occasional discrepancy.
Even James Whitcomb Riley could be counted among Jackson's fans. The cartoonist recalled a visit the poet paid him in 1915, only two years after the debut of The Bean Family. Riley shared his appreciation for "the pleasure the good wholesome humor had afforded him." Jackson later memorialized Riley in a strip captioned "But His Songs Go On Forever".
On the occasion of his own passing, Chic Jackson was artfully memorialized in turn. The June 5, 1934 edition of the Indianapolis Star featured a drawing by William Heitman of the Bean family members, gathered around an empty chair and drawing-board.
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1880 United States Federal Census about Charles B. Jackson
Name: Charles B. Jackson
Age: 3
Birth Year: abt 1877
Birthplace: Indiana
Home in 1880: Muncie, Delaware, Indiana
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: William N. Jackson
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Birthplace: Indiana
Household Members:
Name Age
William N. Jackson 52
Frank G. Jackson 21
Marsh Jackson 14
Warren A. Jackson 11
Charles B. Jackson 3
1900 United States Federal Census about Charles B Jackson
Name: Charles B Jackson
Age: 23
Birth Date: Dec 1876
Birthplace: Indiana
Home in 1900: Center, Delaware, Indiana
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: William N Jackson
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Birthplace: Indiana
Occupation: View on Image
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
William N Jackson 72
Charles B Jackson 23
Indiana, Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 about Charles B Jackson
Name: Charles B Jackson
Spouse Name: Margeret M Wagner
Marriage Date: 17 Sep 1902
Marriage County: Henry
1910 United States Federal Census about Charles B Jackson
Name: Charles B Jackson
Age in 1910: 33
Birth Year: abt 1877
Birthplace: Indiana
Home in 1910: Indianapolis Ward 9, Marion, Indiana
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Margaret Jackson
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Birthplace: Ohio
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Charles B Jackson 33
Margaret Jackson 33
Richard W Jackson 5
Wm C Jackson 2
1930 United States Federal Census about Charles B Jackson
Name: Charles B Jackson
[Charle B Jackson]
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1880
Birthplace: Indiana
Race: White
Home in 1930: Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana
Map of Home: View Map
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouse's Name: Margaret Jackson
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Birthplace: Indiana
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Charles B Jackson 50
Margaret Jackson 50
Wm C Jackson 22
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Family:
Father - William Nelson Jackson
Birth: Dec. 22, 1827
Death: Nov. 20, 1902
Civil War veteran; Union, Company E, 19th Indiana Infantry
Mother - Sarah Leonard (Collins) Jackson
Birth: Dec. 16, 1833
Death: Apr. 22, 1879
Siblings -
Mary Minerva Jackson who married John Dennis Mock
Laura Ellen Jackson who married Lafayette P. Ebright
Melville Edgerly Jackson
Dr. Frank Gallahue Jackson who married Jessie Freemont Ice
Willie Meredith Jacskson died at the age of two
Henry Marsh Jackson who married Emma Shewmaker
Warren Adamson Jackson who married Margaret B. Irvin
Wife - Margaret (Wagner) Jackson
Children -
Richard Wagner Jackson
William Charles Jackson
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Newspaper Kokomo Tribune (Indiana), June 4, 1934
Chic Jackson, Cartoonist, Is Heart Victim
Creator of "Bean Family" Is Fatally Stricken When Leaving Office.
Indianapolis, June 3—(AP)—Chic Jackson, who created "The Bean Family," cartoon strip for the Indianapolis Star nineteen years ago, died suddenly today. He was 57 years old.
He was stricken with a heart attack a few feet from his office door as he left his office this afternoon, and died a few minutes later.
The activities of the "Beans" had spread in recent years to other middle western and eastern newspaper comic pages, but they remained a typically Hoosier family. One feature of the strip drew especial notice—the characters grew older as the years passed. "Woodrow Bean," a foundling on the Bean doorstep in 1914, now is a freshman in college.
Chic Jackson was born Dec. 31, 1876, in Muncie, Ind., where he attended school and was employed on the Muncie News when it was absorbed by the Muncie Star.
There he met Margaret Wagner of Springport, also employed on the newspaper, and they married on 1902. He was an illustrator and front page cartoonist.
Jackson and his bride went to Chicago, where he studied at the art institute, and then came to Indianapolis in 1907 to become artist on the Star. At first he did Sunday feature illustrating, later developing the Bean family.
Mrs. Jackson survives, with two sons, William Charles Jackson of Indianapolis, and Richard Wagner Jackson of South Bend. Two brothers are Dr. Frank Jackson and Warren Jackson, both of Muncie.
Funeral arrangements had not been complete tonight.
=========================================================
[According to the 1880 U.S. Federal Census, Charles Bacon Jackson was the youngest of four sons born to William and Sarah, whose name was not recorded; her name was found in the 1870 census. The Jacksons lived in Muncie, Indiana. He and his father were recorded in the 1900 census; they resided at 1100 East Main Street in Muncie. Jackson married on September 17, 1902 (Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 at Ancestry.com). His father passed away on November 20, 1902 (Muncie County Health Office). In 1910, Jackson, his wife and two sons lived in Indianapolis at 924 Hamilton Avenue. His comic strip Roger Bean began in the Indianapolis Star on April 22, 1913. Jackson signed his World War I draft card on September 12, 1918; this document had his middle name. The family remained in Indianapolis at 3029 Broadway Avenue in the 1920 and 1930 censuses. Lastly, there was a Roger Bean Coffee advertised in the Indianapolis Star.]
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Along with Mark Twain, Indiana writers James Whitcomb Riley and Edward Eggleston are credited with bringing regional vernacular to the printed page. Eggleston, for example, wrote his 1871 novel The Hoosier Schoolmaster, "in the dialect spoken in my childhood by rustics on the north side of the Ohio River."
In the early twentieth century, Muncie-born cartoonist Chic Jackson continued the work of representing regular folks—and the way they spoke–in the popular press.
Charles Bacon "Chic" Jackson's comic strip The Bean Family ran in the Indianapolis Star from 1913 to 1934. The strip charted the daily goings-on of the self-important Roger Bean and his family—wife Sylvia, children Cynthia and Woody, a dog, several relatives, and two servants.
Story lines follow the curmudgeonly Mr. Bean's frustrations at not being served breakfast, the clucking criticisms of the next-door neighbor, and the subversive machinations of Jose, the African-American laundry maid.
The strip introduced the convention of continuity to the medium and showed the characters aging, an innovation sometimes attributed to Frank King, creator of Gasoline Alley. An infant at the strip's inception, son Woody, for example, is bound for college in Jackson's last strips.
Jackson's reproduction of the way servants Golduh and Jose spoke was one of the strip's curiosities. Modern audiences will note Jackson's liberal use of jargon long since retired from general circulation—from "booby hatch" to "celluloid opera."
Though Jackson had attended the Art Institute of Chicago for a year, his drawing often matched the characters' speech in its homespun quality. Lacking the slickness of commercial draftmanship, Jackson's figures display what has been called a "tortured anatomy".
Born in Muncie in 1876, Chic Jackson dropped out of high school to pursue employment in a shoe factory, grocery store and iron works, before landing an illustrator's job on the Muncie News (later the Muncie Star). In 1907, he was hired as a feature illustrator at the Indianapolis Star, where he developed The Bean Family.
After its debut in 1913, the strip was syndicated regionally, eventually appearing in the Chicago Daily News. Jackson received plenty of fan mail, along with notes pointing out the occasional discrepancy.
Even James Whitcomb Riley could be counted among Jackson's fans. The cartoonist recalled a visit the poet paid him in 1915, only two years after the debut of The Bean Family. Riley shared his appreciation for "the pleasure the good wholesome humor had afforded him." Jackson later memorialized Riley in a strip captioned "But His Songs Go On Forever".
On the occasion of his own passing, Chic Jackson was artfully memorialized in turn. The June 5, 1934 edition of the Indianapolis Star featured a drawing by William Heitman of the Bean family members, gathered around an empty chair and drawing-board.
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1880 United States Federal Census about Charles B. Jackson
Name: Charles B. Jackson
Age: 3
Birth Year: abt 1877
Birthplace: Indiana
Home in 1880: Muncie, Delaware, Indiana
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: William N. Jackson
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Birthplace: Indiana
Household Members:
Name Age
William N. Jackson 52
Frank G. Jackson 21
Marsh Jackson 14
Warren A. Jackson 11
Charles B. Jackson 3
1900 United States Federal Census about Charles B Jackson
Name: Charles B Jackson
Age: 23
Birth Date: Dec 1876
Birthplace: Indiana
Home in 1900: Center, Delaware, Indiana
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: William N Jackson
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Birthplace: Indiana
Occupation: View on Image
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
William N Jackson 72
Charles B Jackson 23
Indiana, Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 about Charles B Jackson
Name: Charles B Jackson
Spouse Name: Margeret M Wagner
Marriage Date: 17 Sep 1902
Marriage County: Henry
1910 United States Federal Census about Charles B Jackson
Name: Charles B Jackson
Age in 1910: 33
Birth Year: abt 1877
Birthplace: Indiana
Home in 1910: Indianapolis Ward 9, Marion, Indiana
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Margaret Jackson
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Birthplace: Ohio
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Household Members:
Name Age
Charles B Jackson 33
Margaret Jackson 33
Richard W Jackson 5
Wm C Jackson 2
1930 United States Federal Census about Charles B Jackson
Name: Charles B Jackson
[Charle B Jackson]
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1880
Birthplace: Indiana
Race: White
Home in 1930: Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana
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Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouse's Name: Margaret Jackson
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Birthplace: Indiana
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Household Members:
Name Age
Charles B Jackson 50
Margaret Jackson 50
Wm C Jackson 22
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