Jacob Green Jackson

Jacob Green Jackson (March 16, 1817 – April 17, 1901) was an American lumberman of Colonial New England ancestry who came to California in 1851. He was one of the first to recognize the vast wealth in the redwood forests and was among the earliest to make a successful business of logging. Captain Jackson married Elvenia D. Durgin, of Sanbornton Bridge (now Tilton, New Hampshire), and she was 91 years of age at the time of her death, in 1919. Of the two children, Abbie E. Krebs-Wilkins is the elder, and the son, Charles G., died in 1890.