Charles Warren Jackson was born October 29, 1864, in New York City, and there lived for the major part of his life. He is the son of Ebenezer C. and Mary Frances (Sillcocks) Jackson. His education was a fine one, the first part of it being gained in the excellent public schools of the city, where he showed himself an apt student, and capable of close however push his studies any further at that time, but upon graduating from these institutions entered the wholesale drug business, an occupation that he followed for some two years. He had always been keenly interested in medicine, and had cherished an ambition to study in a medical school and prepare himself to practice it. His mercantile venture having succeeded admirably, he decided to carry out his intention, and accordingly in 1884 he entered the Medical School of the New York University, graduating with the class of 1887. During his career in this institution he once more proved his excellent scholarship, distinguished himself in his classes and gaining for himself a splendid grounding in the theoretical basis of the art. He was also a student under the famous heart and lung specialist, Dr. Alfred L. Loomis, of New York. For the requisite experience Dr. Jackson then went to Bellevue Hospital, where he acted as interne in the surgical department for the two years between 1887 and 1889. At the end of this time, being possessed of more than the average of knowledge and experience, he began his private practice, the location chosen for his first office being No. 120 West Seventy-ninth street, New York City. Thereafter he had a number of different offices situated at various points in the same general region, going from the Seventy-ninth street place, after a two years' occupancy, to No. i68 West Eighty-first street, where he remained about three years, thence to 130 West Eighty-first street, and eventually to No. i West Eighty-third street, on the corner of Central Park West. It was in 1902 that he came to Water- town, Connecticut, on account of ill health, having previously the New York office of the "On-the-Hill" institution, and this latter city has since been his headquarters. In 1903 he purchased the property which he has developed into a most successful health resort, known as "On-the-Hill." The success of "On-the- Hill" is twofold, and both of them redound to the credit of the brilliant man at its head. It is successful, first of all, in its function of restoring health to those who seek its treatments, the proportion of cures wrought there being exceedingly high; and it is successful as a business institution, a side just as essential, if it is to continue as an institution at all. The method in operation at "On-the-Hill" is that which most nearly restores its patients to normal conditions, and involves rest in the open air, and sunshine, and well regulated and graded exercises, with plenty of opportunity for amusement and quiet social intercourse. The limit to the number of patients it can accommodate is low, only twenty-five in all, so that the greatest personal attention can be given each case. In a descriptive pamphlet issued by Dr. Jackson, the following occurs, which gives a clear idea of his aims and methods, though in brief. Says Dr. Jackson: No small part of ill health, physical and mental, is directly traceable to overtaxation of one's powers. Too great indulgence in social affairs; too great a burden of business cares; troubles of one kind or another often cause that condition of mind or body, which can be remedied best by a complete change of scene, of atmosphere, of mode of living. To get such change it is not necessary that you go to Europe, or even to some faraway Southern resort * * * Consider yourself convalescing after a long illness. What could be more healing than the sheltered seclusion of "On-the-Hill?" In its comfortable sun parlors, its pleasing walks, its appointments for rest, the sick bed is soon forgotten. The clear, pure air, the sparkling mountain water, the well regulated table, and the carefully planned program of recreation take the place of your drugs and permit your system naturally to regain its normal condition of robust health. In another place he says: Here in the high altitude of the beautiful Berkshires, Nature herself is a cure for most ills. The very air is scented with the fragrance of good health; the sun radiates it; your whole system thrills with the joy of living. Besides his active work as a physician, Dr. Jackson takes a keen interest in medical matters generally, and is a member of the important societies of the profession, among which should be mentioned the American Medical Association, the Waterbury Medical Society, and the Connecticut Society of Alienists. He is also prominent in the local lodge of the Masonic order. In the matter of his religious belief, Dr. Jackson is a Congregationalist and attends the church of that denomination at Watertown. Dr. Jackson is a member of a family that was very prominent in New Brunswick, New Jersey, for a number of years —the Sillcocks family. His grandparents were Nathan Hunt Jackson and Sarah (Conover) Jackson, the former born in New York City, and the latter in New Jersey. He became an important business man in New York City, where he established a large trade in grates and fenders and allied hardware goods, under the name of Nathan H. Jackson, the firm afterward changing its name to William H. Jackson & Company, at one time the largest dealers in New York in that line.
Dr. Jackson was married, at Boston, to Miss Alma DeForest Curtiss, a native of Watertown, Connecticut, and a daughter of Colonel Eli Curtiss, of that place, and Mary Frances (Davis) Curtiss, of Boston, his wife. Colonel Curtiss, who was in command of a Connecticut regiment in the Civil War, died in New York City in the year 1871, and was survived by his wife until 1901, when her death occurred also in the same place. To Dr. and Mrs. Jackson one daughter, Frances Curtiss Jackson, was born December 15, 1893.
Encyclopedia of Connecticut Biography.
Charles Warren Jackson was born on 29. Oct. 1864 at New York City, New York County, New York. He was the son of
Ebenezer Jackson and
Mary Francis Sillcocks. Charles Warren Jackson married
Alma DeForest Curtiss, daughter of
Col. Eli Curtiss and
Mary Frances Davis, at Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.