Clarence Gearhart Jackson (1842-1880)
Birth: March 25, 1842; Berwick, Pennsylvania
Death: May 13, 1880 (age 38); Berwick, Pennsylvania
Military Service: USA, 1861-65
Unit: Company H, 84th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1860)
Clarence G. Jackson was one of the sons of self-made heavy manufacturer M. W. Jackson and his first wife, Margaret Gearhart Jackson. The younger Jackson grew up in Berwick and at fourteen attended the Dickinson Seminary in Williamsport. He then enrolled in Dickinson College, Pennsylvania at the age of sixteen with the class of 1860. He was elected to the Belles Lettres Society and graduated with honors along with his class.