During the summer of 1904, a young banker arrived in Albertville. Some sixty-two years later, during a newspaper interview, Hogan Jackson remembered those early days. "The [business] houses on both sides of Main Street were of frame or wood construction, with the exception of the Marshall Drug Company—which was built of rock—and the J.F. Hooper private bank—which was built of brick. There were no telephones, there was no electricity, no water system, and no paved streets or sidewalks. The main event of the day was the arrival of the incoming passenger train of the N.C. & St. L. Railway. We would all be at the depot to see the train come and the passengers get off an on." Mr. Jackson had begun his business career as a clerk in a dry goods store in Macon, Georgia. From there he moved to Atlanta taking a similar job, before ultimately enrolling in the Atlanta Business College. Little did he know, that as he was nearing graduation, a prominent Georgia banker by the name of W.S. Witham, who controlled over forty Georgia banks, had been looking at the grades of the schools best students. He was much impressed by the young Culloden, Georgia native. So much so that he presented him an offer, but it was an offer with a catch. As Jackson later remembered, Witham told him, "I don't have a job for you Hogan, but I'll let you go to my bank at Louisville and work for three months at no salary, and if at the end of that time I think you are qualified I'll give you a job there." After three months, Jackson was given a modest salary. In three more months he was named cashier of the bank at Millen, Georgia, where he worked for two years at a salary of $75.00 a month. Eventually, he would take a position at Western Bank in New York City, before ultimately returning to the deep south. Inside of three years moving to Marshall County, Hogan Jackson had established not only his Bank of Albertville, but the Farmers and Merchants Bank in Boaz and the Bank of Arab. On September 25, 1907, Albertville's bachelor banker married Miss Mozelle Harris of Macon, Georgia. The couple would have four children, Wilkins W. Jackson, Mary Jackson St. John, Clara Jackson Martin and Hogan Jackson, Jr. Hogan Jackson, Sr. is the grandfather of, a actress, Kate Jackson.
During the summer of 1904, a young banker arrived in Albertville. Some sixty-two years later, during a newspaper interview, Hogan Jackson remembered those early days. "The [business] houses on both sides of Main Street were of frame or wood construction, with the exception of the Marshall Drug Company—which was built of rock—and the J.F. Hooper private bank—which was built of brick. There were no telephones, there was no electricity, no water system, and no paved streets or sidewalks. The main event of the day was the arrival of the incoming passenger train of the N.C. & St. L. Railway. We would all be at the depot to see the train come and the passengers get off an on." Mr. Jackson had begun his business career as a clerk in a dry goods store in Macon, Georgia. From there he moved to Atlanta taking a similar job, before ultimately enrolling in the Atlanta Business College. Little did he know, that as he was nearing graduation, a prominent Georgia banker by the name of W.S. Witham, who controlled over forty Georgia banks, had been looking at the grades of the schools best students. He was much impressed by the young Culloden, Georgia native. So much so that he presented him an offer, but it was an offer with a catch. As Jackson later remembered, Witham told him, "I don't have a job for you Hogan, but I'll let you go to my bank at Louisville and work for three months at no salary, and if at the end of that time I think you are qualified I'll give you a job there." After three months, Jackson was given a modest salary. In three more months he was named cashier of the bank at Millen, Georgia, where he worked for two years at a salary of $75.00 a month. Eventually, he would take a position at Western Bank in New York City, before ultimately returning to the deep south. Inside of three years moving to Marshall County, Hogan Jackson had established not only his Bank of Albertville, but the Farmers and Merchants Bank in Boaz and the Bank of Arab. On September 25, 1907, Albertville's bachelor banker married Miss Mozelle Harris of Macon, Georgia. The couple would have four children, Wilkins W. Jackson, Mary Jackson St. John, Clara Jackson Martin and Hogan Jackson, Jr. Hogan Jackson, Sr. is the grandfather of, a actress, Kate Jackson.
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