William Terry Jackson

William Terry Jackson was a U.S. Representative from New York.
Born in Chester, New York, Jackson attended the common schools and later studied surveying.
He taught school in Goshen, New York from 1813-15. He was employed as a surveyor and later engaged in mercantile pursuits in Chester and Owego, and Bermerville, Sussex County, New Jersey. He moved to [Montour, New York|Havana, Chemung County, New York|Chemung County (now Montour, Schuyler County, New York)] in 1825 and engaged in mercantile pursuits.
He was a Justice of the Peace 1836-1838. He served as judge of the court of common pleas and general sessions of Chemung County 1839-1846. He was again a Justice of the Peace, town of Catharine, New York, originally in Chemung County, but later incorporated into Schuyler County.
Jackson was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress. He resumed mercantile pursuits.
He died in Montour Falls, New York on September 15, 1882, aged 87 and was interred in Montour Falls Cemetery.