Henry Kennedy Jackson was born and raised in Jefferson, Maine. He headed west in the 1880’s, stopping in Los Angeles for 4 years, and then to San Francisco where he got a job as a street car conductor. He then moved to the East Bay and started the Chicago Clock Company in Oakland, which later became the Jackson Furniture Company. He lived in Alameda for a number of years and his son Frank (my grandfather) was born in Alameda and graduated from Alameda High School. Frank then went on to graduate from Stanford, but not before being suspended in 1907. Frank gave my dad a car not to attend Stanford. My dad went to Cal instead and met my mom, Lulu. He ended up getting his MBA from Stanford.

Henry lived in the Bellevue Staten on Lake Merritt, and owned homes in Diablo and Ben Lomond. He belonged to the Diablo Country Club, Claremont Country Club, and Castlewood Country Club- I guess he liked golf.

Bellow is his home in Alameda. It is still there today- literally today, April 7, 2008.