OF TH ETOMN JACKSON TYh

 completed his education at Fordham University, New York. Upon
 his graduation he returned to Tampa and engaged in the meroan-
 tile business with his father, and after the death of the lat-
 ter, in 1887, continued the business alone until 1895.
 Thomas E. Jackson was at one time an employee of the cus-
 tom house, when Captain John T. Lesley was collector of cus-
 toms. He has been mayor of the city of Tampa for three terms,
 county treasurer five terms, county commissioner for one term.
 He was only twenty-four years of age at the time that he was
 county treasurer. He was for four years bookkeeper in the of-
 fice of Sheriff Robert A. Jackson. He is now engaged in the
 real estate business
 Thomas E. Jackson is a member of the Catholic Church, of
 the Knights of Columbus and the Columbian Woodmen.
 Thomas E. Jackson married Kate E. Warner, daughter of
 Isaac W. and Sarah R. (Whitford) Warner, of Omaha, Nebraska,
 where their daughter was born August 7, 1857.
 Mri Warner was a native of New York State; his wife was
 born in Kendallville, Indiana. They came to Tampa in 1875, and
 settled north of the city on the line of what is now known as
 Nebraska avenue It was Mr. Warner who gave to this thorough-
 fare its present name. He entered a homestead in this neiih-
 borhood and engaged in orange growing on a large scale. Mr.
 and Mrs. Warner resided here until their deaths, that of the
 former occurring in 1896 and his wife passing away at the age
 of fifty-seven years. They were the parents of two daughters,
 Alice, who married first Harry Cook; married second Frank Ful-
 ler, nwl living in Los Angeles, California. By the first mar-
 riage two children were born, Zulu and Edna; by the second
 marriage, one, Francis.
 Kate B., who married Thomas E. Jackson, is the second
 daughter of Isaac W. and Sarah R. Whitford Warner.
 Thonas Ee and Kate E. (Warner) Jackson have had four
 children that attained maturity; namely,
 Mary llen, who married T. Van Rhyn Carty. They have two
 children, Catherine Mary and Clare Bernadette.
 Bernier A., who died unmarried in 1912.
 SLulu Margaerite, who married Robert T. Jotgin.
 John Edward, who married Hildegerde Bell. There have two!
 sons, George and Bernier.
 The second child of John and Ellen (Maher) Jaokson is
 Jamas A., who is married.
 The third is Kate V., who is also umaarried. Sheis a .
 woman of a3ch social prominence and brilliancy of, iad, beint
 active .i all movements that are calculated to elevate the t"
Stelleotual and noral tone of the cowlanity as well as to i.
 the material advandemnt of the atty. She has been t


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