Jackson, David W. (1969)
Dates
- Existence: 1969
Biography
David W. Jackson (1969- ) is director, archivist, and founder of The Orderly Pack Rat. Jackson has more than 40 years of experience in personal manuscript collection. His childhood hobby of genealogy, initiated at age 11, became the catalyst and inspiration for his future career. He received his BS magna cum laude in Historic Preservation--Archives Studies from Southeast Missouri State University in 1993, and secured a position as an archivist for Unity Archives at the Unity School of Christianity. Jackson founded The Orderly Pack Rat, an historical research and consulting service, in 1996. Since 2000, Jackson, as Director of Archives and Education for the Jackson County (Mo.) Historical Society, has served as editor of and contributor to the nonprofit organization’s scholarly periodical, the Jackson County Historical Society JOURNAL. He also manages its bookshop; updates its website; coordinates a volunteer program; presents on behalf of its Speakers’ Bureau; and, regularly contributes local history-related articles to the Independence Examiner newspaper.
Jackson has written several, topical guidebooks (i.e., Practical Preservation; These Walls Were Made for Talking: Tools for Constructing the History of Your House in Jackson County, Missouri; Conserving Missouri Cemeteries; and, A River Runs By It: The Story of Independence, Kansas City, and Jackson County, Missouri), and directed the publishing of several books through the Jackson County Historical Society’s imprint. In 2010, The History Press released a compilation of adaptations of Jackson’s aforementioned newspaper columns in a book titled, Kansas City Chronicles: An Up-to-Date History. Under The Orderly Pack Rat imprint, Jackson is also author and publisher of Direct Your Letters to San Jose: The California Gold Rush Letters of James and David Lee Campbell, 1849-1852 (2000); and Recipes of our Past: Morsels from Our Grandmothers’ Recipe Boxes (2005).