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Major Thomas K. Jackson became the second master of El Paso Lodge # 130 A.F. & A.M. in 1855. Jackson was a West Point graduate. In 1859 he was assigned to Fort Bliss. He passed away in Gainesville, Alabama where he became a merchant and farmer.
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