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James Caleb Jackson (March 28, 1811 - 1895 was the inventor of the first dry, whole grain cereal which he called granola
He was born in Manlius, Onondaga County, New York, 28 March, 1811. He was educated at the Chittenango polytechnic institute, and was a farmer till 1838, when he entered the service of the Massachusetts anti-slavery society as a lecturer. In 1840 he left the field to become corresponding secretary of this society, which place he held till 1842, becoming in that year editor of the "Madison County Abolitionist," at Cazenovia, New York In the autumn of 1844, together with Abel Brown, of Troy, he purchased the Albany "Patriot," and he edited and managed it till 1847, when failing health compelled him to relinquish journalism. In the autumn of 1847 he founded a hydropathic institute at the head of Skaneateles lake, New York, and until 1858 was its principal proprietor and physician. In that year he founded "Our Home Hygienic Institute" at Dansville, Livingston County, New York, which claims to be the largest institution of the kind in the world. Dr. Jackson has had under his care fully 20,000 patients,
Publications
- 1861 The Sexual Organization and its Healthy Management
- 1862 Consumption: How to prevent It, and How to cure It
- 1870 How to treat the Sick without Medicine
- 1870 American Womanhood: Its Peculiarities and Necessities
- 1872 The Training of Children
- 1872 The Debilities of Our Boys
- 1875 Christ as a Physician
- 1822 Morning Watches
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