Early Life
Jackman was born on February 14, 1894 in Stillwater, Minnesota. He grew up on his father's 185-acre (0.75 km2) potato, grain, and livestock farm in Flathead County, Montana. From 1913 to 1917, he attended Montana State College in Bozeman (now Montana State University - Bozeman). He then served briefly as an Agricultural Extension Agent in Blaine County, Montana before entering the United States Army in the fall of 1917. He was stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma where he served as a First Lieutenant in the Field Artillery. Following World War I, Jackman attended Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University). He majored in Agronomy, receiving a Bachelor of Science in 1921.
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