Early life Born in
Hudson Township, Bates County, Missouri, near
Appleton City, Jackling was an orphan at the age of two. Raised for a while by an aunt, Jackling eventually had to pass from family to family but finished eighth grade by the age of sixteen and then enrolled in the
Normal School at
Warrensburg, Missouri. Starting in 1889, Daniel Jackling was educated in the mining and metallurgy disciplines at the Missouri School of Mines in
Rolla, Missouri, now known as
Missouri University of Science and Technology, eventually earning a
BS degree. From 1891 until 1893 he taught chemistry and metallurgy as an assistant professor.
Personal life Jackling's first wife, a schoolteacher, died in 1914. He married his second wife, Virginia Jolliffe, on April 5, 1915 His obituary in the
New York Times noted that she survived him. Jackling was a high spender and traveled widely in his private railroad car and in his steam yacht
Cyprus. When he retired in 1942, he moved his headquarters from
Salt Lake City to
San Francisco, where he had the whole penthouse floor of the
St. Francis Hotel remodeled for his use He was a member of the city's Pacific Union, Bohemian, and Press Clubs, and owned an estate on the San Francisco peninsula at Woodside, where he died in 1956. Jackling received the
Distinguished Service Medal from President
Woodrow Wilson in 1919 for directing the U.S. government explosives plants, like the one at
Nitro, West Virginia, during World War I. He was given honorary degrees by the Universities of California, Southern California, and Utah. A statue of Jackling was placed in the rotunda of the
Utah State Capitol in 1954. An original Jackling Field hosted football games elsewhere on the campus from 1915 to 1966; Jackling contributed $5000 for its construction. ==The Jackling House==