Jay Guy Cisco (April 25, 1844 - April 24, 1922) was an American Confederate veteran, journalist, diplomat and businessman. He was the owner of a bookstore and the editor of the ''Forked Deer Blade'' newspaper in

Jackson, Tennessee Jackson is a city in and the county seat of Madison County, Tennessee, United States. Located east of Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis, it is a regional center of trade for West Tennessee. Its total population was 68,205 as of the 2020 United States ...

. He was a U.S. consul to Mexico, and an agent for the

Louisville and Nashville Railroad The Louisville and Nashville Railroad , commonly called the L&N, was a Class I railroad that operated freight and passenger services in the southeast United States. Chartered by the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1850, the road grew into one of the ...

Early life

Cisco was born on April 25, 1844, in New Orleans, Louisiana. During the

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of 1861-1865, he served in the

Confederate States Army The Confederate States Army, also called the Confederate Army or the Southern Army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865), fighting ...

. He subsequently traveled to Europe.

Career

Cisco moved to

, where he was the owner of a bookstore known as Cisco's Bookstore. He became the editor of the ''Forked Deer Blade'' in Jackson in 1883. He was a proponent of

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. Cisco was appointed as a consul to Mexico by President

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in 1888. He was an agent for the

from 1897 to 1922.

Personal life and death

Cisco married Mildred George Pursley; they had four sons and two daughters. They resided at 912 Boscobel Street in Nashville. Cisco died on April 24, 1922, in Nashville.

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1844 births 1922 deaths Writers from New Orleans People from Jackson, Tennessee People from Nashville, Tennessee Editors of Tennessee newspapers 19th-century American newspaper editors 20th-century American newspaper editors Businesspeople from Tennessee Louisville and Nashville Railroad people Military personnel from Louisiana {{US-business-bio-1840s-stub