James Caleb Jackson

Biography

James Caleb Jackson was a visionary in health reform, founding the Jackson Sanitarium in Dansville and creating granula, an early whole-grain food that helped popularize the focus on nutritious, plant-based diets.

Through his writings, lectures, and hospitality to patients, he championed temperance, wholesome living, and daily exercise, leaving a body of work that inspired others to care for body and spirit.