Complex sentence: At the time of the renaming there was discussion as to whether the steet had been named for the Jackson brothers or for US Presdient Andrew Jackson, but a Jersey Journal article from 1924 ascribes it to Jeremiah Jackson, a local landowner in the mid- 19th century.
Split into simpler sentences: At the time of the renaming there was discussion as to whether the street had originally been named for the Jackson brothers or for US Presdient Andrew Jackson. A 1924 "Jersey Journal" newspaper article ascribes it to Jeremiah Jackson, a local landowner in the mid- 19th century.