Jackson, Hancock
governor. He was acting governor of Missouri in 1857.
JACKSON, MRS. HELEN (FISKE) (HUNT), novelist, poet, was born Oct. 18, 1831, in Amherst, Mass. She was a novelist and poet whose greatest achievement is Ramona, a powerful romance of Indian life in southern California. To her is usually attributed the authorship of the Saxe Holme stories. Her other works include, Verses; Bits of Travel; Bits of Talk; A Century of Dishonor; Bits of Talk in Verse and Prose; Bits of Travel at Home; The Story of Boon, a Poem; Sonnets and Lyrics; Nelly's Silver Mine; Cat Stories; Mercy Philbrick's Choice; Hetty's Strange History; Zeph; Glimpses of Three Coasts; Between Whiles, a collection of short stories; The Procession of Flowers in Colorado; and Condition and Needs of the Mission Indians of California (with K. Abbot). She died Aug. 12, 1885, in San Francisco, Cal.