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Jackson, John George

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1774, in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1795 to 1797, from 1799 to 1810, and again from 1813 to 1817. He died March 29, 1825, in Clarksburg, Va.

Jackson, John J

JR., lawyer, jurist, was born in Virginia. In 1861 he was appointed United States judge for the district of West Virginia, residing at Parkersburg.

Jackson, John King

soldier, lawyer, was born Feb. 8, 1828, in Augusta, Ga. He practiced law till the beginning of the civil war. He then raised the first Georgia infantry and the Augusta volunteer battalion for the confederate army, was made colonel of the fifth Georgia regiment in 1861, and subsequently brigadier-general. He died Feb. 27, 1866, ın Milledgeville, Ga.

Jackson, Jonathan

congressman, was born June 4, 1743, in Boston, Mass.

He was a delegate to the continental congress in 1782; United States marshal from 1789 to 1791; treasurer of Massachusetts from 1802 to 1806; and was treasurer of Harvard college from 1807 until his death.

He died March 5, 1810, in Boston, Mass.

Jackson, Joseph Cooke

soldier, lawyer, was born Aug. 5, 1835, in Newark, N. J. He was brevetted brigadiergeneral of volunteers in 1865. At the close of his term of service he was appointed by the war department a commissioner of the United States naval credits. In 1870 he was appointed assistant district attorney for the southern district of New York.

Jackson, Joseph W

state legislator, congressman. He was frequently a member of the city council of Savannah; and served a number of years in the state legislature. He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1850 to 1853. He died Dec. 28, 1854, in Savannah, Ga.

Jackson, Mercy Bisbee

physician, was born Sept. 17, 1802, in Hardwick, Mass. She was one of the pioneers in all the reforms of female education, proving by example that woman's sphere can be complete, and yet rounded out beyond the limits of housekeeping. She died Dec. 13, 1877, in Boston, Mass.

Jackson, Michael

soldier, was born Dec. 18, 1734, in Newton, Mass. He was colonel of the eighth Massachusetts regiment of the continental line from January, 1777, till the close of the war.

He died April 10, 1801, in Newton, Mass.

Jackson, Nathaniel James

soldier, was born about 1825, in Newburyport, Mass. He was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862; and served through the campaigns of Mc- Clellan and Pope in Virginia, being wounded at Gaines's Mills.

Jackson, Richard

JR., merchant, manufacturer, congressman, was born in 1764. He was a member of congress from Rhode Island from 1808 to 1815. He died April 18, 1838, in Providence, R. I.

JACKSON, ROBERT MONTGOMERY SMITH, physician, author, was born April 20, 1815, in Alexandria, Pa. He was medical inspector of the twenty-third army corps, and acting medical director of the department of the Ohio. He published a work entitled The Mountain. He died Jan. 28, 1865, in. Chattanooga, Tenn.

Jackson, Sheldon

missionary, author, was born May 16, 1834, in Minaville, N. Y. He is a presbyterian missionary, and government general agent of education in Alaska since 1885. He is the author of Alaska and Missions on the North Pacific Coast; and Education in Alaska.

Jackson, Thomas B

congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1837 to 1841; and was also for three years a member of the assembly of New York.