Jackson, Claiborne Fox – Jackson, James Caleb
Jackson, Claiborne Fox
soldier, governor, was born April 4, 1807, in Fleming county, Ky. He served as captain in the Black Hawk war; and served for twelve years in the Kentucky state legislature, for a time as speaker. In 1860 he was elected governor of Missouri. He left the state on the approach of the federal army, and was deposed by a state convention. He afterward served for a short time as a general in the confederate army. He died Dec. 6, 1862, in Little Rock, Ark.
Jackson, Conrad Faeger
soldier, was born Sept. 11, 1813, in Pennsylvania.
In 1862 he was made brigadier-general, and commanded the third brigade of Mc- Call's division, participated in the battles of South Mountain and Antietam, and was killed at Fredericksburg while at the head of the column of attack. He died Dec. 13, 1862, in Fredericksburg, Va.
Jackson, David
physician, congressman, was born about 1747, in Chester county, Pa. He was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the continental congress from 1785 to 1786. He died in 1801, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Jackson, David S
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1847 to 1848.
Jackson, Ebenezer
JR., congressman, was born in Connecticut. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1834 to 1835, to fill a vacancy.
Jackson, Edward B
congressman, was born in Harrison county, Va. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1820 to 1823, to fill a vacancy. He died Sept. 8, 1826.
Jackson, Edward Payson
educator, author, was born March 15, 1840, in Turkey. He is an educator of Boston, and master in the Latin school from 1877.
He is the author of Mathematic Geography; A Demigod, a novel; The Earth in Space; and Character Building.
Jackson, Elihu E
governor, was born Nov. 3, 1837, in Wicomico county, Md. In 1887 he was elected governor of Maryland. nessee.
Jackson, Emily
was born in Tennessee. She presided in the white house during the administration of President Jackson, who always spoke of her as my daughter. She died in December, 1836, in Tennessee.
Jackson, Francis
reformer, author, was born March 7, 1789, in Newton, Mass. He was a prominent reformer who was president of the Anti-Slavery society for many years, and published a History of Newton, Mass. He died Nov. 14, 1861, in Boston, Mass.
Jackson, Frank Watterson
educator, was born June 6, 1874, in Ohio Pyle, Pa. He graduated from the Mount Pleasant institute of Pennsylvania, and received the three-hundred-dollar cash prize for the best preparation for college.
He then attended Bucknell university and the university of Chicago. He fills the chair of Greek in the Mount Pleasant institute; and contributes extensively to current literature.
Jackson, George Anson
clergyman, author, was born in 1846, in Massachusetts. He is a congregational clergyman of Swampscott, Mass., and the author of The Son of a Prophet, an historical novel; Apostolic Fathers; Fathers of the Second Century; Post-Nicene Greek Fathers; and Post-Nicene Latin Fathers, four works which form a series of early Christian literature primers.
Jackson, George Thomas
dermatologist, author, was born in 1852, in New York. He is a noted dermatologist of New York city, and the author of Diseases of the Hair and Scalp; Baldness; and Handbook of Diseases of the Skin.
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.
Jackson, Henry
soldier, was born in October, 1747, in Boston, Mass. He commanded the fourth Massachusetts regiment, and was major-general of Massachusetts militia from 1772 till 1796. He died Jan. 4, 1809, in Boston, Mass.
Jackson, Henry
educator, public official, was born in 1778, in England. He was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in the university of Georgia from 1811 to 1814, and from 1817 to 1828.
He was secretary of legation to France under William H. Crawford, minister; and on his return, and the appointment of Gallatin to France, he remained in the legation as charge d'affaires until 1817.
He died April 26, 1840, near Athens, Ga.
Jackson, Henry
clergyman, author, was born June 16, 1798, in Providence, R.
I. He was a founder and trustee of Newton (Mass.) Theological seminary. He published Account of the Churches of Rhode Island; and Anniversary Discourse before the Central Baptist Church, Newport. He died March 2, 1863, in East Greenwich, R. I.
Jackson, Henry Rootes
soldier, lawyer, was born June 24, 1820, in Athens, Ga. He served in the civil war and attained the rank of brigadier-general.
He was confederate judge for Georgia in 1861; and United States minister to Mexico in 1885 and 1887.
Jackson, Howell Edmunds
associate justice of the supreme court of the United States, was born April 8, 1832, in Paris, Tenn. He removed to Memphis, Tenn., in 1859; was twice appointed a judge of the state supreme court. He returned to Jackson in 1876; and was elected a representative in the state legislature in 1880. He was elected a senator of the United States from Tennessee for the term of six years from 1881; and in 1886 was appointed United States district judge for the western district of Tennessee; and in 1893 became an associate justice.
Jackson, Hugh
lawyer, legislator, was born Feb. 2, 1851, in Chambers county, Tex. He is a successful lawyer of Beaumont, Tex.; and was elected a member of the Texas state legislature in 1897.
Jackson, Isaac W
educator, author, was born in 1805, in New York. He was an educator who was professor of mathematics in Union college from 1826.
He was the author of Elements of Conic Sections; and Treatise on Optics. He died July 28, 1877, in Schenectady, N. Y.
Jackson, J. Henry
physician, surgeon, educator, legislator, was born April 19, 1844, in Canada. Since 1882 he has been professor of physiology in the medical department in the university of Vermont.
He is a successful physician and surgeon of Barre, Vt.; and was a representative in the Vermont state legislature in 1878; was United States examining surgeon for pensions in 1884-88, and in 1892-96; and in 1896 was the democratic candidate for governor of the state of Vermont.
Jackson, Jabez
congressman, was. born in Georgia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1836 to 1839.
Jackson, Jacob B
lawyer, governor, was born April 6, 1829, in Parkersburg, Va. He was commonwealth attorney for the county of Pleasants, and from 1871 to 1877 held the same position in the county of Wood. He was a member of the house of delegates of West Virginia during the years 1875 and 1876; and in 1880 was elected governor of West Virginia for the term of four years from 1881.
Jackson, James
soldier, lawyer, governor, United States senator, was born Sept. 21, 1757, in England. He was a member of the conven-- tion which formed. the first constitution of Georgia; was chosen a representative in congress in 1789 from Georgia; and after the close of his first term successfully contested the seat of Anthony Wayne.
In 1793 he was chosen a senator, which office he resigned in 1795. He was major-general of the Georgia militia; and was governor of the state from 1798 until his election as United States senator in 1801. He died March 16, 1806, in Washington, D. C.
Jackson, James
physician, educator, author, was born Oct. 3, 1777, in Newburyport, Mass. He was the first physician of the Massachusetts general hospital at Boston, and professor of medicine at Harvard university from 1810 until his death. He was the author of On the Brunonian System; Medical Effects of Dentition; Syllabus of Lectures; Text- Book of Lectures; and Letters to a Young Physician. He died Aug. 27, 1863, in Boston, Mass.
Jackson, James
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 18, 1819, in Jefferson county, Ga. In 1842 he was elected secretary of the senate of Georgia, holding the office one year. In 1845 he was elected to the state legislature, and re-elected to the same position in 1847.
In 1849 he was chosen judge of the western circuit of his state, and was elected to the same office by the people in 1853, and again in 1857. In June of that year he was nominated for congress, resigning his judgeship, and in October following was elected a representative to the thirty-fifth congress. He was re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress; resigned in February, 1861; and returned to Georgia..
He died Jan. 13, 1887, in Atlanta, Ga.
Jackson, James Caleb
physician,. author, was born in 1811, in Manlius, N.
Y. He is the founder of a popular hydropathic institution at Dansville, and the author of Hints on the Reproductive Organs; Consumption; Tobacco and Its Effect; How to Treat the Sick without Medicine; Dancing, its Evils and Benefits; American Womanhood; Training of Children; Debilities of Our Boys; Christ as a Physician; and Morning Watches.