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390 New York university. He was admitted to the bar in 1860, and began practice in New York, city, but at the beginning of the civil war was ap- pointed aide-de-camp to Gen. Robert Anderson, and ordered to Kentucky. Subsequently he was commissioned 2d lieutenant in the 1st New Jersey regiment, and appointed aide to Gen. Philip Kear- ny. While serving on the latter's staff he declined the colonelcy of the 61st New York regiment. In December, 1861, he was ordered to join the divis- ion staff of Gen. William B. Franklin. In the summer of 1862 he was promoted to captain for gallant conduct during the seven days' conflict be- fore Richmond, and assigned to the staff of the 6th corps of the Army of the Potomac. In the following December he was promoted lieutenant- colonel of the 6th New Jersey volunteers, and was brevetted colonel for " meritorious conduct " at the battle of Fredericksburg, in the same month. He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers on 13 March, 1865. At the close of his term of service, he was appointed by the War department a commissioner of the U. S. naval credits, and suc- ceeded in having 1,900 naval enlistments from New Jersey credited to the quota of troops enlisted from that state, thus rendering a draft unneces- sary. Gov. Joel Parker said, in a message to the legislature, that the state had in consequence been saved the expenditure of nearly $1,000,000. Gen. Jackson resumed the practice of law in New York city, and in 1870 was appointed assistant district- attorney for the southern district of New York.

JACKSON, Mercy Bisbee, physician, b. in Hardwick, Mass., 17 Sept., 1802; d. in Boston, Mass., 13 Dec, 1877. She was graduated at the New England female medical college in 1860, hav- ing previously practised medicine in Plymouth, Mass., for twenty years and in Boston for fifteen years. She was the first woman that was admitted to the American institute of homoeopathy in Phila- delphia, in June, 1871, became a member of the Massachusetts homoeopathic society, and of the Boston homoeopathic society in 1873, and in that year was made professor of diseases of children in the Boston university school of medicine, which office she held until her death. She was twice mar- ried, her first husband being the Rev. John Bisbee, and her second, Capt. Daniel Jackson, of Plymouth, Mass. She was an active worker for the cause of temperance and woman suffrage, addressed large audiences, and contributed frequently to the " Wo- man's Journal," published in Boston.

JACKSON, Michael, soldier, b. in Newton, Mass., 18 Dec, 1734; d. there, 10 April, 1801. He was a lieutenant in the French war, and afterward took part in the battle of Bunker Hill, where he served as major of Gardner's regiment, and killed a British officer in a personal encounter. After- ward he was lieutenant-colonel of Bond's regiment, and was wounded in the thigh at Montressor's isl- and in 1776. He was colonel of the 8th Massa- chusetts regiment of the Continental line from January, 1777, till the close of the war. His five brothers and five sons were also in the army.

JACKSON, Mortimer Melville, jurist, b. in Rensselaerville, Albany eo., N. Y., 5 March, 1814. He was educated in Flushing and New York city, and entered a counting-house, where he remained several years, also studying law. In 1838 he re- moved to Milwaukee, Wis., and in the following spring he settled in Mineral Point, Iowa co., where he acquired a good law practice. He was a mem- ber of the territorial convention that was held in Madison soon after the election of Harrison to the presidency, when the Whig party was first organ- ized in Wisconsin. As chairman of the commit- tee, he prepared and reported the resolutions em- bodying the platform of that organization, and strongly opposed the extension of slavery in the territories. From 1842 till 1847 he was attorney- general, and during his term conducted many im- portant cases. He was a member of the commit- tee that was appointed by an educational conven- tion in Madison in 1846, and prepared a plan lor improvement in common-school education, a part of which was subsequently incorporated in the state constitution. He was interested in the efforts made in western Wisconsin to have the reserved mineral lands, which were held by the U. S. gov- ernment, brought into market, and addressed a memorial to President Polk on this subject, which was adopted by the legislature. On the admission of Wisconsin to the Union, he was elected the first circuit judge for the 5th judicial circuit, serving also in the supreme court till the organization of a separate supreme court in 1853, when he resumed his law practice. He subsequently united with the Republican party, and in 1861 was appointed by President Lincoln U. S. consul at Halifax, Nova Scotia. While there he caused the seizure from Confederates of about $3,000,000 worth of war ma- terial, and advised the government of suspected vessels. In 1870, at the request of the secretary of state, he made a report to congress on the fisheries and fishery laws of Canada, in which he examined and discussed the controversy between Great Brit- ain and the United States. Judge Jackson also addressed a communication to the secretary of state, reviewing the action of the fishery commis- sion in 1877, and saying that the sum of $5,500,000 that had been awarded to Great Britain was un- warranted and excessive. He resigned his consul- ship in 1882 and returned to Madison, Wis.

JACKSON, Nathaniel James, soldier, b. in Newburyport, Mass., about 1825. He became colo- nel of the 1st Maine regiment in June. 1861, and afterward was made colonel of the 5th Maine regiment. He was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers on 24 Sept., 1862, commanded the 2d brigade, 2d division of the 12th corps, and served through the campaigns of McClellan and Pope in Virginia, being wounded at Gaines's Mills. In the autumn of 1864 he commanded the 1st division of the 20th corps, taking part in Sherman's march to the sea and in the invasion of the Carolinas. He was brevetted major-general of volunteers at the close of the war, and mustered out, 24 Aug., 1865.

JACKSON, Robert Montgomery Smith, physician, b. in Alexandria, Pa., 20 April, 1815 ; d. in Chattanooga, Tenn., 28 Jan., 1865. He was a resi- dent of Cresson, Pa., where he practised medicine for several years, and was known for his scientific attainments, especially as a botanist and geologist. He was medical inspector of the 23d army corps, and acting medical director of the Department of the Ohio. He was a member of the Pennsylvania geological commission, of the American philosophi- cal society, and other learned bodies. Dr. Jackson was an enthusiastic mountaineer, and published a work entitled " The Mountain " (Philadelphia, 1860).

JACKSON, Sheldon, missionary, b. in Minaville, Montgomery co., N. Y., 18 May, 1834. He was graduated at Union college in 1855, and at Princeton theological seminary in 1858, where he was ordained, and went to Spencer academy. Indian territory, as a missionary. He was home missionary for western Wisconsin and southern Minnesota from 1859 till 1864, and in that year became pastor of a church in Rochester, Minn., with an oversight of the mission work in southern Minne-