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300 Chicago, III. He was educated in the public schools of Chicago, III.; and at Oxford, England. Since 1883 be has been engaged in engineering and contracting. He was engaged in the Strickler tunnel through Pike's Peak; and he built a large percentage of the underground systems for the Chicago telephone company and similar systems in various cities of the United States. He is president of the contracting company of (ieorge W, Jackson, incorporated, of Chicago, III.

Jackson, Hancock, lieutenant-governor. He lived in Randolph county, Mo.; in was lieutenant-governor of Missouri, and was acting governor of Missouri in 1857. He died March 19. 1876, in Salem, Oregon.

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Jackson, Mrs. Helen Hunt, novelist, poet,

was born Oct. 18, 1831, in Amherst, Mass. WHS a novelist and poet whose grcatent achievement is Ramona, a powerful, romance of Indian life in southern California. Slie

To

her

is

usually attributed the authorship

Her other of the Saxe Holme stories. 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 She died Mission Indians of California. Aug. 12, 1885, in San Francisco, Cal.

Jackson, Henry, soldier, was born in October, 1747, in Boston, Mass. He commanded the fourth Masaacliusetts regiment and was major-general of Massachusetts militia in 1772-96. He died Jan. 4, 1809, in Boston, Mass.

Jackson, Henry, educator, diplomat, was born in 1778 in England. He was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in the university of fleorgia in 1811-14 and 1817-28. He was secretary of legation to France under William H. Crawford; and remained in the legation as charge d'affaires 1817. He died April 26, 1840, near

until

Athens.

(la.

He

died

March

2,

1863,

in

East

(Jreenwich. R.I.

Jackson, Henry, soldier, was born May 1837, in England. In 1863 be entered military m-rvice as a private; and in 1865 attained the rank of second lieutenant. In 1900 he was retire<l from active service; and in 1904 was advanced to the rank of brigadier-gi-neral of the United States army. 31.

He

died

in

In 1862 he entered the ministry in the northwest Indiana conference of the methodist episcopal church. He later be-

came assistant bishop in the re-establishment of the methodist episcopal church of the south. After the close of the civil war he was pastor in the centenary church of Chicago, Ill.

Jackson, Henry Melville, clergyman, was born July 28, 1S49. He held pastorates of Clirist church. <ireenville, S.C., and Grace ehurcli, Riehmimtl, Va., in 1876-91; and for several years edited The Southern Pulpit, aftvrward called The Pulpit Treasury. In ISlM he was cleetcd and consecrated coailjutor bishop of Alabama. He died May 6. IIMMI. in Rost lands, Ala.

Jackson, Henry Rootes, soldier, lawyer, diplomat, was born June 24, 1820, Atliens, (ia. 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 Mex-

jurist, in



ico

in

1885-87.

He

di.-d

May

23,

1897,

in

Savannah, Ga. Jackson,

Holmes Condict, educator, author, was born Feb. 18, 1875, in New York City, In 1902-05 was assistant professor of physiological cliemistry at the university of Bellevue hospital mt>dical college of New York City; and since 1905 he has been a professor of the .lbany medical college. Ho is the author of Manual of Physiological Chemistry.

Jackson, Howell Edmunds, lawyer, jurUnited States senator, was born April 1832. in Paris, Tenn. In 1859 he rehiovimI to Memphis, Tenn.; and 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. In 1881-87 he was United States senator from Tennessee; and in 1886 was appointed United States district judge for the western district of Tennessee; and in 1893-95 was an associate justice of the supreme court of the United ist.

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States.

He

died

Aug.

8,'

1895,

in

West

Meade, Tenn.

Jackson, Henry, clergyman, author, was born June 16. 1798. in Providence, R.T. He was a founder and trustee of Newton theological seminary of Massachusetts. He was the author of Account of the Churches of Rhode Island: and Anniversary Discourse Before the Central Baptist Church of Newport.

Jackson, Henry George, clergyman, bishop, was born June 1, 1838, in Dearborn county, Ind.

1908.

Jackson, Isaac W., educator, author, was born in 1805 in New York. He was professor of

mathematics

in

Union college from

1826, H«' was the author of Elements of Conic Sectiims; and Treatise on Optics, He .luly 28. 1877. in Schen«H'tady, N.Y. Jackson, J. Henry, physician, surgeon, educator. legislatdical department in tlie university of Vermont. He was a represt-ntativc in the Vermont state legislature in 1878; was United States examining surgeon for pensions in 1884-88 and 1892-96; and in 1890 was the democratic candidate for governor of the state of Vermont, He died Si pt. 13. 1907, in Barre, Vt. died