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Inland. He was a nuinufactur< r. In 1807 IS he was a representative trom Kiiode Island to the tenth, eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth congresses. He died April 18. 1888, in Providence, R.I.

Jackson, Richard Henry, soldier, was boni July 14, 1830, in Irela nd. .After serving in Khirida and the west, he |)assed his examination for a second lieutenancy, receiving liis commission in 1850. He afterward nerved «» assistant inspector-general, and was also acting chief of artillery on Morris and Follv wlands during the operations against Fort Sumter; and then was chief of artillery oi the tenth an<i twenty-fifth eorps, armv of the

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brcvettcd brigadiergeneral of volunteers in 1885; was commissioned full brigadier-},'..rieral oi volunteers in ISttTi: and brevet major general the same

year. He was promoted major in 1880. died Nov. is, 1S92, in Atlanta, (Ux.

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Jackson, Robert Montgomery Smith, phyaician, author, was bom April 1816, in

Jiew York

Charity organization societv; and a trustee of the Christian college of Canton, China. SittTe l8J»j he has been professor of cliuich history in the New York uni-

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Jackson, Richard, merehant. nianutaetureongressnian, was born in 170l-n

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In 1S70 he graduated from the college of th.' t ity .>f New York; and in 1873 lioin the I nion theological .seminary. After a four years' pastorate over the

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lower house of the legislature from Armj-trong county, Pa.; was elected to the state senate in 187."); and iu 1893 eliicted state

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Jackson, Samuel HcCartmy, soldier, manufacturer, state senator, was born Sept. county, I'a. He

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Alexandria, Pa. He was medical insjactor ol tin tw«nty-third army corps; and acting medical director of the department of the Ohio. He was the author of The Mountain. He died Jan. 28, ISC."). in Chattanooga, Tenu. Jackson, Samuel, physician, educator, author, was born March 22, 1787, in Philadelphia, i'a. In l8;{.->-fi;i he was profe.Hsor of the institute ot medicine in the university of Pennsylvania; and was afterward emeritus professor until his death, lie was the author of Principles of .Medicine; Discourse Commemorative of l»rofessor Natliaaiel Chapman; and Medical Kssavs. He died

and Handbook for Practical Church and IMiilantliropv, in

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nine volumes. He is the author of an "English translation of The Selected Works of Zwingli; and other valuable oontributionB to American lit« rutiire.

Jackson, Samuel P., musieian, composer, was iMjrn Feb. 6, 1818, in England. He was an organ builder, teacher of music, and an organ i.st of New York City. He was the author ol Gems for th« Organ; and Organ oluntaries, in four volumes.

He died July IS.".."), in Brooklyn, N. Y. Jackson, Seldon, educator, clergvman, scientist, author, was born Mav 18,' 1834 HI MmaviMe, N.Y. He was educated at iiK.ii college, and at Princeton theological seminary. In 1858 he waa ordained as a missionary by the Albany presbytery, and assigned to the Indian territory; and waa siibs. ,,uently transferred to Southern Minnesota and Western Wisconsin. In ISHil 70 he was appointe.l .superintendent of presbytery iiii-.siims; and during thirti-en years in the prosecution of this work he travelwl three hundred and liity thousand miles. In

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