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that brancli of art, liaving studies in Providence, R.L.aud Boston, until IS'JG, after which he located permanently in the latter city. He was married in 1883, and had one son, Howard B. Jackson. He was elected a member of the American Art society in 1897- His sitters include many promi- nent men, and following is a partial list of his more important portraits : John Ruskin (by pei-- mission from Brantwood); William Morris, for tlie Morris studios, Boston ; Prof. J. W. P. Jenks, for Riiode Island Hall, Brown university ; Mr. Horace B. Claflin, of New York ; the Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks, for the Y.M.C.U. ; the Rev. Dr. A. J. Gordon, for the American Baptist Mis- sionary union, Tremont Temple ; the Rev. Dr. George C. Lorimer ; the Rev. Dr. Alexander Mc- Kenzie, of Cambridge, Mass. ; Dr. Alonzo D. Quint, for the Congregational Library, Boston ; James G. Haynes, ex-president of the Massachu- setts Charitable Mechanics' association.

JACKSON, Charles Davis, clergyman, was born in Salem, Mass., Dec. 15, 1811 ; son of John and Mary Wendell (Williams) Jackson. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1833, and studied at Andover Theological seminar}^ 1837-38. He was principal of a classical school at Petersburg, Va., and taught at Flushing, L.I., 1838-42. He took orders in the Protestant Episcopal church as deacon, May 23, 1841, and as priest, March 5, 1842. He was rector of St. Luke's, Rossville, Staten Island, N.Y.. 1843-47, and of St. Peter's, West- chester. N.Y., 1847-71. Norwich university con- ferred upon him the degree of D.D. in 1859. He is the author of papers on pojiular education and Suffering Here, Glory Hereafter (1872). He died at Westchester, N.Y., June 28, 1871.

JACKSON, Charles Loring, chemist, was born in Boston, Mass., April 4, 1847; son of Pat- rick Tracy and Susan Mary (Loring) Jackson ; grandson of Patrick Tracy and Lydia (Cabot) Jackson and of Charles Greely and Anna Pierce (Brace) Loring, and a descendant of Edward Jackson, who landed in America about 1G38. He was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1867, A.M., 1870. and remained there as assistant in chemis- try, 1807-71 ; assistant professor of chemistry, 1871-81 : full professor, 1881-94, and Erving pro- fessor of chemistrv after 1894. He stu<lied at Heidelberg under Bunsen in 1873, and at Ber- lin under Hofmann in 1874 and 1875, where he began his original investigations. Among his discoveries may be mentioned an extended in- vestigation of substituted benzyl compounds, including a synthesis of anthracene ; turmerol, the alcolKjl tiiat gives to turmeric its taste and smell ; a new method of preparing borneol from caini)hiir : a new method for the preparation of the higher suli)honic acids ; a study of the nitrohalo- gen compounds ot benzol ; the hemiacetals of

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the quinoncs ; orthobenzoquinone, and the salts of the quinoidisonites-acids of benzol. He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the National Academy of Sciences, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His various chem- ical publications number nearly seventy.

JACKSON, Charles Thomas, scientist, was born in i'lynioutli, ]Mass., June 21, 1805; son of Charles and Lucy (Cotton) Jackson, and a de- scendant of Abraham Jackson, one of the early colonists of Plymouth, who was married to the daughter of Nathan- iel Morton, secretary of the Plymouth colony and its his- torian ; and also a descendant of the Puritan divine, John Cotton. Charles was graduated from Har- vard, M.D., in 1829. In the summer of 1827 he visited Nova Scotia, in company with Francis Alger, for the purpose of collecting minei'als and making geolog- ical observations of that province, and after his graduation they continued the research. He went to Europe in the fall of 1829, and studied medicine in the University of France, attending lectures on geology and the scientific lectures of the Sorbonne. He traveled througli southern Europe in 1831, making scientific research, and returned to the United States in 1832 in the same ship with Samuel F. B. Morse, to whom he com- municated his ideas for an electro-magnetic tele- graph, which he always alleged made Mr. Morse first acquainted with the subject of applied elec- ti'icity. He was married Feb. 27, 1834, to Susan Bridge, of Charlestown, Mass. In 1834 he con- structed and exhibited a telegraph apparatus similar to the one which he asserted he had de- scribed to Mr. Morse, and to the model patented bj- Morse in 1835. He practised medicine in Boston, but abandoned it for the more congenial profes- sion of chemist and mineralogist. He opened the first laboratory in the United States for in- struction and research in analytical chemistrj', was state geologist of Maine in 1836, and made a survey of the public lands owned by the state of Massachusetts and situated in ]\Iaine, 1836-39. He ma<le a geographical and agricultural explora- tion of the state of Rhode Island in 1839, was ap- pointed state geologist of New Hampshire in September, 1839. and U.S. geologist to report on the public lands in the Lake Superior region.