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the siesB guns arrived at 8t. Loviis, and before General Frost could begin his attack on the arsenal, Captain Lyon surrounded the camp with 7000 men, and General Frost, having only 635 men, was obliged to surrender. Tliis action led to a succession of riots in the city, in which a large number of unoffending men, women and children were sliot down. Volunteers began to flock into the state capital and Governor Jackson commissioned ex-Governor Sterling Price major- general of the militia. The Department of the West was commanded by Gen. William S. Har- ney, and he reached St. Louis the day after the capture of Camp Jackson and at once made a truce with General Price. On May 31, Harney was superseded by Lj'on, who met the governor, June 11, and iirmly denied the right of the state to dictate as to the movement of government troops in the state, and on June 13 Lyon, with 3000 men, started for Jefferson Citj', the state capital. On his arrival, June 14, he found that Governor Jackson's army had fled to Boonville, and on the 17th he attacked them there and drove them out of the place, dispersing all but about three hundred men, who still adhered to the cause of their leader. Governor Jackson then appealed to Gen. Leonidas Polk, at Memphis, for aid, and Polk sent him 13,000 men under General Pillow, who occupied New Madrid, Mo., July 28, 1861. Then followed the battles of Wilson's Creek, Aug. 10, 1861, where General Lyon was killed, and the capture of Lexington, Sept. 20,

1861. Governor Jackson left Lexington, Sept. 29, 1861, and tried to convene the legislatui'e at Neosho, Mo., and Price's army went into winter quarters. Meantime the state convention met at the capitol, deposed Governor Jackson and elected Hamilton R. Gamble in his place, and Jackson then joined the Confederate army with a com- mission as brigadier-general, but was soon com- pelled to resign by reason of failing health. He died at Little Rock, Ark., Dec. 6, 1862.

JACKSON, Conrad Feger, soldier, was born in Pennsylvania, Sept. 11, 1813. He was an em- ployee of the Pennsylvania & Reading railroad from its beginning until 1861, when he resigned his position to accept the colonelcy of the 9th regiment, Pennsylvania reserve volunteers. He commanded the regiment in tlie protection of the national capital, and when McClellan organ- ized the Army of the Potomac he was attached to Seymour's 3d brigadv^, McCall's 3d division, Fitz-John Porter's 5th army corps, taking part in the peninsula campaign, including the despei'ate seven days' battles, wiiere, wlien Seymour suc- ceeded to the command of the division, he was made commander of the brigade. He was pro- moted to the rank of brigadier-general in July,

1862, and was temporarily attached to Reynolds's

division. McDowell's 3d army corps, in conmiand of the 3d brigade at tlie second battle of Bull Run, Aug. 29-30, 1862. He was subsetjuently transferred to Meade's division, Reynolds's 1st army corps, and while leading a charge in com- mand of the attacking colunni at Fredericksburg, Va., he fell within the enemy's line and died on the battlefield. Dec. 13, 1803.

JACKSON, David, delegate, was born in Ox- ford, Pa., about 1747 ; son of " Farmer " Sanuiel Jackson, of Oxford. Pa., who came from Virginia. He was among the earliest graduates from the medical department of the University' of Penn- sylvania, in 1768, and was an apothecary and physician in Philadeljihia, 1768-1801. Upon the outbreak of the Revolutionary war he joined the Continental army as paymaster of the 3d batallion of Philadelphia militia, Dec. 3, 1776, and was made quartermaster of the militia in the field, Oct. 33, 1779. He received the appointment of hospital physician and surgeon, Sept. 30, 1780, and was present at the surrender of Lord Corn- wallis, Yorktown, Va., Oct. 19, 1781, and was a delegate to the Continental congress from Penn- sjdvania, 1785-86. He was married to Susan Kemper, and their son, David, a graduate of the University of Philadelphia, 1794, died in Phila- delphia, Pa., June 39, 1808. Dr. David Jackson died at Philadelphia. Pa., in 1801.

JACKSON, Dugald Caleb, engineer, was born in Kennett Square, Peun., Feb. 13, 1865 ; son of Josiah and Mary (Price) Jackson, and grandson of Caleb S. and Mary Ann (Gause) Jackson and of John R. and Catharine (Detweiler) Price. He attended Hill school at Pottstown, Pa., and was graduated from Pennsj-lvania State college in 1885. He was a fellow in electrical engineering at Cornell universitj'', 1885-86 ; instructor in electri- cal engineering there, 1886-87 ; vice-president and engineer of the Western Engineering company at Lincoln, Neb., 1887-89 ; assistant chief engineer of the Sprague Electric Railway & Motor company of New York from 1889 till its merging into the Edison General Electric company, when he be- came engineer of the railway department and chief engineer of its central district, holding the position till 1891. He became consulting engineer for various corporations ; was chosen professor of electrical engineering at the University of Wis- consin in 1891 and was a member of the Inter- national jury at the World's Columliian exposi- tion of 1893. He was elected a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in 1890, was its vice-i)resident, 1895-98 ; a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1890 ; of the American Society of Civil Engi- neers in 1898 ; of the Western Society of Engineers in 1S91, and of the Societe Internationale des Electricieus, the Franklin institute, etc. The