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degree of B.S. was conferred on him by Pennsyl- vania State college in 1885 and that of C.E. in 1888. He was married, Sept. 24, 1889, to Mabel Augusta, daughter of Alvin F. and Sarah (Jordan) Foss, of New Gloucester, Maine. He is the author of: a Textbook on Electro- Magnetism and the Con- struction of Dynamos (1893); Electricity and Mag- netism (1895); and joint author of Alternating Currents and Alternating Current Machinery (1896); besides numerous contributions to the Proceediyigs of national engineering societies and technical periodicals.

JACKSON, Edward, representative, was born in Clarksburg, Harrison county, Va.; son of Col. George Jackson. He was educated at the Clarks- burg male academy, became a physician and practised in his native county. He was appointed a representative in the IGtli congress, to fill the unexpired term of James Pindall, resigned, and was elected to the 17th congress in 1820 as his own successor, serving, 1820-23. He died in Clarksburg, Va., Sept. 8, 1826.

JACKSON, Edward Payson, author, was born in Erzeroum, Turkey, March 15, 1840; son of the Rev. William C. and Mary Almira (Sawyer) Jackson; and grandson of James and Mary (Rice) , Sawyer. His parents were American missionaries in Turkey. He came to the United States in 1845 and was educated at Amherst college, but did not graduate. He served in the civil war in the 45th Massachusetts regiment and as lieu- tenant in the 5th Massachusetts regiment. He was married, March 23, 1865, to Helen Maria Smith, who died March 1, 1896. He became master in the Boston Latin school in 1877. Am- herst college conferred on him the degree of A.M. in 1870. He is the author of: Mathematical Geography (1873); A Demi-God (1886); The Earth in Space (1887); Character Building (1891); joint autlior of Condxict as a Fine Art, and contributed essays, poems and stories to current publications.

JACKSON, Elihu Emory, governor of Mary- land, was born in Wicomico county, Md., Nov. 3, 1837; son of Hugh and Sallie McB. Jackson, and grandson of Elihu Jackson. His fatlier was a l^rosperous farmer and had been judge of the orphans' court. Eliliu received a country school education, supplemented by private study, and in 1859 opened a country store at Delmar, Del. In 1863 he removed to Salisbury, Md., and estab- lished with his father and brothers a business for the manufacture of yellow pine lumber. In 1877 the firm built a large planing mill in Balti- more, and in 1879 anotlier in Washington. He was elected by the Democratic i^arty governor of Maryland, and served, 1888-92. He was mar- ried in 1869 to Nannie R., daughter of Dr. William H. Rider, of Salisbury, Md.

JACKSON, Francis, reformer, was born in Newton, Mass., March 7, 1789; son of Maj. Timo- thy and brother of the Hon. William Jackson. His father, an oflficer in the American army during the Revolution, died in 1814. Francis was a resident of Boston and a member of the city government. He is credited with the inti'O- duction of various public improvements that aided in the development of the city and in bet- tering civic affairs. He was an outspoken abolitionist and president of the Boston Anti- Slavery society. When the members of the Female Anti-Slavery society were driven by a mob from their room in Boston, he at once gave tliem the use of his house as a meeting place, and when William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator was in debt he assisted the proprietor in bringing out the paper and in encouraging its circulation. He was married to Eliza Copeland, of Quincy, Mass. He is the author of: History of Newton (1854). He died in Boston, Mass., Nov. 14, 1861.

JACKSON, Frank Dar, governor of Iowa, was born at Arcade, N.Y., Jan. 26, 1854; son of Hiram W. and Marion (Jenks) Jackson; grandson of Salah and Mary (Orvis) Jackson, and a descendant of Salah Jackson, of Chatham, Conn. He removed to Iowa in boyhood, attended the public schools at Jesup, Iowa, and the Iowa State Agricultural college, and was graduated from the law department of the Iowa State university in 1874. He was secretary of the state senate for two terms, 1882-84; secretary of the state of Iowa for three terms, 1884-89, and governor of Iowa, 1894-96. He was elected president of the Royal Union Life Insurance company at Des Moines, Iowa, in 1889.

JACKSON, George, representative, was born in Lewis county, Va.; eldest son of John and Elizabeth (Cummins) Jackson, who emigrated from England, settled in Calvert county, Md., in 1748; removed to Moorefields, Hardy county, Va., and tlience to Jackson's Fort, afterward Buckhannon, Va. With his father and brother Edward he took part in the war of the Revolu- tion and he gained the rank of colonel. He practised law in Clarksburg, Harrison county; was a representative in the general assemblj^ of Virginia; a representative from Virginia in the 4th, 6th and 7th congresses, 1795-97 and 1799-1803, and after the death of his father, Sept. 27, 1803, he removed to Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio, from where he was a state representative, 1 809-12, and a state senator, 1817-19. His brother Edward was the grandfather of Gen. T. J. (Stone- wall) Jackson. He had sons. Judge John George (q.v.), Dr. Edward William Luther, father of Judge William Luther (q.v.), and George Wash- ington, fatlier of Col. Alfred H. (q.v.). Col. Jackson died in Zanesville, Ohio.