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the needs of the Indians and of the treatment they received from the U.S. government. Her pen recorded these impressions, and their publi- cation led to her appointment in 1883, with Ab- bott Linney, as a special commissioner to examine into the condition of the Mission Indians of California. While pursuing her investigations she made a study of the history of the early Spanish missions. Her health again declining from lier labors, she went to Norway to recu- perate. In June, 1884, she received serious injuries from a fall at her home in Colorado Springs, and she was taken to Los Angeles, Cal., for tlie winter, and in the spring to San Francisco, where she died. Her first grave, the one selected by herself, was near the summit of Chej'-enne moun- tain, four miles from Colorado Springs, but relic- hunting tourists wiio visited the place in large numbers so desecrated the grave that the body was removed to Evergreen cemetery, Colorado Springs. Her name was one of the tw^enty- three in "Class A, Authors and Editors," eli- gible for a place in the Hall of Fame, New York university, in October, 1900, and received three votes. She is the author of : In the White Mountains (1866); Verses (1870); Bits of Travel (1872); Bits of Talk abotit Home Mat- ters (1873); The Story of Boon (1874); Bits of Talk ill Verse and Prose for Young Folks (1876); Mercy PJtilbrick's Choice (187Q); Hetty's Strange History (1877); Bits of Travel at Home (1878); Nelly's Silver Mine (1878); Letters from a Cat (1879); A Century of Dishonor (1881); Mammy Tittleback and her Family (1881); The Training of Children (1882); The Hunter Cats of Connor- loa (1884) ; Ramona (1884) ; Zeph (1885) ; Glimpses of Three Coasts (1886) ; Sonnets and Lyrics (1886) ; Between Whiles (1887); The Procession of Floivers in Colorado (1887); and she has been credited with the authorship of the stories published in 1874 under the pen name " Saxe Holm." A complete edition of her poems appeared in 1892. She died in San Fi-ancisco, Cal., Aug. 12, 1885.

JACKSON, Henry, educator, was born in Moreton-Hampstead, Devonshire, England, July 7, 1778. In 1790 he sailed to America and joined his brother James Jackson, then a representative from Georgia in the 1st congress and subse- quently governor of Georgia. He was educated at Savannah, Ga., and in medicine at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, where he was graduated M.D. in 1802. He held the chair of natural philosopliy and physics in the University of Georgia, 1811-20, 1822-25 and 1826-27, with the exception of the years 1814-16, when he was secretary of legation at Paris, 1814-15, and charge d'affaires, 1815-16. He was a trustee of the Uni- versity of Georgia, 1832-36, receiving from tliat institution the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1831

His son, Gen. Henry Rootes Jackson, was a gen- eral ofhcer in the Confederate service and U.S. minister to Mexico. Professor Jackson died at his home near Atliens, Ga., April 26, 1840.

JACKSON, Henry, clergyman, was born in Providence, R. I., June 16, 1798 ; son of Richard and Nabby (Wheaton) Jackson. He prepared for college at the University grammar school, was graduated at Brown university in 1817, and attended Andover Theological seminary, 1818-19. He was licensed to preach in 1820, was ordained a Baptist minister, Nov. 27, 1822, and was pastor of the First Baptist church of Charles- town, Mass., 1821-36, where he was instrumental in establishing the Charlestown female seminary. He was pastor at Hartford, Conn., 1836-38; at New Bedford, Mass., 1839-45; and of the Central Baptist church in Newport, R. I., 1847-63. He was a founder of the Newton Theological institu- tion and a trustee, 1825-63 ; and a member of the corporation of Brown university, 1822-03, and made bequests to both institutions. Brown con- ferred upon him the degree of D.D. in 1854. He published : Account of the Churches of Rhode Is- land (1854) ; Anniversary Discourses. He died sud- denly near East Greenwich, R.I., March 2, 1863.

JACKSON, Henry Melville, bishop-coadjutor of Alabama and 156th in succession in the Amer- ican episcopate, was born at Leesburg, Va., July 28, 1849. He was educated at the Virginia Mili- tary institute, and at the Theological seminary of the diocese of Virginia. He was ordained deacon by Bishop Johns in June, 1873, and priest by the same bishop in St. John's church, Wj'theville, July 15, 1874. He then settled, first in Virginia and then in South Carolina ; became rector of Grace church, Richmond, Va., in October, 1876, and in 1890 was elected assistant bishop of Ala- bama. He was conseci-ated, Jan. 21, 1891, by Bishops Wilmer, Howe, Peterkin, Thompson and Randolph. He received the degree of D.D. from Randolph-Macon college in 1886 and from the University of the South in 1891. He was editor of the Southern Pulpit. He died at Roselands, near Montgomery, Ala., May 14, 1900.

JACKSON, Henry Rootes, diplomatist, was born in Athens, Ga., June 24, 1820 ; son of Prof. Henry Jackson. He was a student at Franklin coUege and the College of New Jersey ; was gra- duated at Yale in 1839 ; was admitted to the Georgia bar in 1840, and practised in Savannah. He was U.S. district-attorney for Georgia, ap- pointed by President Tyler in 1843. He recruited the 1st Georgia volunteers for service in the Mex- ican war and commanded the regiment through- out the campaign. On his return to Savannah he purchased the Georgian, which he edited, 1848-49. He was judge of the superior court of the eastern circuit of Georgia, 1850-53 ; U.S.