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Cleveland, over his protest, to fill the vacancy. His circuit was of great importance, embracing the states of Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan. He decided many important cases, involving grave questions of constitutional, mari- time, commercial and interstate law. Among his notable opinions were those construing the interstate commerce and the anti-trust acts, both his decisions being affirmed by the U.S. supreme court, which accepted his views in their entirety. On Feb. 4, 1893, President Harrison appointed him associate justice of the U.S. su- preme court to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Justice L. Q. C. Lamar. In the short time that he was on the supreme bench he de- livered an unusually large number of important opinions. At the time of the first hearing on the constitutionality of the income tax law, April 8, 1895, Justice Jackson was unable to be present because of ill health, and a tie resulted, but on the second hearing on May 6, 1895, he was present and voted in favor of the tax. In the meantime Justice Shiras had reversed his former position and the statute was annulled. Justice Jackson was twice married: first, in 1859, to Sophia Mal- loy, of Memphis, Tenn., who died in 1873, and secondly, in 1876, to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Gen. William G. Harding, of Belle Meade. He died at his home, West Meade, Tenn., Aug. 8, 1895.

JACKSON, Hugh Parks, clergyman, was born near Cedarville, Greene county, Ohio, April 18, 1836; son of David and Nancy (Nichol) Jackson; grandson of Robert Jackson (born 1760 in Ire- land, and came to America in 1762), and of John and Ann (Woodburn) Nichol, natives of Ireland, who came to America in 1789 and settled in West- moreland county. Pa.; great-grandson of David Jackson, who came to America from Carrick- fergus, Ireland, in 1762; and greaf^-grandson of Dr. Joseph Jackson, who was the grandfather of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States. David Jackson was born in Westmoreland county. Pa., March 3, 1794, and Nancy Nichol in the same county, June 11, 1799. Hugh Parks Jackson was graduated at Miami university in 1759 and studied at the Xenia Theological seminary, Ohio, and also at the Allegheny Theological seminary. Pa. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Xenia, March 28, 1865, and ordained by the Presbytery of Lake, Dec. 19, 1865. He was a sergeant in the Ohio militia during the civil war and pastor of the United Presbyterian churches at Waterford, Pa., 1865-69; Hanover, Ind., 1876-89; Greenfield, Ohio, 1889-92; Kirk wood, 111., 1892-94, Chariton, Iowa, 1894-98, and Olena, 111., 1898. He was also a superintendent of schools at Cedarville, Ohio, 1871-75. He is the author of: History of the Waterford and Carmel Congregations (1882); The Jackson Genealogy (1890).

JACKSON, Isaac Wilber, educator, was born in Cornwall, N.Y., Aug. 28, 1804; son of William and Phoebe (Townsend) Jackson; grandson of Isaac and Hannah (Jackson) Jackson, and of Henry and Anne(Wright) Townsend; great-grand- son of William and Katharine (Miller) Jackson; greats-grandson of Isaac and Ann (Evans) Jack- son and greats-grandson of Anthony Jackson, of Lancashire, England, who emigrated to Ireland in 1649 and came with his son Isaac from there to America in 1625, settling in London Grove, Chester county. Pa. Both of Isaac Wilber's parents were members of the Society of Friends- He was graduated with high honors from the Albany academy in 1824 and from Union college, A.B., 1826, A.M., 1829. He was tutor at Union, 1826-31, and professor of mathematics and natural philosophy there, 1831-77. He was an enthusi- astic floriculturist and maintained a large private garden in which he propagated and perfected rai"e plants, fruits and flowers. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Hobart in 1853. He was the author of valuable works on mechan- ics, trigonometry and kindred subjects, and his Elements of Conic Sections passed through sev- eral editions, as did his Treatise on Optics. He died in Schenectady, N.Y., July 28, 1877.

JACKSON, James, governor of Georgia, was born in Moreton-Hami^stead, Devonshire, Eng- land, Sept. 21, 1757. In 1772 he decided to join his fatlier's friend, John Wereat, \vho had emigrated to America and settled in Savannah, Ga. He became a student-of-law in the office of Samuel Farley, and soon joined the patriots in their defence of the rights of the colonists. He served as an officer in the provincial army, rising to the rank of brigadier-general, and was severely \vounded at Midway, Ga., Nov. 24, 1778. On the fall of Savannah, Dec. 29, 1778, he escaped to South Carolina, in company with John Mil- ledge, and both officers, then travel-worn and without uniforms, were arrested by the American army as spies, and were about to be hanged when Maj. Peter Devereux, of Georgia, recognized them and vouched for their loyalty. He was present at the battles at Blackstocks, Cowpens and Long Cane, and in the siege of Augusta, where he commanded the garrison after the British were expelled. He was a member of the first state constitutional convention of Georgia in 1777; clerk of the court by election of the provincial congress of Georgia in 1776-77; was elected governor of the state by the provisional congress in 1788, but declined to serve on account of his youth and inexi^erience in public affairs; was a representative in the 1st U.S. congress, 1789-91, and was defeated for the 2d congress by Gen. Anthony Wayne. He was U.S. senator, 1793-95, resigning in 1795 to take his place as a