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JACKSON, James Caleb, author, was born in Manlius, N.Y., March 28, 1811 ; son of James and Mary Ann (Elderkin) Clark Jackson, and grand- son of Col. Giles and Sarah Atvvood(Orton) Jack- son. He was educated at the Chittenango Poly- technic institute, and became a temperance lec- turer in 1837 ; entered the Massachusetts Anti- Slavery society as lecturer, in 1838, and left the field to become corresponding secretary of the society, in 1840-42. He was editor of the Madison County Abolitionist, 1842-43, at Cazenovia, N.Y., and formed a partnership with Abel Biown, of Troy, N.Y., and purchased the Albany Record, which he edited and managed, 1844-47. In 1847 he founded a hydropathic institute at Skanea- teles Lake, N.Y., and in 1858 he founded Our Home Hygienic institute at Dansville, N.Y., which became, as the Jackson sanatorium, one of the largest institutions of its kind in the world. He is the author of : Tlie Sexual Organism and Its Healthful Management (1861) ; Consumption : How to Prevent It and How to Cure It (1862) ; How to Treat the Sick Without Mediciyie (1870) ; American Womanhood: Its Peculiarities and Necessities (1870) ; The Training of Children (1872); The Debilities of Our Boys (1872) ; Christ as a Physician (1875); Morning Watches (1882), and a large number of monographs. He died at Dansville. N.Y.. July 11, 1895.

JACKSON, James Hathaway, physician, was born in Peterboro, Madison county, N.Y., June 11, 1841 ; son of Dr. James Caleb and Lucretia Edgerton (Brewster) Jackson. His preparatory education was acquired at Dansville seminary, N.Y., and he was graduated in medicine from Bellevue Hospital medical college in 1876. In 1861 he became connected with Jackson sana- torium, as business manager. In 1876 he became physician-in-chief of the institution, and in 1880, editor of Laws of Life and Journal of Health, a monthly journal. He was married, Sept. 13, 1864, to Kate, daughter of the Hon. Emerson and Hannah (Arnold) Johnson, of Sturbridge, Mass. He is the author of numerous articles and pampiilets on health.

JACKSON, James Streshley, soldier, Avas born in Madison county, Ky., Sept. 27, 1823. He was graduated at Jefferson college. Pa., in 1844, and in law at Transylvania university, and began practice at Greenupsburg, Ky., in 1845. On May 20, 1846, he fought a duel at Bethlehem, Ind., with Robert Patterson, of Frankfort, Ky., Thomas F. Marshall acting as second for Jackson, while George B. Crittenden acted as second for Patter- son. After shots were exchanged the difficulty was settled by the seconds. He helped to raise a company of cavalry, known as Captain Cassius M. Clay's company, for the Mexican war, and serving first as lieutenant and subsequently as

captain. On Oct. 4, 1847, while stationed at Port Lavaca, Texas, he fought a duel with Capt. Thomas F. Marshall, both escaping unhurt, and he resigned from the army to avoid a court- martial. He tlien resumed law practice, at first in Greenupsburg, and afterward in Hopkinsville, Ky. He was a state representative from Christian county, Ky., 1857-59. At a special election, June 20, 1861, he was elected a representative in the 37th congress, as a Unionist. He resigned early in 1862, and organized for the U.S. government the 3d Kentucky cavalry, of which he became colonel. His regiment was defeated in a skirmish with Col. N. B. Forrest, at Sacramento, McLean county, Dec. 27, 1861. He took jiart in the battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862. On July 16, 1862, he was commissioned brigadier-general of volun- teers, and was present at the battles of luka, Miss., Sept. 19, 1862, and Corinth, Miss., Oct. 3-4, 1862. He was killed at the battle of Chaplin Hills, or Perry ville, Ky., where he commanded a division of 5500 men, Oct. 8, 1862.

JACKSON, John Adams, sculptor, was born in Bath, Maine, Nov. 5, 1822. He became a machinist in Boston, Mass., where he studied mechanical drawing. Developing a talent for sculpture, he studied the art under Suisse in Paris. He did his first professional work in New York city, 1858-60, and made his home in Florence, Italy, 1860-79, His first work as an amateur was a bust of T. Buchanan Read, modelled while he was serving his apprentice- ship to a machinist. He also executed busts of Daniel Webster (1851), Adelaide Phillips (1853), and Wendell Phillips (1854). His later works iiaclude a lai'ge number of ideal figures, groups and medallions, many times repeated. He de- signed a statue of Dr. Kane, the explorer, for the Kane Monument association in 1860 ; a group for the Central Park Reservoir gate, N.Y., (1867), and one for the Soldiers' monu- ment, Lynn, Mass., (1874). He died in Tus- cany, Italy, Aug. 30, 1879.

JACKSON, John Barnard Swett, educator, was born in Boston, Mass., June 5, 1800; son of Gen. Heniy and Hannah (Swett) Jackson. His father (born in 1747, died Jan. 4, 1809), was colonel of the 14th Massachusetts regiment, 1777- 79, of the 9th, 1779-82, the 4th, 1782-92, and was major-general. 1792-96. His mother was a sister of John Barnard Swett, a physician of Newbury- port, Mass. His uncles, Charles and Dr. James Jackson, became his guardians on the death of his father, and he was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1825, A.M., 1828, M.D., 1829. He was house apothecary at the Massachusetts General hospital in 1827 ; continued his medical studies in Paris, London and Edinburgh, and in June, 1831, settled in practice in Boston, Mass. He was mar-