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his wound prevented his further active partici- pation in battle. He resigned at the close of the war and retired to his farm in Newton. He liad five brothers and live sons in the patriot army during the Revolution. He was married to Ruth, daugliter of Eljenezer Parker. He died at N.'wton. Mass., April 10. ISOI.

JACKSON, Mortimer .Melville, jurist, was burn at Rensselaerville, N.Y., Marcii T), 1814; son of Jeremiah and Martlia (Keyes) Jackson. Both liis parents were of Puritan descent; his father was a farmer,and died while Mortimer was a boy. He was educated at the district school, at Lindley Murray Morris's school, Flusliifig, L. I., and in the collegiate school of Boreland & Forrest, New York city, where he was graduated and awarded the prize as the best Englisli scholar. He began business life in New York, \vliere he also studied law with David Graliam. He was an active member of the Mercantile Library association, becoming director and later vice-president of the association. In 1834 he was a delegate from New York city to the Whig State conven- tion at Syracuse, which nominated William H. Seward for governor. In 1838 he was married to Catliarine, daughter of Andrew S. Garr, of New York city, and removed to Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory, settling at Mineral Point in 1839, where he was admitted to the bar, was a member of the territorial convention of 1840, and helped to organize the Whig party in the territory and to oppose the extension of slavery. He was attorney- general of the territory by appointment of Gov- ernor Doty, 1842-47. As chairman of the com- mittee appointed in 1846 to plan for better educational advantages, he wrote the report to the legislature. He was the first circuit ju<lge for the fifth judicial circuit of the state during the existence of the court, 1848-53, and was elected chief justice of the court, but declined to serve. He practised law in Madison, Wis., 18.13- 61 . and wa» the defeated Republican candidate for attorney-general of the state in 1856 and for U.S. senator in 1857. In 1861 Presi«lent Lincoln appointed him U.S. consul at Halifax, N.S., where diu-ing the civil war he rendered the country valuable service in causing the seizure of Con- federate munitions of war valued at over S'2. 000.000, and in 1870 in protecting the rights of fishing vessels and in making to the government a valuable and exhaustive report on the fisheries and fishery laws of Canada. He was U.S. consul- general to the British maritime provinces, ISSO- 82, having declined the post of U.S. consul-general at Melbourne, Australia. In 1882 he resigneil and returned to Madison, Wis., alone, his wife having died in Halifax, Aug. 16, 1><75. He pub- lished a number of articles intended to attract emigration to Michigan and to encourage the

development of mineral lands within the terri- tory. He died in Madison, Wis., Oct. 13, 1889.

JACKSON, Nathaniel James, soldier, was born in Newburyport, Mass., July 28, 1818; sou of Natlianiel and Johanna (Tad) Jackson, and grandson of Abraham Jackson. He was edu- cated at home and in private schools in New- buryport. He was married to Julia A. Longley, of Millbury, Mass. He l)ecame a macliinist by trade, and at the breaking out of the civil war he was superintendent of the Hill mills, at Lew- iston, Maine. He was a lieutenant in the Lewis- ton Liglit infantry, which company, as Company K, he took to join the 1st Maine regiment of three months' men in June, 1861, and was made colonel of the regiment. He served through the civil war as colonel of the 5tli IMaiiie regiment. He was wounded at the battle of Gaines's Mill, June 27, 1862; was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers for gallant and meritorious conduct, Sept. 24, 1863; assigned to the 2d brigade, 2d di- vision, 12th corps; was again wounded at the battle of Cliancellorsville, May, 1863, and when able to leave the hospital was given command of Riker's Island, and later of Hart Island, New York harbor. When able to bear arms again he was given command of the 1st division, 20th army corps, and was with Genex'al Sherman in his marcli to the sea, and through the Carolinas, 1864-65, his last engagement being at Avery.s- boro, N.C., March 16. 1805. He was brevetted major-general of volunteers, March 13. 1865, and mustered out, Aug. 24. 1865. After the war he became interested in coal mining, and conducted business at Dunkirk, N.Y. He died in James- town, N.Y.. April 21. 1892.

JACKSON, Patrick Tracy, pioneer manufac- turer, was born in Newburv))ort, Mass.. Aug. 14, 1780; youngest son of the Hon. Jonathan and Han- nah (Tracy) Jackson, and grandson of Ed- ward and Dorothy (Quincy) Jackson and of Capt. Patrick Tracy. He was edu- cated at public schools, and at Dum- mer academy, and in 1795 was apprenticed to a merchant in New- buryport. While a young man he remov- ed to Boston, and there entei'ed the India trade, in which he amassed a large

fortune. He assisted his brother-in-law, Francis C. Lowell, who had studied the power-loom in England, in introducing the power-loom in