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cantile and manufacturing business. In 1808 he was elected a representative in the lOtli congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Nehe- miah R. Knight, aud he was re-elected to the 11th. 12th and 13th congresses, serving from Nov. 11, 1808, to March 4, 1815. He was married March 19, 1795, to Nabby AVheaton, and liad two sons and five daughters. His eldest son Charles (q.v.) was governor of Rhode Island, and Henry (1798-1863) (q.v.) was a prominent Baptist cler- gyman. Mr. Jackson was president of the Wash- ington Insurance company. Providence, 1800-38 ; and a trustee of Brown university, 1809-38. He died in Providence, R. I.. April 18, 1838.

JACKSON, Samuel, physician, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 22, 1787; son of Dr. David (q.v.) and Susan (Kemper) Jackson of Philadelpiiia, and grandson of "Farmer'* Samuel Jackson of Oxford, Pa., who came from Virginia. He was graduated at the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania in 1808, conducted his father's drug-store for several years and dur- ixig tlie war with Great Britain served in Delaware and Maryland as a private in the city cavalry, 1814. He practised medicine in Philadelphia, 1815-72 ; was president of the board of health in 1820 ; professor of materia medica in the Phila- delpiiia college of pharmacy of which he was a founder, 1821-26 ; and was assistant to Profes- sor Chapman in the University of Pennsylvania, 1827-35. During the cholera epidemic of 1826-37, in anticipation of its outbreak in Philadelpiiia, he was in 1832 placed at the head of a medical com- mission to visit Canada, where the disease had already appeared, and the results of liis observa- tions were published in pamphlet and distributed broadcast for the benefit of physicians. When the epidemic reached Philadelpiiia he had charge of a city cholera hospital. He was professor of the institutes of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, 1835-03, and emeritus professor, 1863-72. He was elected a member of the Na- tional Geographic society of Washington, D.C. He read before the Academy of Sciences in Paris in 1818, a paper on Medical Auscultation. He is the author of: Principles of Medicine (1832); Discourse Commemorative of Prof. Nathaniel Chapman (1854), an introduction to J. C. Mor- ris's Translation of Lehmann's Chemical Phijsio- lorjy (1S.55) ; and Medical Essays. He died in Philadelphia, Pa.. April 4, lsr2.

JACKSON, Samuel flacauley, educator, was born in New York city. June 19, 1851 ; son of George T. and Letitia Jane Aiken (Macauley) Jackson and grandson of Samuel Jackson, a linen manufacturer and citizen of Dul)lin, Ireland and of Samuel Macauley of New York city. He was graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1870 ; and attended the Princeton

Theological .seminary, 1870-71 ; and the Union Theological seminary, 1871-73, where he was grad- uated. He spent the next two years in study at Leipzig, Germany, and in extensive travel, and on his return was ordained by the presbytery of Jersey City, N. J., May 30, 1876, and installed pastor at Norwood, N. J., where he remained till 1880, when he removed to New York city, en- tered the presbytery of New York, and engaged in literary work. He was elected professor of churcii history in New York university in 1895. He became a member of the Centur)- association, the Reform club, the National Arts club, the National Sculpture society ; secretary of the American Society of Church History from its formation in 1888 till its amalgamation with the American Historical association in 1890, and thereafter secretary of tlie church history section of the latter, and a memlx-r of the executive com- mittee of the Charity Organization .societ}- and of the Prison association. He was assistant editor of SchafjTs Bible Dictionary (1878-80) ; associate edi- tor of the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopiedia of Relig- ious Kiioxcledge (ISSOSi) . and of Johnson's Univer- sal Cyclopaedia (religious literature) 1893-95; joint editor with Dr. Philip Schaff of i\ie Encyclopaedia of Living Divines (1886, new edition, 1891); and edi- tor of the Concise Dictionary of Religious Knoicl- edge (1891) ; of the Magazine of Christian Litera- ture (ISSQ-i)}) ; of Bibliography of Foreign Miss- to?2s(1891) ; Heroes of the Reformation (1S98-1902); Handbooks for Practical Workers in Church and Philanthropy (IS09-VJOI} : church terms in the Standard Dictionary (1895); and Papers and Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of America, Tercentenary of the Edict of Xantes (IdOO).

JACKSON, Sarah Yorke, daughter-in-law oi President Jackson, was born in Philadeliihia, Pa., in 1806 ; daughter of Peter and greats-grand- daughter of Judge Yorke, an officer under the crown. She received an excellent education, and in 1829 was married to Andrew, adopted son of President Jackson. She came a bride to the White House, where she divided the honors of the first lady of the administration with Emily Don- elson. She returned to the Hermitage after the close of Jfickson's administration, and on the death of Mrs. Donelson in December, 1836, became its hostess and the main dependence of a large family of ciiiMren and slaves, and in General Jackson's declining years was his faithful nurse and constant companion for nearly ten years. After the death of her hu.sband and father, she remained mistress of the Hermitage, even after it passed into the ownership of the state of Tennes- see, and die<l there Aug. 23, 1887.

JACKSON, Sheldon, missionary, was born at Miiiaville. X.Y.. M;iy 18, 1834; son of Samuel Clinton and Delia (Sheldon) Jackson and grand-