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Pa., in 1801. He was graduated in medicine at the College of Pennsylvania in 1768, and practised in Philadelphia. On 3 Dec, 1776, he was appointed paymaster of the 2d battalion of Philadelphia mili- tia, and on 23 Oct., 1779, became quartermaster of the militia in the field. He was appointed hospital physician and surgeon, 30 Sept., 1780, and was in service at Yorktown when Cornwallis surrendered, 19 Oct., 1781. From 18 April till 11 Nov., 1785, he was a delegate to congress, after which he re- tired from public life and became an apothecary in Philadelphia. — His son, Samuel, physician, b. in Philadelphia, 22 March, 1787; d. there, 4 April, 1872, was educated at the University of Pennsyl- vania, and was graduated at the medical depart- ment in 1808. For several years he conducted his father's drug-store, and during this period became a member of the 1st troop of city cavalry, and served as a private in Delaware and Maryland dur- ing the campaign of 1814. In 1815 he began to practise medicine in Philadelphia, and in 1820 be- came president of the board of health, making a special study of yellow fever. In 1821 he was ap- pointed professor of materia medica in the Phila- delphia college of pharmacy, of which he was a founder, and served until 1826. In 1827 he was chosen assistant to Prof. Nathaniel Chapman in the University of Pennsylvania. In 1832, in an- ticipation of an epidemic of Asiatic cholera, Dr. Jackson was placed at the head of a commission of physicians that visited Canada, where the disease first appeared, and his reports were published in pamphlet-form. During its prevalence in Phila- delphia, he had charge of City cholera hospital, No. 5. He was appointed professor of the insti- tutes of medicine in the University of Pennsyl- vania, and held this office from 1835 till 1863, when he resigned, and was afterward emeritus pro- fessor till his death. He was known in Philadel- phia as " Professor " Samuel Jackson, to distin- guish him from another physician in practice at the same time known as Dr. Samuel Jackson " of Northumberland." Prof. Jackson made some repu- tation as a lecturer, and read before the Academy of sciences in Paris, in 1818, a paper upon " Medi- ate Auscultation." He was the author of " Princi- ples of Medicine " (Philadelphia, 1832) ; " Discourse Commemorative of Prof. Nathaniel Chapman" (1854); an introduction to J. Cheston Morris's " Translation of Lehmann's Chemical Physiology " (1855) ; and " Medical Essays."

JACKSON, Edward Payson, author, b. in Erzeroum, Turkey, 15 March, 1840. His parents were American missionaries in Turkey. Edward came to the United States in 1845, and was gradu- ated in 1870 at Amherst, where he was poet of his class. During the civil war he served in the 45th Massachusetts regiment. Since 1877 Mr. Jackson has been master in the Boston Latin-school. He has published " Mathematic Geography " (New York, 1873); "A Demi-God " (Boston, 1886) ; and " The Earth in Space " (1887).

JACKSON, Francis, reformer, b. in Newton, Mass., 7 March, 1789 ; d. in Boston, Mass., 14 Nov., 1861. His father, Maj. Timothy Jackson, who died in 1814 at the age of fifty-eight, was an officer in the Revolution. The son became a well-known citizen of Boston, was at one time a member of the city government, for many years was president of the Anti-slavery society, and was the originator of various public improvements in Boston. He pub- lished a " History of Newton " (Newton, 1854).

JACKSON, George, Canadian member of parliament, b. in Hatton, Yorkshire, England, in December, 1809 ; d. in Durham, Ont, 6 March, 1885. He was engaged in business in the city of Durham, England, and in 1844 came to Canada, where he purchased the mills and estate at Nottawasaga, near Collingwood. He remained there until 1848, when he was appointed crown lands agent for the counties of Bruce and Grey. In 1854 he was elected the first representative for Grey in the Canada assembly, re-elected in 1861, and in 1867 chosen to the Dominion parliament, but was defeated in 1873. He was again elected for that constituency in 1878, and continued to represent it till 1882, when he finally retired from politics. He was also for many years warden of his county. Mr. Jackson began his political career as a Liberal, and then became a Liberal-Conservative and a follower of Sir John Macdonald.

JACKSON, Helen Maria Fiske, author, b. in Amherst, Mass., 18 Oct., 1831 ; d. in San Francisco, Cal., 12 Aug., 1885. She was the daughter of Prof. Nathan W. Fiske, of Amherst, and was educated at the Ipswich, Mass., female seminary. In October, 1852, she married Capt. Edward B. Hunt (q. v.). She had become known as a contributor to periodical literature, under the signature of "H. H.," when in October, 1875, she married William S. Jackson, and thereafter

spent much of her

time in Colorado Springs, where her husband was a banker. She became actively interested in the treat- ment of the Indians by the U. S. government in 1879, and strove to better the condition of that race. In 1883 she was appointed special commissioner to examine into the condition of the Mission Indians of California, and while thus engaged she studied the history of the' early Spanish missions. From her death-bed she wrote to the president a pathetic appeal with reference to " righting the wrongs of the Indian race." Her published works include " Verses " (Boston, 1870 ; enlarged ed., 1874) ; " Bits of Travel " (1872) ; " Bits of Talk about Home Mat- ters " (1873) ; " Bits of Talk for, Young People " (1876) ; " Bits of Travel at Home " (1878) ; " Nelly's Silver-Mine " (1878) ; " The Story of Boon " (1879) ; " Letters from a Cat " (1880) * " A Century of Dis- honor," referring to the Indians (New York, 1881) ; "Mammy Tittleback and her Family" (1881); " The Training of Children " (1882) ; " The Hunter Cats of Connorloa" (1884); "Ramona" (1884); " Zeph " (1886) ; " Glimpses of Three Coasts "" (1886) : " Sonnets and Lyrics " (1886) ; " Between Whiles " (1887) ; also " Mercy Philbrick's Choice " (1876) and " Hetty's Strange History " (1877), con- tributed to the "No-Name Series." The stories published under the pen-name of Saxe Holm have been attributed to her.

JACKSON, Henry, soldier, b. in Boston in October, 1747 ; d. there, 4 Jan., 1809. He was appointed colonel of the 16th Massachusetts regiment, 12 Jan., 1777, commanded the 9th or Boston regiment in 1779-'82, and fought in Rhode Island in 1778, and at Springfield, N. J., in June, 1780. He afterward commanded the 4th Massachusetts regiment, and was major-general of Massachusetts militia from 1772 till 1796.