THE
BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY
OF
AMERICA
JACK, Summers Melville, representative, was
bom in Summersville, Pa.. July 18. 1852; son of
Lowr}^ and Cornelia (Baldwin) Jack. He was
educated at the Indiana normal school. Pa. ;
studied law with Silas M. Clark, of Indiana. Pa.,
and was admitted to the bar in 1879. He was dis-
trict attorney of Indiana county, 1884-90 ; a trus-
tee of Indiana normal school, 1886-1900, and a
Republican representative from the twenty-first
district in tlie 56th and 57th congi'esses, 1899-1903.
JACKSON, Abner, educator, was born in
Washington. Pa., Nov. 4, 1811 ; son of David and
Sarah (Bi'ownlee) Jackson. He entered Wash-
ington college. Pa., in 18-33, leaving at the close of
the freslinian year to enter Washington (Trin-
ity) college, Hartford,
Conn., where he was
graduated in 1887.
He was ordained to
the Protestant Epis-
copal ministry by
Bishop Brownell,
Sept. 2, 1838; was a tutorat Trinity, 1837- 38 : librarian in the college, 1837-49; ad- junct professor of ancient languages, 1838-40 ; instructor in chemistry, 1839-52, and was the first to occupy the chair of ethics and metaphysics, 1840-58. He was presi- dent of Hobart college, N.Y., and professor of the evidences of Christianity, 1858-67, and then resigned to accept the presidency of Trinity college, which office he held, together with liis former chair of ethics and metapliysics, until his death. He spent the summers of 1872-73 in Europe, studying architecture and preparing plans for the proposed new college buildings. He was twice married : first to Emily, daughter of Governor William W. Ellsworth (q.v.), and sec- ondly to JIary Wray Cobb, of Schenectady, N.Y.
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He received the degree of S.T.D. from Trinity in
1858. He died in Hartford. Conn.. April 19. 1874.
JACKSON, Abraham Valentine Williams, educator, was born in New York city, Feb. 9, 1862 ; son of David Sherwood and Elizabeth Sand- ford (Williams) Jackson. He was graduated at Columbia college, A.B., 1883, at the head of his class ; A.M., 1884. and remained there as a fellow in letters, 1883-86 : instructor in Anglo-Saxon and Iranian languages, 1886-91 ; adjunct profes- sor of the English language, 1891-95, and profes- sor of the Indo-Iranian languages after 1895. He was a university student at Halle, Germany, 1887-89. He is the author of : Hymn of Zoro- aster, Yasna XXXI. (1887) ; An Avesta Gram- viar in Comparison u-ith Sanskrit (1892) ; An Avestan Reader (1893) ; Zoroaster, the Prophet of Ancient Iran (1899).
JACKSON, Andrew, seventh President of the United States, was born at the George McKenney homestead in ]\Iecklenberg county, N.C., March 15, 1767 ; son of Andrew and Elizabeth (Hutch- inson) Jackson, of Twelve Mile creek, a branch of the Catawba river in Union county, N.C ; and grandson of Hugh Jackson, a linen draper, who was a sufferer in the siege of Carrickfergus, Ireland, in 1760. Andrew and Elizabeth Jackson, with their two sons, Hugh and Robert, immi- grated to America from Carrickfergus in 1765, landed at Charleston, S.C., and settled in the W^axhaw neighborhood on the Catawba river, the settlement being partly in North Carolina and partly in South Carolina. Andrew died in Jan- uary, 1767, and his widow, with her sons, Hugh, Robert and Andrew, removed in the summer of 1767 to the home of her sister, the wife of James Crawford, who lived in the same settlement, but in South Carolina. Here *' Andy," as he was familiarly called, was brought up and attended the " old field " school, and subsequently the academy kept by Dr. Humphries. He also at tended Queens college, Charlotte, N.C, for a short time. In these schools he learned to read and write, and mastered the elements of aritli-
