JACKSON
JACKSON
son of Samuel and Louisa (Heyer) Jackson, and
of Dr. Alexander and Miriam (King) Siieldon.
Samuel Jackson came from England about
1790. Dr. Alexander Sheldon, who was for
six terms speaker of
the New York state
assembly and the last
speaker to wear of-
ficially the cocked
hat of the Revolution,
was descended from
Isaac Sheldon, who
settled in Dorchester,
Mass., early in the
seven teentli centuiy,
and whose son Isaac
is represented in
history as removing
from Windsor, Conn.,
in 1654. Sheldon Jack-
son was graduated
from Union college in 1855 and from Princeton
Theological seminary in 1858. He was a mission-
ary to the Choctaws, 1858-59, and Presbyterian
home missionary in western Wisconsin and
southern Minnesota, with headquarters at La
Crescent, Minn., 1859-04. During the fall of
1863, in the service of the Christian commission,
he served in the hospitals of southern Tennessee
and northern Alabama. He was pastor at Ro-
chester, Minn., 1864-69; superintendent of the
Presbyterian board of liome missions for western
territories, 1869-70; superintendent of the board
of home missions for Wyoming, Colorado, New
Mexico, Arizona, Utali and Montana, 1870-82;
business manager of the Home Mission Magazine,
New York city, 1882-84, and U.S. agent to supply
the training schools for Indians at Carlisle, Pa.,
and Hampton, Va., with Indian children from
New Mexico and Arizona, 1879-80. He was made
superintendent of the board of home missions for
Alaska in 1877, and in 1885 U.S. general agent of
education for Alaska, where he founded and
took charge of the i^viblic school system of that
section. In the spring of 1895 he gave $50,000 to
establish a Cliristian college at Salt Lake City,
Utah. He was seven times commissioner to the
general assembly of the Presbyterian churcli in
the United States, and in 1897 was elected mod-
erator. He assisted in the organization of two
synods and seven large presbyteries. He organ-
ized the first Protestant (Presbyterian) churches
and public schools in Alaska; he also assisted the
missionary societies of the several denomina-
tions in the establishment of Methodist, Baptist,
Episcopalian, Moravian, Quaker and Swedish
Evangelical churches. In 1890 he began the in-
troduction of domestic reindeer into Alaska, and
in 1897-98 he w^as sent by the general government
of Lapland and Norway, where he secured a num-
ber of reindeer and Lapp attendants. Between
1869 and 1900 he delivered over 3000 missionary
addi'esses. He founded and was owner and editor
of the Rocky Mountain Presbyterian, published
at Denver, Col., 1872-82, and also founded and
was owner and editor of the North Star at Sitka,
Alaska, 1887-93. He organized the Alaska So-
ciety of Natural History and Ethnology in 1887;
became vice-president of the Alaska Historical
society and also of the American Sabbatli union,
and an officer and member at different times of
about thirty scientific, historical and literary
societies. He received the degree of D.D. from
Hanover college in 1874 and that of LL.D. from
Union university, Sclienectadj', N.Y., in 1897.
He is the author of: Alaska and llissions on the
North Pacific Coast (1880); also Annual Reports
on Education in Alaska (1881-1900), and Ammal
Reports on the Introduction of Domestic Reindeer
into Alaska (1890-1900).
JACKSON, Thomas Birdsall, representative, was born at Jerusalem, N.Y., March 24, 1797; son of Parmenus; grandson of Parmenus, who was robbed and murdered at Jerusalem, N.Y., during the Revolution; great-grandson of John; great-- grandson of John, and greats-grandson of Robert Jackson and Agnes, liis wife, who were among the original settlers of Stamford, Conn., 1640-41, removing thence to Hempstead, L.I., N.Y., with the first settlers in 1644. Thomas B. was admit- ted to the bar and became active in politics. He was twice a county judge; was a member of the general assembly, 1833-37, and for many years a justice of the peace. He was a representative from New York in the 25th and 26tli congresses, 1837-41. He was married to Maria Coles, and had sons Samuel C. , Andrew and William H. He died in Newtown, N.Y., April 23, 1881.
JACKSON, Thomas Jonathan, soldier, was born in Clarksburg, Va., probably Jan. 21, 1824; son of Jonathan and Julia Beckwith (Neale) Jackson; grandson of Edward and — (Hadden) Jackson and of Thomas and Margaret (Winn) Neale, and great-grandson of Jolm and Elizabeth (Cummins) Jackson, both natives of England, who came to America in 1748 on the same ship, and were mar- ried in Calvert county, Md., in 1750. They settled first in that part of western Virginia which be- came Moorfields, Hardy county, and subse- quently crossed the Alleghany ridge and settled on the Buckhannon river, the place becoming known first as Jackson's Fort, and subsequently Buckhannon. With his sons George and Edward, he took part in the American Revolution on the ' pati'iot side. Edward Jackson was also a sur- veyor, and acquired a large estate. Jonathan Jackson was a lawyer, having studied under his cousin, John George Jackson. He died a bank-
