Jackson

Philadelphia, he asked the Congress, June 23,
1777, to permit him to resign from the manage-
ment of the lottery. Later he was attached to the
Pennsylvania militia, Continental Line, as sur-
geon, and on Oct. 23, 1779, was made quarter-
master-general of the Pennsylvania militia in
the field, but soon was appointed senior surgeon
of the military hospital. At the same time he was
elected a member of the medical staff of the
Philadelphia General Hospital, serving until
Dec. 5, 1780. He is said to have been present at
the surrender of Cornwallis, at Yorktown, Va.,
Oct. 19, 1781.

After hostilities had been ended Jackson re-
turned to Philadelphia and opened an apothecary
shop which he conducted in connection wiih his
profession. He was a delegate to the Continen-
tal Congress from Philadelphia from April to
November 1785. In 1789 he was elected a trus-
tee of the University of the State of Pennsyl-
vania, which in 1791 became the University of
Pennsylvania, and served upon the board until
his death. In 1792 he was elected a member of
the American Philosophical Society and on July
4, *793> was associated with David Rittenhouse,
James Hutchinson, and other Philadelphians in
the organization of the first Democratic society
in the country. At the time of his death he was
one of the aldermen of Philadelphia. He was
twice married; in 1768 to Jane (Mather) Jack-
son, the widow of his elder brother, Paul; and
second, to Susanna Kemper, by whom he had
nine children. His eldest son, David, succeeded
him in the drug business, and his second son,
Samuel Jackson [£.v.], was for thirty-six years
connected with the medical school of the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania.

[Ewing Jordan, article in the Alumni Reg., Mid-May,
June 1900; H. G. Ashmead, Hist. Sketch of Chester,
on Delaware (1883) ; J. W. Croskey, Hist, of Blockley
(1929); Pa. Archives, 5 ser., vols. IV and V (1906) ;
H. P. Jackson, The Geneal of the "Jackson Family"
(1890); Poulson's Am. Daily Advertiser; Sept. 19,
1801.] jj.

JACKSON, EDWARD PAYSON (Mar. 15,
iS40-Oct. 12, 1905), educator, author, the son
of Congregational missionaries, Rev. William
C. and Mary A. (Sawyer) Jackson, was born in
Erzerum, Turkey. When five years old he was
brought by his parents to the United States,
the journey from Erzerum to the Black Sea
being made on donkeys, over what was practical-
ly the route of Xenophon and the Ten Thousand.
After study at Phillips Andover Academy, he
entered Dartmouth College in 1856, remaining
one year. In 1860 he enrolled at Amherst, where
he completed his sophomore year, but did not
graduate though he was given the honorary de-

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gree of M.A. in 1870. Enlistment in Company
D, 45th Massachusetts Infantry, September 1863,
interrupted his studies, and he served as private
and corporal in the battles of Kinston, White-
hall, Goldsboro, Dover Crossing, and Bachel-
der's Creek. He was mustered out but reenlisted
in Company A, sth Massachusetts Regiment,
and was made second lieutenant for bravery.

After the war he taught at Whitehall, N. Y.,
served for one year as president of the Ladies'
College, Ottawa, Canada, and then as principal
of the High School at Holyoke, Mass., until
1870. For the next seven years he was principal
of the High School at Fall River, Mass., and
from 1877 to 1904, an instructor in the Boston
Latin School. As a teacher he inspired his pu-
pils with his own enthusiasm for the sciences,
of which his favorite subjects were zoology and
physics. He was a self-taught astronomer and
made an unusual set of star charts for classroom
use. Among his scientific publications are: An
Astronomical Geography (1870); Manual of
Zoology (1884); and The Earth in Space
(1887). He also wrote a novel, A Demigod
(1886), which appeared anonymously and
aroused much interest and curiosity at the time.
Character Building (1891), which is probably
his best known and most influential publication,
consists of the familiar talks of a teacher with
his pupils on the conduct of life and was award-
ed a prize by the American Secular Union for
the best essay on the instruction of "children
and youth in the purest principles of morality
without inculcating religious doctrine." In ad-
dition, he was a contributor to magazines, for
which he wrote nearly a hundred essays, poems,
scientific articles, and monographs on various
subjects. Many of his articles had wide circula-
tion and were used as supplementary reading in
grammar and high schools. He was a member
of the Authors' Club of Boston and had a wide
circle of friends. His physical and mental activ-
ities were unwearied, and his work as a teach-
er was characterized by much originality. He
was twice married: first, on Mar. 26, 1865, to
Helen Maria Smith who died Mar. i, 1896; and
second, June 24, 1904, to Mrs. Mary Elizabeth
Clark. By the former he had three sons and one
daughter.

[Who's Who in America, 1906-07; Amherst Coll
Biog, Record (1927) ; A Bibliog. of the Boston Authors*
Club (1904) ; Boston Globe and Boston Transcript, Oct.
14, 1905; information as to certain facts from a son.]

F.T.R

JACKSON, GEORGE K. (i758-Nov. 18,
1822), teacher, composer, and organist, was born
in Oxford, England. Having shown a bent to-
ward music, he was placed at an early age under

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