Jackson

Home Matters (1873); Bits of Talk, in Verse
and Prose, for Young Folks (1876); Mercy
Philbrick's Choice (1876) ; Hetty's Strange His-
tory (1877); Bits of Travel at Home (1878) ;
Nelly's Silver Mine (1878) ; The Story of Boon
(1874), a poem; A Century of Dishonor (1881) ;
Mammy Tittleback and her Family (1881) ; The
Training of Children (1882) ; The Hunter Cats
of Connorloa (1884); Glimpses of California
and the Missions (1883); Ramona (1884) \Zeph
(1885); Glimpses of Three Coasts (1886); Son-
nets and Lyrics (1886); and Between Whiles

.(1887).

[For information concerning Helen Hunt Jackson
see especially Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Liver-
more, Am. Women (ed. 1897), vol. II; T. W. Higgin-
son, Contemporaries (1899); Moncure D. Conway,
Autobiog., Memories, and Experiences (1904) ; Martha
Dickinson Bianchi, The Life and Letters of Emily
Dickinson (1924) ; Josephine Pollitt, Emily Dickinson,
the Human Background of her Poetry (1930); F. C
Pierce, Fiske and Fisk Family (1896) ; The Hist, of the
Town of Amherst, Mass. (1896) ; Louise Pound, "Bio-
graphical Accuracy and 'H. H./ " Am. Lit.t Jan. 1931 ;
N. Y. Tribune, Aug. 14, 1885. For accounts of Ramona
see D. A. Hufford, The Real Ramona (1900) ; Geo.
Wharton James, Ramona's Country (1909); Margaret
V. Allen, Ramona's Homeland (1914) ; C. C. Davis and
W. A. Alderson, The True Story of Ramona (1914).]

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JACKSON, HENRY ROOTES (June 24,
i820-May 23, 1898), lawyer, soldier, editor, dip-
lomat, was born in Athens, Ga. His father,
Henry Jackson, brother of James, 1757-1806
[#.#.], was a native of Devonshire, England. He
migrated to America in the latter years of the
eighteenth century and settled in Georgia. Af-
ter graduation (M.D., 1802) from the medical
department of the University of Pennsylvania,
he became secretary to William H. Crawford
[qw.], then minister to France, served as charge
d'affaires after Crawford's return, and then be-
gan a long service as professor of mathematics
in the University of Georgia. He married
Martha Jacqueline Rootes of Fredericksburg,
Va., and Henry Rootes Jackson was their son.
He was prepared for college under his father's
tutelage, entered Yale College, and was gradu-
ated as an honor man in 1839. On his return to
Georgia, he studied law and began practice in
Savannah. Before he was twenty-four he was
appointed (1843) a United States district at-
torney. On the outbreak of the Mexican War,
he became colonel of a Georgia regiment and
served until the close of hostilities. For a short
time (1848-49) he was one of the editors of
the Savannah Georgian and in 1849 he received
an appointment to the superior court bench, in
which capacity he was engaged until 1853. He
resigned to accept appointment as charge in
Austria, and on his promotion to the post of min-

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ister resident, served in that position till 1858.
On his return from Europe, he was offered the
chancellorship of the University of Georgia, but
declined that honor. He was a member of the
government counsel in the unsuccessful prosecu-
tion of the captain and owners of the slave-ship
Wanderer, seized in its attempt to bring African
slaves into Savannah (United States circuit
court, 1859). Jackson withdrew'from the Demo-
cratic convention at Charleston in 1860 when
the Southern extremists seceded, became an
elector on the Breckinridge ticket, and was a
member of the Georgia secession convention of
1861. Upon the organization of the Confederacy,
he was appointed to a judgeship in the Confed-
erate courts in Georgia, resigning to accept ap-
pointment as a brigadier-general (July 4,1861).
Later in the year he assumed command, with
rank of major-general, of a division of Georgia
state troops. After the fall of Atlanta (Sept. 21,
1864), he again became a brigadier in the Con-
federate army, served under Hood in Tennessee,
and was captured and held as a prisoner of war
at Johnson's Island and Fort Warren until the
surrender.

With the coming of peace, Jackson resumed
the practice of law in Georgia. In 1885 Cleve-
land appointed him minister to Mexico, where
he remained until his resignation in 1886 because
of a disagreement with his government on the
question of the Rebecca, a schooner seized by
Mexico on the charge of smuggling. For nearly
a quarter of a century he was president of the
Georgia Historical Society and deeply interest-
ed in the preservation of the materials for the
history of the state. He was also for many years
a trustee of the Peabody Education Fund. As a
supporter of his intimate friend, Joseph E.
Brown [#.z>.], he took a vigorous part in state
politics being active from the close of the Civil
War until his death, though he never sought
public office for himself. He was twice married:
first, to Cornelia Augusta Davenport of Savan-
nah, from which union there were four children;
and second, to Florence Barclay King of St.
Simons Island. In 1850 he published a book of
verse, Tallulah and Other Poems. His "Red Old
Hills of Georgia" is perhaps the best known of
his poems.

[J. M. Brown, in The Wanderer Case (1891); I. W.
Avery, Hist, of the State of Ga. from 1850 to 1881
(1881); Herbert Fielder, A Sketch of the Life and
Times and Speeches of Joseph E. Brown (1883) ; C. C.
Jones, Hist, of Savannah, Ga. (1890); F. D. Lee and
J. L. Agnew, Hist. Record of the City of Savannah
(1869); L. L. Knight, Reminiscences of Famous
Georgians (2 vols., 1907-08) ; W. J. Northen, Men of
Mark in Ga., vol. Ill (ign); Memoirs of Go. (1895),
vol. II; OUt. Record Grads. Yale Univ. (1898); A
Quarter-Century Record of the Class of 1839 (1865);
Morning News (Savannah), May 24, 1898,] T.HJ.

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