New York university. He was admitted to the bar in 1860, and began practice in New York, city, but at the beginning of the civil war was ap- pointed aide-de-camp to Gen. Robert Anderson, and ordered to Kentucky. Subsequently he was commissioned 2d lieutenant in the 1st New Jersey regiment, and appointed aide to Gen. Philip Kear- ny. While serving on the latter's staff he declined the colonelcy of the 61st New York regiment. In December, 1861, he was ordered to join the divis- ion staff of Gen. William B. Franklin. In the summer of 1862 he was promoted to captain for gallant conduct during the seven days' conflict be- fore Richmond, and assigned to the staff of the 6th corps of the Army of the Potomac. In the following December he was promoted lieutenant- colonel of the 6th New Jersey volunteers, and was brevetted colonel for " meritorious conduct " at the battle of Fredericksburg, in the same month. He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers on 13 March, 1865. At the close of his term of service, he was appointed by the War department a commissioner of the U. S. naval credits, and suc- ceeded in having 1,900 naval enlistments from New Jersey credited to the quota of troops enlisted from that state, thus rendering a draft unneces- sary. Gov. Joel Parker said, in a message to the legislature, that the state had in consequence been saved the expenditure of nearly $1,000,000. Gen. Jackson resumed the practice of law in New York city, and in 1870 was appointed assistant district- attorney for the southern district of New York.
JACKSON, Mercy Bisbee, physician, b. in
Hardwick, Mass., 17 Sept., 1802; d. in Boston,
Mass., 13 Dec, 1877. She was graduated at the
New England female medical college in 1860, hav-
ing previously practised medicine in Plymouth,
Mass., for twenty years and in Boston for fifteen
years. She was the first woman that was admitted
to the American institute of homoeopathy in Phila-
delphia, in June, 1871, became a member of the
Massachusetts homoeopathic society, and of the
Boston homoeopathic society in 1873, and in that
year was made professor of diseases of children in
the Boston university school of medicine, which
office she held until her death. She was twice mar-
ried, her first husband being the Rev. John Bisbee,
and her second, Capt. Daniel Jackson, of Plymouth,
Mass. She was an active worker for the cause of
temperance and woman suffrage, addressed large
audiences, and contributed frequently to the " Wo-
man's Journal," published in Boston.
JACKSON, Michael, soldier, b. in Newton,
Mass., 18 Dec, 1734; d. there, 10 April, 1801. He
was a lieutenant in the French war, and afterward
took part in the battle of Bunker Hill, where he
served as major of Gardner's regiment, and killed
a British officer in a personal encounter. After-
ward he was lieutenant-colonel of Bond's regiment,
and was wounded in the thigh at Montressor's isl-
and in 1776. He was colonel of the 8th Massa-
chusetts regiment of the Continental line from
January, 1777, till the close of the war. His five
brothers and five sons were also in the army.
JACKSON, Mortimer Melville, jurist, b. in
Rensselaerville, Albany eo., N. Y., 5 March, 1814.
He was educated in Flushing and New York city,
and entered a counting-house, where he remained
several years, also studying law. In 1838 he re-
moved to Milwaukee, Wis., and in the following
spring he settled in Mineral Point, Iowa co., where
he acquired a good law practice. He was a mem-
ber of the territorial convention that was held in
Madison soon after the election of Harrison to the
presidency, when the Whig party was first organ-
ized in Wisconsin. As chairman of the commit-
tee, he prepared and reported the resolutions em-
bodying the platform of that organization, and
strongly opposed the extension of slavery in the
territories. From 1842 till 1847 he was attorney-
general, and during his term conducted many im-
portant cases. He was a member of the commit-
tee that was appointed by an educational conven-
tion in Madison in 1846, and prepared a plan lor
improvement in common-school education, a part
of which was subsequently incorporated in the
state constitution. He was interested in the efforts
made in western Wisconsin to have the reserved
mineral lands, which were held by the U. S. gov-
ernment, brought into market, and addressed a
memorial to President Polk on this subject, which
was adopted by the legislature. On the admission
of Wisconsin to the Union, he was elected the first
circuit judge for the 5th judicial circuit, serving
also in the supreme court till the organization of a
separate supreme court in 1853, when he resumed
his law practice. He subsequently united with the
Republican party, and in 1861 was appointed by
President Lincoln U. S. consul at Halifax, Nova
Scotia. While there he caused the seizure from
Confederates of about $3,000,000 worth of war ma-
terial, and advised the government of suspected
vessels. In 1870, at the request of the secretary of
state, he made a report to congress on the fisheries
and fishery laws of Canada, in which he examined
and discussed the controversy between Great Brit-
ain and the United States. Judge Jackson also
addressed a communication to the secretary of
state, reviewing the action of the fishery commis-
sion in 1877, and saying that the sum of $5,500,000
that had been awarded to Great Britain was un-
warranted and excessive. He resigned his consul-
ship in 1882 and returned to Madison, Wis.
JACKSON, Nathaniel James, soldier, b. in
Newburyport, Mass., about 1825. He became colo-
nel of the 1st Maine regiment in June. 1861, and
afterward was made colonel of the 5th Maine regiment. He was commissioned brigadier-general of
volunteers on 24 Sept., 1862, commanded the 2d
brigade, 2d division of the 12th corps, and served
through the campaigns of McClellan and Pope in
Virginia, being wounded at Gaines's Mills. In the
autumn of 1864 he commanded the 1st division of
the 20th corps, taking part in Sherman's march to
the sea and in the invasion of the Carolinas. He
was brevetted major-general of volunteers at the
close of the war, and mustered out, 24 Aug., 1865.
JACKSON, Robert Montgomery Smith, physician, b. in Alexandria, Pa., 20 April, 1815 ; d. in
Chattanooga, Tenn., 28 Jan., 1865. He was a resi-
dent of Cresson, Pa., where he practised medicine
for several years, and was known for his scientific
attainments, especially as a botanist and geologist.
He was medical inspector of the 23d army corps,
and acting medical director of the Department of
the Ohio. He was a member of the Pennsylvania
geological commission, of the American philosophi-
cal society, and other learned bodies. Dr. Jackson
was an enthusiastic mountaineer, and published a
work entitled " The Mountain " (Philadelphia, 1860).
JACKSON, Sheldon, missionary, b. in Minaville, Montgomery co., N. Y., 18 May, 1834. He was graduated at Union college in 1855, and at Princeton theological seminary in 1858, where he was ordained, and went to Spencer academy. Indian territory, as a missionary. He was home missionary for western Wisconsin and southern Minnesota from 1859 till 1864, and in that year became pastor of a church in Rochester, Minn., with an oversight of the mission work in southern Minne-
