William Harrison Jackson, born 26 April 1864 in Marion, Alabama, was the second son of Sophia Harrison née Molloy (1837–1873) and Howell Edmunds Jackson (1832–1895).
Jackson studied law at Harvard University, Columbia College of Law, and Vanderbilt University. In his private practice beginning in 1886, he was assistant general solicitor for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway and vice president, general counsel, and director of the Standard Motor Construction Company of New Jersey. He was a judge of the Superior Court in Cincinnati from 1897 to 1902 and between 1911 and 1918 was judge of the superior court in the Panama Canal Zone until President Wilson appointed him as the first Federal district judge for that jurisdiction. He was the Democratic candidate for U.S. Congress from New York's 13th Congressional District and served as assistant corporation counsel for the City of New York.
Jackson was married in Cincinnati 5 June 1895 to Caroline Taylor Dickson, born 16 July 1871 in Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire, Scotland, to native Ohioans Frances née Judkins (1848–1923) and Charles Taylor Dickson (1847–1892). The notice of his death published 12 December 1938 in The New York Times reported that Judge Jackson, recently widowed and suffering from a heart condition, committed suicide by gunshot in his suite at the Hotel Brevoort in New York City on 11 December 1938.
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Jackson's father was Howell Edmunds Jackson (1832–'95), first child of Dr Alexander Jackson (1805–1879) and his first wife Mary Roberts Williams née Hurt (1811–'41). After graduating from the law school at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee, Howell began his career as a business attorney in Memphis. During the Civil War, he served the Confederacy as a receiver of confiscated property, for a time relocating with his family from Memphis to central Alabama, where his second son William Harrison Jackson was born, in order to escape prosecution by federal military authorities.
Howell Jackson was married twice, losing his first wife Sophia and their two daughters to the yellow fever epidemic of 1873-'74; their three sons, Henry Shapard, William Harrison, and Howell E. Jr, survived. Sophia Harrison née Molloy (1837–'73), was the daughter of Eleanor Paine née Harrison (1817–'96) and David Brownlow Molloy (1804–'80), a Memphis businessman. In 1874, Howell married Mary Elizabeth Harding (1850–1913) of Nashville, and had two daughters, Elizabeth and Louise, and a son, Harding Alexander Jackson.
In 1880, Howell Jackson won election to the Tennessee State Assembly, by which body he was swiftly appointed U.S. Senator, serving 1881–'86. In 1886, President Cleveland appointed him U.S. circuit judge for the sixth Federal circuit, and President Harrison appointed him Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1893. He died in 1895 at West Meade, his home in Nashville.
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The Jackson family patriarch, Virginia native Dr Alexander Jackson, was born 22 February 1805, the only child of Elizabeth née Ball and William Jackson of Chesterfield county, Virginia. Dr Jackson was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, after which he migrated west and established himself as a cotton planter in Paris, Henry county, Tennessee. Later settling in Jackson, Tennessee, he served as a member of the 28th and 29th Tennessee State Assemblies for Madison county (1849–'53) and as mayor of Jackson (1854–'56). During the Civil War, he was interned at the military prison in Alton, Illinois, under suspicion of being a Confederate spy. Dr Jackson died 20 January 1879 in Jackson.
Jackson studied law at Harvard University, Columbia College of Law, and Vanderbilt University. In his private practice beginning in 1886, he was assistant general solicitor for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway and vice president, general counsel, and director of the Standard Motor Construction Company of New Jersey. He was a judge of the Superior Court in Cincinnati from 1897 to 1902 and between 1911 and 1918 was judge of the superior court in the Panama Canal Zone until President Wilson appointed him as the first Federal district judge for that jurisdiction. He was the Democratic candidate for U.S. Congress from New York's 13th Congressional District and served as assistant corporation counsel for the City of New York.
Jackson was married in Cincinnati 5 June 1895 to Caroline Taylor Dickson, born 16 July 1871 in Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire, Scotland, to native Ohioans Frances née Judkins (1848–1923) and Charles Taylor Dickson (1847–1892). The notice of his death published 12 December 1938 in The New York Times reported that Judge Jackson, recently widowed and suffering from a heart condition, committed suicide by gunshot in his suite at the Hotel Brevoort in New York City on 11 December 1938.
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Jackson's father was Howell Edmunds Jackson (1832–'95), first child of Dr Alexander Jackson (1805–1879) and his first wife Mary Roberts Williams née Hurt (1811–'41). After graduating from the law school at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee, Howell began his career as a business attorney in Memphis. During the Civil War, he served the Confederacy as a receiver of confiscated property, for a time relocating with his family from Memphis to central Alabama, where his second son William Harrison Jackson was born, in order to escape prosecution by federal military authorities.
Howell Jackson was married twice, losing his first wife Sophia and their two daughters to the yellow fever epidemic of 1873-'74; their three sons, Henry Shapard, William Harrison, and Howell E. Jr, survived. Sophia Harrison née Molloy (1837–'73), was the daughter of Eleanor Paine née Harrison (1817–'96) and David Brownlow Molloy (1804–'80), a Memphis businessman. In 1874, Howell married Mary Elizabeth Harding (1850–1913) of Nashville, and had two daughters, Elizabeth and Louise, and a son, Harding Alexander Jackson.
In 1880, Howell Jackson won election to the Tennessee State Assembly, by which body he was swiftly appointed U.S. Senator, serving 1881–'86. In 1886, President Cleveland appointed him U.S. circuit judge for the sixth Federal circuit, and President Harrison appointed him Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1893. He died in 1895 at West Meade, his home in Nashville.
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The Jackson family patriarch, Virginia native Dr Alexander Jackson, was born 22 February 1805, the only child of Elizabeth née Ball and William Jackson of Chesterfield county, Virginia. Dr Jackson was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, after which he migrated west and established himself as a cotton planter in Paris, Henry county, Tennessee. Later settling in Jackson, Tennessee, he served as a member of the 28th and 29th Tennessee State Assemblies for Madison county (1849–'53) and as mayor of Jackson (1854–'56). During the Civil War, he was interned at the military prison in Alton, Illinois, under suspicion of being a Confederate spy. Dr Jackson died 20 January 1879 in Jackson.
William Harrison Jackson, born 26 April 1864 in Marion, Alabama, was the second son of Sophia Harrison née Molloy (1837–1873) and Howell Edmunds Jackson (1832–1895).
Jackson studied law at Harvard University, Columbia College of Law, and Vanderbilt University. In his private practice beginning in 1886, he was assistant general solicitor for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway and vice president, general counsel, and director of the Standard Motor Construction Company of New Jersey. He was a judge of the Superior Court in Cincinnati from 1897 to 1902 and between 1911 and 1918 was judge of the superior court in the Panama Canal Zone until President Wilson appointed him as the first Federal district judge for that jurisdiction. He was the Democratic candidate for U.S. Congress from New York's 13th Congressional District and served as assistant corporation counsel for the City of New York.
Jackson was married in Cincinnati 5 June 1895 to Caroline Taylor Dickson, born 16 July 1871 in Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire, Scotland, to native Ohioans Frances née Judkins (1848–1923) and Charles Taylor Dickson (1847–1892). The notice of his death published 12 December 1938 in The New York Times reported that Judge Jackson, recently widowed and suffering from a heart condition, committed suicide by gunshot in his suite at the Hotel Brevoort in New York City on 11 December 1938.
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Jackson's father was Howell Edmunds Jackson (1832–'95), first child of Dr Alexander Jackson (1805–1879) and his first wife Mary Roberts Williams née Hurt (1811–'41). After graduating from the law school at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee, Howell began his career as a business attorney in Memphis. During the Civil War, he served the Confederacy as a receiver of confiscated property, for a time relocating with his family from Memphis to central Alabama, where his second son William Harrison Jackson was born, in order to escape prosecution by federal military authorities.
Howell Jackson was married twice, losing his first wife Sophia and their two daughters to the yellow fever epidemic of 1873-'74; their three sons, Henry Shapard, William Harrison, and Howell E. Jr, survived. Sophia Harrison née Molloy (1837–'73), was the daughter of Eleanor Paine née Harrison (1817–'96) and David Brownlow Molloy (1804–'80), a Memphis businessman. In 1874, Howell married Mary Elizabeth Harding (1850–1913) of Nashville, and had two daughters, Elizabeth and Louise, and a son, Harding Alexander Jackson.
In 1880, Howell Jackson won election to the Tennessee State Assembly, by which body he was swiftly appointed U.S. Senator, serving 1881–'86. In 1886, President Cleveland appointed him U.S. circuit judge for the sixth Federal circuit, and President Harrison appointed him Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1893. He died in 1895 at West Meade, his home in Nashville.
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The Jackson family patriarch, Virginia native Dr Alexander Jackson, was born 22 February 1805, the only child of Elizabeth née Ball and William Jackson of Chesterfield county, Virginia. Dr Jackson was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, after which he migrated west and established himself as a cotton planter in Paris, Henry county, Tennessee. Later settling in Jackson, Tennessee, he served as a member of the 28th and 29th Tennessee State Assemblies for Madison county (1849–'53) and as mayor of Jackson (1854–'56). During the Civil War, he was interned at the military prison in Alton, Illinois, under suspicion of being a Confederate spy. Dr Jackson died 20 January 1879 in Jackson.
Jackson studied law at Harvard University, Columbia College of Law, and Vanderbilt University. In his private practice beginning in 1886, he was assistant general solicitor for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway and vice president, general counsel, and director of the Standard Motor Construction Company of New Jersey. He was a judge of the Superior Court in Cincinnati from 1897 to 1902 and between 1911 and 1918 was judge of the superior court in the Panama Canal Zone until President Wilson appointed him as the first Federal district judge for that jurisdiction. He was the Democratic candidate for U.S. Congress from New York's 13th Congressional District and served as assistant corporation counsel for the City of New York.
Jackson was married in Cincinnati 5 June 1895 to Caroline Taylor Dickson, born 16 July 1871 in Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire, Scotland, to native Ohioans Frances née Judkins (1848–1923) and Charles Taylor Dickson (1847–1892). The notice of his death published 12 December 1938 in The New York Times reported that Judge Jackson, recently widowed and suffering from a heart condition, committed suicide by gunshot in his suite at the Hotel Brevoort in New York City on 11 December 1938.
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Jackson's father was Howell Edmunds Jackson (1832–'95), first child of Dr Alexander Jackson (1805–1879) and his first wife Mary Roberts Williams née Hurt (1811–'41). After graduating from the law school at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee, Howell began his career as a business attorney in Memphis. During the Civil War, he served the Confederacy as a receiver of confiscated property, for a time relocating with his family from Memphis to central Alabama, where his second son William Harrison Jackson was born, in order to escape prosecution by federal military authorities.
Howell Jackson was married twice, losing his first wife Sophia and their two daughters to the yellow fever epidemic of 1873-'74; their three sons, Henry Shapard, William Harrison, and Howell E. Jr, survived. Sophia Harrison née Molloy (1837–'73), was the daughter of Eleanor Paine née Harrison (1817–'96) and David Brownlow Molloy (1804–'80), a Memphis businessman. In 1874, Howell married Mary Elizabeth Harding (1850–1913) of Nashville, and had two daughters, Elizabeth and Louise, and a son, Harding Alexander Jackson.
In 1880, Howell Jackson won election to the Tennessee State Assembly, by which body he was swiftly appointed U.S. Senator, serving 1881–'86. In 1886, President Cleveland appointed him U.S. circuit judge for the sixth Federal circuit, and President Harrison appointed him Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1893. He died in 1895 at West Meade, his home in Nashville.
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The Jackson family patriarch, Virginia native Dr Alexander Jackson, was born 22 February 1805, the only child of Elizabeth née Ball and William Jackson of Chesterfield county, Virginia. Dr Jackson was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, after which he migrated west and established himself as a cotton planter in Paris, Henry county, Tennessee. Later settling in Jackson, Tennessee, he served as a member of the 28th and 29th Tennessee State Assemblies for Madison county (1849–'53) and as mayor of Jackson (1854–'56). During the Civil War, he was interned at the military prison in Alton, Illinois, under suspicion of being a Confederate spy. Dr Jackson died 20 January 1879 in Jackson.
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