The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-01-05
ISL NOTED MAN IN MANY WAYS,

5lO5H HUlED MAN In MANY MAY0,
And to Write All About Him Would
Fill VoIume-The Career of a Man
Who is q Familiar Figure in Wheel
ing-His appointment as Judge of
h United States Court and His
Record on the Bench-An Unique
Character in tho History Of West
Virginia.
The 19mberman, OF Chicago, of De
cember 80, has the following article,
which will be read with interest by the
.lNTELL1GENCER readers:
The I~itnberman, which is devoted eX-
ciuslvely.to the consideration of mat
ters relating to the lumber trade, seldom
has opportunity to speak of members
of the legal profession except when as
judges they may be momentarily eXer-
cising all powerful influence on the
destinyo OF some lumber institution. But
occasionally it comes in our way to
speak at some length OF men who oc-
cupy q judicial position. just at pres
cnt, when the poplar business is at
tracing SO much attention. judge on
the benchfwho, through the receivers
he has appointed, controls the opera
tons OF large institutions and thus be-
comes for the time being a heavy lum-
Der manufacturer, claims especial
attention, and it is therefore with
pleasure that we notice the eminent
position which Judge JohnJ ]. Jackson,
of the United States court, sitting at
Parkersburg, w. Va, occupies both in
The legal profession and in the lumber
trade.
AS a lumber manufacturer, he has,
even during the past dull season, con-
trolled q production of between 100000
GOO and 5O,00O,000 feet of poplar,
through the Little Kanawha Lumber
Company, the Buckhannon River Lum-
Der Company and several smaller con-
Germs.
Judge Jackson is a notable man in
many ways and is remarkable as a type
of the southern gentleman, chivalrous,
fearless, honest; a good lover and a
est integrity; combining a somewhat
~austere manner with a warm heart.
In personal appearance he is striking
by reason of tho mental and moral
force manifest in his face n eye more
than in any other way, for he is slight
in stature and Frame. He is always q
gentleman in dress as well as deport-
ment; his n is quick and
Ills age is uncertain. He looks like a
| we'll preserved man of fifty, with hair
and full beard gray and not white; and
yet Judge Jackson was appointed to the
United States bench by Abraham Lin
coin during the first yeac OF the civil
war. That was a good while ago., and
they do not put school children in that
position. He was SO honored by Lin
coin in spite of the fact that up to that
=. - l.. - - - Ill ~ n ~, m ro e.
a. indeed his namo sWould indicate.
jackson" is q historic name, and for a
| century the relatives and ancestors OF
the Judge have been identified with the
| history of the country.
To write all that grows out of q con-
| sideration of Judge Jackson would fill
more han one volume. For conslder:
| He is q brother of Ex-Governor Jacob
B.. Jackson, who was buried but a few
days ago; he is n brother of ~ex-Judge
and ex.Congressman j. Monroe jack
son, he and they of Parkersburg; he
was cousin Of Stonewall Jackson, the ia
nous Puritan Confederate general, and
of William G.. Jackson, now of Louis
Vile, also q Confederate general whose
abilities were only second to thse of the
famous Stonewall, and who gotless we'll
merited praise than he should owing to
his fame being overshadowed by that OF
his more renowned cousin.
The paternal grandfather of these
brothers and cousins settled in Clarks-
burg, now the richest town, population
considered, in the two Virginias and at
one time, from mines upon his own
estate, manufactured iron hollow ware
and castings and transported them
down the Monongahela in patteaux to
Pittsburgh, the city that now in a meas
ure supplies the world. and did this at
a time before she was able to supply
herself. This pa'ernal grandfather,
| with the genius for leadership natural
| to the Jacksons, was a member of Con-
gress at the dawn Of this century, and
with the Jackson fire fought a duel near
| Washington in 1905. His wife, the
wall and their brothers, was q sister of
| Dolly Madison, wife of the President.
Judge John J.. Jackson, under CON
| sideration, Is the father of Miss Lille
| Jackson, Of the board of lady managers
OF the Columbian Exposition. 1t is
enough to say that he is thoroughly a
| Jackson, a member of a family to whom
it is as natural to lead as to live and to
accomplish their purpose by sheer force
| of character rather than nero popu-
larity.
In his long experience on,the bench
in the mountain district, the judge has
dealt with m~oonshiners of two genera
lions and is now ~"breaking in" the
third. There arefew among these wild
mountaineers but view with greater
terror standing before him a few min
utes as convicted felons than the whole
term OF imprisonment he may impose.
This peculiar influence he has is atJack-
| son trait not to be described. It is not
what he says nor what he does, but the
| searching personality that emanates
from the man-the personlbcatlon OF
law outraged. And yet in cases OF in
discretion rather than crime, the kind:
est of men is found IN his bench, and
his advice given to many a jeans-clads
mountaineer has made the first otfense
| the last. This last peculiarly is so pro-
nounced that many thinking men IN.
West Virginia believe that by his kind
illness he has reformed more smen than
have all the penal institutions in the