The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1895-08-16
JACKSON is DEAD.
Distinguished JuriSt Sue
CumbS to Consumption.
Tennessee Judge, United States Sen
ator and Member of the Supreme
Court-Income Tax Decision Was
His Last Official Act-Speculation
as to His uceessor-Carlisle, Dick
inson and Wilson Mentioned.

Nashville, Tenn, Aug. S.-The Hon.
Howell Emunds Jackson, Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States, died at his residence at
West Meade, six miles west of this
city, this afternoon, in the sixty ty-fourth
year of his age, of consumption.
Judge Jackson had been in failing
health for the past four years, but it
has been only in the past eight or nine
months that the progress of the disease
began to cause his family and friends
uneasiness. Last year lie went on a
lengthy trip to the far West in search
of health. Later he went to Thomas
Vile. Tenn, where it was hoped the
mild and braclng climate would restore
his once vigorous constitution. The
trip did him little good, and after a
time he was brought home. At his old
home, Judge jackson seemed to i'm
prove slightly, until he went to Wash
ington to sit in the second hearing of
the income tax case. He stood that
trip fairly well, but after his return
home appeared to lose strength rapid
ly. Nevertheless, Judge Jackson never
took to his bed until last Wednesday
week. Since that time his family and
friends feared that the end was near,
and his death to-day was not unex-
pected.
Judge Jackson was twice married,
the first time to Miss Sophia Mallory,
daughter of David b. Mallory, a banker
of Memphis, who died in 1873. To this
union were born three children, as fol-
lows: Henry, William r. and Howell
Jackson, Henry Jackson is at present
soliciting freight agent of the Southern
Railway, headquarters at Atlanta.
William r. Jackson is district attorney
of the Chesapeake & Ohio, at Cincin-
natl. Howell E. Jackson is manager of
the Jackson cotton mill at Jackson,
Tenn.
In 1876, Judge Jackson married Miss
William G. Harding. OF this union,
three children survive, Miss Elizabeth
and Louise Jackson and Harding A.
Jackson. With the exception of Miss
Elizabeth and William II, Jackson, Jr.,
who are in Europe, the children were
at his bedside when he died.
The news of Judge Jaoksons death
caused general sorrow in this city,
where he was so well known and ad-
mired.
The arrangements for the funeral
have not been fully completed, but II
Is known that 1t will take place next
Sunday afternoon at $3.50.
HIS OFFICIAL CAREER.
Washington. Aug. S.-Howell Ed
Tenn, April 8, 1882. He graduated
from the West Tennessee College in
is4S<- He studied law two years at the
University of Virginia, and in Jackson,
under his kinsmen, Judges A. w. Trot-
ten and Milton Brown He graduated
from the Lebanon Law School in 1856, in
which year he located in Jackson and
engaged in the practice of his profess
sion; removed to Memphis in 1859,
where he continued the practice of law
served on the Supreme bench by ap-
pointment on two occasions, and was
once a prominent candidate for Su-
preme Judge before the nominating
convention in Jackson in 1876; was
elected to the Legislature in 1880, on the
State credit platform; was elected to
the United States Senate as a Democrat
in 1881, and served till April II, 1886;
was appointed United States Circuit
Judge by President Cleveland, and
nominated as Associate Justice by
President Harrison; was confirmed by
the Senate February IS, 1893, and enter
ed upon the duties of the Office March
A. 1893.