The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-08-15
JUSTICE JACKSON DEAD
Died Yesterday at His Home
Near Nashville.
HIS DEATH NOT UNEXPECTED

HIS DEATH NOT UNEXPECTED
The First Man Appointed to the Su-
preme Bench by a President Elect
| ed by the Opposite Party.
Nashville, August 1O.-The Hon.
Howell Edmunds 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 Gath year of
his age, of consumption.
| Justice Jackson has 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 he went on
lengthy trip to the Far West, in search
of health. Later he went to Thomas
| vile, Tenn, where it was hoped that
! the mild and bracing climate would
restore his once vigorous constitution.
The trip did him little good, and after
time he was brought home.
At his home Judge jackson seemed
to improve slightly, until he went to
Washington to sit in the second hear
ing of the income tax case. He stood
the trip fairly well, but after his re-
turn home appeared to lose strength
rapidly. 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 today was not
unexpected.
Judge jackson was twice married,
the first time to Miss Sophia Mallory,
daughter of David B. Mallory, a
banker of Memphis, who died in 1878.
To this union were born three child
rem, Henry, William R. and Howell
E. jackson. Henry jackson is at pres
ent soliciting freight agent of the
Southern railway, with headquarters
at Atlanta. William R. jackson is dis
trict attorney of the Chesapeake &
Ohio, at Cincinnati. Howell E. jack
son is manager of the jackson cotton
mills, at Jackson, Tenn.
In 1876 Judge Jackson married Miss
Mary E. Harding, daughter of General
William g. Harding. Of this union
three children survive, Misses Eliza
beth and Louise jackson, and Harding
A. jackson. With the exception of
Miss Elizabeth Jackson and William
R. jackson, jr., who are in Europe,
the children were at his bedside when
he died.
Howell Edmunds jackson enjoyed
the distinction of being the first man
appointed to the supreme bench of the
United States by president elected by
| the opposition party and apparently
without regard to political considera-
| tions as such. It is true that prece-
dents for such action are cited, but
they are apparent rather than real.
President Washington's administration
was meant to be nonpartisan, and his
experience with Chief Justice John Jay
and other judges was in keeping with
the general design. President jack
sons administration was confessedly a
time when parties were reforming on
new lines, and similarly all other al
legged exceptions are found to be more
apparent than real.
The selection of Judge Jackson
stands out boldly as a real exception.
1t clearly indicates that President Har-
rison fully appreciated that new issues
were hereafter to divide the parties,
and the appointment, therefore, mark
ed great epoch in American political
history.
Judge jackson had been a lawyer
ever since he was old enough for ad-
mission to the bar, and a judge during
most of his adult life. Even in the
heat and fury of the civil war, he was
judge rather than a partisan. He
served with rare ability in the civil
service of the Confederate government,
and when the Democratic party of
Tennessee divided on the question of
the state debt, he took high ground in
favor of paying dollar for dollar ac-
| cording to the original contract.