The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-08-09
JUSTICE JACKSON DEAD.


he Passes AWay ut his Home Near Nash.
Vile After a Lengthy nInsGs-A 0rsR,
PubliV LOsA-SkstOh OF Ills Career.
NASHVILLE, TESS., AuguIt S.--JusticO
Jackson, Of tho United States supreme
court, died this afternoon. JuaticO
Jackson's roIidsnceis six miles out in
tho couutry, Tho news Of his death
was telephonOd from his house at $3.50
D. IN. The telephone was then immsdi-
aIely disconnected, apparently TO stAys
of the food OF inquiries from points
far aud near which began pouring in.
Justice Jackson was 60 seriously i'll
this spring that he was not expected to
recover aud tho nama OF his successor
was considerably spOculated on. The
idea was suggested by somo that the
President would again nRmo Msssrs.
Peckham or Hornblowsr, Of New YORK.
While tho selection OF man from tho
west ioii to Don Dickinson. Postmaster
General Wilson was strongly spoken Of
uI among the possibilities while tho
majority OF opinion was that Secretary
Carlisle could have the place II he
wanted it. Mr.. Carlisle would bs
especially eligible, as ha Wonld 10 Rp.
pointed from the district that the
death OF Justice Jackson has made
vacant,
LAST PUBLIC ACT.
The last time Judge jackson was in
Washington was on the occasion Of the
rs.houring In the income tax cases last
May, when ho delivered a vIsorou,
opinion sustaining the law. lie had
been absent from the city and from the
bench sincs tho preceding fall, when,
soon after tue convsning OF ths October
term Of court, hO had been compelled to
90 south, ou account Of his rapidly de-
clining health, During his abJeuCs
there had boon contradictory reports rs
10 his physical condition, bu! the pro-
Yailing opinion RmonI his colleague,
on iho bench was that he would never
again be- able 10 FeJumo his seat on the
bench.
As senator aud justice OF the supreme
court Mr.. JackNon had resided In Wash
ington about eight years. His associates
there were confined largely to his col.
leagues on tho bench and in the senate
chamber. By them he was universally
esteemed as man OF high moral worth
aud rich intellectual Rltainmonts, as
was evidenced In nothing so much ns In
his appointment to the supreme bench
by Prs,ideat Harrison and his con.
firmation BY Republican senate, not.
withdrawing Ito was'a Democrat
HIS CAREER.
Howell Edmunds Jackson was born
in Paris, Tenn, April 8, 1882, so that no
wa, in his aIxsy.third year Mt tho tlmo
OF his death. Justice jackson was n
classical scholar, graduating from the
West Tennessee Collage In 1913. Ho
Sludied law two years at the University
Of Virginia and in Jackson under his
kinsmOn, Judges A. W. o. ToGlon and
Milton Brown; grSiuaiod from the
Lebanon Law School la 1855 which
year h0 located in jackion anu ongagei
in .hs practice OF his professions; 70.
moved 10 Memphis in 1856, whero he
continued the practice OF law; served on
tho buprcn0 bench by nppolntmant on
two occasions, and was once n promt.
mont candidate for supreme julgo before
tho nominating convcntloni Relocated
In Jackson in 1876; was elected 10 tho
atatO house NJ representatives In 1880
on tho state credit platform; was OlecI'
Cd TO the Uniiod States senate Rs q
Democrat in l6Jl and served ill April
l2, 1888; was appointed United States
circuit Judge by President Cleveland,
and nominated fot associate jusico o!
the Unitsi SLatNi by ProaidDni IlNrri.
aan; was confirmed BY TIM aonnIo Fob.
runry IS, 1894, aud entered upnn tho
dutls, Of that Office March /, 1891.
Judge Jackson was twice married.,
tho first iinp 10 Miss sophia MalIuy,
daughter Of David j, Mnlloy, u banker
nf Memphis, who diOd in 1873 this
union was born four rhildron, W fol.
loWst Henry, Mary, William II. aud
Howell Jackson. llOnry jackson IL nj
pre,On. soliciting freight agcnt Of Tho
Southern railway, with headquarters ut
Atlanta. ". II. Jackson IL d,slriCL ~.
tornOy nj tho Chesapeake K Ohio rail.
rond nj Cincinnati. Howell Il. Jnckaon
ia manager ni tho Jackson cotton mills,
nj Jack.on, Tom. In 1876 judge Jack.
son married Miss Mary u. Harding,
dnuphtor OF General william U. l.,
Ilarding. OF hi, union three chlllton
survive, MRacq Elizabeth , md Louise
jackson aud Harding A. jncs'on.
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