Monthly Archives: October 2020

October 5, 2020   Reference: Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8427899/john-jay-jackson   Judge John Jay Jackson Jr. was an American lawyer, Whig politician, United States District Judge and, later, the first judge of the United States District Court for the District of West Virginia. He ended his career as the first judge of the United States District […]

October 5, 2020   General John Jay Jackson Sr. was son of John George Jackson and Frances Emelia Triplett.   Reference: Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8427911/john-jay-jackson   “Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N. Y. ” by George Washington Cullum, published 1891.   Born in Virginia, John […]

October 5, 2020   Reference: Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress – Retro Member details   JAMES MONROE JACKSON, ([son of General John Jay Jackson, Sr.,] cousin of William Thomas Bland), a Representative from West Virginia; born in Parkersburg, Wood County, Va. (now West Virginia), December 3, 1825; pursued an academic course and was graduated […]

October 5, 2020   Reference: Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress – Retro Member details   EDWARD BRAKE JACKSON, (son of George Jackson and brother of John George Jackson), a Representative from Virginia; born in Clarksburg, Harrison County, Va. (now West Virginia), January 25, 1793; attended Randolph Academy at Clarksburg; studied medicine and commenced practice […]

October 5, 2020   Reference: Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress – Retro Member details   JOHN GEORGE JACKSON, (son of George Jackson, brother of Edward Brake Jackson, and grandfather of William Thomas Bland), a Representative from Virginia; born in Buckhannon, Va. (now West Virginia), September 22, 1777; moved with his parents to Clarksburg in […]

October 5, 2020   Reference: Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress – Retro Member details   “Colonel George JACKSON, (father of John George Jackson and Edward Brake Jackson), a Representative from Virginia; born in Cecil County, Md., January 9, 1757; moved with his parents to Moorefield, Va. (now West Virginia), and in 1769 to Jacksons […]

October 5, 2020   Reference: “History of Braxton County and Central West Virginia” by John Davison Sutton, Sutton, West Virginia, January, 1919, Pages 395-396.   “John Jackson, the pioneer of the Jackson family in West Virginia, was born in Londonderry, Ireland, about the year 1719, his father removed to London when John was quite young […]