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Jackson was born on June 19, 1851, in New York City, the brother of George Thomas Jackson and the son of George T. Jackson, who came to New York from Dublin, Ireland, in 1834, and was associated in business with Cornelius van Schaick Roosevelt, grandfather of President Roosevelt. His mother was Letitia Jane Aiken Macauley, daughter of Samuel Macauley, a New York physician of Irish birth.
Jackson was educated in the public schools and the college of the City of New York (A. B. 1870; A. M. 1876), he prepared for the ministry in Princeton Theological Seminary, 1870-1871, and Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1871-1873. The interest in church history wakened by the teaching of Henry Boynton Smith and Philip Schaff of the Union faculty led him to further study in the universities of Leipzig and Berlin, with travel in Palestine, 1873-1875.
Jackson was ordained May 30, 1876, and became pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Norwood, New Jersey. For the pastoral office he was richly qualified by enthusiastic faith and buoyant friendliness, but diffidence in public situations and a lack of art in discourse led him to resign his ministry in 1880. Returning to New York he gave himself to social Christian activity and the promotion of historical scholarship, devoting to these causes painstaking labor and generous gifts from his private means.
From 1885 he served the Charity Organization Society in various capacities and for the last nine years of his life was its vice-president. Convinced that poverty and crime were closely related, he became recording secretary of the Prison Association of the State of New York and by his liberal gifts of money secured the classification of its extensive collection of penological literature. To serve these cherished purposes Jackson edited nine volumes of useful Handbooks for Practical Workers in Church and Philanthropy (1898-1904) and served as teacher in the Amity school for Christian workers. The cause of foreign missions also claimed him. Hoping for a complete history of missions in English and having made a missionary bibliography with more than 5, 000 titles, he printed a selection of these in the Report of the Centenary Conference on the Protestant Missions of the World (London, 1889), and later with the cooperation of Rev. George Gilmore furnished an enlarged and classified list to E. M. Bliss's Encyclopaedia of Missions (1891).
Elected to the board of trustees of Canton (China) Christian College, now Lingnam University, May 28, 1901, he served henceforth on its faculty committee and from April 15, 1905, to his death was president of the board. Always a ready contributor to the expenses of the College, he finally erected Jackson Hall as a residence for its president and provided in his will a legacy of $5, 000. As may be seen by his appreciation of Schaff's zeal for Christian philanthropy, Christian union, and theological scholarship, Jackson was a devoted disciple of that eminent teacher. Many of Schaff's projects were realized through him. For Schaff he prepared the material for a Dictionary of the Bible (1880), and he was associate editor with Schaff in producing A Religious Encyclopædia: or Dictionary of Biblical, Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical Theology (3 vols. , 1882-1884), better known as the "Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia. " He executed Schaff's plan of a supplementary Encyclopædia of Living Divines (1887) and as editor-in-chief brought to pass the more elaborate New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (13 vols. , 1908-1914).
In New York University, where Jackson himself, dispensing with salary, served as professor of church history from 1895 to his death, he commemorated his revered master by endowing a Philip Schaff lectureship. Independently, and with financial loss, Jackson produced in 1889 a Concise Dictionary of Religious Knowledge. He was editor for religious literature in Johnson's Universal Cyclopædia (1893-1895) and for Protestant theology and religious biography in the New International Encyclopædia (1902-1905). He defined church terms for the Standard Dictionary (1895) and the New International Dictionary (1900). Without thought of compensation he edited for the Huguenot Society of America several volumes of their publication, and to the American Society of Church History he was even more generous. Jackson was its secretary, conducted its correspondence, made its programs, edited its Papers, paid some of its deficits, and joyously provided luncheon and dinner for its annual sessions. He was one of the editors of the American Church History Series (13 vols. , 1893-1897) and contributed "A Bibliography of American Church History" to Volume XII (1894). In 1895 he projected the important series on "Heroes of the Reformation, " and for this at once began his own biography of Zwingli. This volume, Huldreich Zwingli, the Reformer of German Switzerland, his chief production, wrought with minute care and critical accuracy, appeared in 1901. To make Zwingli's works accessible in English Jackson planned with the assistance of other scholars a translation of Zwingli's writings in six volumes, omitting the Bible commentaries. A volume of Selected Works of Huldreich Zwingli was published in 1901, and in the spring of 1912 he brought out the first volume The Latin Works and the Correspondence of Huldreich Zwingli. Since he was bearing the cost of production, his death from pernicious anemia in the following summer halted further publication for ten years; but the work was later carried on by others; a second volume appeared in 1922 and a third, in 1929. Shortly before his death Jackson wrote for his expected address as president of the American Society of Church History a discourse on "Servatus Lupus, a Humanist of the Ninth Century. " The final benefaction of the warm-hearted lover of learning was the gift to Union Seminary of his ample collection of Reformation literature. Jackson died on August 2, 1912.
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Jackson was a vice-president of the Charity Organization Society (1903-1912) and President of the American Society of Church History.
Jackson was a man of handsome presence, radiant with smiling cordiality. His ardent religious faith interposed no barrier from men of other creeds.
Jackson lived unmarried, with modest outlay save for learning and the social good.
