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Jackson was born on May 18, 1834, in Minaville, New York, the son of Samuel Clinton Jackson, whose father was a native of England, and of Delia (Sheldon) Jackson. The atmosphere of his childhood home was one of refinement of manner and culture of mind, with profound religious convictions dominating all; in his earliest infancy his parents consecrated him to a life of service as a missionary.
Jackson began his education at a district school, went to an academy at Glens Falls, New York, for one year, then transferred to a Presbyterian academy near Hayesville, Ohio, where he continued till he was far enough advanced to enter the sophomore class at Union College, Schenectady, New York. Graduating in the spring of 1855, he entered Princeton Theological Seminary in the autumn and graduated April 27, 1858.
Jackson was ordained to the ministry May 5, 1858, by the Presbytery of Albany, New York, and on October 6 of the same year began his missionary career in a school for Choctaw boys at Spencer, Indian Territory. The following year he was transferred to Minnesota, where he labored until 1864, spending some time in the summer of 1863 as an agent of the United States Christian Commission with the Army of the Cumberland. He held a pastorate at Rochester, Minnesota, 1864-1869, but in 1870 returned to the home mission field, becoming superintendent for the Board of Home Missions in the area which includes Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. To this region Jackson devoted twelve years of painstaking pioneering, ministering alike to Indians and whites, as he laid the spiritual foundations on which scores of rising communities should later build enduring structures. For ten years, 1872-1882, he edited the Rocky Mountain Presbyterian, forerunner of the Presbyterian Home Missionary. In 1877 he visited Alaska with a view to establishing missions there, and in 1884, after two years in New York as business manager for the Board of Home Missions, he returned to Alaska as superintendent. On April 11, 1885, Jackson was appointed, under the federal government, the first superintendent of public instruction for Alaska, in which capacity he served until the end of his life. His achievements in the Rocky Mountain states, both as pioneer missionary and as executive, were more than duplicated in the northern Territory. At as early a date as was possible with the hindering modes of transportation there prevailing, Jackson made careful exploration and survey of the vast new country's resources and most immediate needs. Schools were set up in all centers of population as rapidly as physical equipment and teachers could be made available. Bitter, even violent, opposition rose against both his educational and his industrial plans; but after many hardships and discouragements his plans were approved, financed, and set in operation. In connection with his work in the North, Jackson published Alaska, and Missions on the North Pacific Coast (1880), The Presbyterian Church in Alaska, An Official Sketch of its Rise and Progress, 1877-1884 (1886), Introduction of Reindeer into Alaska 1890 (1890), and subsequent reports, and the sections on reindeer and on education in Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska (1898). From 1887 to 1897 he edited the North Star, of Sitka. In May 1897 he was elected moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, the highest honor his denomination can confer. Devoted to his work until the end, he delivered his last address in the interest of Alaska a few days before undergoing an operation from which he did not recover. He died at Asheville, North Carolina, on May 2, 1909, shortly before his seventy-fifth birthday.
During this career Jackson travelled about 1. 6 million km and established more than one hundred missions and churches, mostly in the Western United States. He is best remembered for his extensive work in Colorado and thereater during the final quarter of the 19th century in the massive, rugged, and remote Alaska Territory, which in 1959 would become the 49th U. S. state of Alaska, and his efforts to suppress Native American languages.
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Jackson, as an academy and college student, was noted by his associates for his diminutive stature and his full-grown determination to master every task set before him, notwithstanding his handicap of weak eyes and frequent attacks of illness. A rugged life in the open, after he had concluded student days and removed to the West, soon gave to his slight body a sturdiness quite in keeping with the great heart and humanitarian ambition of the man.
In May, 1858, Jackson married Mary Voorhees.
