John
Henry Jackson, M.D.
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Name: John Henry
Jackson
Cause of death: surgery, complications, appendicitis; (M)
Death date: Sep 13, 1907
Place of death: Barre, VT
Birth date: 1844
Type of practice: Allopath
Medical school(s): University of Vermont College of
Medicine, Burlington, 1865, (G)
Professorship: University of Vermont College of Medicine,
Burlington, 1882, physiology
Journal of the American Medical Association Citation:
49:1132 |
Dr. John Henry
Jackson, son of Horatio Nelson Jackson, was born in Brome, Canada, April
19, 1844, and died September 13, 1907. He attended the public schools
and Barre Academy, and entered the medical department of the University
of Vermont, from which he was graduated in 1865 with the degree of
Doctor of Medicine. He took a post graduate course in 1868-69 in the
medical college of McGill University of Montreal.
He
practiced medicine at Stockholm, New York, 1865-68. Thence he went to
Montpelier, Vermont, where he practiced for a year. He located at Barre,
Vermont, in 1870, where he was in general practice to the time of his
death, 1907. He was appointed Professor of Physiology in the University
of Vermont, in 1882, and filled the chair for twenty-five years. From
the university he received the honorary degree of Master of Arts in
1884. In 1890 he was delegate from the University of British Medical
Association and also to the Medical Congress at Berlin. In politics he
was a Democrat and he represented Barre in the Vermont legislature in
1878. He was Democratic candidate for governor in 1896 and was mayor of
Barre in 1903. He was a director of the Barre Savings Bank and Trust
Company from its incorporation until he died and was president from
1903. He was a member of the county and state medical societies
(president) and of the American Medical Association. He was a
thirty-third degree. Free Mason. At the time of his death he was a
deacon of the Congregational church, of which he had been for many years
a loyal and generous supporter.
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John Henry
JACKSON, M. D., the youngest son, was born in
Brome, Province of Quebec, April 19, 1844. He, as his brothers, received
an academic education under Dr. SPAULDING, graduating from Barre Academy
in 1862 and from the Medical department of the University of Vermont in
1865, also receiving the honorary degree of Master of Arts from the
latter institution in 1882. He began his professional career in
Stockholm, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., in 1865. June 24, 1867, he married
Anna Dutton WELLS, of Brasher Falls, N. Y., who died November 29, 1868.
In 1869, December 24th, he married Cora A. Wood, and removed to Barre
December 30, 1870, where he continues to reside.
Dr. JACKSON's early career in Barre was beset with more than the usual
difficulties and obstacles in the way of a young physician, but by sheer
force of merit he has gained the foremost position and practice of his
town, together with a name for professional skill and scholarly
attainments that reaches beyond the state. In these years of increasing
professional duties he has, nevertheless, devoted himself to the
advancement of the religious, educational, and material interests of the
community. He joined the Congregational church of Brome at an early age,
and became an active member of the Barre Congregational church on making
this place his home. From 1873 to 1875 he was superintendent of the
Sunday-school, and for many years was a member of the executive
committee of the society; in this position he was largely instrumental
in maturing the plans and bringing to successful completion the
extensive remodeling of the church in the years 1885-87. Dr. JACKSON was
elected superintendent of public schools in 1881-82. For many years he
was a trustee and treasurer of Barre Academy. It was due to his untiring
industry that the beautiful monument to Dr. and Mrs. SPAULDING, in Barre
cemetery, was erected, through the contributions he secured from
students to whom the memories of their loved teacher and friend are
precious.
Dr. JACKSON
was elected representative to the Vermont legislature in 1878-79, and
has always maintained a lively interest in the prosperity of the town.
It was due to his personal oversight and watchfulness that the bills
granting the village charter and incorporating the Barre water works
passed the legislature of 1886. He was elected the first bailiff of the
village under the charter, but was compelled to decline on account of
other duties, though he retains the position of president of the water
works company. Among the secret and benevolent orders Dr. JACKSON is
claimed as a member of the I. O. O. F., Clan Gordon of O. S. C., and is
prominent in the Masonic circles of New England. He was master of
Granite Lodge several years, and district deputy five years. At the
annual session of the Supreme Council, S. G. I. G. N. M. J., held in
Boston, Mass., September 18, 1888, "The 33d and last degree was
conferred upon him in full form, and he was received, welcomed, and
proclaimed S. G. I. G. of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, and
enrolled as an honorary member of the Supreme Council for the Northern
Masonic jurisdiction."
In
1881, as president of the Vermont State Medical society, he addressed
the medical students of the University of Vermont, and the following
year was elected professor of physiology in that institution. Each year
has but added to the popularity which he gained through his first course
of clear, scholarly, and eloquent lectures in 1882, The success
attending his practice at home, together with his popularity in the
medical college, where his skill and scholarship are recognized and
honored, have brought him many flattering invitations to remove to
larger fields, but we are glad to see in the erection of his beautiful
home on South Main street, which now engages his attention, the evidence
that he intends to remain in the field, where the difficulties of his
life and profession have been mastered, and where his skill and learning
are meeting their reward.
