Henry Jackson

Brief Life History of Henry

When Henry Jackson was born on 20 March 1881, in South Carolina, United States, his father, Henry Jackson, was 19 and his mother, Ella Myers, was 15.

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Family Time Line

Henry Jackson
1861–
Ella Myers
1865–
Henry Jackson
1881–
Flurrie Jackson
1882–1916
Moses Jackson
1887–
Henry Jackson
1888–1970
Oscar Jackson
1889–
Lewis Jackson
1892–
Bennie Jackson
1894–
Bertha Jackson
1896–
James K Jackson
1899–
Cary Belle Jackson
1914–

Sources (1)

  • Henry Jackson, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"

World Events (3)

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1916 · Anthony Crawford Lynched

South Carolina native, father to 13 children, and a local farmer, Anthony Crawford, is lynched on October 21, 1916, in Abbeyville, South Carolina. The lynching is followed after Crawford has an arguement with a white storekeeper.

Name Meaning

English, Scottish, and northern Irish: patronymic from Jack . In North America, this surname has absorbed other patronymics beginning with J- in various European languages, in particular those derived from equivalents or short forms and other derivatives of the personal name Jacob , e.g. Norwegian Jacobsen or Jakobsen and, in some cases, Slovenian Jakše (from a derivative of the personal name Jakob ). This surname is also very common among African Americans (see also 2 below).

African American: from the personal name Jackson (or Andrew Jackson), adopted in honor of Andrew Jackson, the 7th president of the US; or adoption of the surname in 1 above, in many cases probably for the same reason.

History: This extremely common British name was brought over by numerous different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. One forebear was the father and namesake of the seventh US president, Andrew Jackson, who migrated to SC from Carrickfergus in the north of Ireland in 1765. The Confederate General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson came from VA, where his great-grandfather John, likewise of Scotch–Irish stock, had settled after emigrating to America in 1748.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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