Brief Life History of Jessie N
When Jessie N Jackson was born on 18 January 1878, in Hamilton, Indiana, United States, her father, Charles M. Jackson, was 20 and her mother, Alice Malinda Garrett, was 21. She married Edward Newton France in Hamilton, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Clay Township, Hamilton, Indiana, United States for about 10 years and Carmel, Hamilton, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. She died on 21 March 1957, in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Washington Park East Cemetery, Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States.
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- Jessie Jackson in household of Charles Jackson, "United States Census, 1880"
- Jessi N Jackson in the Indiana, Birth Certificates, 1907
- Jesse Jackson, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
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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