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retired to his home, "The Hermitage," near 

 Nashville, Term., where he passed away on 

 June 8, 1845, in his seventy-eighth year. 



Jackson's Influence. Jackson, with the pos- 

 sible exception of George Washington and 

 Theodore Roosevelt, is perhaps the only Presi- 

 dent of whom it can be said that he left office 

 more popular than when he entered it. He 

 was the champion of the masses, and more 

 than that, he was typical of his generation. 

 He felt and acted as most men, growing up 

 under new social and economic conditions, 

 would have acted. He was autocratic, but he 

 was also simple and unostentatious. He or- 

 ganized a political party and left it strong and 

 charged with enthusiasm. To this day "Jack- 

 sonian democracy" and "Jacksonian simplicity" 

 are terms which politicians still use. W.F.Z. 



Consult Hotchkiss's The Land Hero of 1812; 

 Sumner's Andrew Jackson as a Public Man; 

 Watson's Life and Times of Andrew Jackson. 



JACKSON, HELEN FISKE HUNT (1831-1885), 

 an American novelist and poet, whose two 

 best-known stories, A Century of Dishonor 

 and Ramona, are the expression of her bitter 

 indignation over the ill-treatment accorded the 

 Indians by the United States government. 

 When the former was published, in 1881, she 

 gave a copy of it to every member of Con- 

 gress,- and was thereupon appointed special 

 commissioner to investigate Indian affairs. 

 Ramona, sometimes called the "Uncle Tom's 

 Cabin of the Indians," was one result of her 

 work. This pathetic story is far from being 

 merely a novel of the purpose type, for its 

 beautiful descriptions, dramatic interest and 

 excellent character drawing give it real literary 

 value. 



Its author was born at Amherst, Mass. 

 When she was twenty-one she married Major 

 Edward B. Hunt, who died in 1863. The poems 

 written in the early days of her widowhood 

 were favorably received, and in 1870 she pub- 

 lished a volume of verse under the pen name 

 "H. H." Thereafter she wrote almost con- 

 stantly, and Ramona, published the year be- 

 fore her death, was completed while she was 

 struggling hopelessly against a fatal disease. 

 In 1875, while in Colorado Springs in search of 

 health, she married William S. Jackson, and 

 it was there that her sympathies for the In- 

 dians were awakened. 



Her writings include novels, poetry, essays, 

 travel sketches and tales for children. Aside 

 from her two books mentioned above, her 

 best-known novels are Mercy Philbrick's Choice 



and Hetty's Strange History. Such reliable 

 judges as Emerson and Thomas Wentworth- 

 Higginson have expressed their admiration for 

 her lyrics, which reveal a genuine poetic gift. 

 Many of these are popular among children, 

 one of the favorites being the poem entitled 

 October, which begins: 



O suns and skies and clouds of June 

 And' flowers of June together, 



Ye cannot rival for one hour 

 October's bright blue weather. 



Mrs. Jackson was first buried on Cheyenne 

 Mountain, in Colorado, but as the site became 

 a sort of recreation ground for tourists and 

 the people of the neighborhood, her heirs de- 

 cided to reinter the body, and it now rests 

 in the cemetery at Colorado Springs. 



JACKSON, THOMAS JONATHAN (1824-1863), 

 an American general, accounted by many the 

 most efficient of the Confederate officers who 

 fought under Lee during the War of Secession. 

 The deep earnestness and unflinching steadiness 

 which marked 

 both his military 

 and his personal 

 character are re- 

 flected in the 

 name by which 

 he is universally 

 and affectionately 

 known, "STONE- 

 WALL" JACKSON. 

 When, during the 

 first Battle of 

 Bull Run, Jack- 

 son's Virginia 

 Brigade was seen fighting valiantly against 

 what seemed to be overwhelming odds, Gen- 

 eral Bee called out, "There stands Jackson like 

 a stone wall." So apt a phrase at once cap- 

 tured the imagination of the soldiers, and from 

 that time on Jackson was known as "Stonewall" 

 and his troops as the "Stonewall Brigade." 



Thomas J. Jackson was born on January 21, 

 1824, at Clarksburg, Va. (now West Virginia). 

 Left an orphan at an early age, he received 

 only a limited country schooling until he was 

 eighteen, when, mainly through his own efforts, 

 he secured admittance to West Point Military 

 Academy. In 1846 he was graduated with 

 honors, and soon after joined the army that 

 was fighting in Mexico. At Vera Cruz, Con- 

 treras and Chapultepec he proved himself one 

 of the most gallant of the American officers, 

 rising in less than a year from the rank of 

 second lieutenant to that of brevet major. 



'STONEWALL" JACKSON 



