Hollister Jackson

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S. Hollister Jackson, 1927
Hollister Jackson with his brother H. Nelson Jackson and their wives in 1922.
Gravestone of S. Hollister Jackson

Hollister Jackson (born December 7, 1875 in Toronto , † November 2, 1927 in Barre (City) , Vermont ) was an American lawyer and politician , who was Lieutenant Governor of Vermont in 1927 . Hollister drowned in a flood resulting from the New England Hurricane in 1927.

Life

Samuel Hollister Jackson was born in Toronto. He earned bachelor's degrees from the University of Toronto and the University of Vermont , studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1900. He then worked as a lawyer in Barre (City), Vermont.

He was elected Barre Grand Juror in 1901 and served as the Washington County attorney from 1904 to 1906 . As a member of parliament, he sat in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1906 to 1907 . He was a member of the State Railway Commission from 1906 to 1909, until 1913, when it became the Commission for the Public Service. He held the rank of major in the United States Army Reserve and was a member of the Judge Advocate General's Corps .

Jackson was the owner of EL Smith & Company , a granite quarry, president of the Vermont Attorney General Association, the National Association of Ganite Producers, and a member of the Shriners and Knights of Pythias Masonic Associations .

As a member of the Republican Party of Vermont, Jackson won the election to lieutenant governor in 1926. His term of office lasted from January 1927 until his death in November of the same year.

During a flood resulting from the New England Hurricane on November 2, 1927, his car stalled after it fell into a deep hole while attempting to cross the rising Potash Brook near his home on Nelson and Tremont Street in Barre . According to witness statements, Jackson had lost his hat and glasses and looked dazed. He tried to walk to his house, but the water flowed with such force that it dug a canal in the unpaved Nelson Street and carried him away. Those standing nearby tried in vain to save him, as did members of the Vermont National Guard . The next day, his body was recovered from the Potash about a mile from where he was last seen.

Jackson was buried in the family grave of William Wells in Lakeview Cemetery, Burlington . His brother Horatio Nelson Jackson, married to Bertha, Wells' daughter, was a doctor and became famous in 1903 when, together with his mechanic Sewall K. Crocker and the Pitbull Bud, he was the first to drive a car from San Francisco to New York in 63 days City drove. Hollister Jackson was married to Maude Parkyn Jackson (1874-1968) and the couple had two children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NEW ENGLAND REMEMBERS NOVEMBER 1927 FLOOD ( Memento of the original from June 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 20, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov
  2. ^ Calendar, University of Toronto , issued by the university, p. 171
  3. ↑ The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta , edited by Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, Issue 21, 1897, p. 286
  4. ^ Public Service Commission of Vermont , published in Electrical World magazine, Mar. 17, 1910, p. 674
  5. ↑ US Passport Applications, 1795-1925, entry for S. Hollister Jackson, May 13, 1922, accessed December 16, 2011
  6. ↑ World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, entry for Samuel Hollister Jackson, dated September 9, 1918, accessed December 16, 2011
  7. ^ Who's Who in Railroading in North America , compiled and edited by Harold Francis Lane, 1913, p. 617
  8. ^ Vermont Legislative Directory, edited by the Vermont Secretary of State , 1910, p. 469
  9. ↑ Important Granite Quarry Change , Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, Jan 1916, 36
  10. ^ Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners, 1929, 530
  11. ↑ Newspaper article: GOP Convention, Lowell Sun, October 5, 1926
  12. ↑ Newspaper Article : Weeks Vermont's Choice , Associated Press, published in St. Petersburg (Florida) Evening Independent, September 15, 1926
  13. ↑ Journal: Vermont State Senate, edited by the Vermont General Assembly, 1927, p. 14
  14. ^ Roadside History of Vermont, by Peter S. Jennison, 1989, p. 202
  15. ↑ The Winooski: Heartway of Vermont, Ralph Nading Hill, 1949, page 186
  16. ↑ The Troubled Roar of the Waters: Vermont in Flood and Recovery, 1927-1931 , by Deborah Pickman Clifford and Nicholas Rowland Clifford (2007, 131)
  17. ↑ Coolidge cheered at Vermont Dinner , New York Times, March 11, 1927
  18. ^ Hears of Loss in Northern Vermont , New York Times, November 5, 1927
  19. ^ Vermont Death Records, 1909-2008, recorded for Saumel Hollister Jackson, accessed December 16, 2011
  20. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zdf.de
  21. ^ The Vermont Encyclopedia , by John J. Duffy, Samuel B. Hand and Ralph H. Orth (2003, 169)
personal data
SURNAME Jackson, Hollister
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jackson, S. Hollister; Jackson, Samuel Hollister
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Vermont
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 1927
Place of death Barre (City) , Vermont