Show HITS ANOTHER I t SHNING + MARK Associate Justice Jackson Has Been Claimed by the Grim Reaper CONSUMPTION THE CAUSE Had Been in Failing Health for Four Years If if Last Appearance in Public Was at the Second Hearing of the Income In-come Tax diitc Xcvis of His Be mihe IJtx Caused General Sorrow i Throiisrhont Tennessee and AVher ever lie AVas ICiiovrn Speculations 1L Speculation-s to His Successor NA3HV1LDE Tenti Aug SThe lion Howell Edmund S Jackson associate asso-ciate justice of the supreme court of the United States died at his resi i I t I I i QtY I I i J 1 J Ac N II d nce at West Meade six miles west of this city this afternoon in the sixtyfourth year of his age of consumption con-sumption Judge Jackson had been in failing i health for the past four years but it bas been only in the past eight or nine months that the progress of the sres Disease i began to cause his family and I afnends uneasiness Last year he went I on a lengthy trip to the far west in I search of health Later he went to I Thomasville Tenn where i was I hoped the mild and bracing climate would restore his once vigorous constitution con-stitution The trip did him little good and fter a time be was brought home At his old bore Judge Jackson seemed to improve slightly until he ent to Washington to sit in the sec Iud I-ud hearing of the income tax case he stpod that trip fairly well and after af-ter his return home appeared to lose strength rapidly Nevertheless Judge Jackson never took to his bed until I last Wednesday week Since that time his family and friends feared that the faml I end was near and his death today was not unexpected fudge Jackson was twice married the fust time to Miss Sophia Mallory I daughter of David B Mallory a banker I bank-er of Memphis who died in 73 To this 1 union were born three children as follows II fol-lows Henry William R and Howell Jackson Henry Jackson is at present soliciting freight agent of the South fern railway with headquarters at I Vtlanta William R Jackson is dis trut attorney of the Chesapeake I Ohio at Cincinnati Howell E Jackson I Jack-son is manager of the Jackson cotton mill at Jackson Tenn I In 1876 Judge Jackson married Miss Mary E Harding daughter of General William G Harding Of this union I 1am three children survive Miss Elizabeth and Louise Jackson and Harding A II Jackson With the exception of Miss Elizabeth Jackson and William II Jackson jr iwho are in Europe the children were at his bedside when he died The news of Judge Jacksons death caused general sorrow in this city where he was so well known and admired ad-mirEd The arrangements for the funeral have not been fully completed but i is known that it will take place next Sunaay afternoon at 330 I v Speculations as to IiiH Successor J WASHINGTON Aug SVhen Jus 1 te Jackson was so seriously ill this spring that he was not expected to recover re-cover the name of his suCcessor was considerably speculated on The idea was suggested by some that the president presi-dent would name Messrs Peckham or J ornblower of New York while the I selection of a man from the west fell to Don lf Djokson PostmasterGeneral Wilson was b strongly spoken of among the possl ibilles while the majority were of the opinion that becretary Carlisle would have the place if he wanted i Ur Carlisle would be especially eligible as he would be appointed from the same district that the death of Justice Jackson has made vacant The last time Justice Jackson was in Washington was on the occasion of the rehearing in the income tax cases last May He bad been absent from the city and from the bench since the precedIng pre-cedIng fall when soon after the convening con-vening of the October term of the court he had ben compelled to go south on account of his rapidlydeclin irpr health During his absence there 3iaa been contradictory reports as to ails physical condition but the prevail I ing opinion f ong his colleagues on ith bench was that he would never ngan be able to resume his seat Mr ilackton Jiad the reputation in this fity and especially about the supreme frt of being vcr sensitive oncern k3 the discussion of his health In the I io press and he referred to the I tjoject very sparingly in his own conversation con-versation The othcr members of the I c jurt were therefore poorly advised as to his condition This state of affairs is said to have been the reason I for thrs equivocal character of the announcement an-nouncement of the decision to grant a rehearing ir the income tax case which of necessity depended upon Judge Jacksons presence He was In Washington on the occasion occa-sion of the rehearing for several days and gave his attention assiduously tote to-te income taxes He sat through the argument which continued three days took part In the consultation of the court and when the day arrived for the announcement of the decision not o 1 listened patiently t the opinions 1 ost ofhe other members of the I 1 i Co but dllvered a vigorous opinion p fii own in support Qf the Validity f = t i 1 of the law This occurred on the 20lh I of May and was his last public appearance ap-pearance He returned to his home fu Tennessee late in May When Judge Jackson was here on I this occasion it was evident to all who I came in contact with him that life was slowly but surely ebbing away and that the effort he made in performing per-forming his duties in that emergency was made at the expense of his vitality vital-ity As senator and justice of the supreme I su-preme court Mr Jackson had resided in Washington about eight years His associates here were confined largely to colleagues on the bench and in the Senate chamber By them he was universally i uni-versally esteemed as a man of high moral worth and rich intellectual attainments at-tainments as < was evinced in nothing so much as in his appointment to the supreme bench by President Harrison and his confirmation by a Republican Senate notwithstanding he was a Democrat Brief Biography WASHINGTON Aug S Howell Ed munds Jackson was born in Paris Tenn April 8 1832 so that he was in his 63d year at the time of his death He graduated from the West Tennessee I Tennes-see college in 1S4S He studied law two years at the university of Virginia and in Joerpoii under his kinsmen Judges A W Totten and Milton Brown He graduated from the Lebanon law school in 1856 which year he located in Jackson and engaged in the practice I of his profession removed to Memphis in 1S59 where he continued the practice prac-tice o law served on the supreme bench by appointment on two occasions occa-sions and was once a prominent candidate j candi-date for supreme judge before the nomination consolidated in Jackson in nominaton cnsoldated 1S76 was elected to the state house of I Republicans in 1SSO on the state credit I platform was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat in lESt and served till April 12 lESS was appointed ap-pointed United States circuit judge by President Cleveland and nominated as associate justice by President Harrison son was confirmed by the Senate I February IS 18J3 and entered upon j the duties of the office March 4 1893 I |