The Evening Bulletin

JUDGE JACKSON DEAD.

The Distinguished Sufferer Passes Peacefully Away.

HIS DEATH NOT UNEXPECTED.

He Had Been in Failing Health For the Past Four Years, Afflicted With Consumption—His Last Official Act Was Hearing the Income Tax Cases—The Funeral Will Take Place Sunday.

NASHVILLE, Aug. 9.—The Hon. Howell Edmunds Jackson, associate justice of the supreme court of the United States, died at his residence at West Meade, six miles west of this city, at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, in the 64th year of his age, of consumption.

Judge Jackson had been in failing health for the past four years, but it has been only in the past eight or nine months that the progress of the disease began to cause his family and friends uneasiness. Last year he went on a lengthy trip to the far west in search of health. Later he went to Thomasville, Ga., where it was hoped the mild, and yet bracing climate, would restore his one time vigorous constitution. The trip did him little good, and after a time he was brought home.

At his old home Judge Jackson seemed to improve slightly until he went to Washington to sit in the second hearing of the income tax cases. He stood that trying trip only fairly well, and after his return home appeared to lose strength rapidly. Nevertheless Judge Jackson never took to his bed until last Wednesday a week. Since that time his family and friends realized that the end was near, and his death yesterday was not unexpected.

Judge Jackson was twice married, the first time to Sophia Malloy, daughter of David B. Malloy, a banker of Memphis, who died in 1873. To this union were born four children, as follows: Henry, Mary, William H. and Howell E. Jackson. Henry Jackson is at present soliciting freight agent of the Southern railway, with headquarters at Atlanta. W. H. Jackson is district attorney of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad at Cincinnati. Howell E. Jackson is manager of the Jackson cotton mills at Jackson, Tenn.

In 1876 Judge Jackson married Miss Mary E. Harding, daughter of the late General William G. Harding. Of this union three children survive—Misses Elizabeth and Louise Jackson and Harding A. Jackson. With the exception of Miss Elizabeth Jackson and William H. Jackson, Jr., who are in Europe, the children were at the bedside when the distinguished sufferer passed away.

The news of Judge Jackson's death caused general sorrow in this city, where he was so well known and admired.

The arrangements for the funeral have not been fully completed, but it is known that it will take place next Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock.

Howell Edmunds Jackson was born in Paris, Tenn., April 8, 1832, so that he was in his 63d year at the time of his death. Justice Jackson was a classical scholar, graduating from the West Tennessee college in 1850. He studied law two years at the University of Virginia and in Jackson, under his kinsmen, Judges A. W. O. Totten and Milton Brown; graduated from the Lebanon Law school in 1856, in which year he located in Jackson and engaged in the practice of his profession; removed to Memphis in 1859, where he continued the practice of the law; served on the supreme bench by appointment on two occasions, and was once a prominent candidate for supreme judge before the nominating convention; relocated in Jackson in 1870; was elected to the state house of representatives in 1880 on the state credit platform; was elected to the United States senate as a Democrat in 1881 and served till April 12, 1886; was appointed United States circuit judge by President Cleveland and nominated for associate justice by President Harrison; was confirmed by the senate Feb. 18, 1893, and entered upon the duties of that office March 4, 1893.

HIS LAST OFFICIAL ACT.

Rehearing of the Income Tax Cases in Washington Last May.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—The last time Judge Jackson was in Washington was on the occasion of the rehearing in the income tax cases last May. He had been absent from the city and from the bench since the preceding fall when, soon after the convening of the October term of court, he had been compelled to go south on account of his rapidly declining health. During his absence there had been contradictory reports as to his physical condition, but the prevailing opinion among his colleagues on the bench was that he would never again be able to resume his seat.

Mr. Jackson had the reputation in this city, and especially about the supreme court, of being sensitive concerning any discussion of his health in the public press, and he referred to the subject very sparingly in his own conversation. The other members of the court were therefore poorly advised as to his condition. This state of affairs is said to have been the reason for the equivocal character of the announcement of the decision to grant a rehearing in the income tax cases, which of necessity depended upon Judge Jackson's presence.

He was in Washington on the occasion of the rehearing for several days and gave his attention assiduously to the income tax cases. He sat through the argument, which continued for three days, took part in the consultation of the court, and when the day arrived for the announcement of the decision, not only listened patiently to the opinions of the other members of the court, but delivered a vigorous opinion of his own in support of the validity of the law. This occurred on the 20th of May and was his last public appearance. He returned to his home in Tennessee late in May.

When Judge Jackson was here on this occasion, it was evident to all who came in contact that life was slowly but surely ebbing away and that the effort he made in performing his duties in that emergency was made at the expense of his vitality.

As senator and justice of the supreme court Mr. Jackson had resided in Washington about eight years. His associates here were confined largely to his colleagues on the bench and in the senate chamber. By them he was universally esteemed as a man of high moral worth and rich intellectual attainments, 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.

His Probable Successor.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—When Justice Jackson was so seriously ill this spring that he was not expected to recover, the name of his successor was considerably speculated on. The idea was suggested by some that the president would again name Messrs. Peckham or Hornblower of New York, while the selection of a man from the west fell to Don Dickinson. Postmaster General Wilson was strongly spoken of as among the possibilities, while the majority of opinion was that Secretary Carlisle could have the place if he wanted it. Mr. Carlisle would be especially eligible, as he would be appointed from the district that the death of Justice Jackson has made vacant.

President Cleveland's Remarks.

Buzzard's Bay, Mass., Aug. 9.—Last night President Cleveland received news of the death of Justice Jackson. On learning of the facts he said: "The country will keenly feel the loss of so prominent and able a man."