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George B. Jackson (George Bement) Family Papers
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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081
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George Bement Jackson was the son of William Walter Jackson and Fanny Hasting (Bacon) Jackson of Brooklyn, New York, members of New York Monthly Meeting. He studied Chemical Engineering at Swarthmore College, Class of 1921, and served as president of Edwin Jackson Fireplaces, Inc., a family business. He encouraged Eugene M. Lang to attend Swarthmore College, and in 1986, Eugene M. Lang endowed a scholarship in his honor. He was a long-time supporter of Swarthmore College and interested in family history.
William Morris Jackson was the son of James M. and Mary Ann (King) Jackson of Philadelphia and later of Richland, Pennsylvania. He grew up in Quakertown, Pa., and spent his early career teaching at Friends Seminary in NYC and Friends Academy in Richmond, IN. In 1869 he married Anna Margaret Davis, and in 1876, he joined the family manufacturing business. He served on the Board of Managers of Swarthmore College from 1887 until his death in 1906 and on the Board of Schofield Normal and Industrial School from 1887 or 1888 until after 1892. He was also a member of the Board of Trustees of Friends Seminary in New York and an active member of the Society of Friends.
William Walter Jackson was the son of William Morris Jackson and Anna Margaret (Davis) Jackson and resided in Brooklyn, New York. In 1896, he married Fannie Hastings Bacon, daughter of George Bement Bacon and Mary Louise Chapin. He served as president of Edwin Jackson, Inc., and like his father, he served on the Board of Brooklyn Friends School for over fifty years and also on the Board of the New York Friends Seminary.
George B. Bacon was the son of William and Virginia Bacon and the father-in-law of William Walter Jackson. As a cadet at the Naval Academy, he voyaged to the Mediterranean, China, Japan, and the west coast of Africa before the start of the Civil War. He served as a lieutenant during the Civil War and was the executive officer on the gunboat Itasca on the Mississippi River. Among the George Bacon papers, there are transcripts of his U.S. Navy records and Civil War letters he wrote home; the originals were given to the Princeton University Library in the 1970s.
Josephine C. Brown was the daughter of Silas Edgar Brown and Mary Chapin Bacon. She was a cousin of George Bement Jackson and granddaughter of George Bement Bacon.. She attended Bryn Mawr College from 1906 to 1908, and 1911 to 1913. After years of farming and working with social welfare, Brown was appointed Associate Field Director at the Family Welfare Association of America, and then worked for a year with the Social Science Research Council before returning to FWAA. In 1934, she was appointed as the Administrative Assistant at the Federal Emergency Relief Administration during the Roosevelt era.
The collection consists of diaries, notebooks, transcription of William Morris Jackson's diaries, and correspondence by George B. Jackson with family members in order to compile genealogical data. Most of the personal correspondence of George B. Jackson is to Barbara J. Hazard, his daughter. The collection also includes Alice Gardiner and George B. Jackson correspondence during their courtship, 1921-1928,
Arranged in four series: Series 1: Journals and writings; Ser. 2: Correspondence; Ser. 3: Biographical/Genealogical; Ser. 4: Miscellaneous
Gift of Robin Hazard Ray, Acc. FHL. 2007.011, 2020.029, 2021.003.
Photographs removed to PA 177.
Bonnet and dress belonging to Anna M. Davis Jackson transferred to Relics.
Brooklyn Friends School track awards, 1916 and 1917. Awarded to George B. Jackson, transfered to Relics.
People
- Jackson, William W. (William Walter), 1872-1953
- Jackson, William M. (William Morris), 1837-1919
- Jackson family
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- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Date
- 2014
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Ms. daybook and accounts of his farm in Quakertown, Pa. Leather-bound volume
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Ms. daybook and accounts. Paperbound notebook.
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Reminiscences of childhood of William M. Jackson (1837-1917) in Quakertown, education, and teaching career, ca. 1881. A few original family letters, 1823-- have been tipped into the manuscript. Genealogical information compiled by his son William W. Jackson, and notes and editing by George B. Jackson, his grandson, together with loose genealogical correspondence and other notes are included. Jackson describes his interest in spiritualism in 1881. 1 volume with loose inserts. Obituaries in Friends Intelligencer. Jackson served on the Swarthmore College Board of Managers
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Subjects: First National Bank in Quakertown, Civil War, Constitutional Amendment prohibiting slavery, death of President Lincoln, Yearly Meeting in Philadelphia, reconstruction of the "rebel states", Assistant Principal at Friends School New York, Byberry Literacy Society
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Subjects: Lectures by Anna E. Dickenson on female education, Westbury Quarterly meeting in NY, Quaker style, need to wear a plain coat, lunar eclipse, New Chapin's Church, Anti-slavery Convention, exhibition of the pupils of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, working for disabled veterans of Civil War at Cooper Institute, Lucrecia Mott speech
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Ms journal of his trip through Europe: NY, Gibraltar, Italy, France, Geneva, England. 1 volume
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Includes "My first trip abroad", "My religious history", "Economic and Political Corollaries." Typescripts.
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Comic strip ("How to torture your husband"), Ms draft
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Transcription of correspondence with his wife when serving as an executive officer on a gunboat during the Civil War. The originals were deposited in Princeton University Library by his granddaughter, Josephine Brown. The transcription was made by Josephine Brown's mother.
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Awarding her a scholarship
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The bulk of the letters are between Alice Gardiner and George B. Jackson during their courtship. Also letters from family and friends, and, particularly, other suitors of Alice. Alice Gardiner (1904d-1981) was the daughter of Alice B. and George N. Gardiner of New York City. Alice and George were married March 10, 1928, in New York.
Letter from his grandmother with appreciation for his letter; she noted that it was the anniversary of the death of Morris Jackson, his older brother.
Typed transcripts by donor, Robin Hazard Ray. Also a thumb drive of transcripts.
Typed transcripts by donor, Robin Hazard Ray.
Typed transcripts by donor, Robin Hazard Ray.
From her mother and friends
Interesting note dated Nov. 24, 1927, from a relation of George B. Jackson to Alice with congratulations and relating the family story about his great-grandparents, Mary Ann and James Jackson and their involvement in the Underground Railroad.
Miscellaneous correspondence and history of his family's foundry, financial report to employees of Edwin Jackson Inc.
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Correspondence with his daughter, Barbara Hazard and others concerning compiling family genealogies and papers, brochure Edwin Jackson fireplace equipment, brochure, etc. Photographs of his father, William Walter Jackson.
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Most are written to his daughter, Barbara J. Hazard (Bonnie)
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Includes Minutes of Brooklyn Friends School with a biography of George Jackson
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Letters to editors, etc, and personal correspondence, including letters from his granddaughter, Katherine. News clippings, letter from Swarthmore College about Lang's scholarship in Jackson's honor.
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Gifts to Swarthmore College and correspondence with Eugene Lang and Lang's scholarship in Jackson's honor.
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Family correspondence and genealogy, Presley Thornton's will and correspondence, Mrs. S.E. Brown's notebook with notes of genealogy
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Article on Madam Susan Thornton, inventory, Presley Thornton's will, notes from Virginia Historical Society, markers in Math Cemetery, news clippings, postcards of Bath, NY, letter to Mrs. Brown from Rosalie Thornton Conness
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Levise Chapin Seymour notes; Chapin genealogy; in memoriam of David M. Chapin, ALS (1866) to Mary Lavinia Chapin from her father with note from her grandfather. Lavinia married George B. Bacon.
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Biography of George Bacon and his trip to China and Japan, 1857-1860, by his daughter (typed draft). ALS to Lavinia Bacon concerning her daughter.
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Annual Commencement of Friends' Seminary 1888 (Graduate Essay by Will W. Jackson), Ms autobiography of William M. Jackson. See Ser. 2 for typed versions. He describes his father's farm account books, mainly growing fruit trees. Correspondence confirming family record, "The Higher Criticism" by Wm. M. Jackson, Printer's Ink with an article about W.W. Jackson, "Outlines of Universal History." Obituary in Brooklyn Friends news bulletin. Pages from Jackson family Bible, dates 1797-1931.
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Foote family Association and reunion. Josephine Brown's genealogy, descended from Capt. John Foot: Foot to York to Chapin to Bacon to Brown. Includes 4 ALsS correspondence of Joseph York, 1810-1825
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Letter from George B. Jackson to other descendants of George and Lavinia Bacon with pedigree tracing back to Alfred the Great, notes on S.S. Mississippi, letter to Silas Brown
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Letter from George B. Jackson containing Morris, Jackson, Lyons, Bacon, Branson family genealogy. Apparently sent to "Anne" who kept the originals and returned a photocopy.
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Birth and marriage records for Morris Jackson family, Mary Chapin Bacon Brown's (Josephine's mother) application for membership to the DAR, Fanny Jackson's ALS to George Jackson on death of her daughter, Katherine King Jackson (1922), Certificate of Social Insurance Award, Pedigree, Colonial service of Nathaniel Bacon, Josephine Chapin Brown family history, 1969 (photocopy)
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Information about Ichabod Price, Susan Moore, and Hugh Jackson, letter to George and Alice from Max and Marion M., Alice Gardiner's correspondence, Marriage annoucement of Alice Gardiner and George B. Jackson, "one line of descent from John Chapin" by Persis E. Boyesen, Seymour family tree, George B. Jackson obituary(1995)
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Bacon genealogy compiled by Mary Bacon Brown
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TLS with Ms note from Eleanor Roosevelt, news clippings. ALS to George B. Jackson. Brown served as administrative assistant in charge of social work activities for the FERA and WPA,
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Photocopy of a typed account of travel with his aunt Florence L. Jackson McIntosh (b. 1870) to West Indies and Central America in 1900
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Josephine Brown correspondence with Princeton University Library about George Bacon documents and letters that she donated to that institution..
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Includes his reminiscences of time spend at Thousand Islands, St. Lawrence Seaway, early 1900s
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Morris-Jackson family tree and letter from Boardman praising Jackson for influencing Eugene Lang to attend Swarthmore.
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Includes letter concerning George N. Gardiner from the Veterans of the Seventh Regiment
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Includes the obituary of George's brother, Morris B. Jackson (1898-1818, who served with Friends Reconstruction and died of influenza Oct. 1918 after returning to the U.S. with wounded soldiers. Also George Jackson's honorary discharge from Swarthmore College Training Corps.and George and Alice wedding invitation, Church of the Resurrection, New York.
News clipping from Madam Thornton, family tree, letter to Mary from George B. Jackson about Bacon family, letter to G.B. Jackson from Janet M. Collins
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Proprietors of East Jersey to Benjmain Price. Typed transcript. The orginal is stored in Deeds.
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1694 deed between Proprietors of East Jersey and Benjamin Price (in pieces) and ms copy; 1851 inventory of the Estate of William Green of Bucks Co, Pa.; certificates of Ichabod Price, Artillery, 1810; , news clippings, deed, Benjamin Price's Patent,
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1800s records (photocopies) sent to S.E. Brown in 1936, 1862 Registry of Officers of the Navy of the U.S. (Naval records of 1862), 1952 article on letters of George Bacon in The American Neptune: A Quarterly Journal of Maritime History, 2 copies of "Breaking the Chain for Farragut's Fleet at the Forts below New Orleans"
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With typed biographical note by the donor. Katherine died at age 14 in May 1920. Her album includes photographs of family homes and in costume as Joan of Arc, May 1919.
Includes typescript carbon history of the company written by George B. Jackson, related papers, and an article by Jackson, "Fabled Fireplaces," published in Antiques Magazine, Dec. 1977. The company had its roots in the ironworks of Hugh Jackson (1754-1834). Two of his sons established W. and N. Jackson ironworks in NYC and another son, James, established a business in Philadelphia. Eventually companies merged and became Edwin Jackson, Inc. , New York. In 1979, the company merged with Danny Alessandro, Ltd.