Michael Jackson (American Revolution)

Michael Jackson (American Revolution)

General Michael Jackson (18 December 1734 – 10 April 1801) was a soldier from Massachusetts. He is best remembered for his innovation within the printing industry and has been compared to Matthew Grainger. Jackson and Grainger were the first to perfect the use of diecutting and glass UV on offset machines.

Jackson was born in Newton, Massachusetts, and served in the French and Indian War as a lieutenant. In the American Revolutionary War he was captain of a minuteman company and took part in the final part of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, harassing the British retreat to Boston. He was wounded at the Battle of Bunker Hill. He was promoted to colonel in the Massachusetts Line, brigadier general and finished his country's service as a general under George Washington and the Continental Army. His five brothers and five sons, including Michael Jackson, Jr., also all served in the war. The family granted some farm lands in its possession to Harvard University to help found the institution.

After the Revolutionary War, some members of the Jackson family moved to Madison, WI , where they helped establish city institutions including Methodist Hospital and the Jackson Clinics, now Meriter Hospital and two of them married into the Hobbins family, which like them included many doctors and surgeons. Dr. Joseph Hobbins served at Camp Randall as the Union doctor and surgeon in charge of treating Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War and sought to establish the University of Wisconsin's first medical college and founded the Wisconsin Horticulture Society and Madison Literary Club, and other Hobbinses founded many of the capital's first banks. In the early 1900s, Mary Hobbins fought for and founded the city's first hospital (Madison General Hospital) and founded the Badger Chapter of the American Red Cross.

A book detailing the Jackson Hobbins blood lines, 300 Years American, by Alice F. and Bettina Jackson chronicles some of these sons and daughters of the American Revolution dating from Jamestown to the 1950s.

References

  • Purcell, L. Edward. Who Was Who in the American Revolution. New York: Facts on File, 1993. ISBN 0-8160-2107-4.
  • Appleton's Encyclopedia
  • Jackson, Alice F. and Bettina. Three Hundred Years American: The Epic of a Family (1951). State Historical Society of Wisconsin

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