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JACKSON , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Madison county, See also:Tennessee, U.S.A., situated on the Forked See also:Deer See also:river, about 85 m. N.E. of See also:Memphis. Pop. (189o), 10,039; (1900), 14,511, of whom 61o8 were negroes; (1910 See also:census), 15,779. It is served by the See also:Mobile & See also:Ohio, the See also:Nashville, See also:Chattanooga & St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis and the See also:Illinois Central See also:railways. The See also:state supreme See also:court holds its sessions here for the western See also:district of Tennessee. The city is the seat of See also:Union University (co-educational), chartered in 1875 as Southwestern Baptist University, and See also:con-ducted under that name at Jackson until 1907, when the See also:present name was adopted. In 1907–1908 the university had 17 instructors and 28o students. At Jackson, also, are St See also:Mary's See also:Academy (See also:Roman See also:Catholic); the Memphis See also:Conference See also:Female See also:Institute (Methodist Episcopal, See also:South, 1843), and See also:Lane See also:College (for negroes), under the See also:control of the Colored Methodist Episcopal See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church. Jackson is an important See also:cotton See also:market, and is a See also:shipping point for the See also:farm products and fruits of the surrounding See also:country. It has also numerous manufactures and railway shops. The See also:total value of the factory product in 1905 was $2,317,715. The See also:municipality owns and operates the electric-See also:lighting plant and the See also:water-See also:works. There is in the city an electro-chalybeate well with therapeutic properties. Jackson was settled about 1820, incorporated as a See also:town in 1823, chartered as a city in 1854, and in 1907 received a new See also:charter by which the See also:sale of intoxicating liquors is forever prohibited. After See also:General See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant's advance into Tennessee in 1862 Jackson was fortified and became an important See also:base of operations for the Federal See also:army, Grant himself establishing his headquarters here in See also:October.
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