Penn State University - La Vie Yearbook (University Park, PA)

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JOSIAH JACKSON, Died October IO, 1893. WHEREAS, It has seemed best to Almighty God, in His inscrutable wisdom, to remove from our midst our beloved professor, Josiah Jackson ; therefore be it Rewizm', that we, the students of The Pennsylvania State College, deeply mourn our irreparable loss and extend our heartfelt sympathies to the bereaved family in their sorrow ; that a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family of our departed friend, and printed in lee 1.1mm and in LA VIE. ABRAM D. Blew, t94. D. L. PATTERSON. Ju., ,95. MAURICE N. TRONIC. '96. State College, Pm. October 11. 1893.

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JBiograpbicaI. , OSIAH JACKSON was born on the 14th day of February, 1830, at Kennett Square, Chester County, Pennsylvania. I-Iis life-work - began and ended as a teacher. At the age of twenty-one he taught in Jonathan Gause's Academy for young men, in Chester County, and a little later assisted Dr. Gatchell in conducting an academy for young men and women, at Kennett Square. He was then. as he has been ever since, held in high regard by his pupils, both as a teacher and as a friend. 011 the 25th of December, 1860, he married Mary Detweiler Price of north- ern Chester County. and leaving his schoOI at Kennett Square, he became a member of the firm of the publishing house of Cowperthwaite E! Co., Phila- delphia, in which business he continued until 1871. For the sake of the health of his children, he severed his connection with this company. removed his family to Kennett Square, and became a partner in a company engaged in the manufacture of agricultural implements. Later he engaged in business with the Union Switch and Signal Company. In this position his efforts, with others, were instrumental in introducing into this country the interlocking- switch system now so universally used here. During the war he was a strong partisan of the Anti-slavery faction, and later became prominent in the councils of the Republican party in Chester County. In 1872 he was chosen delegate to the national convention which re- nominated Gen. Grant. In religion, Prof. Jackson was a Quaker. In 1880 he came to the Pennsylvania State College to accept the chair of mathematics, which he held until the day of his death. He died at Chester, Pennsylvania, October 10, 1893. Through his death the institution has suffered a severe blow, and the students have lost a warm friend and a competent instructor.