Jackson, Henry, Dd

Jackson, Henry, D.D.

a Baptist minister, was born at Providence, R.I., June 16, 1798. He graduated from Brown University in 1817, and studied theology at Andover Theological Seminary for over a year (1821); was ordained in 1822; then took charge of a Baptist Church in Clarlestown, Massachusetts; next of the First Baptist Church of Hartford, Connecticut (1836); of New Bedford, Massachusetts (1839); of the Central Church, Newport, R.I. (1847), and continued there till his sudden death, March 2, 1863. See Trien. Cat. of Andover Theol. Sem. 1870, page 48.