Jackson, Sheldon

D.D. (Hanover College, Hanover, Ind., 1874), Presbyterian; b. at Minaville, N.Y., May 18, 1834; graduated at Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., 1855, and at Princeton (N.J.) Theological Seminary, 1858; became mi ionary to the Choctaws, Indian Territory; home mi ionary for Western Wisconsin and Southern Minnesota, with headquarters at Crescent, Minn., 1859; pastor at Rochester, Minn., with oversight of mi ion-work in Southern Minnesota, 1864; superintendent of mi ions for Northern and Western Iowa, Dakota, Nebraska, and other Western territories, 1869; superintendent of mi ions for the Rocky-Mountain territories, 1870 (the first under commi ion of the presbyteries of Fort Dodge, Des Moines, and Council Bluffs, the second under that of the Board of Home Mi ions); busine manager of The Presbyterian Home Mi ionary, New-York City, 1882 (which had grown out of The Rocky-Mountain Presbyterian, which he established at Denver, 1872). In 1879 and 1880 he brought Indian children from New Mexico and Arizona to the Indian training schools at Car lisle, Penn., and Hampton, Va., under commi ion of the U. S. Government. He organized the first Presbyterian churches and mi ions in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, and Alaska.