Hollister Jackson was the 56th lieutenant governor of Vermont; he was killed in the Great Flood of 1927.
12 Facts About Hollister Jackson
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Samuel Hollister Jackson was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on December 7,1875, the son of Samuel Nelson Jackson and Mary Anne Jackson.
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Hollister Jackson attended the Collegiate Institute in Kingston, Ontario and Kingston's Queen's University.
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Hollister Jackson received degrees from the University of Toronto and the University of Vermont.
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Hollister Jackson was admitted to the bar in 1900 and practiced in Barre City.
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Hollister Jackson served in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1906 to 1907, and as a member of the state Railroad Commission from 1906 until 1913.
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Hollister Jackson was a major in the Army Reserve Judge Advocate General Corps.
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Hollister Jackson began walking towards his house, and water rushing fast enough to cut a channel across Nelson Street carried him away.
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Hollister Jackson drowned, and the next day his body was recovered from the Potash approximately a mile from where he was last seen.
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Hollister Jackson was buried in the family plot of William Wells at Lakeview Cemetery in Burlington.
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Hollister Jackson was the brother of H Nelson Jackson, who was married to Wells's daughter Bertha.
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In 1909, Hollister Jackson married Mabel Maude Parkyn, usually known as Maude.