Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1902 — JUDGE JACKSON, WHO SENTENCED MINERS TO PRISON. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JUDGE JACKSON, WHO SENTENCED MINERS TO PRISON.

Judge John Jay Jackson, who has just sentenced several organizers of the miners' union to jail for contempt of court, is one of the oldest living jurists in the world. He is now closing eighty years of life, forty of which have been spent on the Federal bench of West Virginia. Judge Jackson was one of Lincoln’s first appointments after the beginning of the war. Although a Virginian, he was true to the Union. He had been prominent in Virginia politics before the war, and was on the Bell and Everett ticket for Presidential elector. Judge Jackson is noted for the number and the drastic character of the injunctions! writs he has issued in labor disputes during the last half dozen years.