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| | Famous Virginia Relations of the Hackley Family |
 | | Thomas Jonathan Jackson was born at Clarksburg, [West] Virginia on 21 Jan 1824, the son of Jonathan Jackson (1790-1826) an attorney, and Julia Beckwith Neale (1798-1831). |
 | | In the spring of 1851, Jackson was offered and accepted an appointment to teach at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, where he taught natural and experimental philosophy. |
 | | He was a philosopher, educator, naturalist, politician, scientist, architect, inventor, pioneer in scientific farming, musician, and writer, and he was the foremost spokesman for democracy of his day. |
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