# Abner Jackson

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'''Abner Jackson''' (4 November 1811 in [Washington, Pennsylvania](/source/Washington%2C_Pennsylvania) - 19 April 1874) was an American minister and teacher and President of [Hobart College](/source/Hobart_and_William_Smith_Colleges) in [Geneva, New York](/source/Geneva%2C_New_York) from 1858 to 1867 and [Trinity College](/source/Trinity_College_(Connecticut)) in [Hartford, Connecticut](/source/Hartford%2C_Connecticut) from 1867 until his death, where he had originally studied and taught.<ref name="HWS"/> At Trinity in the 1840s and 1850s he was Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy.<ref name="Church1851">{{cite book|author=Episcopal Church|title=Constitution and canons for the government the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jiEfAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA409|accessdate=22 May 2012|year=1851|publisher=Printed for the Convention.|page=409}}</ref> Whilst president of Hobart he was responsible for changing the name from Hobart Free College to honor its original founder, Bishop [John Henry Hobart](/source/John_Henry_Hobart), and was responsible for much fundraising. In 1863, he raised the funds to build the St. John's Chapel.<ref name="HWS">{{cite web|url=http://www.hws.edu/about/pastpresidents.aspx|title=HWS:Past Presidents|publisher=Hobart and William Smith Colleges|accessdate=22 May 2012}}</ref>

In 1872, Jackson visited Britain, seeking models and an architect, for a planned new campus for the Trinity College.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Crook  |first=J. Mordaunt|title=William Burges and the High Victorian Dream|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nSdpQgAACAAJ&q=William+Burges+and+the+High+Victorian+Dream|year=1981|publisher=John Murray|isbn=978-0-7195-3822-3|pages=243–4}}</ref> [William Burges](/source/William_Burges) was chosen and he drew up a four-quadrangled masterplan, in his Early French style. Jackson was also on the Standing Committee of the [Diocese of Connecticut](/source/Diocese_of_Connecticut).<ref name="The Churchman's year book, with kalender for the year of grace ...">{{cite book|title=The Churchman's year book, with kalender for the year of grace ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gazSAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA109|accessdate=22 May 2012|year=1871|publisher=Church Press Co.|page=109}}</ref> He died in 1874, leaving a considerable collection of books to the Hobart College.<ref name="HWS"/>
He married Emily Ellsworth in Hartford on 27 April 1840.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stanford.edu/group/auden/cgi-bin/auden/individual.php?pid=I8882&ged=auden-bicknell.ged|title=Rev. Dr. Abner Jackson DD LLD (I8882)|publisher=[Stanford University](/source/Stanford_University)|accessdate=22 May 2012}}</ref>

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