History of Hyde Park, (Cook County) Illinois United States of America

Our database does not include an historic photo for Hyde Park, (Cook County) Illinois, do you have one you would like to contribute? Contact Us!

John Alexander Jameson, jurist, was born in Irasburg, Vt., Jan. 25, 1824; son of Thomas and Martha (Gilchrist) Jameson; and a descendant of Scotch emigrants from the north of Ireland to northern New England about the middle of the eighteenth century. He was graduated at the University of Vermont, A.B., 1846, A.M., 1849; was in charge of an academy at Stanstead, Canada, 1846-50, and tutor in Latin at the University of Vermont, 1850-52. He studied law at Harvard, 1852-53; began practising at Freeport, Ill., in 1853, and in 1856 removed to Chicago. He was judge of the superior court of Chicago, 1865-83, and professor of equity and constitutional law in the University of Chicago, 1867-68. He was a founder of the Literary club of Chicago; founder and first president of the Prisoners' Aid association of Illinois; a founder of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and a member of its council and of its general advisory committee. He transferred his library on state constitutional law to the University of Pennsylvania and it was named the John Alexander Jameson Library on American History. He received the degree of LL. D. from the University of Vermont in 1867. He was for many years assistant editor of the American Law Register; and is the author of: Responsibilities of American Merchants for the Conversion of the World to Christ (1855): The Grounds and Limits of Rightful Interference by Law with the Accumulation and Use of Capital (1882); Constitutional Conventions, their History, Powers and Modes of Proceeding (1867); pamphlets on religious and economic subjects, and contributions to the American Law Register. He died at Hyde Park, Ill., June 16, 1890.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Hyde Park, (Cook County) Illinois

Biographies: