Anna Vaughan Scott and Richard Arbuthnot Jackson

RICHARD ARBUTHNOT JACKSON, son of ANNA MARIA KNOTT and RICHARD JACKSON, was born September 5, 1858 in Richmond, Wayne, Indiana, and died April 29, 1934 in Ormond Beach, Volusia, Florida.^{99, 135} He is buried in Fairlawn Cemetery, Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut.^{1532, 456}

He married ANNA VAUGHAN SCOTT on September 19, 1882 in Ashland, Saunders, Nebraska,³⁰ daughter of MARIA FRANCES CRAWFORD and WILLIAM CLEMENT SCOTT SR. She was born April 23, 1858 in 5th Street, Richmond, Wayne, Indiana, and died November 23, 1951 in Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut.⁴² She is buried in Fairlawn Cemetery, Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut.⁴⁵⁶

• Descendant Reports
  • William Scott Descendant Report (Ancestor of Anna V. Scott)
  • Edward Erwin Descendant Report (Ancestor of Anna V. Scott)
  • Francis Stuart Descendant Report (Ancestor of Anna V. Scott)
  • Jacob Clements Descendant Report (Ancestor of Anna V. Scott)
  • William Campbell Descendant Report (Ancestor of Anna V. Scott)
  • James Crawford Descendant Report (Ancestor of Anna V. Scott)
  • Timothy Hall Descendant Report (Ancestor of Anna V. Scott)

Children of ANNA VAUGHAN SCOTT and RICHARD ARBUTHNOT JACKSON:

1. FIELDING VAUGHAN JACKSON, b. September 20, 1884, Richmond, Wayne, Indiana;^{122, 139} m. JULIA B. TOWER on August 8, 1927 in Grace Church, Providence, Rhode Island²⁸¹; d. August 22, 1962, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut.⁴²



Personal Information

• Anna Vaughan Scott was baptized on March 21, 1861 at First Presbyterian Church, Richmond, Wayne, Indiana by Rev. Wm. H. VanDoran.¹¹⁶
  

Education

Work History

Newspaper Articles

Evening Item, July 9, 1898⁵¹⁰⁰

TROLLEY PARTY

Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Jackson Entertain in a Unique Manner.

At a Trolley Party—Miss Rea Reid has a Birthday Party—Other Social Events and Happenings.

One of the nicest summer parties this city has witnessed for some time was given last night by Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Jackson in honor of Messrs Malcom and Frank McDonald, of Newport News, W. Va., who are visiting here. The affair was a trolley party. The guests met at the Hotel Westcott and from there took a trolley car, which had been decorated with an extra ring of incandescent bulbs around the outside, and went over to Earlham and back. On their return the guests went down to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson on south ninth street, where lunch was served. Following upon the lunch the company enjoyed a short dance.

The party made a very pretty appearance on the car. The ladies wore white duck dresses, while the gentlemen wore black that afforded a nice contrast. Those attending were Messrs. and Mesdames, R. A. Jackson, the host and hostess; Geo. Laughlin, Frank Vaughn, Wm. Bell, Mrs. Abbie Nedham, the Misses Christie Bell, Ellen Jackson, Patty Jackson, Agnes Reynolds, Nellie Howard, Elizabeth Comstock, Clar a Comstock, Miss Conwell, Lestra Hibberd; Messrs Malcm McDonald, Frank McDonald, Walter Vaughn, Ed. Needham, Jessie Reeves, Will Reeves, Dr. Harry Weist, Milton Craighead, Will Vaughn and Fielding Jackson.

Indianapolis News, September 12, 1902⁴⁶⁹⁷

Goes to Rock Island.

[Special to The Indianapolis News.]

RICHMOND, Ind., September 12—Richard A. Jackson, of the law firm of Jackson & Starr, has gone to Chicago to assume the duties of general attorney for the Rock Island & Pacific railroad. He is a native of Richmond and has been one of the most successful attorneys who has practiced before the Wayne county bar.

His appointment is a decided recognition of his abilities.

Davenport Daily Republican, November 16, 1904³⁸³⁰

IS MADE GENERAL SOLICITOR OF THE ROCK ISLAND ROAD

RICHARD A. JACKSON IS APPOINTED TO EAULTED POSITION ON ROAD.

TO HAVE RESPONSIBILITIES

Other Rock Island News Heard in the Railroad World Today.

Official information was given out at the local office of the Rock Island road today that Richard A. Jackson has been appointed to the position of general solicitor of the company, with headquarters in Chicago. He will have charge, under the supervision of the general counsel of the legal affairs of the Rock Island company, of the St. Louis, Kansas City & Colorado road, also the Chicago, Rock Island & El Paso company. The announcement is made by Robert Mather, chairman of the executive committee and general counsel of the road.

Evening Sentinel, April 7, 1909²⁰⁶⁵

INDIANA MAN CLIMBS

Richard A. Jackson Is Elected President of Rock Island Railroad.

New York, April 7.—Richard A. Jackson, of Chicago, has been elected president of the Rock Island railroad company to succeed Robert Mather, who resigned to become chairman of the board of directors of Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing company.

Mr. Jackson was born and reared in Richmond, Ind. For several years he has been general attorney and first vice-president of the Rock Island.

Mr. Jackson became connected with the Rock Island system in 1901.

Indianapolis News, January 15, 1910³⁸²⁹

REID-JACKSON BREAK CAUSES MUCH SURPRISE

RICHMOND CITIZENS LOATH TO BELIEVE STORIES.

FRIENDS FROM BOYHOOD

[Special to The Indianapolis News.]

RICHMOND, Ind., January 15.—There is much surprise here over the stories from New York that there has been a falling out between Daniel G. Ried and Richard A. Jackson, and that this breach in a friendship that has endured many years is responsible for the retirement of Mr. Jackson from the presidency of teh Rock Island company.

When Reid was earning a regular monthly stipend as cashier of the Second National Bank in this city Jackson was engaged in law practice, and his offices were in rooms over the bank. They had been close friends since boyhood and it seemed only natural that after Reid had made his meteor-like flight from quiet Richmond into the thicket of the Wall street fray, that he should invite Jackson to become associated with him.

At this time Jackson was enjoying the fruits of the largest and most lucrative law practice in eastern Indiana. He was not in need of a lift particularly, but when Reid offered the chief counselship of the Rock Island system at a salary that was very large, it could not be cast aside and Jackson left practice and native home behind and for eight years or more has been devoting his talents to the big railroad system.

Became Head of System.

He stepped along with the procession as changes in the management were made and became head of the system. His retirement, therefore, comes as a great surprise to Richmond people, who are unable to explain the cause unless the stories of personal differences with Reid are true. Some of the dispatches from New York say that a traitor in the Rock Island camp in the person of a "relative" of Mr. Jackson was the cause of the latter being forced out of the Rock Island. The "relative" referred to is taken here to be Fielding Jackson, son of Richard A. Jackson. The young man has been in New York and is a Stock Exchange member.

Many of the close friends here of both Reid and Jackson declare their unwillingness to believe the stories of a broken friendship between the two men. They hold the opinion that there were business reasons to cause the retirement of Jackson and say that it will be seen later that Reid is a friendly to him as ever.

New York Tribune, February 26, 1910³⁷⁰⁶

R. A. JACKSON WITH HILL.

Former Rock Island Man Great Northern's General Counsel.

Richard A. Jackson, formerly president of the Rock Island Company and general counsel of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, has been appointed general counsel of the Great Northern Railway Company, it was announced ye[s]terday, as successor to W. R. Beggs, who recently retired and who is now associated with the law firm of Byrne & Cutcheon, of this city.

Mr. Jackson succeeded Robert Mather as president of the Rock Islan Company and as an officer of other companies of the Rock Island system in April, 1909, but held these places less than a year. On January 13 last his retirement from all official connection with the Rock Island was announced, and it was commonly reported in Wall Street that his sudden deposition was the outcome of a difference with Daniel G. Reid arising from the stock market occurrence of December 27, when Rock Island common stock rose and fell about 30 points within a quarter of an hour. Mr. Jackson's son, Fielding V. Jackson, who is a member of the Stock Exchange, was said to have been active in Rock Island trading on the morning of the flurry.

Indianapolis Star, March 16, 1910³⁸²⁸

Indiana Man General Counsel of Hill Road

ST. PAUL, Minn., March 15.—Richard A. Jackson today assumed the duties of general counsel of the Great Northern Railway, with headquarters in this city. Mr. Jackson was chosen for the position by reason of his intimate knowledge of conditions along the 7,000 miles of territory penetrated by the Great Northern.

Richard A. Jackson is an Indiana man. He came into prominence in the railroad world through his association with the Moore-Reid interests in the Rock Island Railway. He was general counsel of that line, with headquarters in New York, until recently.

Mr. Jackson was born in Richmond, Ind., Sept. 5, 1858, the son of Richard and Anna M. Jackson. He was educated in the public schools of Richmond and in Earlham College until 1875. He graduated from the University of Virginia (L.L. B.) in 1879. He married Anna V. Scott of Ashland, Neb., Sept. 19, 1882. He was admitted to the bar January, 1880, and was prosecuting attorney of Wayne County, Indiana, 1886-90. He engaged in general practice until 1902, then he became general atoorney and first vice-president, November, 1904, of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, from which position he was promoted to general counsel.

Obituaries

Richmond Palladium, April 30, 1934¹³⁵

R. A. Jackson, Former Local Resident, Dies

Effects of Fall at Ormond Beach, Fla., Fatal to Former Wayne County Prosecutor and Prominent Attorney

Richard A. Jackson, 75 years old, native of Richmond and prominent figure in American railroading before his retirement in 1916, died Sunday in Ormond Beach, Fla. He resided in Ridgefield, Conn. Death was due to the effects of a broken hip received in a fall on a slippery floor last Wednesday.

Mr. Jackson, who came to be widely recognized in the railroading field, served as prosecuting attorney of Wayne County from 1886 to 1890 and engaged in general law practice here until 1902. For a number of years he was a member of the firm of Jackson & Starr, located in the old Second National Bank building with Henry C. Starr as his partner.

Mr. Jackson and Daniel G. Reid, who became chairman of the board of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, were boyhood friends in Richmond. Through their friendship Jackson came to be a railroad executive and attorney and Mr. Reid appointed him counsel for the railroad in 1892. He advanced in position, later becoming general solicitor and first vice president of the railroad. In 1909 he was made president of the Rock Island Company, a subsidiary.

Later in the same year Mr. Jackson left the company and went with the Great Northern Railway Company as first vice president and general counsel, and in the latter capacity had a leading part in the prosecution of the famous "Minnesota Rate Cases" of 1913 and subsequent years. During his active career he was associated with Edward H. Harriman, Otto Kahn and James Stillman.

Mr. Jackson is widely remembered by friends in this city where he spent his youth and first entered the business field. He was the son of Richard and Anna M. Knott Jackson who made their home where Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph G. Leeds now reside. A sister of Mr. Jackson, Mrs. Abigail Needham, and her two sons, Dick Needham and Edgar Needham, the latter now a resident of Clarksburg, W. Va., also resided there for a time.

Mr. Jackson attended Earlham College in 1875 and 1876 and then entered the Law School at the University of Virginia where he received his LLB in 1879. He returned to Indiana to practice here. For some time the family resided at 124 South Ninth street.

In 1882 he was married to Anna V. Scott of Ashland, Neb., who with one son, Fielding V. Jackson, survive. Private funeral services will be held at Ridgefield.

Mr. Jackson's father is remembered by some of the old residents of Richmond as a prominent businessman of unusual character. He brought to Richmond the first strictly cash store known as the New York Cash Store. In 1876, with others, he organized a piano company now known as the Starr Piano Company, and was secretary and treasurer of the Company at the time of his death.

He also erected the building at the corner of Ninth and Main streets, now occupied by the Duning Furniture company, for use of The Palladium as a printing office.

Ridgefield Press, May 3, 1934¹³⁶

R. A. Jackson, 76, Dies at Winter Home in Florida

Retired Lawyer, Prominently Identified with Ridgefield, Passes as Result of Bad Fall, at Ormond Beach, Florida

Falling on a slippery floor in his Winter home at Ormond Beach, Florida, and breaking his hip, last Wednesday, led to the death of Richard Arbuthnot Jackson, retired vice-president and general counsel of the Great Northern Railroad last Sunday, April 29. Shortly after his fall, his son, Fielding V. Jackson, of Ridgefield, was called to his father's bedside where he was when Mr. Jackson died.

The late Mr. Jackson came to Ridgefield in 1916, and purchased the Joshua I. King property on Main Street. He has spent his summers here ever since. The place was known as "Anascote" and some years ago, at the instance of Mrs. Jackson, he caused a stonewall to be erected in front of his property. This was the cause of his being known to many as "Stonewall" Jackson, which distinguished him from another Richard Jackson. He was, for several years, a director of the First National Bank and Trust Company, of Ridgefield, and a member of the Board of Governors of the Ridgefield Council.

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From 1910 until 1916 he was vice-president and general counsel of the Great Northern Railroad, having previously been general attorney for several other railroads. During he active career he was associated with E. H. Harriman, Otto H. Kahn and James A. Stillman. Through his great friendship with David A. Reid, chairman of the board of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, Mr. Jackson came to be a railroad executive attoryney. He and Mr. Reid were boyhood chums in Richmond, Indiana, where Mr. Jackson served a term as prosecuting attorney for Wayne County.

Born in Richmond, Indiana, on Septeber 5, 1858, Mr. Jacson attended Earlham College and received the degree of L. L. B., at the University of Virginia, in 1879. He established a thriving law practice in Wayne County following his graduation.

The New York Herald-Tribune on Monday said of Mr. Jackson:

"Soon he advanced in the counsels of the Rock Island, representing i as the general solicitor and first vice-president. In 1909 he was made president of the Rock Island Company, a subsidiary.

Mr. Jackson went with the Great Northern Railroad Company, as first vice-president and general counsel. In the latter capacity, he had a leading part in prosecution of the famous Minnesota rate cases in 1914 and subsequent years."

Surviving Mr. Jackson are his widow, Mrs. Anna Scott Jackson, and a son, Fielding V. Jackson and one grand-daughter. Funeral services, which were private were held at Ormond Beach.

Palladium-Item and Telegram, November 24, 1951¹³⁷

Mrs. Richard A. Jackson

Mrs. Anne Scott Jackson, 93 years old, a former resident of Richmond, died Friday morning at Ridgefield, Conn. She was the widow of Richard A. Jackson, a former Richmond attorney. Mrs. Jackson was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clem Scott who resided on North Eighth street in the house now occupied by the Sisters of Providence.

Mrs. Jackson was formerly a member of St. Paul's Episcopal church.

Survivors include a son, Fielding Jackson of Ridgefield, Conn., and two grandchildren. Local survivors are a grandniece, Mrs. A.J. Corsi, and a cousin, Mrs. Lewis G. Reynolds.

Funeral services for Mrs. Jackson will be held Sunday at Ridgefield, Conn., with burial there.

Ridgefield Press, November 29, 1951¹³⁸

Mrs. R. A. Jackson Dies At Her Home

Private funeral services for Mrs. Anna Vaughan Scott Jackson, 93, took place from her home on Main Street Sunday afternoon.

Mrs. Jackson died Friday morning at her home after a long illness. She was the widow of Richard A. Jackson, and had been a resident of Ridgefield for the past 30 years.

Surviving are a son, Fielding V. Jackson, and two grandchildren, James and Miss Julia Anne Jackson, of Ridgefield.

Mrs. Jackson was born April 23, 1858, daughter of Williams Clement Scott and Maria Frances (Crawford) Scott.

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
June 11, 1860306	Richmond, Wayne, Indiana	William Clement Scott Maria Frances Crawford William Clement Scott Frank Hall Scott Hugh Crawford Scott Anna Vaughan Scott Harriet J. Scott Jessie Ann Scott Douglas Scott Anna Stewart Irvine Philander Augustus Scott
June 10, 1870305	Richmond, Wayne, Indiana	William Clement Scott Maria Frances Crawford William Clement Scott Frank Hall Scott Hugh Crawford Scott Archibald Alfred Scott George Louis Scott Richard McDonald Scott Anna Vaughan Scott Harriet J. Scott Jessie Ann Scott
June 3, 1880292	Ashland, Saunders, Nebraska	William Clement Scott Maria Frances Crawford Archibald Alfred Scott George Louis Scott Richard McDonald Scott Anna Vaughan Scott
June 20, 1900112	Richmond, Wayne, Indiana	Richard Arbuthnot Jackson Anna Vaughan Scott Fielding Vaughan Jackson
April 22, 1910113	St. Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota	Anna Vaughan Scott Richard Arbuthnot Jackson
April 22, 1910125	New York City, New York, New York	Richard Arbuthnot Jackson Anna Vaughan Scott Fielding Vaughan Jackson
April 24, 1930114	Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut	Anna Vaughan Scott Richard Arbuthnot Jackson