Samuel Cram Jackson or Samuel C. Jackson (March 13, 1802 – July 26, 1878) was an American Congregational minister. Jackson, son of Reverend Dr. William Jackson, was born at

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, March 13, 1802. He graduated from

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in 1821, and studied for some time in the law school at New Haven, Conn.; graduated from

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in 1826; was ordained June 6 of the following year as pastor of West Church, in

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, from which he was, dismissed in September 1850, and became assistant secretary of the State Board of Education, also acting librarian of the

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, which office he held until 1877. He died July 26, 1878. Dr. Jackson published, ''Blessings of the Year,'' a sermon at West Andover, December 30, 1827: — ''Funeral Discourse of Reverend S.G. Pierce,'' Methuen, May 10, 1839: — ''Thanksgiving Sermon,'' November 28, 1839: — ''The License Law Vindicated'': — ''Religious Principle a Source of Public Prosperity'': — ''The Massachusetts Election Sermon'' (1843). See ''Cong, Year-book,'' 1879, page 45.

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