Biographical Sketches

Patrick Tracy Jackson (1818-1891) was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, on 5 November 1818, the son of textile manufacturer Patrick Tracy Jackson (1780-1847) and Lydia Cabot Jackson (1787-1869). He grew up in Boston and summered in Waltham. At Harvard, Patrick specialized in mineralogy and helped to found the Harvard Natural History Society, graduating in 1838. In March 1843, Patrick married Susan Mary Loring (1823-1905), the daughter of Charles Greely Loring and Anna Pierce Brace Loring. The couple lived in Boston, where they had four children: Patrick Tracy Jackson (1844-1918), Charles Loring Jackson (1847-1935), Anna Pierce Jackson (1855-1922), and Ernest Jackson (1857-1913).

Patrick Tracy Jackson (1844-1918), the eldest son of Patrick Tracy Jackson and Susan Mary Loring Jackson was born on 19 December 1844. He entered Harvard College in 1861 but soon left to join the Union Army. From 1863 to 1865, he served as second lieutenant in the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment and captain of the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment, the third Black regiment raised in Massachusetts. He received his A.B. from Harvard in 1865 and, from 1868 to 1869, was employed in the Hampden Mills in Holyoke. Patrick married Eleanor Baker Gray (1847-1930), the daughter of Rev. Frederick Turell Gray and Elizabeth Phillips Chapman Gray, in 1871. The couple had four children: Patrick Tracy Jackson (1871-1959), Arthur Loring Jackson (1874-1924), Susan Loring Jackson (1879-1951), and Frederick Gray Jackson (b. 1882). The family lived in Cambridge and summered at Pride's Crossing in Beverly.

John Noble (1829-1909) was born in Dover, New Hampshire, on 14 April 1829, the oldest child of Mark Noble and Mary Carr Copp Noble. He graduated from Harvard with an A.B. in 1850 and, for the next six years, served as submaster at the Boston Latin School. He received a law degree and was admitted to the Suffolk Bar in 1858, practicing law until his appointment in August 1875 as clerk of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. John married Katherine Williams Sheldon (b. 1849) of Deerfield in 1873, and the couple lived in Roxbury with their children, John Noble and Isabel Helen Noble Fisher.

John Noble (1875-1943) was the son of John Noble and Katherine Williams Sheldon. He received his Harvard A.B. in 1897 and his Harvard Law degree in 1900 and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar the same year. John married Susan Loring Jackson in 1903, and the couple had four children: Eleanor Gray Noble Bourne, Jane Loring Noble Fiske, John Noble, and Charles Loring Jackson Noble. They lived in Cambridge and had summer homes at Pride's Crossing in Beverly and Jaffrey, New Hampshire.

John Noble (1908-1964) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 19 May 1908, the son of John Noble and Susan Loring Jackson Noble. He graduated from Milton Academy in 1926, from Harvard in 1930, and from Harvard Law in 1934. John married Barbara Elizabeth Warner, the daughter of William Skinner and Edith Tracy Bouve Warner, in 1936, and the couple had four children.

William Skinner Warner (1879-1956) was born in Boston on 4 October 1879, the son of Frederick Harris and Eleanor Skinner Warner. He married Edith Tracy Bouve (1883-1975) and had five children.