Dorchester Illustration 2736 John Barnard Swett Jackson
Today’s illustration is a portrait of John Barnard Swett Jackson and a recent image of his house at 10 Pleasant St.
Jackson was born in Boston on June 5, 1806. He graduated from Harvard College in 1825 and from Harvard Medical School in 1829. He studied in Edinburgh, Paris, and London. He married Emily Jane Andrew in 1852, and they had two sons, Henry Jackson and Robert Tracy Jackson.
In 1865, Jackson bought the house at 10 Pleasant St., Dorchester, and lived there until his death.
Jackson was a surgeon and a pathologist. He became the first curator of the Warren Anatomical Museum now housed within Harvard Medical School’s Countway Library of Medicine. He served as dean of Harvard Medical School from 1853 to 1855. The position of Shattuck Professorship of Morbid Anatomy was created for him 1854.
Jackson died of pneumonia on Jan. 6, 1879.