Jackson, Stuart W. (Stuart Wells), 1875-

Stuart Jackson has been president of Stuart W. Jackson, Inc., his insurance firm, since it was founded in 1915. He is president of Institut Français de Washington, the scope and purpose of which is to promote the study of French civilization, history, literature, and art in the United States. He is also president of the American Friends of Lafayette, whose principal object is to promote historical research dealing with the life and times of General Lafayette and French participation in the American Revolution. They publish and distribute such material. He is a trustee of the Yale Library Associates. He has contributed articles on Lafayette to several periodicals, and he compiled a Lafayette Bibliography with a preface by Whitlock and published in 1930 in a limited edition by William E. Rudge. He edited the May, 1934, Gazette published by Yale University Library-it was the Lafayette number, and the article was chiefly annotation of the Lafayette letters and documents in the library by or about J. Fenimore Cooper. In 1954 France gave him the decoration of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.

He writes to an inquisitive Class secretary-i"It is very sweet of you to ask me to write a letter about myself during Prohibition and since. I'm really discouraged, however, that you do not seem to know what business I'm in after all these years, especially as you have intrusted to me some of your insurance needs for a long while. Really, Julien, I'm the best insurance broker in New York. The trouble is that not enough people seem to know it; otherwise, I could retire and play golf with you often. That's the only business anecdote I can send you now.

"You know damn well that I have not been blessed with children, and yet you beg me for their full names with their school and college careers. You then rub it in by inquiring about the health of my grandchildren.

"In closing I would like to say that you are my favorite Class secretary and even if you are a little personal at times I send my warm regards to you and '98. Avec bommage, S.W.J."

On November 4, 1905, he married Elizabeth Underwood Cox.

Stuart Wells Jackson died on November 21, 1957.

From Forty Years After: Class of 1898.

From the guide to the Stuart Wells Jackson collection, 1771-1949, (Manuscripts and Archives)