No documented founder or formal establishment record has been identified. The observance circulates informally as a modern name day celebrating people named Jackson.
CHAPTER 01
A Name That Shaped American History
The surname gained outsized influence in the United States through Andrew Jackson. Born in the Carolina backcountry in 1767, he rose from poverty to become a frontier lawyer and militia commander. His decisive victory at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815 made him a national hero and launched a political career that carried him to the White House.
His stamp on American geography is hard to miss. Mississippi named its capital Jackson in 1821. At least 20 other U.S. counties bear the name, and his face appeared on the twenty-dollar bill for nearly a century.
