in the state so deeply torn asunder during the recent Civil War. There are several photographs of the Governor and his staff arrayed in front of several of the Maryland military monuments at Gettysburg, dressed in military uniforms and with the new state flag prominently posted alongside. It was officially adopted in 1904 as the state flag by act of the General Assembly of Maryland in the historic 18th-century Maryland State House in the later state capital of Annapolis. In his 2005 biography of poet Ogden Nash, Douglas M. Parker has written that "Elihu Emory Jackson . . . made a sizable fortune in the lumber business." The family, wrote Parker, were "Southern Methodists and Southern sympathizers." Jackson's granddaughter, Frances Leonard, was wed to Nash from 1931 to his death in 1971. [Source: Ogden Nash: The Life and Work of America's Laureate of Light Verse. Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, Chicago.] References 1837 births 1907 deaths Democratic Party governors of Maryland Democratic Party members of the Maryland House of Delegates People from Wicomico County, Maryland 19th-century American politicians