Katharine Johnson Jackson

Katharine Johnson Jackson (better known as Kate J. Jackson; April 7, 1841 – February 24, 1921) was an American physician affiliated with the water cure movement at the Jackson Sanatorium in Dansville, Livingston County, New York. Earlier in her life, she studied stenography, and became one of the first women to adopt that profession. was born in an isolated farmhouse among the hills of Sturbridge, Massachusetts, April 7, 1841. Her father, the Hon. Emerson Johnson, had been a member of both the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Massachusetts Senate. Her mother was Hannah (Arnold) Johnson. Her grandfather was James Johnson.

Attendance in the district school alternated with home study until the age of sixteen, when she spent a year at Home School in Hopedale, Massachusetts, where she subsequently became a teacher.

Selected works About babies, 1878 Tea and Coffee: Are they Injurious?, 1896