Robert H. Jackson was born on this date in 1892 on the family farm in Spring Creek Township.

He was born in the same room as his father, William Eldred Jackson, on the settlement established by his great-grandfather, Elijah, in 1797.

While Jackson’s mother, Angelina H. Jackson, was in labor at the farmhouse, William hitched the team and ventured into the snowstorm to bring back a relative to attend his wife and then the local doctor, according to the Jackson Center’s John Q. Barrett.

Jackson went on to become an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and the chief U.S. prosecutor of Nazi war criminals

In 1946, at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Jackson celebrated his 54th birthday — twice, according to Barrett.

At 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jackson’s 125th birthday, two days belated, will be celebrated in the county of his birth with a program in the Main Courtroom at Warren County Courthouse.

The program is free and open to the public and will feature Kathy Lang, former Warren County Historical Society president, speaking about the history of Cobham Castle and Jackson’s ties to it.