Jonathan Tarbell (c. 1820 – March 13, 1888)[1] was an American lawyer, newspaper editor, and military officer from New York who moved to Mississippi after the American Civil War and served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1870 to May 10, 1876.
[4] Tarbell trained as a lawyer but pursued a career at newspapers, purchasing the Oswego Daily Times on September 3, 1836.
[4] During the American Civil War, Tarbell enlisted as a private with the 24th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, but was quickly made a major.
[1] He was succeeded on the court by a Democratic former Confederate officer, Josiah Abigail Patterson Campbell.
[8] In August 1876, he was appointed deputy comptroller of the United States Department of the Treasury by President Ulysses S.