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Rh railroad till 1866. In 1868 he was made one of the trustees of the Rome merchant-iron mill company upon its organization, and he continued in office till his death. In 1855 he received the Democratic nomination for the place of state engineer, but was defeated. In 1878 Hamilton college conferred on Mr. Jervis the degree of LL. D. He is the author of a " Description of the Croton Aqueduct " (New York, 1842); a "Report on the Hudson River Railroad" (1846); "Railway Property" (1859); " The Construction and Management of Railways " (1861) ; and " Labor and Capital " (1877).

JESSUP, William, jurist, b. in Southampton, N. Y.,21 June, 1797; d. in Montrose, Pa., 11 Sept., 1868. He was graduated at Yale in 1815, removed to Montrose in 1818, and was admitted to the bar there. From 1838 till 1851 he was presiding judge of the 11th judicial district of Pennsylvania, and in April, 1861, was one of the committee of three that was sent by the governors of Pennsylvania, New York, and Ohio to confer with President Lincoln relative to raising 75,000 men. He was a pioneer in the cause of education and temperance in northern Pennsylvania, and the chief founder of the County agricultural society. In 1848 Hamilton college conferred on him the degree of LL. D. — His son, Henry Harris, missionary, b. in Montrose, Pa., 19 April, 1832, was graduated at Yale in 1851, and at Union theological seminary in 1855, and was ordained a minister of the Presbyterian church in November, 1855. He was a missionary at Tripoli and Syria in 1856-'60, and since then has been stationed at Beirut. He was moderator of the general assembly that met at Saratoga, N. Y., in 1879. The University of New York and Prince- ton conferred on him the degree of D. D. in 1865. He is the author of " Mohammedan Missionary Problem " (Philadelphia, 1879), and " Women of the Arabs" (New York, 1873). — Another son, Samuel, missionary, b. in Montrose, Pa., 21 Dec, 1833, after engaging for a time in mercantile pur- suits, entered Yale, and then Union theological seminary, where he was graduated in 1861. In 1862 he was ordained by the presbytery of Mon- trose, and has since been engaged in mission work in Syria, having charge of the mission printing es- tablishment and publishing house in that city. He is the author of " Husn Sulayman " (Palestine ex- ploration society, 2d statement, 1873).

JESUP, Morris Ketchum, banker, b. in Hart- ford, Conn., 21 June, 1830. At an early age he settled as a merchant in New York city, and later engaged in the banking business. He was presi- dent of the Five Points house of industry in 1870, of the Young men's Christian association in 1871-'5, and later became vice-president of the city mission and manager of the Presbyterian hospital. For several years he has also been president of the New York museum of natural history. His dona- tions to the latter institution have been frequent and valuable, and he gave a handsome home in the Bowery for newsboys.

JESUP, Thomas Sidney, soldier, b. in Virginia in 1788 ; d. in Washington, D. C, 10 June, 1860. He was appointed a lieutenant of infantry m the U. S. army in 1808, and in the beginning of the war of 1812 served as adjutant-general to Gen. William Hull. He was promoted captain in January, 1813, major on 6 April, 1813, lieutenant- colonel by brevet for bravery at the battle of Chippewa on 5 July, 1814, and colonel by brevet in the same month for services at the battle of Niagara, where he was severely wounded. He be- came a full lieutenant-colonel on 30 April, 1817: adjutant-general, with the rank of colonel, on 27 March, 1818, and quartermaster-general, with the rank of brigadier-general, on 8 May, 1818. On 8 May, 1828, he received the brevet of major-general for ten years' faithful service in the same rank. On 20 May, 1836, he assumed command of the army in the Creek nation, and on 8 Dec. of the same year he succeeded Gen. Richard K. Call in the command of the army in Florida. On 24 Jan.. 1838, he was wounded in an action with the Semi- noles at Jupiter inlet, after which he was relieved by Col. Zachary Taylor.

JETER, Jeremiah Bell, clergyman, b. in Bed- ford county. Va., 18 July, 1802 ; d. in Richmond, Va., 25 Feb., 1880. He began to preach in 1822, and for four years travelled through Virginia as a missionary exhorter. He was ordained as a Baptist minister on 4 May, 1824, and became pastor of two churches in Campbell county in 1826. He held various pastorates till 1835, when he took charge of the 1st Baptist church in Richmond, Va., with which he remained connected for nearly fourteen years. In 1849 he accepted a pastorate in St. Louis, but in 1852 returned to Richmond, and be- came pastor of the Grace street church. After the division of the denomination, he presided over the southern Baptist conventions for several years. He was for some time president of Richmond col- lege, and held the offices of president of the South- ern foreign missionary board, and president of the trustees of the Baptist theological seminary at Louisville, Ky. At the instance of the board of missions he visited Italy to supervise the mission- ary work in that country, and to provide a chapel in Rome. About the close of the civil war he be- came editor of the " Religious Herald," published in Richmond. He was distinguished as a preacher and controversialist, and successful as an author. Among his published works are a " Life of Mrs. Henrietta Shuck, the first American Female Mis- sionary to China; "Memoir of the Rev. Andrew Broaddus" (1850) : " Campbellism Examined " (New York, 1854); "Campbellism Re-Examined"; "The Christian Mirror, or a Delineation of Seventeen Classes of Christians " (Charleston, 1856) ; " The Seal of Heaven" (New York, 1871); "The Life of the Rev. Daniel Witt"; and "Recollections of a Long Life." With the Rev. Richard Fuller he compiled "The Psalmist," a book of hymns that came into general use in the Baptist congrega- tions of the United States, and was introduced in British North America and in England. See " The Life of the Rev. Dr. J. B. Jeter," by the Rev. William E. Hatcher (Baltimore).

JEWELL, James Stewart, physician, b. near Galena, 111., 8 Sept., 1837; d. in Chicago, 111., 19 April, 1887. He was graduated at Chicago medical college in 1860, practised in Williamson county, Ill., for two years, and then settled in Chicago, where he acquired a reputation as a specialist in nervous and mental diseases. During the civil war he was a contract surgeon in Gen. Sherman's com- mand. He was professor of anatomy in Chicago medical college from 1864 till 1869, and of nervous and mental diseases from 1872 till his death. In 1874 he began the publication of the " Quarterly Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease."

JEWELL, Marshall, postmaster-general, b. in Winchester, N. H., 20 Oct., 1825 ; d. in Hartford, Conn., 10 Feb., 1883. He was descended in the seventh generation from Thomas Jewell, an Englishman, who received a grant of land at North Wollaston, near Quincy, Mass., in 1639. Marshall's father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were tanners. In 1845 his father, Pliny Jewell, who had been an active Whig in New Hampshire and a