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Rh JOUIN, Louis, clergyman, b. in Berlin, Prussia, 14 June, 1818. He is descended from a Huguenot family that settled in Berlin after the revocation of the edict of Nantes. He was educated by private tutors and afterward entered a allege that prepared young men for the administration of large estates. At the age of twenty-two le became a Roman Catholic, and in 1841 he entered the Society of Jesus. He prepared himself for the priesthood in the Roman college, and at the conclusion of his studies was appointed pro- fessor of mathematics in the College of Rezzio. The revolution of 1848 forced him to leave Italy, and he came to the United States, where he has since been employed as professor of mental phi- losophy in Jesuit colleges, with the exception of the years 1875-'7, when he taught philosophy in the College of Montreal. Father Jouin has been for several years professor in the post-graduate course in St. John's college, Fordham, N. Y. He is the author of " Elementa Philosophic Moralis " (Amiens, 1862; New York, 1873); "Compendium Logicae et Metaphysical " (New York, 1809) ; and publish a course of lectures that he has delivered on " Church and State."
 * Evidences of Religion " (1877) ; and is about to

JOUTEL, Henry, French explorer, b. in Rouen, France, late in the 17th century; d. there early in the 18th. He was a soldier in early life. When La Salle was commissioned in 1684 to reconnoitre the mouth of the Mississippi by sea, Joutel ac- companied him as intendant. In 1685 he was ap- pointed by La Salle to finish Fort St. Louis, which the latter had begun. After the departure of La Salle on his expedition two of the colonists formed a plot to murder Joutel, but he discovered it in time, and, having received an order on 14 July to join La Salle with all his force, he delivered the criminals to the latter. In October, Joutel was again made commander of Fort St. Louis with 34 men under him, and was again disturbed by plots to kill him or deprive him of his office. He set out for the Illinois on 12 Jan., 1687, with La Salle, and, after the assassination of the latter on 19 March, JoutePs death was also decided on, but his life was finally spared. Not long afterward he set out for the Illinois accompanied by six other Frenchmen, and after various adventures reached Fort St. Louis on 14 Sept., and arrived in Macki- naw on 10 May. Joutel went to Montreal and Quebec shortly afterward and embarked for Rouen, where he appears to have spent the rest of his life. Charlevoix says he saw and conversed with him in 1723. He speaks of Joutel as being a very up- right man and the only one of La Salle's party on whom that explorer could rely. He also says that Joutel's account of the last expedition of La Salle is the only trustworthy one. This work of Joutel, in which the author gives an account of his own travels after the death of La Salle, is entitled "Journal historique du dernier voyage, que feu M. de la Salle fit dans le Golfe de Mexique, pour trouver rembouchure & le cours de la Riviere de Missicipi, nomme a present la Riviere de Saint Louis, qui traverse la Louisiane. Ou Ton voit l'histoire tragique de sa mort & plusieurs choses curieuses du nouveau monde, par Monsieur Joutel, l'un des compagnons de ce voyage, redige & mis en ordre par Monsieur de Michel" (Paris, 1713).

JOY, Charles Arad, chemist, b. in Ludlowville, N. Y., 8 Oct., 1823; d. in Stockbridge, Mass., 29 May, 1891. He was graduated at the Harvard law-school in 1847. During the same year he was appointed on the U. S. geological survey of the Lake Superior region, under Josiah D. Whitney

and Charles T. Jackson. Subsequently he went to Europe and studied chemistry in Berlin, at Göttingen, where in 1852 he received the degree of doctor of philosophy, and at the Sorbonne in Paris. Soon after his return he was called to the chair of chemistry in Union college, and held it until 1857, when he was elected to a similar professorship in Columbia, remaining there till 1877. His original investigation began in Göttingen with researches on the combination of alcohol radicles with selenium, in which field he was one of the earliest workers. Later he examined the compounds of glucinum, and published an account of his investigations in the &ldquo;American Journal of Science.&rdquo; He also made numerous analyses of minerals and meteorites. Of the former, many were contributed to Dana's &ldquo;Mineralogy.&rdquo; Prof. Joy was a member of the juries of the International world's fairs of London, Paris, Vienna, and Philadelphia, and also a member of scientific societies. In 1866 he was elected president of the Lyceum of natural history (now New York academy of sciences). He was also president of the American photographic society, chairman of the Polytechnic association of the American institute, and foreign secretary of the American geographical society. Prof. Joy was a large contributor of popular articles on scientific subjects to various journals, and had held the editorship of the &ldquo;Scientific American,&rdquo; and later of the &ldquo;Journal of Applied Chemistry,&rdquo; also of the chemical articles in the &ldquo;American Cyclopædia.&rdquo; Failing health, the result of a sunstroke, that he received at the World's fair in Philadelphia during 1876, compelled his retirement, and for several years he resided in Germany.

JOY, James F., railroad-constructor, b. in Dur- ham, N. H., in 1810. He was graduated at Dart- mouth in 1833, removed to Detroit, Mich., in 1836, and was a successful lawyer. He organized the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroad about 1850, and became president of the Michigan cen- tral and its connections in 1866. He organized the company that constructed the St. Mary's falls ship-canal, and has been a railroad constructor and manager in the western states.

JOY, Sylvanus, Canadian manufacturer, b. in Utica, N. Y., 4 July, 1833. He was educated at Union college, the University of New York, and Queen's college, Kingston, Canada, where he was graduated in medicine in 1856. He afterward practised in Tilsonburg, Ontario, and has been for twenty-five years coroner of the county of Oxford. In 1880 he organized a company for the manufac- ture of sugar from sorghum, which did not prove remunerative; but he was more successful as a producer of wine from Canadian grapes, and was awarded a diploma at the World's fair at Paris. Dr. Joy is also one of the largest fruit-growers in the Dominion. — His daughter, Ida, artist, b. in Tilsonburg, Ontario, in November, 1858, after studying art in this country was sent to Europe, where she remained for eight years. She received medals for paintings that were exhibited at the salon exhibitions in Paris, and the Royal Albert exhibition in London.

JOYCE, Charles Herbert, lawyer, b. in Wherwell, Hants, England, 30 Jan., 1830. He emigrated with his parents to the United States in 1836, and settled in Washington county, Vt. He afterward studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1852, and began practice at Northfield. He was state librarian in 1855-'6, and county attorney in 1856-'7. Mr. Joyce served in the ISational army durjng the civil war as major and lieutenant-colonel, and after resuming practice in Rutland, Vt.,