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of Tenoe884><?. Belle Mende farm,

Jackson, William

30, 1003. in

Tenn. Lowther, M.Miii. law-

yer, jurist, state legialator, wa» born Feb. 3, swrved as com1825, in Clarkatranr, Va. thv iti inonwealtli's attoin« v; was twin

He

'irj{inia

ot

twici-

delegiitei*;

at'toud

and superintenileBt of the state  i«>iif.il< iatt' army in wniniand of the thirty lirst irfiiiim regiment; and became a brigadier-gent-ral. He died March district of

26, IH!M),

ill

Louixvill.'.

Ky.

SOS

He served in the uni«ui army in 180165, rising from captain to colonel and brevet He was eb-ctid district brigadier-general. attornev in 18<>."». and was re-elected; and In l88l'-83 he was a re{iresentatW« from N.V.

X«'w York to the forty-seventh congress as a

He

rcputiiii an.

White

Aug.

«li«'d

31,

1S81,

in

Plains, N.Y.

Jacobs, George, clergyman, author, was bt>r:i Sept. 2A. IHM, in Kinfpttown, Jamaica. He came to the l iiited Stat. s in lH."i4; and in 1809 he was called to the pastorate of a Philadelphia synagogue. He wrote aer* cral Sunday-sehool books; and was a frequcuf mit ributiir to the .It-wish press..

Jackson, William T., merchant, hiwyer, eoiipre»8man, was born )<(•. '2'.K 1794, m Chester, N.Y. Ue was engaged in mer-. For four cantile pursuits in Havana, N.Y, years lie wan jii>tii«- of tlic peace ami county judge of Orange county, N.Y. lu ISW51 he was a representative from New York

Jacobs, Heniy Eysier, ckrgymuii, author, was born Nov. 10. 1844, in (Gettysburg. Pa. He is a lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia. Since 18A4 he has been dean of the faculty

to the

»ev«'ral r.nglainl: The Lutl^ .m* tions of religious works from the

jurist.

I

tliirty-tir>'t

(•oiij,'it >t*.

of

the

West

irginia

legislature

isd'i. 1871-77 1m- was the tUrd in In governor of West irgiiiia. Jacoh^ RiAllTd Taylor, soldier, licuten* ant governor, was Ixirn Slarch 13. 1825, in Oldham county. Ky. He filled the office of lieutenant governor of Kentuclcy in 186307; and acting at one time as governor. He

died In IMS in Kentucky. Jacobi, Abraham, pliy-^iciiiii. iiuth<ir, was born May (i, 1830, in Germany. He is a

New York

City physician; and professor

the college of pliysii ians ?.iiir<- 1S70. He is the author of Dentition and lt» Derangements; Infant Hyiriene; Diphtheria; Pathology »)f th«' Tliymua Oland; Therapeutics of Infancy and Childhood; and other workti. JaooM,*Mn. Mary Putnam, physician, auin

was born Aug. 31, 1H4'2. in London, She was for twelv»- years disKnglund. thor,

pensary physician at St. Sinai hospital; and waa professor in the Woman'8 medical college of New York infirmary for ten years. She was the first woman to enter and graduate from £cole de Medecine in Paris. She was the author of The Value of Life; Cold Pack and Aiiiniiia: Hysteria, and Otiier Kssays; The Martyr to Science; Studies in Primary Education; Common Sense Applied to W'liniaii Siitrrat;!-: Manual of Nursing; and Found and Lost. She died in liiUO in

New York

City.

Jacobs, Charles Michael, i-^lucator. clergy 187."). in (Getauthor, was born Dee. tysburg, Fa. Since 1!»(>4 he has bwn pastor of Oirist church at Alleiitown. Pa.: and since 1UU.» has Wen professor of iMiropean hiatory.in Muhlenhnrg college. H<- is the author of numerous articles in tiie Luth* eran cyclopedia. Jacobs, Ferris, soldier, lawyer, congressiiian.

man» was born March

.").

30,

tor ot the

the author of



i

jACOb^ John J., lawyer, governor, was born Dev. 0, 1829, in Hampahlre county, Va. He was* for Heveral ytars cDiinected with the state university of .MiHsuuri; and was a

member

Lutheran theological seminary: and ediLutheran Review from 1882. He The Lutheran Movement in

in is

1830,

in

Delhi,

and Hbtory Church

ill

transla-

German;

of the Evangelical Lutheran

t'li-

I'nited States.

Jacobs, Israel, congressman, was born in (lermany. In 17)M 113 he waa a reprcseotative from Pennsylvania to the seoood Mil* He died in Pennsylvania, grets. Jacobs, John Adamson, educator, author, was born Aug. 19. 18tJ. in I..e*^sburg, Va. He was for forty-five years superintendent

and dumb institution of DanHe was the author of Primary Lessons for Deaf Mutes. He died Nov. 27, of the def>0 be came to America to take part in the editing of Funk and Wagnall's Jewish encyclopfpdia. In 1908 he became professor of Eii<.'lisb literature and rhetoric -seminary of Amertl.e .Jewisli tbeolugiia He is the author of Stinlits in .Jewish ica. Statistics; Celtic Fairy Tales; Indian Fairy Tales; and a score of other works.

at

I

Jacobs, Joshua W., soldier, was born June 184:>, in Kentucky. In 1861 ho entered service in the civil war; and in 1S(».') w;!s major of the sixth regiment Kentucky volunteers. In 1004 he attained the rank* of brigadier-general; and waa t«tit«d after forty years of service. He died in 24.

military

1000.

Jacoba,

burn

.Ian.

Michael, IS.

educator,

1808. in

was professor

author,

waa

Wuynesboroupb, Pa.

Peunaylvania college nt <<Vttysbur|f in 1852-71. He was the autlor of Notes on the Rebel Invasion and H«-

in

the Haitle of (o ttysburg. in (lettysbiirg. Pa.

Me

died in 1871

Jacobs, Michael William, lawyer, author, w,s horn .Ian. 27. IS.'tO, in (Jettysburg. Pa. is a noted lawyer of Harrisbur^. I'a. Il« He is the author of a Treatise on the Law of Domieile. Jacobs, Orange, lawyer, jurist, congressnuin, was born May 2, 1820, in Livingston

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