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 HBRRtN€MSI1AW*8 LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Janris, Abraluun* clergjrin*o, bishop,

May

born

was

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1839, in iir<)t<'**tant

,

Norwalk, Conn. »'pi»coj»al

man

was

the autiior of Sermons on I'nion with Koine; Chronological iit rorii «t.

or2it,

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1748, in lioHton, MaiiH. He wati a zealous patriot during the revolution; was a dele* gate to the conHtitiitintial convention of I7K8: and a uieiuber ul the legislature un17')8. til He died Nov. 15, 1807, in Boston, Mass. Jarvis, David Henry, government oflmr, author, was Imii ji Aug. 24, 1M2, in Merlin, Jkld Since 1882 he has l>e»«n an oHicer in the United States revenue-cutter Bcrvice;

And

in

1S!»0

Imihi .Jan.

born

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H,

he was

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made

in

author,

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president ot

statistical association.

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a|

.Atiieri-

the au-

thor of i'hysiology and Health; Elementary Physiology; and Condition of the Insane and Idiots in Massachusetts. He died Oct. 31, 1884, in Dorchester, Mass. Jarvis, George Atwater, insurance president, philanthropist, was lutrn March 9, 1806, in Cheshire, Conn. Uc became presi-

dent of the Lenox

He

corif ri!)ute Berkeley divinity school, ten thousand dollars to the Paddot ic lecture fund, fourteen thousand dollars ti» build Jarvis hall of Denver, Col., and ten thousand dollars for its endowment. He died May 13. 1893. in Urooklyn. X.Y. Jarvis, John Wesley, painteV. artist, was

born in 1780 in Kngknd. His works include likenesses of Commodores Isaac Hull, Will-

iam Ha inl. ridge, and Thomas McDonough; Cnvertiur l)e Witt Clinton, John Randolph, nishop UalltH'k.

Benjamin Moore, and Fitz-Greene He died in 1840 i!i, v York City.

Jarvis, Leonard, public ofhcial, congress-

man, was born Oct. lt». 1781. in MassachuHe was sheriJf of Mancm-k cnuntv in 1821-29; and ctdlector ot ou«toius for the

setts.

Penobscot district in lS2!»-;n. In 1929-37 lie was a representative from Maine to the twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty-third ami twenty-fourth congresses. He died Sept. IS, 1854, in Surrey, Maine. Jarvis, Samtiel Farmar, clergyman, author, was born Ian. 20. 178<». "in Middletown, Conn. He was an episcopal clergy-

was

McDonough county,

was given to the trust com-

pointment

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ant govertui nt North Carolina; ami in 1870-8d the twenty-third getter8 fnun Kast Longitudes; Ceoffrey llampsted; l

i

lived in New York; Life, a theosophical died in 1892 in Ncw-york City.

Doctor Perdue; She and The Ascent of w<.:k.

fire

and charitable institutions, including forty thousand dollars to the General theolofriral seminary of N'.-w Vcirk City, thirty tliou sand ddllans to Trinity ('ntative in the legislature of North Carolina in lS7(t, and was made speaker of the house. In 1S70 he was elected lieuten-
 * a. lie was

volunteers. in

2t!.

li

111.

wan brevettcd brigadier>genenl of He was hononbly mustered

in

Man

Jarvis,

to tirst-iicuttnant. Since 1902 he has also been collector of customs for the district of Nebraska. He is the author of Report of Overland Ex« peditions at Point Barrow.Janrla, Bwight, soldier, was bom in New York. In ISl!! hr was first lieutenant in the thirteenth rei;uneut Ohio infantry; and

out

313

He was Prophecy; No

of C<»nnecticut.

He

Jarvis, William, nuTchant. dijllomat.

was

Feb. 4. 1770. in Boston, Mass. In 1802 he was appointi>d by President Jefferson consul-general at Lisbon, and charge d*affaires at the court of Portugal. He lied (K't. 21. 18.*»f», in Weathersfleld, Vt. lioru

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Jasper, William, s«ddier. surgeon, was iMirn atniut 17."»0 in South Carolina. He enlisted as a sergeant in the second South Carolina regiment; and distinguished himself in the attack on Fort Moultrie in 177«». A stpiart in the eity of Savannah and a county of Georgia bear his name. Ho died Oct. 0, 1770, in Savannah, (^a.

JastrOW» Joseph, educator, psychologist, author, was horn dan. .•{0. istia. in Warsaw, Poland. He is profe.-^^or of psychology in the university of Wisconsin. In lIMM) he was president of the American psvcliolor'ical associntion: and in isol vic. -president ot (III American association for the advancement of science. Uc is the author of Fact and Fable in Psychology; and the

Sub-Conscious. Jastrow, Marcus, clergyman, author, was .June {», 182», in Posen. In 1886-1902

bom

he wa- a rabbi of Pliiladclpliia. Pa. fie was the autlioi of Ta7jinia; and other works in Polish. He died in 1003 in Philadelphia,

Pa.

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