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 HERRINCJSIIAWS LIBRART OP AMERICAN BTOGRAPHT. ers and harhori*; in lSWMlM>r> he was liopu ty state engineer uf New York; ami is now practicing as r(iii>iilting engineer, lie is president uf the Ihoatlalhin Kleetrie Light

and Power

conijniuy ami a direetor of the

I^roadalbin Improvement eompany and oth(orpoiatioiis. He i» the author of Citjr Roadf) and Pavements; Road Preservatton nn.l Dust Prevention and numerous other

er

works. Juenglin, Frederick, painter, nrtiMt,

was

burn Ut. S. lS!«i. in < w York Citv. His paintings includt* The Intruder; Westward Bcnind; and In the Street. He died Dec 31. 1SS1». ill Xrvv York City. Juhring, John C, uierciiunt, founder, was bom in New Yorlt City. He waH educated public whools of New York City; .HubKe(|uently •rraduated from Mount collegiute institute. In 1H73 l«o e'lteied the wliolenale grocery e.>tal)lir*hnuiil of Kraiieis Lej^'rett and company of York City; iiiui in 1SS7 wa» jriven an interest in the lirm'.s businesH. In he wa.H a«!mitted to partnership; and in wlieii the firm was transformed into a corin

the

and

Washington

New

poration, he

was chosen

vice-president

and

8<*cr«»iary of the company. He was one of tile charter menibt'ts of the Merchant."*' a<-

New Yorlc City; and at its meeting in 1807 was elected its vice* president, to whirli |>oHiti«ui lie lia.s l)e«'n re-flecteU for live consecutive terms. With-

Hociation of first

in a month of the organisation of the Mer< ehan)^" ->.(K-iation In- succeeded in influencing one iiundreU and^ fifty representative firms to join the memtiership roll; and during the reason of I!)04, throu;.'li his energy anil iiilluence, over two thousand out-oftown niervhants visited New Yorlc City to place large onlers for mercliaiidise. This was a task of great labor, w iiich has placed IiIh name in the foremost ranlcs of New York's energetic bnsin.is men. i

Julian, Isaac Hoover, journalist, lawyer, antlior, poet, was bom June 19, 1823, near IH.->7 Centerville, Ind. In Sketche.- ol the llarly History of the W liiteWiitiT alley. Karly life lie was a |)iill oiieer of Iowa: hut returiK-d to Indiana, and was admitted to I'oi the bar. forty y(>ars lie has been a snceestiful journalist and f o r seventeen )

years

published

San

Marcus

Press

and The

the

Free

People's lira wi ."^an .Murco, Tex. Besides numeroits poems, pamphlets and essays, he David Hoover; is the autltor of .Memoir Thy Ketum, an Kpisode of Western Life; Early History of the Whitewater Valley}

and a volume of Poems. Julian, George Washington, lawyer, congressman, author, was born May 6, 1817,

CenterviUe, Ind. He practitni law; and lS-i.'> was a memlM-r of the Indiana state In ls.'>.> he was a candidate and was nominated by the Pittsburgh conven* lion for office of vice-prt>sident of the United states. In 18.56 he was a delegate to the national republican convention at Pitts* burgh. Pa. In 1840-51 and 1861-71 he was a repnsentative from Indiana to the thirtylirst, thirty -i^eventh, thirty -eighth, thirtyninth, the fortieth and forty-first con^n^^* as .1 He was surveyor gmeral of New Mexico in 188ij. He is the author of Speeches of Political Questions; Political IJecolIect ions from 1840-72; and Life of Joshua K. (biddings. He died July 7, 18U9, in Irvington, Ind. Julien, Alexis Anastay, geologist, naturalist, was born Feb. 13, 184U, in New York City, lie has attained a national reputation as a successful geologist and natural* i»<t; and many of his collections of birds and land shells are in the Sniitlwonian in* in
 * »iilili( iiii.

in

legislature.

I

i

stitution at Wa.<«hingt'iri. !( Julio, E. B. D. Fabnno, puinlor, artist, was iMirn in 1S4:{ in the Island of St. Helena. In IS74 he established a school of art in New Orleans, La. His best known painting The Last Meeting of Lee and Jackson is a composition of merit. He died Sept. l.'i.

IH7!».

in

fieorgia.

Juncker, Henry Damian, clergyman, bishwas born about 1810 in France. In 1857 he was appointed bishop of the tiewly created see of Alton, III. In ISr.n he completed his cathe<lral of St. Peter and St. Paul, which is among the finest cburelM in the T nited SUtes. He died Oct 2, 1866« in Alton, ilL Juneau, Laiirent Solomon, pioneer, law* V'T. iiirist. was born Aug. 0, 1703, near Montreal, Canada. In 1821 he was the first white settler in Milwaukee, Wis. In 1889* 40 he represented hi*? district in the lower house of the Wisconsin territorial legislature; was president of the last territorial coiincils in IS47-48; was Milwaukee's first loiintv judge; and in l84tj-47 was mayor of Milwaukee. He died Nov. 14, 1850, in Siiawano, Wis. JUDger, Aegidius, missionary, bishop, was born April 6. 1838, in Prussia. In istij he was stationed' as a missionarv at Walla Walla, Wash. In 1804 he w as 'attached to the cathedral at ancouver; and in 187!) became second Konian catholic bishop of the diocese of Nesqually. Jungmann, John George, missionarv, was born April lU, 1720, in Palatinate.' Ths masftncre of nearly one hundred Christian linli:uis in 1782 broke up the (l mrisliing mission in Ohio, the converts scattering in every direction. When at last they returnill to tHi'ir teachers, .Tuiigmann helped to foun<l a new station on Clinton river in Michigan. He died July 17, 1808, in Bethlehem, Pa. Juoipszo, Miguel Jose Sena, educator, missionary, was born Nov. 24, 1713, on the op, founder,

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