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yer, 1857-76; judge of the marine court. New York city. 18^0; lecturer in the Universitj- law deiMirtineiit. 1887-97; director aud vice-i)resident of the lieal Kstate excliuiige. New York city, 1880-yU; director of the Prison association and of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, 1892; presi- dent of the board of delegates of Ameri- can Israelites, 1876- 80, and its secretary, 1859-76: president of the Hebrew Free School association, 1882-93; president of the Educational alli- ance, 1893-95, and president of the Baron de Hirsch fund, 1890- 1900, and of the Woodbine Land and Improvement company, 1898-1900. He was elected a trustee of the Columbia bank in 1888, and of the American Savings bank in 1890; a member of the Civil Service Reform association; the Academy of Political and Social Science; the American Academy of Science; the New Y'ork, the American and the State bar associa- tions; the City club; the Republican club, and the e.\ecutive committee of the New Y'orkbar associ- tion, 1898-99. He was married, Feb. 9, 1869, to Maria, daughter of Baruet L. Solomon, who died in March, 1889. Of their three sons, Julien Myer was graduated from the New York university, B.S., 1893, LL.B., 1896, and was admitted to the bar in 1896; Louis Montefiore (New Y'ork univer- sity, A.B., 1897, Columbia, LL.B., 1897), also became a lawyer; and Stanley Myer entered Columbia university in 1899. Of their three daughters, Minnie Hart Vjecame secretary of the Kindergarten society, and chairman of the com- mittee on Sabbath-schools, Jewish Women's council; Alice Maria became tutor in botany at the Normal college. New Y''ork, in 1894; was presi.leiil of the Barnard Botanical club, 1896-99, and treiisurer of the Alumnie Settlement, 1896- 190<J; antl Estelle Miriam, A.B., Normal college, 1H95. w!us superintendent of the Hebrew Charities Sabbatli-school, 1897-99.

ISAACS, Samuel Myer, theologian, was born in LefMiward.n, Holland. Jan. 4, 1804. He went with his parents to London in 1814, and in 1839 came to America to take charge of a New Y^ork synagogue on Elm street, which divided itself in 1845, and a new congregation, known as the (latfs (if Prayer, was organized, to which he ministered during the remainder of his life. lie was an earnest philantliropist and a leader in

building up Jewish charities in New York, prom- inent among them being the Mount Sinai hos- pital, the Hebrew Free Schools and the North American Relief Society for Palestine. He es- tablislied in 1857 the Jewish Messciiger, which he edited, 1857-78. He was one of the officiants at the exercises in memory of Abraham Lincoln in April, 186.5. At the time of his death he was the olde.st Jewish minister in the United States. He died in New Y^ork city, May 19, 1878.

IVERSON, Alfred, senator, was born in Burke county, Ga., Dec. 3, 1798. He was graduated at the College of New Jersey, Princeton, in 1820, was admitted to the bar, and practised at Columbus, Ga. He served three terms as a rep- resentative in the state legislature and one term in the state .senate, and was a judge of the supe- rior court for the Columbus circuit for seven years. He was presidential elector in 1844; a rep- resentative in the 30th congress, 1847-49; was elected to the U.S. senate, taking his seat. Dec. 3, 1855, and i-esigned, Jan. 28, 1861. He wascliairman of the committee on claims and a member of the committee on military affairs. He served in the Confederate army as colonel of the 20th North Car- olina regiment; was promoted brigadier-general in November,1862; commanded a brigade in D. H. Hill's division at Chancellorsville. in Rodes's divi- sion at Gettysburg and under Wheeler at Atlanta and:\racon, Ga. He died in Macon. Marcli 4, 1873.

IVES, Charles Linnseus, educator, was born in New Haven, Conn., June 22, 1831; son of Na- than Beers and Sarah (Badger) Ives; grandson of Eli Ives. He was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1852, and from Jefferson Medical college, M.D., 1854, He practised in New Haven, 1856-68. and was professor of the theory and practice of medi- cine at Y^ale, 1868-73. He resigned his chair on account of ill-health, accepted the professorsliip of the diseases of the nervous system in the Uni- versity Medical College of New Y'ork, and went to Europe to make a special study of that sub- ject. Owing to a continued failure of his health, he never entered upon that position. He pub- lished: Prophylaxis of Phthisis Piihnoiialis: Tlie Therapeutic Value of Mercury and its Prep- arations: The Bible Doctrine of the Soul. He died at Burlington, N.J., March 21, 1879.

IVES, Eli, educator, was born in New Haven, Conn., Feb. 7, 1779; son of Dr. Levi and Lydia (Auger) Ives, and a descendant of AVilliam Ives, who came from England to America and was one of the original settlers of New Haven. Conn. He was graduated from Y'ale. A.B., 1799, A.M., 1802. He was rector of the Hoi>kins Grammar school, 1799-1801, and at the same time studied medicine with his father and with Dr. ,'Eiieas Munson.and also attended the lectures of Doc- tors Bush and Wooster in Philadelphia, Pa. He