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Bloomfield, since 1813. Upon this land he erected his residence, which after the death of his widow became the Jervis library, according to the terms of his will, which also endowed the institution and gave to it the valuable private library of the benefactor. The library was formally opened Jul} Ij, isli"), the centennial year of the I'ouud-

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er's birth. His name was included in "Class I, Engineers and Architects," as eligible for a place in the Hall of Fame, New York univer- sity, October, 1900, and he received one vote, none of the sixteen names in that class secui-- ing a place. He published: Description of the Croton Aqueduct (1842); Report on the Hudson River Railroad (1846); Railway Property (1859); Tlie Construction and Management of Railroads (18G1); Labor and Capital (1877); and several papers and lectures on engineering subjects. He died in Rome, N.Y., Jan. 12, 1885.

JESSE, Richard Henry, educator, was boi-nat Epping Forest, in Lancaster county, Va., March 1, 1853; son of William J. and Mary (Clay brook) Jesse. He was prepared for college at Hanover academy, Virginia, and was graduated from the Uni versityof Virginia in 1875. He was in- structor in French and mathematics at Hanover academy, 1875-76; principal of a high school in Prin- cess Anne county, Va., 1876-78; dean of the academic depart- ment of the Univer- sity of Louisiana, New Orleans, La., 1878-84, and was a leader in the move- ment to consolidate it with Tulane univer- sity, which took place in 1884. He was senior professor at Tulane, holding the chair of Latin, 1884-91, and became president of the University of Missouri, July 1, 1891. He received the degree of LL.D. from Tulane university in 1891. He was chairman of the section on higher education

of the National Educational association, 1897, and a member of the committee of ten, who.se report on secondary education attracted wide attention and discussion.

JESSUP, Henry Harris, missionary, was born in Montrose, Pa., April 19, 1832; son of Judge William (q.v.) and Amanda (Harris) Jessup. He was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1851, A.M., 1854, and from Union Theological seminary, B.D, in 1855. He was ordained by the presbytery of Montrose, Nov. 1, 1855, and was foreign mission- ary at Tripoli, Syria, in 1856-60, and at Beirut, Syria, from 1860. He declined a professorshii^ in Union Theological seminary in 1857, the secre- taryship of the Presbyterian board of foreign niissions in 1870, and the U.S. embassy to Persia in 1883. He was moderator of the general assembly in 1879. He received the degree of D.D. from the College of New Jersey in 1865. He is the author of: Mohammedan 3Tissionary Prob- lem (1879); The Women of the Arabs (1873); The Greek Church and Protestant Missions (1891); Syrian Home Life (1874); Kamil, the Moslem Convert (1898); Arabic Homiletics; PastoralTlie- ology, and many illustrated Arabic books for children.

JESSUP, Samuel, missionary, was born in Montrose, Pa., Doc. 21, 1833; son of Judge Wil- liam and Amanda (Harris) Jessup. He studied at Yale college, 1856-58, and was graduated from the Union Theological seminary in 18G1. He was ordained by the pi-esbytery of Montrose, Sept. 10, 1861; was chaj^lain of the 6th Pennsylvania reserve corps, 1861-62, and was a missionary in Sidon, Tripoli and Beirut, Syria, from 1863. He was acting secretary of the Presbyterian board of foreign missions in New York city while on a furlough, 1889-90; was editor of the Arabic Weekly, 1883-89, and manager of the Arabic publishing house, Beirut, 1883-96. He was elected a member of the Amei'ican Academy of Politi- cal and Social Science. He received the degree of A.M. from Yale in 1862; and that of D.D. from the College of New Jersey, Princeton, in 1890.

JESSUP, William, jurist, was born in South- ampton, Long Island, N.Y., June 21, 1797; son of Zebulon and Zerviah (Huntting) Jessop, and a descendant of Richai'd Jessop, of Broomhall, Sheffield, 1575, and of John Jessup, one of the original proprietors of Southampton, L.I., N.Y., 1649. William Jessup was graduated at Yale in 1815, and subsequently studied law. In 1818 he removed to Montrose, Pa., where he was admitted to the bar and practised law. He was married to Amanda Harris. He was presid- ing judge of the 11th judicial district of Penn- sylvania, 1838-51, and in April, 1861, represented that state in the committee sent by Governors