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Morgan. Dennison and Curtin to confer with President Lincoln relative to raising 75.000 men for the Federal army. He advocated advanced metliods of fanning, legislation to enforce tem- perance, and the education of the masses. His sons, Henry Harris and Samuel, became promi- nent missionaries under the direction of the A.B.C.F.M., working principally in Tripoli and Beirut. Hamilton college conferred on liim the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1848. He died in Montrose. Pa.. Sept. 11. l!^r.8.

JESUP, Henry Griswold, educator, was born in Westport, Cuiin., Jan. 2o, 182G; son of Wil- liam Henry and Mary Hannali (Riley) Jesup, and grandson of Ebenezer and Sarah (Wiight) Jesup. His ancestor, Edward Jessup. emigrated from England to America i)rior to 1649, and was in 16G4 one of the patentees of "West Farms, N.Y. Heniy fitted for college at Hopkins grammar school in New Haven, Conn., 1841-43; was grad- uated from Yale college, A.B., 1847, A.M., 1850, and from the Union Theological seminary. New York city, in 1853. He was pastor of the Congre- gational church in Stanwich. Conn., 1854-62, and was professor of botanj- at Dartmouth college, 1877-99. He was elected a member and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is the autlior of: Edward Jessup and his Descendants (1887); Flora and Fauna Within Thirty Miles of Hanover, N.H. (1891), and contributions to periodicals. He died in Hanover, N.H., June 15, 1903.

JESUP, Morris Ketchum, philanthropist, was born in Westport, Conn., June 21, 1830; son of Charles and Abby Sherwood (De Witt) Jesup, and grandson of Ebenezer Jesup, and of Samuel Burr

Sherwood, a leading lawyer of the state, and representative in the 15th congress, 1817-19. Morris K. Jesup entered busi- ness at an early age, as clerk in the firm of Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor. In 1852 he started busi- ness for himself, and was engaged actively as a banker until 1884, when he retir- ed, and devoted him- self to philanthropic and scientific work. He was elected a mem- ber of the board of directors of most of the lead- ing charities of New York; president of the New York City ^Mission and Tract society in 1881; built the DeWitt Memorial church in memory of Ins father-in-law, the Rev. Thomas DeWitt.

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and presented it to the city missions; was elected president of the Five Points House of lndui;try in 1872; was one of the founders of the Young Men's Christian Association, and its president in 1872; a trustee of the Union Tlieological senun- ary. and presented the building called •' Jesup Hall; " a trustee of the Deaf and Duml) institute, and the Half-Orphan asylum; and in 1899 was elected president of the New York chamber of commerce. His crowning work was the develop- ment of the Museum of Natural History which, under his guidance, increased its capacity b}- the addition of five wings. In connection with the institution he inaugurated a system of explora- tion to all parts of tiie world and in 1897 provided means approximating $75,000 for a thorough in- vestigation of the native tribes of the North Pa- cific coasts of America and Asia, the object being to make a systematic com2)arison of the native races of that area with a view of determin- ing the early relations between the native races of America and Asia, the results to be published periodically. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Columbia in 1900. See Publication of the Jesuj) Xorth Pacific Expedition (Vol. 1., 1899; Vol. II.. 1901: etseq.)

JESUP, Thomas Sidney, soldier, was born in Virginia, in 17SS. He joined the U.S. army as lieutenant of infantry in 1808, and during the war of 1812 served on Gen. William Hull's staff as adjutant-general. He was promoted captain January, 1813, major Ain-il 6, 1813, and lieuten- ant-colonel, April 30, 1817. He was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for bravery at the battle of Ciiippewa, July 5, 1814; colonel, April, 1817, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Niagara, where he was severely wounded; and major-general, May 8, 1828, for ten years' faithful services in the same rank. He was appointed adjutant-general with the rank of colonel. March 27, 1818, and quartermaster-general with the rank of brigadier-general, May 8, 1818. He assumed command of the army in the Creek nation, May 20, 1836, and on Dec. 8, 1836, he succeeded Gov- ernor Richard Keith Call in command of the army in Florida. He was wounded during a fight with the Seminoles at Jupiter Inlet, Jan. 24, 1838, and was relieved by Col. Zachary Taylor. He died in Washington, D.C., June 10, 1860.

JETER, Jeremiah Bell, missionary, was born in Bedfortl county, Va., July 18, 1802. He began to preach in 1822; was ordained a Bajitist minis- ter, May 4, 1824, and was pastor of churches in Bedford, Sussex and Campbell counties and other Virginia churches, 182G-35. He was pastor of the First Baptist church in Richmond, Va., 1835-49: of tiie Second Baptist church in St. Louis, Mo.. 1849-52; and of the Grace Street Baptist church, Richmond, Va., 1852-65. He was a cor-