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porate trustee and president of Richmond college, Va., on its organization in 1840; was the first president of the Southern board for foreign mis- sions, and president of the board of trustees of the Baptist Theological seminary at Louisville, Ky. He visited Italy at the instigation of the board of missions to superintend the missionary work in that country and to establish a chapel at Rome. In 1865 he was editor-in-chief of the Religious Herald, published in Riclimond, Va. He assisted the Rev. Ricliard Fuller in preparing Tlie Psalvi- ist, a book of hymns that came into general use in the Baptist churches in Canada, England and the United States. He is the author of : Life of the Rev. A. W. Clopton (1837); A Memoir of Mrs. Schuck (1845); Life of the Rev. Andreio Broaddus (1850) ; CampbeU ism Examined (1854) ; TJie Chris- tian Mirror (1856); The Seal of Heaven (1871); The Rev. Daniel Witt ; Recollections of a Long Life. He died in Richmond, Va., Feb. 25, 1880.

JETER, Thomas Bothwell, governor of South Carolina, was born in Union county S.C., Oct. 13, 1837 ; son of Dr. John C. and Elizabeth (Gaul- man) Jeter. He was graduated at South Caro- lina college, A.B., 1846, A.M., 1849 ; was admitted to the bar in 1848 ; was a representative in the state legislature, 1857 ; president of the Spartan- burg and Union railroad, 1861-73 ; state senator, 1863-73, and president 2iro tempore of the senate. On Sejjt. 1, 1880, on the resignation of Gov. W. D. Simpson, elevated to the chief justiceship of the state supreme court, Mr. Jeter, by virtue of his office as president of the senate and lieu- tenant-governor of the state, became governor ex officio, and held the office until Nov. 30, 1880, when Gen. Johnson Hagood was inaugurated. He was state railroad commissioner, 1883-83. He was married Feb. 4, 1857, to Ann Henderson Tliomp- son. He died in Union, S.C, May 30, 1883.

JETT, Thomas M., representative, was born on a farm in Bond county, 111., May 1, 1863 ; son of Stephen J. and Nancy Jett ; grandson of Thomas Jett, and a descendant of early settlers of Vir- ginia. He was educated in the public schools of Illinois and was a student for two years at the Northern Indiana Normal school at Valparaiso, Ind. He taught school near Greenville and Hills- boro, 111., for three terms ; and was admitted to the Illinois bar in May, 1887. He was state's at- torney of Montgomery county. 111., 1889-96, and was a Democratic representative from the eight- eenth Illinois district in the 55th, 56th and 57th congresses, 1897-1903.

JEWELL, Frederick Swartz, educator and minister, was born at Eliot Mission, Choctaw Nation, Mo., Jan. 23, 1831 ; son of Moses and Elmina (Conger) Jewell ; grandson of Justus and Mary (Robinson) Jewell and of Stephen Conger, and a descendant of Thomas Jewell, who came

from England to Massachusetts Bay colony and was in Boston in 1639. His sons, Tliomas, Joseph and Nathaniel, became the heads of three famil- ies. The name was spelled variously : Jule, Joy- ell, Jewel and Jewell. Frederick S. was prepared for college at Groton and Munro academies, N.Y. Failing health preventing his matriculating in the sophomore class of Yale, he abandoned the college course and was instructor in academies in Canandaigua, Bloomfield and Homer, N.Y. In December, 1846, he entered Auburn Theological seminary, and on graduating, in 1849, he was or- dained by the presbytery of Ithaca, N.Y. He was pastor at Cincinnatus, N.Y., 1849-53 ; princi- pal of the high school, Schuylkill Haven, Pa., 1853-53; pastor at Morrisville, N.Y., 1853-54; professor of Englisli language and literature, State Normal school, Albany, N.Y., 1854-68; principal of the Delaware Literary institute, N. Y., 1868-69 ; pastor of the Presbyterian church, Greenbush, N.Y., 1869-73 ; conductor of state in- stitutes, N.Y., 1869-78, and principal of the high school and normal institute, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 1873-74. He was ordained deacon in the Protes- tant Episcopal church, March 1, 1874, and priest, Dec. 30, 1874, by the bishop of Albany ; was rec- tor of St. James's P. E. church, Winsted, Conn., 1875-78 ; canon of St. Paul's cathedral and prin- cipal of the cathedral school. Fond du Lac, Wis., 1878-79 ; rector of St. Mark's church, Evanston, 111., 1879-1884 ; assistant professor of ethics, Ra- cine college, Wis., and instructor in the gram- mar school, 1884-89 ; rector of St. Paul's clmrch, Watertown, Wis., 1889-94, and of St. John's church, Portage, WMs., 1884-1900, when he was made professor of history and philosophy, Graf- ton Hall, Fond du Lac, Wis. He was married, Jan. 27, 1854, to Julia Adelaide Chapin, of Spring- field, Mass., and their son, Frederick Chapin Jewell, became a priest in the P. E. church. He received the honorary degrees of A.M. from Am- herst in 1851, Pli.D. from Lafayette in 1867, and S.T.D. from Nashotah in 1896. He is the autlior of : School Government ; Grammatical Diagrams ; Christian Science ; educational and theological l^amphlets and contributions to educational and church journals.

JEWELL, Harvey, lawyer, was born in Win- chester, N.H., May 26, 1820 ; son of Pliny Jewell. He was a brother of Marshall, Pliny and Charles Jewell, all of whom were associated with their father in the business of tanning leather, which trade he also learned. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1844 ; taught school in Boston, Mass.; studied law, 1844-47, and was admitted to the bar, Oct. 1, 1847. He made a specialty of maritime law and corporations. He was actively engaged in the politics of Massachusetts, first as an old line Whig and later as a Republican ;