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Christ church, Dayton, Ohio, 1861-79, and was elected professor of pastoral theology and libra- rian at the General Theological seminary, Feb. 1, 1889. He was married, Dec. 30, 18G3, to Sophia Seymour, daughter of Rutger Bleecker and Mary Forman (Seymour) Miller, of Utica, N.Y. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by Racine in 1877, and by the General Tiieological seminary in 1889, and that of LL.D. by Hobart in 1890. He is the author of: Communion Wine (188G); Diabology; the Person and Kingdom of Satan, being the Bishop Paddock lectures for 1889.

JEWETT, Ezekiel, soldier and scientist, was born in Rindge, N.H., Oct. 16, 1791. His father vas a physician, and the boy was educated in the common school. At the opening of the war of 1812 lie enlisted, and was commissioned lieuten- ant in the 11th U.S. infantry, serving in the brigade of Gen. Winfield Scott in the battles of Lundys Lane, Chippewa, and Fort Erie. He was commended by General Scott for distinguished bravery at Fort Erie. He crossed the South American continent from Buenos Ayres to join the Revolutionary arniy in Chili, S.A., in 1814, where he volunteered his services to Gen. Jose Miguel de Carrera. He was given command of a regiment of lancers, and later of the entire cav- alry force. On the defeat of the Revolutionists at Rancagua, Oct. 2, 1814, he fled with Carrera to Buenos Aj^'es, and accompanied him to the United States in 1815. He lived in New Hamp- shire, 1818-26, and pursued his studies in the natural sciences. He was in the quartermaster's department of the U.S. army, and commanded at Fort Niagara, N.Y., 1826-43. where he continued his ethnological studies, making a collection of material pertaining to the American aborigines. He removed in 1843 to Lockport, N.Y., where he gave his entire time to the study of geology, and in this connection traveled throughout Central America and the United States, gathering one of the finest collections of geological specimens in existence. He spent some months in California in 1849, investigating the mineral deposits along the coast, both for his own study and interest and for an English mercantile house. He was curator of the State museum at Albany, N.Y., 1856-66, and from 1866 spent his time in travel in California and the southern and western states. He also, at the suggestion of Agassiz, organized a summer school in geology, which he continued four years. He was corresponding member of the California Academy of Sciences. He gath- ered one of the finest collections of coins and medals in the United States, 1859-64, and was also a student of conchology. making an interest- ing collection of shells while on the Pacific coast. He gave his ethnological collection to the

Smithsonian Institution, and his geological col- lection to Cornell university. He was mar- ried, in 1819, to Elizabeth Arnold, of Westmore- land, N.H., who died in 1862, and he then accom- panied his daughter, Mrs. A. A. Boyce. to Cali- fornia. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Hamilton college, in 1862. He died at Santa Barbara. Cal.. May 18, is?:.

JEWETT, George Baker, educator, was born at Lebanon, Maine, Sept. 11, 1818; son of the Rev. Paul and Eleanor (Punchard) Jewett. He was graduated at Amherst in 1840 and at Andover Theological seminary in 1843. He was a tutor at Amherst, 1842-44; teacher at Lowell and Salem, 1845-49, and professor of Latin and modern languages at Amherst, 1850-54. He was ordained pastor of the First Congregational church at Nashua, N.H., May 24, 1855, serving one year, when he lost his leg in a railroad acci- dent. He invented an artificial leg on an entirely new principle, and removed to Salem, Mass., where he engaged in the manufacture and sale of artificial limbs. He also devoted much time to literary work. He is the author of: Baptism vs. Immersion (1869); A Critique on the Greek Text of the New Testament, as Edited by the American Bible Union (1869); edited Punchard's History of Congregationalism (Vols. III. and IV., 1880-81), and was assistant editor of Thayer's Greek- English Lexicon of the Xew Testament (1886). He died in Salem, Mass., June 9, 1886.

JEWETT, Hugh Judge, railroad president, was born at Deer Creek, Harford county, Md., July 1, 1817. He was a brother of Judge Thomas L. Jewett, also a railroad president. He studied at Hiram college, Ohio; was admitted to the bar at Elkton, Md., in 1838, and practised law in Clairsville, Ohio, 1840-48. He removed to Zanes- ville, Ohio, in 1848; was fleeted president of the Muskingum branch of the state bank in 1852; was a Democratic presidential elector in 1852; state senator, 1854-56; was appointed U.S. at- torney for the southern district of Ohio in 1854, and was elected president of the Central Ohio Railroad company in 1857. He organized the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad company; was one of the organizers of the Penn- sylvania railroad, and undertook the construction of the Kansas City and other western raihoads. He was an unsuccessful candidate for representa- tive in the 37th congress in 1860, for governor of Ohio in 1861, and for U.S. senator in 1863. He was appointed general counsel of the Pennsyl- vania railroad in 1871, and was elected a repre- sentative in the 43d congress in 1872. but resigned in July, 1874, to accept the pi-esidency of the Erie Railway company. He was appointed re- ceiver of the company in 1875. and upon the reorganization was elected president of the board