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convened west of the Alleghany mountains, May 23, 1775, and met his death at the battle of Brandywine. Matthew Harris Jouett was edu- cated at Transylvania university, Lexington, Ky., and on leaving college studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1809. While prac- ticing his profession he began to paint and draw without a mas- ter. He was mar- ried in 1812 to Mar- garet, daughter of William Allen of Lexington. At the outbreak of the war of 1813 he entered the U.S. army as a lieutenant in the 28th infantry, serv- ed in the North- west campaign, be- came regimental paymaster and was promoted to the rank of captain. At the close of the war he continued the study of art by himself and engaged in portrait and miniature painting. He then visited Boston, Mass., whore lie studied with Gilbert Stuart, July, August, September and October, 1816, and returned to Lexington, Ky., where he established himself as a portrait painter, gaining a reputation throughout tlie south. His Lafayette was ordered by the Kentucky house of representatives and he also executed portraits of Henry Clay, John J. Crittenden, Governor Isaac Shelby and James Morrison. He died at Lexing- ton, Ky., Aug. 10, 1827.

JOY, Agnes Elisabeth Leclercq. See Salm- Salm, Princess Agnes.

JOY, Charles Arad, chemist, was born in Ludlowville, X.Y., Oct. 8, 1823. He was graduated at Union, A.B., 1844 and at Harvard, LL.B., 1847. He served on the U.S. geological survey of the Lake Superior region, 1847-49 ; and studied chemistry in Berlin and Gottingen, Germany, and at the Sorbonne in Paris, 1850-53. While in Germany he made a special study of the combina- tion of alcohol radicals with selenium and the compounds of glucinum. He was professor of chemistry at Union college, 1855-57, and occupied a similar chair at Columbia college, 1857-77, when by reason of a suntroke i-eceived in 1876 he retired, and visited Germany. He made many analyses of minerals and meteorites ; was a member of the juries of the world's fairs at London, Paris, Vienna and Philadelphia ; was president of the Lyceum of Natural History, 1866 ; president of the American Photographic society ; and foreign secretary of the American Geographical society. Gottingen university conferred upon him the

degree of Ph.D. in 1852. He contributed articles on chemistry to the " American Cycloptedia " and was editor of the Scientific American and the- Journal of Applied Chemistry. He died in Stock- bridge, Mass., May 29, 1891.

JOY, Charles Frederick, representative, wa& born in Morgan county. 111., Dec. 11, 1849. He was educated in the country schools, and was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1874, A.M., 1877. He was admitted to the bar and entered the practice of law at St. Louis, Mo., in September, 1876. He was declared elected a representative in the 53d congress in 1892 but was unseated by the contest of John J. O'Neill, his Democratic opponent, April 3, 1894. He was a Republican representa- tive from the eleventh congressional district of Missouri in the 54th, 55th, 56th and 57th con- gresses, 1895-1903.

JOY, Edmund Lewis, soldier, was born in Albany, N.Y., Oct. 1, 1835 ; son of Charles and Harriet (Shaw) Joy ; grandson of Nathaniel and Sarah (Ward) Joy, and a descendant of Thomas and Joan (Gallop) Joy, of Boston. His grand- father, Nathaniel Joy, was a soldier in the Revolution and his father, Charles Joy, a merchant of New- ark, N.J. Edmund Lewis was graduat- ed from the Univer- sity of Rochester in 1856, was admitted to the bar in 1857, and practised his pro- fession in Ottumwa, Iowa, 1858-62. He was city attorney, 1860-61, and in 1862 was commissioned

captain in the 36th Iowa volunteers, serving in the west in the campaign resulting in the capture of Vicksburg. He was advanced to the rank of major, was made judge advocate in 1864 and was assigned to the 7th army corps. Depart- ment of the Arkansas, with headquarters at Little Rock, and after the close of the war he took an active part in the process of reconstruction of the state, 1865-66. Returning to his home he joined his father in business and was a member of the New York produce exchange, 1868-92 ; president of the Newark board of trade, 1875-76 ; of the Newark board of education, 1885-87 ; a representative in the state legislature, 1871-72 ; a delegate to the Republican national convention, 1880 ; and government director of the Union Pacific railroad company, 1884-85. He was mar- ried in 1862 to Theresa R., daughter of Dr. Homer L. Thrall. He died in Newark, N.J., Feb. 14, 1892.

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