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 JULIEN

JUNGER

JULIEN, Alexis Anastay, geologist, was born in New York city, Feb. 13, 1840; son of Denis and Magdalene (Cantine) Julien; grandson of Joseph Julien, of Louimarin, Vancluse, Fiance, and a descendant of Conite Jean Anastay, of the same town, and also, on the maternal side, from Moses Cantine, a Huguenot from Royan, France, who settled in Ulster county, N.Y., in 1688. He was graduated at Union college in 1859, and was a student in the chemical laboratory until 1860, when he received the appointment of resident chemist on the guano island of Sombrero, in the British West Indies. While there he made a study of geology and natural history; collected specimens of birds, shells, etc., and made mete- orological observations for the Smithsonian Insti- tution. 1860-64. He was employed by the Swedish government to make a special geological survey of St. Bartholomew's island and received a gold medal from the king in recognition of his services in 1862. He was connected with the geological survey of Michigan in 1872, and made a study of the petrography of North Carolina in 1875 for the state geological survey. He visited the islands of Bonaire, Curagoaand Aruba, West Indies, during 1881-82, for the purpose of studying their guano deposits and geology. Upon the establishment of the Columbia College School of Mines in 1865, he was made assistant in analytical chemistry, serving until 1885, when he became instructor in microscopy and microbiology, and in 1897 was made instructor in geology. He was elected a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; fellow and member of the council of the American Geographical society; fellow of the Geological Society of America; of the Ameri- can Society of Naturalists; of the Royal Micro- scopical society, and of the New York ■Microscopi- cal societ5^ He was also vice-president of the New York Academy of Sciences in 1884. The Uni- versity of the City of New York conferred upon him the degree of Pli.D. in 1881. He contributed to the leading scientific journals and reported on the durability of building stone in Ne\v York city totlieU.S. census of 1890.

JUNCKER, Henry Damian, R.C. bishop, was born at Fenetrange, Lorraine. France, Aug. 22, 1809. He immigrated to America in early man- hood and attached himself to the diocese of Cin- cinnati, and there studied for the priesthood. He was ordained sub-deacon, Feb. 23, 1833; deacon, March 9, 18:}3, and priest at Cincinnati, Ohio, by Bishop Purcell, March 16, 1834, the first to be ordained l)y that prelate, and was placed in charge of Holy Trinity, a German Catholic church in Cincinnati. He was transferred to Canton, Ohio; engaged in missionary work; was made pastor of Emmanuel's church, German, at Dayton, Ohio, in

1846, and was gi%'en chai'ge of several English and German congregations in the central part of the state. He was appointed bishop of the newly- created see of Alton, 111., in 1857, and was conse- crated bishop at Cincinnati, Ohio, by Archbishop Purcell, assisted by Bishops Henni and Young, April 26, 18- 57. His diocese took in the greater part of Illinois and con- tained at first only eighteen priests. He visited Europe in 1858 to secure more priests, and within one year had held four ordinations, in- creased the number of priests to forty- four and built eight churches and the

Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, which was conse- crated, April 19, 1859, by Archbishop Kenrick, of St. Louis, Mo. He founded several new congrega- tions and parochial schools. In 1868 his priests numbered 100, with 125 theological students, 123 churches, fifty-six parochial schools, two colleges for boys, six academies for girls, two hospitals and one orphan asylum. He was master of the French, German and English languages. Bishop Juncker died at Alton, 111., Oct. 2, 1868.

JUNQER, Aegideus, R.C. bishop, was born at Burtscheid, Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany, April 6,1833; son of Johann and Josephine (Ilorst) Jiinger. His father was a native of Holland and his mother of Burtscheid. He attended the ele- mentary .school at Burtscheid, and in 1842 the Kaiser-Karl gymnasium at Aachen, Germany, but on account of his father's death he returned home and continued his business of hauling coal from the mines, 1842-49. He was confirmed by Bishop Baudri, of Kolu, in 1845, and was sent to the American college at Louvain in 18.58. He re- ceived minor orders in 1861; was made sub-dea- con at Easter, 1862; deacon at Pentecost of that year; and priest, June 27, 1862, at Mechlin, Bel- gium, by Cardinal Engelbert Stercks. He left Antwerp for America, Sept. 12, 1862; was sta- tioned at Walla Walla, Washington Territory, as a missionary, 1862-64; was called to the cathedral at Vancouver, Wash., by Bishop A. M. A. Blan- chet as secretary in 1864; and on the resignation of Bishop Blanchet he was elected second bisho]) of the diocese of Nesqually and was consecrated bishop of Nesqually at Vancouver, W.T., Oct. 28, 1879, by Archbishop F. N. Blanchet, assisted by Bishop A. M. A. Blanchet and the Very Rev. J. F. Fierens, V.G. He visited his birthplace in