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Go, and in the medical department of the Uni- versity of the City of New York, 1805-70; and became clinical professor of the diseases of cliildren in the college of physicians and surgeons in 18T0. He was also appointed physician to the Bellevue, Mt. Sinai, German, Roosevelt and other hospitals. He was president of the New York Pathological society, 18GG; of the New York Obstetrical society, 18G8; of the New York County Medical society, 1870-73; of the New York State Medical society, 1882; of the New York Academy of Medicine, 1885-89; of the American Pediatric society, 1888; of the Associ- ation of American Physicians, 189G; and of the American Clinatological society, 189G; an honor- ary member of the Obstetrical society of Bei'lin, of the medical societies of Wurzburgh, Berlin and Buda-Pesth; of the Boston, Louisville, and Philadelphia obstetrical societies, of the Pediatric Society of Paris, and of many other similar organizations. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the University of Michigan in 1898, and from Columbia in 1900. He was co-editor of the A^nerican Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of ^Vomen and Children (1868-81); and is the author of Contributions to Midwifery and Diseases of iro>»e/i and Children (with Dr. E. Noeggerath, 1859): Dentition and its Derangements (1862); TJie Raising and Education of Abandoned Children in Europe (1870); Infant Diet (1872 and 1875;) Diph- theria (1876): Treatise on Diphtheria (1880); Pathology of the Tliymus Gland (1889); Therapeut- ics of Infancy and Childhood (1896 and 1898) and many other equally valuable books, pamijhlets and contributions to medical journals.

JACOBI, Mary Putnam, pliysician, was born in London, England, Aug. 31, 1842; daugliter of George Palmer and Victorine (Haven) Putnam. Her fatlier was the well-known New York pub- lisher. She was a student at the Woman's Medi- cal college in Philadelphia, Pa., and was gradu- ated at the College of Pharmacy in New York in 1859, being its first woman graduate; and at the fecole de Medicine, in Paris, M.D. in 1871, re- ceiving for her thesis the second prize. She was the first woman to be admitted to the school. Slie then practised medicine in New York. She was professor of materia medica in the New York infirmary for women and children, 1871-81, and professor in the New York post-graduate medical school. 1882-85. In 1873 slie married Dr. Abra- ham Jacobi (q. v.). She published: The Question of Rest for Women during Menstruation(lS7Q), tak- ing the Boylston prize offered by Harvard college for the best essay on the subject; The Value of Life (1879); Cold Packand Ancemia (1880): Hys- teria and Other Essays (1888); Studies in Prim- ary Education; Common Sense Applied to Woman Suffrage (1893); and numerous articles in medical

periodicals, the most important being a series of studies on endometritis, which continued the line of thought initiated in the prize essay.

JACOBS, Ferris, soldier, was born at Delhi, N.Y.. March 20, 1836; son of Ferris Jacobs. He entered the senior class at Williams college and was graduated in 1856. He was admitted to the bar in 1859, and settled in practice in Dcllii, N.Y. In August, 1861, he raised a comiiany in Delaware county, was electe<l its captain and joined the 3d New York cavalry. He served with Ranks in the Shenandoah valley, Va., in the spring of 1862, and on returning to Washington joined Bumside's expedition to North Carolina. He was attached to the Army of the James in the winter of 1863 and 1864, and was promoted major and lieutenant-colonel. He commanded a brigade in Kautz's cavalry division and contiiuied to serve during Grant's campaign about Petersburg until mustered out, Oct. 12, 1864. He returned to New Y^'ork and was commissioned colonel of the 26th New York cavalry. This regiment had been mus- tered into service the February previous for one year, and he was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers, March 13, 1865, and was mustered out, July 1, 1865. He was elected district attorney for Delaware county in the autumn of 1865, was a del- egate to the Republican national convention in 1880, and was a representative from the 21st New York district in the 47th congress, 1881-83. He died at White Plains, N.Y., Aug. 31, 1886.

JACOBS, Henry Eyster, editor, was born in Gettysburg, Pa., Nov, 10, 1844; son of the Rev. Michael and Juliana (Eyster) Jacobs and grand- son of Henry and Anna Maria (^liller) Jacobs, and of Gen. Jacob and iLary (MiddlekauiT) Eys- ter. His grandfatlier, Jacob Eyster, was a state senator and brigadier-general in the war of 1812. His ancestors on liis father's side came from Alsace in 1756, and those on his mother's side from Wiirtemburg and Saxony (1720-30). Two of his great-grandfathers were soldiers in the Revolutionary war and one of them (George Eys- ter), was a member of the " Flying Camp" and a survivor of the prison ship Xcw Jersey. Henry Eyster Jacobs was graduated from Pennsylvania college, Gettysburg, in 1862, and studied in the Theological seminary at Gettysburg. He was a tutor in Pennsylvania college, 1864-67; home missionary at Pittsburgh, 1867-68; princijjal of Tliiel Hall, Water Cure, Pa., 1868-70; professor of Latin in Pennsjdvania college, 1870-80, and of Greek, 1880-83; and in 1883 became professor in Lutheran Theological seminary, Philadelphia (Mt. Airy). He was editor of the Lutheran Church Review, 1883-95; was elected a member of the Henry Bradshaw society, England, 1892; Ameri- can Society of Church History. 1892; American Historical association, 1896, and the Pennsylvania