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 JAGGAR

JAMES

and for several succeeding years. He was a member of the council under the Royal govern- ment in 1716, and in 1717 was made an associate justice of the supreme court. He filled this office until 1726, when, on the death of Samuel Penhal- low, he was commissioned chief justice and made treasurer of the province. He held the office of treasurer until his death, but resigned the chief justiceship in 1732, which office was filled by Henry Sherburne until 1742. when Jaffrey was reappointed chief justice, and served until 1749. The town of Jaffrey, N.H., was named in his honor. He was married, Jan. 10, 1710, to Sarah, daughter of David Jeffries, of Boston, Mass. She died, Jan. 12, 1734, leaving, among five children, a son, George, who was a counsellor in 1766. He was married secondly, March 9, 1738, to Mrs. Sarah McPhedris, a daughter of Lieutenant- Governor John Wentworth. He died in Ports- mouth. N.H.,May 8, 1749.

JAGQAR, Thomas Augustus, first bishop of Southern Ohio, and 113th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in New York city, June 2, 1839 ; son of Walter and Julia Ann (Niles) Jaggar ; grandson of Jehiel and Mary (Post) Jaggar, and a

descendant of emy Jaggar,

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came over with the first or second Wiu- throp colony, and ap- pears as one of the founders of Stam- ford, Conn., as early as 1640. He was edu- cated by a private tu- tor, engaged in busi- ness and studied at the General Theological seminary of the Prot- estant Episcopal church in the class of 18G2. He was admitted to the deaconate, Nov. 10, 1860, at once becoming assistant minister at St. George's, Flushing, N.Y., and in 1862 taking charge of Trinity, Bergen Point, N.J. He was or- dained priest, June 3, 1863, and was rector of the Anthon Memorial church, New York city, 1864- 68; of St. John's, Yonkers, N.Y., 1868-70, where he founded St. John's Riverside hospital, and he succeeded the Rev. Phillips Brooks as rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia, Pa., 1870-75. He was elected bishop of the new diocese of Southern Ohio, Jan. 14, 1875, and was consecrat- ed, April 28, 1875, by Bishops Smith, Lee, Stevens, Little John, Niles, Hare, and Jackson of Antigua. He organized the diocese and founded a hospital for children. Bishop Jaggar's health failing, the Rev. Dr. Boyd Vincent was consecrated bishop-

coadjutor, Jan. 25, 1889. He received the degree of D.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1874. He is the author of ; The Man of the Ages, and other sermons ; and the Bohlen lectures for 1900 on The Pevsonalitij of Truth.

JAflES, Bushrod Washington, oculist, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 25, 1836 ; son of Dr. David and Amanda (Worthington) James ; grandson of Dr. Isaac and Henrietta (Potts) James, and a nepliew of Thomas Potts James, the botanist. He was graduated at the Phil- adelphia ' Central high school in 1855, and at the Home- opathic Medical col- lege of Pennsylvania in 1857, and began l^ractice in Philadel- phia. He served un- der the Christian commission in the civil war as svirgeon on the battle-fields of Antietam and Gettys- burg, and for weeks in the hospitals volun- tarily. He was a delegate to the French Home- opathic Medical congress at Paris in 1867 ; to the Centennial Medical congi-ess, Philadelphia, in 1876, and other medical congresses, and was an honorary vice-president of the London Interna- tional congress in 1896. He was president of the Pennsylvania State Homeopathic Medical so- ciety in 1873 ; president of the American Insti- tute of Homeopathy in 1883, and j^resident of the Children's Homeopathic hospital, 1890-96. He was professor of physiology, sanitary science and climatology in the New York Medical col- lege for women, 1886-89. He was elected a mem- ber of the Society of American Authors, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Public Health association, the American Microscopical society, the Ameri- can Academy of Political and Social Science, and an honorary member of several medical and literary societies. With Dr. R. J. McClatchey and others, he was one of the founders of the Haline- mann club of Philadelphia, and was president for several successive years. He also founded an eye and ear institution in Philadelphia in 1886. He was for many years president of the American Literary Union, and was elected president of the Pennsylvania Fish Protective association, a so- ciety working in the interests of anglers and good laws for protecting game, food fish and the forests of the state. He was also made a vice-president of the Masonic Veteran association, and a member of the Archaeological and Paleontological societj' of