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the University of Pennsylvania, the Union League club of Philadelphia, the Pennsj-lvania Histori- cal society, and many other organizations. He is the author of: American Resorts and Climates (1889); Alaskana, or Legends of Alaska (1892; 3d ed., 1894); Alaska: its Neglected Past and its Brilliant Future (1897); The Dawn of a New Era in America (1894); The Echoes of Battle (1895), and numerous contributions to ijeriodical literature.

JAflES, Charles Fenton, educator, was born in Loudoun county, Va., Nov. 13, 1844; son of Robert and Winnifred (Simpson) James, and grandson of Thomas and Mary (Russell) James and of John and Nancy (Smith) Simpson. He attended the " old field " school in Loudoun county and the high school at Alexandria, Va. He was a member of a cavalry company in 1859 during John Brown's raid, and enlisted as a jirivate in the 8th Virginia volunteer regiment, Pickett's division, at the outbreak of the civil war. He was promoted lieutenant in 1863 and captain in 1804, and in 1866 he entered the Columbian college, AVashington, D.C. He was graduated from Rich- mond college, A.B., 1870, and from the Sovithern Baptist Theological seminary in 1873. He was married, Oct. 28, 1873, to Mary Alice Chamblin, of Loudoun county, Va. He was jjastor at Bu- chanan, Va., 1873-82, and at Culpeper, Va., 1882- 89; was principal of the Alleghany institute at Roanoke. Va., 1889-92, and was chosen president of Roanoke Female college, at Danville, Va., in 1892. The honorary degree of D.D. was con- ferred upon him by Richmond college in 1886. He is the author of: Documentary History of the Struggle for Religious Freedom in Virginia (1900), and of contributions to educational and religious perodicals.

JAriES, Charles Pinckney, jurist, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, May 11, 1818; son of Levi and Rachel (Hough) James; grandson of Joseph and Jane (Perkins) James and of John andLydia (HoUingsworth) Hough, and a descendant of John Hough, who came to America with William Penn, and settled in Virginia. He was educated at Harvard in the class of 1838; received his A.B. degree in 1872, and that of LL.D. from George- town (D.C.) in 1870. He was admitted to the bar about 1840; was i)rofessor of la w in the law depart- ment of Cincinnati college, 1850-56, and judge of the superior court in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1856-64. He removed to Washington, D.C, in 1864, and was professor of law at Georgetown universit}', 1870-74. He was a member of the commission to revise the U.S. statutes in 1875, and was ap- pointed associate justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia in 1879, which office he filled until his death, which occurred at his sum- .mer home in Leesburg, Va., Aug. 9, 1899.

JAUES, Charles Tillinghast, senator, was born in West Greenwich. R.I., in 1806. He re- ceived a district-school training and learned the trade of carpenter, working in cotton mills and assisting Samuel Slater in constructing machin- ery for his mills. He was superintendent of Slater's steam mills, Providence; superin- tended the construction of steam cotton mills in Massachusetts, and furnished plans for mills in New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Tennes- see. He was a Democratic U.S. senator from Rhode Island, 1851-57, and was an advocate of a protectiA'e tariff. He was a prominent member of the state militia, gaining the rank of major-gen- eral, and early became interested in rifle practice, becoming an expert marksman. He invented a rifled cannon and an effective projectile, and became an expert in the construction of firearms and exi^losive shells. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Brown universit j' in 1838. He edited the American Railroad Jomnial and prepared a series of papers on the Culture and Manvfacture of Cotton in the Southern States. While experimenting at Sag Harbor, N.Y., with a rifled cannon, an explosive shell was prema- turely discharged, and he was fatally injured and died there, Oct. 17, 1862.

JAMES, Darwin Rush, representative, was born at AVilliamsburg, Mass., Maj- 14, 1834; son of Lewis Lyman and Cerintha (Wells) James; grandson of Capt. Malachi James, and a descend- ant of Francis James, who came to Hingham, Mass., from Hingham, England, in 1638. He re- ceived his early education at a school in Am- herst, Mass. In 1847 his parents removed with him to Williamsburg, N.Y. In 1850 he became clerk in a wholesale house in New York city, and in 1858 he engaged in the importation of spices, indigo and East India goods. The years 1868-69 he spent in travel, making the tour of the globe. He was Republican representative from the third congressional district of New York in the 48th and 49th congresses, 1883-87, in the latter con- gress making a national reputation by his suc- cessful opposition to the free-coinage bill. He declined the candidacy for a third term. He was for eighteen j-ears secretary and for six years president of the New York board of trade and transportation; served for six years upon Brooklyn's board of park commissioners, and was ap2iointed by President Harrison a member of the board of U.S. Indian commissioners, De- cember, 1890, of which he was elected chairman. He actively engaged in various systematic efforts to disseminate Christian knowledge and to better the condition of the poor, serving as president of the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities. He was appointed in jMarch. 1898, by Governor Black a member of the canal commission to in-