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 JAMES

JAMES

Tlie Real Tiling, and other Tales (1893) ; Picture and Text (1893) ; The Private Life (1893) ; Es- says in London and Elseichere (1893) ; Theatricals (3 vols., 1894) ; The Jllieelof Time (1894) : Termin- ations (1895) ; The Other House (1896) ; The Spoils of Poynton (1897) ; Saint Eva (1897) ; Wliat Maisie Kneio (1897) ; In the Cage (1898) ; TJie Soft Side (1900) ; besides numerous maga- zine articles, essays and translations.

JAriES, John Edwin, surgeon, was born at Somerton, Pa., Jan. 18, 1844; youngest son of Dr. David and Amanda (Worthington) James ; grandson of Dr. Isaac and Henrietta (Potts) James, and brother of Dr. Bushrod W. James. In 1855 his parents removed to Pliiladelphia, Pa. He was educated at schools in Philadelphia, and at Princeton, N.J. ; and after studying with Prof. James E, Garretson, at a private school of anatomy, and at Jefferson Medical college, 1864- 65, he was graduated at the University of Penn- sylvania Medical school in 1866, and was ap- pointed by Prof. D. Hayes Agnew, M.D., assist- ant demonstrator of anatomy, but resigned before the year expired. He jaractised in Philadelpliia in partnership with his father until the latter's death in 1873. He was connected Avith the Hah- nemann Medical college as professor of the prin- ciples and of clinical surgery, 1878-89 ; registrar of the faculty, 1887-96 ; acting dean for two years and professor of surgery in charge of the entire department, 1889-95. In 1895 he became profes- sor of gynaecology and chief of that department in the Hahnemann hospital, Philadelphia. He was president of the Pennsylvania Homeoi^athic Medical societj' in 1885, and of the Philadelphia Hahnemann Medical club in 1890 and 1900, of which latter he was one of the original members. In 1896 and 1900 Jie was a lay delegate to the gen- eral conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was elected president of the National City Evangelization Union of the Methodist Episcopal church. He received the honorary degree of H. M.D. from the Hahnemann Medical college in 1886.

JAflES, Joseph Francis, botanist, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 8, 1857 ; son of Uriah P. James, publisher of the Palaeontologist, and the owner of a fine collection of fossils. Joseph was educated in the common schools, became inter- ested in botany, and in 1881 was made custodian of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, He was professor of geology and botany in Miami university, Oxford, Oliio, 1885-88 ; professor of natural history at the Agricultural college of Maryland, 1888 ; assistant polaeontologist, U.S. geological survey 1889 ; and assistant vegetable pathologist, U.S. department of agriculture, 1891- 96. He practised medicine in Hingliam, Mass., in 1896, and died there March 29, 1897.

JAHES, Julia Bradford Huntington, philan- thropist, was born in Boston. Mass., Dec. 3, 1810 ; daughter of Ralph and Judith Cooper (Bradford) Huntington ; granddaughter of Simon and Pris- cilla (Benjamin) Huntington and of Perez and Lucy (Rand) Bradford ; and a lineal descendant of Saniuel Huntington (a brother of Governor Simon Huntington the signer), and of Governor William Bradford. She was educated at private schools in Boston, and was married, April 14, 1836, to Jolin Warren James, a lawyer, who died in Boston, Feb. 7, 1861. Mrs. James was a dili- gent and careful student, keeping in sympathy with literature, art and current events by a wide reading which included the better Amei'ican, British, French, German and Italian authors. She was an active member of the Egypt Explora- tion fund and a liberal contributor to the pur- poses of the society. Her philanthropy was ex- tended and she was a continuous helper in works of x'eform, benevolence and cliarity to objects be- yond those supported b}^ her own (Unitarian) denomination. By her will she made the IMuseum of Fine Arts and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology her residuary legatees and after car- rying out the lesser provisions of her will, which included gifts of $5000 to each of six benevolent institutions of Boston, the two institutions divided about $328,000. She died in Boston, Mass., Nov. 6. 1897.

JAHES, Richard Sexton, educator, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., June IS, 1824 ; son of Israel Elliott and Elizabeth (Sexton) James; grandson of Thomas and Deborah (Derrick) James and of John and Elizabeth (Thomas) Sexton, and a des- cendant of James James, who emigrated from Wales in 1700 and settled in Salem county, N. J. Richard attended academies in Philadelphia, Pa., New Hampton, N. H., and Providence, R. I., and was graduated from the Columbian college, Washington, D.C., in 1847. He was married, Jan. 24, 1849, to Mary Holden Dexter of Providence, R.I., a descendant of the Rev. Gregory Dexter, the friend of Roger Williams. He was princi- pal of schools in Norristown and Philadelphia, Pa., 1856-62 ; was ordained to the Baptist minis- try in 1859 ; and held pastorates in Camden and Marlton, N.J., 1859-68; West Newton, Mass., 1869-70 ; and Zanesville, Ohio, 1870-75. During the civil war he served as chaplain. He was a professor in Hillsdale college, Mich., 1875-78; president and pastor of Oak Grove academy, Me- dina, Mich., 1879-80; president of, Judson univ- ersity, Ark., 1880-85, and of Buckner college, Ark., 1885-87. He became a convert to the Epis- copal faith, and was ordained a priest in that church, serving as such during the later years of his life. The honorary degree of A.M. was conferred on Jiim by Bro\\n university in 1850,