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strictly enforced. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Hamilton college in 1863, and that of LL.D. from St. John's college in 1884 and from Colgate university in 1893.

JAMES, Thomas Potts, botanist and bryolo- gist, was born at Radnor, Pa., Sept. 1, 1803; son of Isaac and Henrietta (Potts) James; and great- grandson of David James, of Welchpoole, Wales, a member of the Society of Friends and a colonial settler of Pennsylvania, who brought his family over with William Penn, and purchased a large tract of land which is now embraced by Bryn Mawr, Rosemont, and the hills to the west. Thomas Potts James was for forty years a whole- sale druggist in Philadelphia, Pa., in the mean- tim: studying botany from a love of the subject. He made himself one of the three acknowledged authorities in the United States on mosses. In 18G7 he removed to Cambridge, Mass., where he continued his studies and engaged in the classi- fication and microscopical drawing of each variety of moss. He married Isabella Bachelder, of Cambridge, Mass. He was an active member of the Philosophical society of Philadelphia, a founder and for many years treasurer of the American Pomological society and secretary of the Horticultural society of Pennsylvania for nineteen years. His collection of mosses and his drawings were placed in the Harvard Botanical collection. He is the author with Leo Lesquereux of: The Manual of American Mosses. He died at Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 22, 1882.

JAMES, William, educator, was born in New York city, Jan. 11, 1842; son of Henry and Mary R. (Walsh) James, and grandson of William James, of Albany, who came from Ireland near the end of the eighteenth century. He received his preparatory education in New York city and in Europe, and entered the Lawrence Scientific school, Harvard university, in 1861. He accom- panied the Thayer expedition to Brazil in 1865-66, and was graduated at the Harvard Medical school in 1869. He was assistant professor of physiology at Harvard, 1876-80; assistant professor of phil- osophy, 1880-85; professor of philosophy, 1885-89, and became professor of psychology and of phil- osophy in 1889. Ho was appointed Gifford lecturer on natural religion. University of Edinburgh, for 1900-02. He became corresponding mem- ber of the Institute of France, and of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. He received the degrees of LL.D. from Princeton in 1896, and Ph.D. and Litt.D. from Padua university, Italy, in 1893. His works inckide: The Principles of Psychology (2 vols., 1890); Psychology, Briefer Course (1892); Is Life Worth Living P (1896); The Will to Believe (1897); Human Immortality (1898); and Talks to Teachers on Psychology, and to Students on some of Life's Ideals (1899).

JAMES, William H., governor of Nebraska,, was born in Marion, Ohio, Oct. 15, 1831. His father, a native of Maryland, and a tanner by trade, served in the war of 1812, removed to Ohio in 1820, and died in 1868; and liis mother was a native of Vermont. William H., th© seventh of eleven children, was engaged during his minority in farming, attending the district schools, clerking in country stores and learning the saddler's trade. He attended Marion academy two years, read law, and in 1853 removed to Des Moines, Iowa, where he entered the law office of Bates & Finch, and was admitted to the bar. He removed to Sergeant's Bluff on the Missouri river and finally, in 1857, settled in Dakota county, Neb. He was married in that year to Louisa, daughter of David Epler, of Marion, Ohio. On Jan. 10, 1871, he was elected secretary of state, and was also state librarian, e.v officio. On March 4, 1871, Governor David Butler was imi^eached and removed from office, and the vacancy was filled by Secretary James, until the inauguration of Governor Robert W. Furnas, Jan. 13, 1873.

JAflESON, Charles Davis, soldier, was born in Gorham, Maine, Feb. 24, 1827; son of William Jameson. His parents removed to Old Town, where he was educated in the public school and then engaged in the lumber business with his father. He was a delegate to the Democratic national convention at Charleston, S.C., April 23, and Baltimore, Md., Jan. 18, 1860. He was a member of the state militia and in 1861 was made colonel of the 2d Maine volunteer infantry enlisted for two years' service. His regiment held the right of Col. E. D. Keyes's 1st brigade, Gen. D. E. Tyler's 1st division at Bull Run, Va., July 21, 1861, and for protecting the Federal retreat he was commissioned brigadier-general of volun- teers, Sept. 3, 1861. He was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor of Maine in 1861, and again in 1863. In the seven days*^ battles before Richmond in 1862, his command was first brigade of Kearny's 3d division, Heintz- leman's 3d army corps. After the battle of Seven- Pines, May 31-June 1, 1862, he was stricken with camp fever and forced to return home. He died at Old Town, Maine, Nov. 6, 1S62.

JAMESON, Ephraim Orcutt, clergyman, was born in Dunbarton, N.IL, Jan. 23, 1832; son of Daniel and Mary (Twiss) Jameson and grandson of Daniel and Hannah (Burnlmm) Jameson, and of Benjamin and Abigail (Russell) Twiss. His ancestor, Hugh Jameson, was of Scotch descent and sailed from Portrush, Ireland, for America, Aug. 4, 1746, and was one of the original pro- prietors of Dunbarton, N.H. Mr. Jameson at- tended the private schools of Dunbarton and Cliester, N.II., and the academy in Gilmanton, N.IL, and was graduated from Dartmouth