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 JAQUES

JARVES

JAQUES, Jabez Robert, educator, was born at Stourton, Whichford, Warwickshire, England, Dec. 8, 1828. He immigrated to the United States with liis parents in 1838, and settled in Lyons, N.Y. He was graduated from Genesee college with first honor, A.B., 1854, A.M., 1857, having by his own labor earned the expenses of his education. He was princij^al of the academy at Troupsburg, N.Y., 1854-56, and of the Classical seminary, Mansfield, Pa., 1856-57. He joined the East Genesee conference in 1855, and was stationed at Elmira, N.Y., 1857-59; Hornells- ville, N.Y., 1859-60, and at the First church, Rochester, N.Y., 1860-63. He was professor of ancient languages at Rochester Collegiate insti- tute, 1862-65 ; professor of Greek and German in Illinois Wesleyan university, Bloomington, 1865- 75 ; president and professor of classics in Albert college, Belleville, Ontario, 1875-85, and presi- dent of Hedding college, Abingdon, 111., 1886-92. He declined the chair of languages, McKendree college, 1886. He was a fraternal delegate to the Methodist general conference in Montreal, Can- ada, in 1878, and was influential in effecting the union of all the Methodist churches of Canada, making the final motion in 1883. He was twice a member of the United Genei'al conference of the Methodist Episcopal church of Canada, hav- ing been previously a delegate of the Methodist church of Canada, where he inade the motion by which the new name was adopted. He was elected a member of the American Philological association in 1869 ; of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 1890 ; of the Amer- ican Institute of Christian Philosophy in 1891, and was a fellow of the Society of Science, Let- ters and Art of London. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Syracuse university in 1875, and that of D.D. from Indiana Asbury (DePauw) uni- versity in 1875, and was alumni orator at the Syracuse commencement, June 24, 1879. He was married in 1855 to Harriet C. Lyon, of Benton Centre, N.Y., and in 1881 to Mrs. H. M. Wilson, of Macedon Centre, N.Y. He is the author of : Study of Classical Languages ; Peter Cartivright the Pioneer Preacher ; pamphlets and sermons. He died in Abingdon, 111., March 22, 1892.

JARNIQAN, Spencer, senator, was born in that part of Southwest Territory afterward Grainger county, Tenn., about 1792. He was graduated from Greenville college in 1813, stud- ied law with Hugh L. White, and was admitted to the bar in 1817, practising in Knoxville until 1838, when he removed to Athens, Tenn., whei-e he became the defender of Indian land titles. He was a representative from Knox and Ander- son counties in the state legislature, 1833-35, where he was chairman of the committee on In- dian affairs and favored popular education and the

establishment of an asylum for the insane. lie was a Harrison and Tyler elector-at-large in 1840, the Whig nominee for U.S. senator in 1841, and in 1843 was elected U.S. senator as successor to Alexander Anderson, and held the office from Marcli 4, 1843, till the close of the term, March 4, 1847. He was a brilliant orator and an advo- cate of a limited tariff to meet the demands of the government expenses, voting for the tariff of 1846, which reduced the average duty nine per cent. This displeased the Henry Clay Whigs, and he was not re-elected to the senate, and in 1847 failed to secure election to the supreme bench of Tennessee. He then removed to Mem- phis, where he practised law with eminent suc- cess. In 1848 he supported Taylor and Fillmore. He was a trustee of East Tennessee college, 1836- 51. He died in Memphis, Tenn., June 24, 1851.

JARVES, James Jackson, author, diplomatist and art collector, was born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 20, 1818. Illness and impaired eyesight forced him to abandon his studies, and he trav- elled in California, Mexico, Central and South America and the Pacific Islands, settling in Hawaii in 1838. In 1840 he established the Polynesian, the first paper in Honolulu, and in 1844 became director of the government press. He returned to tlie United States in 1849, having been appointed in 1848 by the Hawaiian govern- ment to negotiate commercial treaties with the United States, Great Britain and France. Upon the conclusion of his official mission, he made his home in Florence, Italy, where he engaged in literary work and in collecting treasures of art. One of his collections, illustrating the history of Italian art, became the property of Yale univer- versity ; another, a joint collection of old paint- ings and sculptures, became the projDerty of the Holenden gallery, Cincinnati ; his collection of Venetian glass he presented to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York city ; and his unique collection of embroideries, laces, costumes and fabrics, some of the twelfth century, he sold in New York city. He was U.S. vice-consul and acting consul at Florence, 1879-82, and Italian commissioner to the Boston exhibition, 1882-83. He was an honorary member of the Academia delle Belle Arti, Florence, and was decorated a Chevalier of the Crown of Italy for his interest in Italian art, and Knight Commander of the Royal Order of Kameham I. for diplomatic serv- ice to Hawaii. He is the author of : History of the Haioaiian Islands (1843); Scenes and Scenery in the Sandinch Islands (1844) ; Triji Tltrough Central America (1844); Parisian Sights and French Principles Seen through American Spectacles (2 vols., 1853); Art Hints (1855); Ki- ana (1855); Italian Sights and Papal Principles Seen through American Spectacles {\85Q); IMiy