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and Mliat Am I? (1857); The Confessions of an Inquirer (3 parts, 1857-69); The Old Masters of Italy {1861); The Art Idea: Sculpture, Painting and Architecture in America (1864); Art Tlioughts: Tiie Experience and Observations of an American Amateur in Europe (1869); Museuvis of Art, Artists and Amateurs in America (1870); A Glimpse at the Art of Japan (1875); Italian Rainbles (ISS^); Scoies and Scenery in California. He died in Terasi), Switzerland, June 28, 1888.

JARVIS, Abraham, second bishop of Con- necticut and 8tli in succession in the American episcopate, was born at Norwalk, Conn., May 5, 1739. His first ancestor in America was a brother of Capt. Nathaniel Jarvis, of Boston, Mass., 1668, and settled in New Haven about 1670. He was graduated at Yale college, A.B., 1761, A.M., 1764. He studied theology

while officiating as lay reader at Christ church, Middletown, Conn., 1761-64, and was ordained deacon in the chapel at Whitehall, London, England, Feb. 5, 1764, and priest, Feb. 19, 1765, in the Chap- el Royal, St. James's Palace, "Westminster. He was rector of Christ church, Middletown, Conn., from Aug. 1, 1765, till near the close of the century. At the beginning of the Revolutionary war he presided over a convention of the clergy of Connecticut, held at New Haven, July 3, 1776, at which it was resolved to suspend public worship, on the ground that it had become unsafe to read the liturgy en- tire. On the Feast of the Annunciation, 1783, he took part in the convocation at Woodbury, and was secretary of the meeting of the clergy of Connecticut who remained with their people, and elected Samuel Seabury the first bisiiop in the American episcopate; and when Bishop Seabury returned from Aberdeen, Scotland, Avhere he had been consecrated, Mr. Jarvis conveyed to liim the pledges and testimonials of fealty and love from the clergy of Connecticut. When Bishop Seabury despaired of effecting a union with the churches of the middle and southern states, he determined to secure an episcopal college for the transmission of the succession in the Scottish line, and appointed his first coadjutor in the per- son of Abraham Jarvis. By virtue of his office he conferred upon him the degree of D.D., an<l arranged for his consecration in Scotland. The consecration of White and Provoost by the Arch-

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bishop of Canterbury, in 1787, and the union of the American churches at the second general con- vention, completed the episcopal college, and the jjroject of Bishop Seabury was abandoned. On the death of Bishop Seabury, Feb. 25, 1796, Jarvis was elected his successor, and he was conse- ci'ated in Trinity church, New Haven, Conn., Sept. 18, 1797, by Bishops White, Provoost and Bass. He received the degree of D.D. from Yalo college in 1797. He removed to New Haven in 1803. He was married, May 25, 1766, to Ann, daughter of Samuel Far mar, of New Yoi-k city, who died in 1801; and secondly, to Lucy Lewis, of Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of: A Sermon on the Death of Bishop Seabury, and A Sermon on the Witness of the Spirit. He died at New Haven, Conn., May 13, 1813.

JARVIS, George Atwater, philanthropist, was born in Cheshire, Conn., March 8. 1806: son of Stephen and Mary Ann (Atwater) Jarvis. He was educated at the Episcopal academy of Cheshire; was a clerk in a Wall street office. New York, 1824-27, and in 1827, with the aid of his uncle, opened a grocery store, which in 1838 he changed from retail to wholesale. In 1841 lie removed to Brooklyn, N.Y., and retired from business in 1844. He was one of the incorporators of the Brooklyn Athenfeum, vice-president of the South Brooklyn Savings institution, president of the Lenox Fire Insurance company, and a direc- tor in the Home Life Insurance companj^ the Atlantic Dock company, the Church Charity Foundation, the Polytechnic institute, the Union Trust company, and the General Theological seminary, New York city. His inaiiy charitable gifts made during his lifetime include: over ^78.000 to the Jarvis Hall endowment fund; $13,000 to the Berkeley Divinity school; .$15,000 to the Church Charity Foundation: $45,000 to the Gen- ral Theological seminary for the erection of Jarvis hall; $30,000 to Trinity college, Hartford, Conn., for the erection of a building: $10,000 to the Paddock Lecture fund, and $24,000 to build and endow Jarvis hall, Denver, Col. He was married, first to Catharine, daughter of Samuel Jarvis. of New York: secondly to Mary, daughter of Cornelius McLean, of New York; thirdly, to Maria, daughter of Lewis Jenkins, of Buffalo, N.Y. He is the author of: Genealogy of the Jarvis Family (1879). He died in Brooklyn, N.Y.. May 13. 1893.

JARVIS, George Cyprian, surgeon, was born in Colebrook, Conn., April 24. 1834; youngest son of Dr. George Ogelvie and Philamela (Mar- shall) Jarvis. and grandson of John and Elizabeth (Boult) Jarvis and of Raphael and Philamela (Grant) Marsiiall. He acijuired his early educa- tion at the ]niV)lic school. 1840-49: attended the military academy at Norwich, Vt., 1849-50; was a