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seminary, B.D.. 1891, He entered the Newark, N.J., conference in 1891, and owing toachangeof boundary he was transferred to the Delaware conference. He was pastor of St. John's chui'ch at Orange, N.J., 1889-94 ; the John Wesley church at Salisbury, Md., for six weeks in 1894 ; the Bainbridge Street church at Philadelphia, Pa., 1894-95 ; and the James Methodist Episcopal church at Germantown, Pa., in 1895. He was elected president of the Delaware State College for Colored Students near Dover, Del., in 1895. He was married, July 20, 1892, to Madora Evelyn Bailey, of Exeter, N.H.

JASPER, William, soldier, was born in South Carolina about 1750; of Irish parents. He was one of the first recruits to join Capt. Francis Marion's company in the 2d South Carolina regi- ment, Colonel Moultrie ; was advanced to the rank of sergeant, and as- sisted Marion in enlisting recruits. During the at- tack on Fort Sullivan by the British, June 28, 1776, the flagstaff on the fort was shot away, and the colors, a blue flag, design- ed by Colonel Moultrie, with a white crescent in the dexter corner and emblazoned with the word " liberty," fell outside on the beach. Jasper fear- lessly recovered it and held it aloft, supported by a sponge-staff until a flag-staff was prepared. For this act of gallantry Governor Rutledge offered him a lieutenant's commission, which he refused, saying, "I am not fit to keep of- ficei's' company, I am but a sergeant," and the governor then presented him with his own small sword. Many other deeds of daring are credited to Jasper, among which is sj)ending eight days in the enemy's camp as a spy, and the overpower- ing of a British guard and the release of a num- ber of prisoners. In the charge up Spring Hill redoubt during the assault on Savannah, Oct. 7, 1779, he was mortally wounded and fell in the ditch while attempting to fasten to the parapet the regimental colors which he had rescued from a wounded color-bearer, and he clung to the colors and succeeded in preventing their falling into the hands of the enemy. A square in Savan- nah, Ga., and a county in Georgia were named in his honor. It has been alleged that he could neither read nor write, but Bowen in his Life of Lincoln, pageSlG, mentions a letter from him " ill written and worse spelt," dated " Purysburg," July 23, 1779. He died in Savannah, Oct. 9, 1779. JASTROW, Joseph, psycliologist, was born at Warsaw, Polaiul, Jan. 30, 1863; son of the

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Rev Marcus and Beitha ( Woirsohn) Jastvow. H? immigrated with his parents to America in 11^06, settled in Philadelphia, Pa., and received his early education in private schools and at Rugby academy, and was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1882. He made a special study of psychology at Johns Hopkins university, 1882-85 ; was made a fellow in psychology at Johns Hopkins in 1885, and was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1887, and vice-president of the an- thropological section in 1891. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1886, and was elected professor of experimental and com- parative psychology at the University of Wiscon- sin in 1888. He had charge of the psychological section of the AVorld's Columbian exposition in 1893, and in 1899 was elected president of the American Psychological association. He became an associate editor of the Psychological Revieio in 1893, and contributed extensively to the Dic- tionary of Pkilosojihy and Psychology (1900). He is also the author of numerous special and popular articles in the i^sychological, scientific and general periodicals.

JASTROW, Morris, philologist and archseol- ogist, was born in Warsaw, Poland, Aug. 13, 1861 ; son of the Rev. Marcus and Bertha (Wolf- sohn) Jastrow. He came with his parents to America in 1866 and settled in Philadelphia, Pa. He prepai'ed for college in the public schools of that city and was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1881. He pursued linguistic and philosophical studies at the Universities of Breslau, Berlin, Leipzig, Strasburg and Paris, 1881-85, and became a recognized authority on Semitic religions, languages and literatures. On his return to the United States he became con- nected with the University of Pennsylvania, holding the chair of Arabic and Rabbinical liter- ature, 1886-1892, and that of Semitic languages after 1892. He was assistant librarian, 1886-98, and in 1898 became librarian of tlie university. He was married in 1893 to Helen, daughter of Herman F. and Rosina (Lebermaxi) Bachman, and in collaboration with her published an Eng- lish translation of Selected Essays of James Dar- mesteter (1895). He was elected a member of the American Oriental society, the American Philo- sophical society and other scientific organiza- tions. He received the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Leii^zig in 1884. He is the author of : A Fragment of the Babylonian Dibbarra Epic (1891) ; The Grammatical Treatises of Abu Zakarijjah Hajjug (1897) ; The Region of Baby- lonia and Assyria (1898) (recognized as the standard work on the subject and translated into German), and upwards of one hundred articles embodying the results of philological and