railroad till 1866. In 1868 he was made one of the trustees of the Rome merchant-iron mill company upon its organization, and he continued in office till his death. In 1855 he received the Democratic nomination for the place of state engineer, but was defeated. In 1878 Hamilton college conferred on Mr. Jervis the degree of LL. D. He is the author of a " Description of the Croton Aqueduct " (New York, 1842); a "Report on the Hudson River Railroad" (1846); "Railway Property" (1859); " The Construction and Management of Railways " (1861) ; and " Labor and Capital " (1877).
JESSUP, William, jurist, b. in Southampton,
N. Y.,21 June, 1797; d. in Montrose, Pa., 11 Sept.,
1868. He was graduated at Yale in 1815, removed
to Montrose in 1818, and was admitted to the bar
there. From 1838 till 1851 he was presiding judge
of the 11th judicial district of Pennsylvania, and
in April, 1861, was one of the committee of three
that was sent by the governors of Pennsylvania,
New York, and Ohio to confer with President
Lincoln relative to raising 75,000 men. He was a
pioneer in the cause of education and temperance
in northern Pennsylvania, and the chief founder of
the County agricultural society. In 1848 Hamilton
college conferred on him the degree of LL. D. — His
son, Henry Harris, missionary, b. in Montrose,
Pa., 19 April, 1832, was graduated at Yale in 1851,
and at Union theological seminary in 1855, and
was ordained a minister of the Presbyterian church
in November, 1855. He was a missionary at
Tripoli and Syria in 1856-'60, and since then has
been stationed at Beirut. He was moderator of
the general assembly that met at Saratoga, N. Y.,
in 1879. The University of New York and Prince-
ton conferred on him the degree of D. D. in 1865.
He is the author of " Mohammedan Missionary
Problem " (Philadelphia, 1879), and " Women of
the Arabs" (New York, 1873). — Another son,
Samuel, missionary, b. in Montrose, Pa., 21 Dec,
1833, after engaging for a time in mercantile pur-
suits, entered Yale, and then Union theological
seminary, where he was graduated in 1861. In
1862 he was ordained by the presbytery of Mon-
trose, and has since been engaged in mission work
in Syria, having charge of the mission printing es-
tablishment and publishing house in that city. He
is the author of " Husn Sulayman " (Palestine ex-
ploration society, 2d statement, 1873).
JESUP, Morris Ketchum, banker, b. in Hart-
ford, Conn., 21 June, 1830. At an early age he
settled as a merchant in New York city, and later
engaged in the banking business. He was presi-
dent of the Five Points house of industry in 1870,
of the Young men's Christian association in 1871-'5,
and later became vice-president of the city mission
and manager of the Presbyterian hospital. For
several years he has also been president of the
New York museum of natural history. His dona-
tions to the latter institution have been frequent
and valuable, and he gave a handsome home in the
Bowery for newsboys.
JESUP, Thomas Sidney, soldier, b. in Virginia in 1788 ; d. in Washington, D. C, 10 June,
1860. He was appointed a lieutenant of infantry
m the U. S. army in 1808, and in the beginning of
the war of 1812 served as adjutant-general to
Gen. William Hull. He was promoted captain in
January, 1813, major on 6 April, 1813, lieutenant-
colonel by brevet for bravery at the battle of
Chippewa on 5 July, 1814, and colonel by brevet
in the same month for services at the battle of
Niagara, where he was severely wounded. He be-
came a full lieutenant-colonel on 30 April, 1817:
adjutant-general, with the rank of colonel, on 27
March, 1818, and quartermaster-general, with the
rank of brigadier-general, on 8 May, 1818. On 8
May, 1828, he received the brevet of major-general
for ten years' faithful service in the same rank. On
20 May, 1836, he assumed command of the army
in the Creek nation, and on 8 Dec. of the same
year he succeeded Gen. Richard K. Call in the
command of the army in Florida. On 24 Jan..
1838, he was wounded in an action with the Semi-
noles at Jupiter inlet, after which he was relieved
by Col. Zachary Taylor.
JETER, Jeremiah Bell, clergyman, b. in Bed-
ford county. Va., 18 July, 1802 ; d. in Richmond,
Va., 25 Feb., 1880. He began to preach in 1822,
and for four years travelled through Virginia as a
missionary exhorter. He was ordained as a Baptist
minister on 4 May, 1824, and became pastor of two
churches in Campbell county in 1826. He held
various pastorates till 1835, when he took charge
of the 1st Baptist church in Richmond, Va., with
which he remained connected for nearly fourteen
years. In 1849 he accepted a pastorate in St.
Louis, but in 1852 returned to Richmond, and be-
came pastor of the Grace street church. After the
division of the denomination, he presided over the
southern Baptist conventions for several years.
He was for some time president of Richmond col-
lege, and held the offices of president of the South-
ern foreign missionary board, and president of the
trustees of the Baptist theological seminary at
Louisville, Ky. At the instance of the board of
missions he visited Italy to supervise the mission-
ary work in that country, and to provide a chapel
in Rome. About the close of the civil war he be-
came editor of the " Religious Herald," published
in Richmond. He was distinguished as a preacher
and controversialist, and successful as an author.
Among his published works are a " Life of Mrs.
Henrietta Shuck, the first American Female Mis-
sionary to China; "Memoir of the Rev. Andrew
Broaddus" (1850) : " Campbellism Examined " (New
York, 1854); "Campbellism Re-Examined"; "The
Christian Mirror, or a Delineation of Seventeen
Classes of Christians " (Charleston, 1856) ; " The
Seal of Heaven" (New York, 1871); "The Life of
the Rev. Daniel Witt"; and "Recollections of a
Long Life." With the Rev. Richard Fuller he
compiled "The Psalmist," a book of hymns that
came into general use in the Baptist congrega-
tions of the United States, and was introduced in
British North America and in England. See " The
Life of the Rev. Dr. J. B. Jeter," by the Rev.
William E. Hatcher (Baltimore).
JEWELL, James Stewart, physician, b. near Galena, 111., 8 Sept., 1837; d. in Chicago, 111., 19 April, 1887. He was graduated at Chicago medical college in 1860, practised in Williamson county, Ill., for two years, and then settled in Chicago, where he acquired a reputation as a specialist in nervous and mental diseases. During the civil war he was a contract surgeon in Gen. Sherman's com-
mand. He was professor of anatomy in Chicago medical college from 1864 till 1869, and of nervous and mental diseases from 1872 till his death. In 1874 he began the publication of the " Quarterly Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease."
JEWELL, Marshall, postmaster-general, b. in Winchester, N. H., 20 Oct., 1825 ; d. in Hartford, Conn., 10 Feb., 1883. He was descended in the seventh generation from Thomas Jewell, an Englishman, who received a grant of land at North Wollaston, near Quincy, Mass., in 1639. Marshall's father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were
tanners. In 1845 his father, Pliny Jewell, who had been an active Whig in New Hampshire and a
