JAY
JEFFERS
by Gov. W. C. Bouck at the demand of a pro-
slavery faction, Judge Jay being a conservative
anti-slavery advocate, opposed to the work of the
Colonization society. He was first president of
the New York Anti-Slavery society, 1835-36.
Kenyon college conferred on him the honoraiy
degree of LL.D. in 1858. He is the author of:
Memoir on the Subject of a General Bible Society
for the United States (1815); Letter to Bishop
Hobart (1833); Mosaic Laios of Servitude (1824);
Life of John Jay, with Select Papers (1833); Col-
onization and Anti-Slavery Societies (1835); A
View on the Action of the Federal Oovernment in
behalf of Slavery {18S7); The Condition of the
Free People of Color in the United States (1839);
War and Peace (1842); Causes and Consequences
of the Mexican War (1849); An Address to the
Non-Slave-Holders of the South on the Social and
Political Evils of Slavery (1849); Miscellaneous
Writings on Slavery (1853), and over thirty pub-
lished letters, essays and addresses (1815-55).
He also left in manuscript A Commentary on the
Bible. He died in Bedford, N.Y., May 17, 1858.
JAY, William, soldier and lawyer, was born in
New York city, Feb. 12, 1841; son of John and
Eleanor (Field) Jay. He was prepared for college
at the Columbia grammar school, conducted by
Dr. Charles Anthon, and was graduated from
Columbia college, A.B., 1859. In April, 1861, he
was appointed volunteer aide-de-camp on the staff
of Maj.-Gen. John E. Wool; was commissioned
captain in August, 1861, and served as aide-de-
camp to Gen. George Morrell; to Gen. George G.
Meade, of the 5th corps, Army of the Potomac;
to Gen. George Sykes, who succeeded Meade in
command of the 5th corps, and again to General
Meade after he had assumed command of the
Army of the Potomac. He participated in the
battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, in the
Wilderness campaign, in the siege of Petersburg
and in the pursuit of Lee's army, and was present
at the surrender at Appomattox. He was twice
brevetted for gallant and meritorious conduct.
He resigned from the service when the volunteer
army was disbanded in 1865, having attained the
rank of lieutenant-colonel. On returning to New
York he was graduated from the Columbia Law
school, LL.B., 1867, was admitted to the bar in
1868, and practised in New York city in partner-
ship with Edgar S. Van Winkle and Flamen B. Can-
dler, 1868-82, and after Mr. Van Winkle's death
continued the partnership with Mr. Candler. He
was married, June 12, 1878, to Lucy, daughter of
Henry and Julia (May) Oelrichs, of New York
city. Upon the death of his father, May 5, 1894,
he inherited the ancestral estate, Bedford House,
at Bedford, Westchester county, N.Y., which had
descended to his great grandfather through Mary
Van Cortlandt, her greats-grandmother.
JAVNE, Horace Fort, educator, was borii in
PJiiiadelphia, Pa., March 17, 1859; son of David
and Hannah (Fort) Jayne. He was graduated at
the University of Pennsylvania, A. B., 1879, M.D.,
1883; studied biology at the University of Leip-
zig, 1882-83, and at Jena, under Hajckel, and on
his return to the United States studied at Johns
Hopkins university, 1883-84. He was connected
with the University of Pennsylvania as assistant
instructor in biology, 1883; professor of vertebrate
morphology and secretary of the faculty of
biology, 1884-89, and director of the Wistar Insti-
tute of Anatomy and Biology and dean of the
college faculty from 1889. He was a fellow of
the College of Physicians, Philadelphia, and cf
the American Association for the Advancement
of Science; a member of the American Philo-
sophical society, of the Philadelphia Academy of
Natural Science, of the Society of American
Naturalists, the American Entomological society,
the American Academy of Political and Social
Science and of the Franklin institute, Philadel-
phia. The honorary degree of Ph.D. was con-
ferred on him by Franklin and Marshall college
in 1893. He is the author of: Monstrosities in
North American Coleoptera; Revision of Dermeo-
tidce of North America; Notes on Biological Sub-
jects; Origin of the Fittest; Mammalian Anat-
omy (1898), and contributions to scientific period-
icals.
JEFFERS, Eliakim Tupper, educator, was born in Stewiacke, Nova Scotia, April 6, 1841; son of James Dickey and Mary A. B. (Tupper) Jeff- ers. The Jeffers family were French and the Tupper family English. He was jjrepared for college at the Oliver high school, Lawrence, Mass., and was graduated at Jefferson college. Pa., A.B., 1862, and at the Princeton Theological seminary in 18G5. He was married, ]\Iay 17, 1867, to Esther Graham Hodgens. He was pastor at Oxford, Pa., 1865-73; jwesident of Westminster college, Pa., 1873-83; professor of theology, Lin- coln university, 1883-90; pastor of the Presbyte- rian church at Oil City, Pa., 1890-93, and in 1893 was elected president of York Collegiate institute. He was moderator of the United Presbyterian general assembly, 1880; president of the Penn- sylvania state teachers' association, 1895, and was elected a member of the Victoria institute, Lon- don, England, in 1886. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Washington and Jefferson college in 1872. He is the author of: First Latin Book (1896), and published addresses on edu- cation.
JEFFERS, William Nicholson, naval officer, was born in Gloucester county, N.J., Oct. 6, 1824. He was appointed midshipman in the U.S. navy, Sept. 25, 1840; was attached to the frigate United States, of the Pacific squadron, 1840-43, taking
