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Jacobs, Henry Eyster – Jaffrey, George

Jacobs, Henry Eyster

clergyman, author, was born Nov. 10, 1844, in Gettysburg, Pa. He is a lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia, professor in the lutheran seminary since 1883, and editor of the Lutheran Review from 1882. He is the author of The Lutheran Movement in England; The Lutherans; several translations of religious works from the German; and History of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States.

Jacobs, Israel

congressman, was born in Germany. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1791 to 1793.

Jacobs, John Adamson

educator, author, was born Aug. 19, 1806, in Leesburg, Va. He was an educator who was forty-five years superintendent of the deaf and dumb institution at Danville, Ky. He published Primary Lessons for Deaf Mutes. He died Nov. 27, 1869, in Danville, Ky.

Jacobs, Joseph

manufacturer, banker, legislator, was born Dec. 8, 1828, in Hingham, Mass. He represented the town of Hingham in the Massachusetts house of representatives in 1881-83. Since 1876 he has been president of the Hingham National bank.

Jacobs, Michael

educator, author, was born Jan. 18, 1808, in Waynesborough, Pa. He was an educator who was professor in Pennsylvania college at Gettysburg in 1852-71, and published Notes on the Rebel Invasion and the Battle of Gettysburg. He died in 1871.

Jacobs, Michael William

lawyer, author, was born Jan. 27, 1850, in Gettysburg, Pa. He is a lawyer of Harrisburg, and the author of a Treatise on the Law of Domicile.

Jacobs, Orange

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born May 2, 1829, in Livingston county, N. J. In 1852 he moved to Oregon, was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of Washington territory in 1869, and settled there. In 1871 he was appointed chief justice of the territory, reappointed in 1874, and held that position when elected a delegate to the forty-fourth congress. He was reelected to the forty-fifth congress as a republican.

Jacobs, Sarah Sprague

author, was born March 17, 1813, in Pawtucket, R. I. She is a writer of Cambridge, Mass., and author of Nonantum and Natick, a juvenile giving an account of the labors of John Eliot among the New England Indians, and White Oak and Its Neighbors.

Jacoby, Ludwig Sigismund

clergyman, author, was born Oct. 21, 1813, in Germany. He was a methodist clergyman of German birth who as general foreign agent of the methodist church resided at Bremen in 1849-72. On his return to thê United States he lived in St. Louis. He was the author of Geschichte des Methodismus; Letzte Stunden; Kurzer Inbegriff der christlichen Glaubenlehre; and Biblische Hand-Concordanz. He died June 21, 1874, in St. Louis, Mo.

Jacques, Daniel Harrison

physician, author, was born about 1825. He was a southern physician who edited The Rural Carolinian. He was the author of Hints about Physical Perfection; The Garden; The Farm; The Barnyard; The House; Florida as a Permanent Home; How to Grow Handsome; The Temperaments; How to Behave; and How to Talk. He died Aug. 28, 1877, near Fernandina, Fla.

Jadwin, Cornelius C

civil engineer, congressman, was born March 27, 1835, in Carbondale, Pa. He was a civil engineer from 1857 to 1861. He served for nine years as a member of the district board of education, three years as president of the board, and was a delegate to the republican national convention of 1880. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-seventh congress as a republican.

Jaffrey, George

lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 22, 1682, in New Castle, N.

H. He was successively a councilor, a judge, treasurer of New Hampshire, and chief justice. The town of Jaffrey is named for him. He died May 8, 1749, in Portsmouth, N. H.