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Jaggar, Thomas Augustus – James, Lucy M

Jaggar, Thomas Augustus

bishop of southern Ohio, was born June 2, 1839, in New York. He has published baccalaureate addresses before the universities of Pennsylvania and Ohio; an address to the graduating class of the Philadelphia Divinity school; a sermon preached before the American Social Science association; The Ministry of Phillips Brooks; Duty of the Clergy in Relation to Modern Skepticism; as well as various pastorals and addresses on general subjects.

James, Amaziah B

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born July 1, 1812, in Stephentown, N. Y. In 1853 he was elected a justice of the state supreme court; resigned in 1876; and was elected a representative from New York to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses as a republican.

James, Bushrod Washington

oculist, climatologist, author, was born Aug. 25, 1836, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of American Resorts and Climates, and Alaskana, or Legends of Alaska, which is in its third edition.

James, Charles P

lawyer, jurist.

He was appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia in 1879.

James, Edmund James

educator, author, was born May 21, 1855, in Jacksonville, Ill. He is professor in the university of Chicago, and the author of numerous monographs and articles on various scientific and educational subjects, the principal of which are: Our Legal Tender Decisions; The Education of Business Men; and The Relation of the Modern Municipality to the Gas Supply; with several translations from the German.

James, Edwin

geologist, botanist, author, was born Aug. 27, 1797, in Waybridge, Vt. He was a geologist and botanist whose later years were spent in Burlington, Iowa. He was the author of Expedition from Pittsburg to the Rocky Mountains; Narrative of John Tanner; and a translation of the New Testament into the Ojibway language. He died Oct. 28, 1861, in Burlington, Iowa.

James, Francis

congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1839 to 1843.

James, Harry D

lawyer, was born Oct. 14, 1867, in Ogle county, Ill. After receiving a liberal education he entered educational work. He afterward took up the study of law; commenced the practice of his profession at Sioux Falls, S. D., in 1891, and the following year moved to Flandreau. In 1896 he was elected state's attorney of Moody county, and is gaining a good reputation as an able lawyer.

James, Henry Ammon

lawyer, author, was born April 24, 1854, in Baltimore, Md. He is a lawyer of New York city who has published Communism in America.

James, Joseph Francis

botanist, educator, author, was born Feb. 8, 1857, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1881 he was appointed custodian of the Cincinnati society of Natural History. This place he resigned in 1886 to take the chair of botany and geology in Miami university, Oxford, Ohio, and meanwhile since 1883 he has also held the professorship of botany in the department of pharmacy in the university of Cincinnati. He is the author of frequent papers on botany and geology in scientific journals.

James, Lewis George

educator, lecturer, author, was born Feb. 19, 1844, in Providence, R. I. He has been president of the Brooklyn Ethical association, and for many years filled the chair of history in the Adelphi academy. He is the author of A Study of Primitive Christianity; Evolution of Morals; Life as a Fine Art, and various other works.

James, Lucy M

poet, was born March 1, 1841, in Fair Haven, Mass. Since 1859 she has constantly contributed to the periodical press, and is the author of a number of meritorious poems. She is prominently identified with various institutions, of which she has been president, and is now chaplain of the Bristol County association of the Woman's Relief Corps auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, and resides in New Bedford, Mass.