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Jarvis, Samuel Farmar

clergyman, author, was born Jan. 20, 1786, in Middletown, Conn. He was an episcopal clergyman of Connecticut, and the author of Sermons on Prophecy: No Union with Rome; Chronological Introduction to the History of the Church; and the Religion of the Indian Tribes of North America. He died March 26, 1851, in Middletown, Conn.

Jay, James

physician, author, was born Oct. 27, 1732, in New York city.

He was a physician of New York city who was knighted by George III., and who published Reflections and Observations on Gout. He died Oct. 20, 1815, in Springfield, N. J.

Jay, John

lawyer, author, was born June 23, 1817, in New York city. He was for many years a manager and corresponding secretary of the New York Historical society.

He was the author of Dignity of the Abolition Cause; Caste and Slavery in the American Church; and America Free or America Slave. He was successful lawyer; and an active member of the American Geographa ical and statistical society. He died in 1894.

Jay, John Clarkson

physician, born Sept. 1, 1808, in New York city. In addition to his practice of medicine he made a specialty of conchology, and acquired the most complete and valuable collection of shells in the United States.

Jay, Peter Augustus

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Jan. 24, 1776, in Elizabethtown, N. J. In 1816 he was a member of the assembly, being active in promoting legislation for the building of the Erie canal. He held the office of recorder of New York city in 1819-21, and was a member of the New York constitutional convention in 1821.

He died Feb. 20, 1843, in New York city.

Jayne, David

manufacturer, was born July 12, 1799, in Bushkill, Pa. He began, in 1848, the erection of a large granite and marble laboratory and salesroom on Chestnut street, Philadelphia, with a frontage of forty-two feet and height of thirteen stories, and, in that impressive structure, after 1.850, carried on a continually expanding manufacture of medicines until the end of his days.

He died March 5, 1866, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Jayne, Horace

scientist, author, was born March 5, 1859, in Philadelphia.

He was chosen lecturer in biology in the university of Pennsylvania, and subsequently professor of vertebrate morphology in the same institution, which place he now holds. He has written A Revision of the Dermestidæ of North America; Abnormities Observed in North American Coleoptera; and Origin of the Fittest.

Jayne, William

physician, state senator, congressman, governor, was born Oct. 8, 1826, in Springfield, Ill. He was elected to the state senate in 1860 and 1861, and during the latter year was appointed governor of Dakota territory. In 1862 he was elected a delegate from Dakota to the thirty-eighth congress.

Jean, Charles Fletcher

merchant, was born July 16, 1856, in Terre Haute, Ind. He commenced life as a bell-boy in the Terre Haute hotel. He has built up a large wholesale produce house, and attained prominence as a successful merchant. In 1896 he received the nomination for mayor of Evansville, and has filled various positions of honor in his county and state.

Jefferson, Joseph

actor, was born in 1804 in Philadelphia, Pa. From 1835 till 1837 Jefferson was connected with the Franklin and Niblo's garden theaters in New York city. He died Nov. 24, 1842, in Mobile, Ala.

Jefferson, Joseph

actor, author, was born Feb. 20, 1829, in Philadelphia, Pa. He has won his reputation by his remarkable performance of the part of Rip Van Winkle in the play of that name written by Dion Boucicault from Washington Irving's romance. He has changed the play to suit his personification, and is the author of an entertaining Autobiography; and was a constant contributor to current literature.