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Jewett, C. C

lawyer, jurist, was an early emigrant to Arkansas. He was appointed a justice of the United States court for that territory. After it became a state he continued on the bench as judge of the United States district court.

Jewett, Charles Coffin

bibliographer, author, was born Aug. 12, 1816, in Lebanon, Maine. He was a bibliographer who was the first superintendent of the Boston public library; and the author of Facts and Considerations Relative to Duties on Books; Notices of Public Libraries in the United States; and Construction of Catalogues. He died Jan. 9, 1868, in Braintree, Mass.

Jewett, Freeborn G

jurist, congressman, was born in 1790 in New York.

He was a member of the assembly of that state in 1826 and 1827; was a representative in congress from 1831 to 1833; and from 1846 to 1856 was a judge of the supreme court of New York. He died Feb. 23, 1858.

Jewett, George Baker

educator, author, was born Sept. 11, 1818, in Lebanon, Maine. He was a New England educator whose principal works were Baptism Versus Immersion; and Critique on the Greek Text of the New Testament. He died June 9, 1886, in Salem, Mass.

Jewett, Hugh J

lawyer, congressman, was born about 1812, in Deer Creek, Md. He studied law in Cecil county; left Maryland in early manhood, and removed to Ohio, where he practiced his profession; held no public position until 1872. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-fourth congress; and soon resigned to accept the position of president of the Erie Railroad company, which position he still fills.

Jewett, Isaac Appleton

lawyer, author, was born Oct. 17, 1808, in Burlington, Vt. He was a successful lawyer of Cincinnati, and later of New Orleans.

He was the author of Passages in Travel; and The Appleton Memorial. He died Jan. 14, 1853, in Keene, N. H.

Jewett, Joshua H

lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 12, 1812, in Deer Creek, Md. He was elected a representative from Kentucky to the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses.

Jewett, Luther

clergyman, physician, congressman, was born Dec. 24, 1772, in Canterbury, Conn. He was for fifteen years a member of the Vermont legislature; and was a representative in congress from Vermont from 1815 to 1817. He died March 8, 1860, in St. Johnsbury, Vt.

Jewett, Milo Parker

educator, author, was born April 27, 1808, in St.

Johnsbury, Vt. He was an educator who was the first president of Vassar college, and the author of Baptism; and The Relation of Boards of Health and Intemper- He died June 9, 1882, in Milwaukee, Wis. ance. a

Jewett, Susan W

poet, journalist, author. In 1847 she conducted a juvenile monthly magazine, called the Youth's Visitor. She was the author of The Old Corner Cupboard, containing poems and prose sketches of everyday life.

Jewett, Theodore Herman

physician, was born March 24, 1815, in South Berwick, Maine. He was professor of obstetrics and diseases of women and children in the medical department of Bowdoin, consulting surgeon to the Maine general hospital, and surgeon of the first Maine district during the civil war. He died Sept. 20, 1878, in Crawford Notch, N.H.

Jocelyn, George Beniers

college president, was born Jan. 3, 1824, in New Haven, Conn. In 1861 he was elected president of the Iowa Wesleyan university, and pastor of the university chapel. Later he was pastor of Asbury chapel at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, whence he was called to the presidency of Albion college, which position he occupied until his death. He died Jan. 27, 1877, in Albion college.