James, Henry – Jameson, Patrick Henry
James, Henry
theologian, author, was born June 3, 1811, in Albany, N. Y.
He was a Swendenborgian writer of Cambridge, who was a thinker of marked spirituality and originality. His Spiritual Creation undoubtedly affords the best example of his felicitous style and matured thought. His other works include, Society the Redeemed Form of Man; Remarks on the Gospels; Moralism and Christianity; The Nature of Evil; Substance and Shadow; The Secret of Swedenborg; What Is the State? The Church of Christ; Christianity the Lyric of Creation; and Literary Remains, edited by W. James. He died Dec. 18, 1882, in Cambridge, Mass.
James, Henry
critic, author, was born April 15, 1843, in New York city.
He is a novelist and critic who since 1869 has resided in Europe, and mainly in London. In fiction his writings include, Roderick Hudson; The American; The Europeans; A Passionate Pilgrim, and Other Tales; Confidence; Washington Square; The Portrait of a Lady; Watch and Ward; Daisy Miller; An International Episode; The Siege of London; The Author of Beltraffio, and Other Tales: The Bostonians; The Princess Casamassima; The Reverberator; The Aspern Papers, and Other Stories; A London Life; The Tragic Muse; The Lesson of the Master, and Other Tales; The Spoils of Poynton; What Maisie Knew; The Other House; The Private Life; The Wheel of Time; Terminations; Embarrassments; Theatricals, two comedies; The Real Thing, and Other Tales; Tales of Three Cities. Other works by Mr. James are, Transatlantic Sketches; French Poets and Novelists; Portraits of Places; Life of Hawthorne; The Madonna of the Future; A Little Tour in France; Picture and Text; Essays in London; and Partial Portraits.
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, John Walter
public official, railroad president, was born Jan. 31, 1836, in Washington county, Tenn. During the civil war he served in the United States army, and was present at the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. During 1864-70 he was master in chancery at Chattanooga, Tenn.; was twice alderman of that city, and took an active part in its educational and public affairs. He was mayor of Chattanooga in 1874-75; was a delegate to the convention of the national greenback labor party in 1880; was a candidate for congress; and subsequently received the nomination for governor of Tennessee.
Since its organization in 1891 he has been a member of the national committee of the people's party. He has been active in railroad building; was president and general manager of the Chattanooga Southern railway, and is still a member of numerous local corporate and company organizations. He died Feb. 21, 1898, in Alton Park, Tenn.
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.
James, Luther
lawyer, was born in 1876 near Edmonton, Ky. After receiving a liberal education he was admitted to the bar in the eighteenth year of his age; and has since attained prominence as an able orator and lawyer of Edmonton, Ky.
James, Sue L
journalist, poet, was born July 30, 1843, in Saline, Ark. In 1895 she was elected poet of the Arkansas Press association. For years she has been a correspondent for several leading publications, and is now the editor and owner of The Hot Springs Life, a literary and society paper. She was appointed a commissioner to the Atlanta exposition, and has been president of various temperance, missionary and relief societies.
James, Thomas Chalkley
educator, physician, surgeon, college president, was born in 1766 in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1803 he established the school of Obstetrics in Philadelphia, and for twenty-five years was physician and obstetrician in the Pennsylvania hospital. He was for some years president of the Philadelphia college of Physicians, and was professor of midwifery in the university of Pennsylvania from 1811 till 1834. He died July 25, 1835, in Philadelphia, Pa.
James, Thomas Lemuel
journalist, banker, public official, was born March 29, 1831, in Utica, N. Y. He was made collector of canal tolls at Hamilton in 1854 and 1855, and was appointed inspector of customs in the New York custom house in 1861; weigher in 1863, and deputy collector in 1870. He was appointed postmaster at New York city in 1873 and was reappointed in 1877. He was appointed postmaster-general in the cabinet of President Garfield, in 1881, and continued in that position in the cabinet of President Arthur, until 1882, when he resigned to accept the presidency of the Lincoln National bank of New York city.
James, Thomas Potts
botanist, author, was born Sept. 1, 1803, in Radnor, Pa. In 1867 he settled in Cambridge, Mass., and was a member of scientific societies, and one of the founders and long the treasurer of the American Pomological society. His scientific papers were contributed to the Proceedings of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences and to the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He died Feb. 22, 1882, in Cambridge, Mass.
James, William
psychologist, author, was born Jan. 11, 1842, in New York city. He is a psychologist of distinction, professor at Harvard university from 1872, and the author of Principles of Psychology; and Psychology, a briefer study of the subject.
James, William H
statesman. He was governor of Nebraska from 1871 to 1873.
Jameson, Charles Davis
soldier, manufacturer, was born Feb. 24, 1827, in Gorham, Maine. At the beginning of the civil war he was placed in command of the second Maine regiment, the first that left that state for the seat of war, and he was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers in 1861. In 1861-62 he was the democratic candidate for governor of Maine. He died Nov. 6, 1862, in Oldtown, Maine.
Jameson, David
soldier, was born in 1752. He fought at the battle of Great Bridge, Dec. 9, 1775, and served in the southern states in Stevens's brigade in 1780 and 1781. In 1790-91 he was a delegate to the Virginia legislature, and was afterward a magistrate and high sheriff of Culpeper county. He died Oct. 2, 1839, in Culpeper county, Va.
Jameson, Ephraim Hall Emery
journalist, clergyman, lecturer, was born May 19, 1835, in St. George, Maine. He was educated for the ministry in New England, taught school in Illinois, and for one year was assistant editor on a daily newspaper of Springfield. He edited the Free Democrat of Galesburg for one year; in 1858 became a reporter on the St. Louis Democrat, and was connected with the press of that city for twelve years. In 1861 he was engaged in mustering recruits; then organized regiments of militia, and was commissioned colonel of one of these regiments of reserves, and did duty on the border for nearly two years. In 1862 he was elected as a republican to the Missouri state legislature, received the reelection, serving altogether four years, and became speaker. In 1871 he was one of the editors of the St. Louis Globe.
In 1876 he was ordained, and became pastor of the First Baptist church of Omaha for five years; pastor at Saginaw three years; and pastor at Lansing six years.
In 1890 he was appointed district secretary of the American Baptist Home Missionary society, and constantly preaches and lectures on various themes.
Jameson, Ephraim Orcutt
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 23, 1832, in Dunbarton, N. H. He is the author of the Cogswells in America; History of Newbury, Mass., and the Choates in America.
Jameson, John
congressman, was born in Kentucky. He was a representative in congress from Missouri from 1830 to 1831; again from 1843 to 1845; and for another term from 1847 to 1849.
Jameson, John Alexander
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Jan. 25, 1824, in Irasburg, Vt. He is a jurist of Chicago, and for many years an assistant editor of The American Law Register. He is the author of The Constitutional Convention, its History, Power, and Modes of Proceeding.
Jameson, John Franklin
educator, author, was born in 1859 in Massachusetts. He is a professor of history in Brown university, and the author of William Usselinx, Founder of the Dutch and Swedish West India Companies; The History of Historical Writing in America; and Dictionary of United States History.
Jameson, Patrick Henry
physician, was born April 18, 1824, in Monroe, Ind. From 1863 till 1866 he was acting assistant surgeon in the United States army, and from 1861 till 1869 physician to the Indiana institution for the deaf and dumb.