Jay, James – Jeffrey, Mrs. Rosa Vertner
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
soldier, lawyer, statesman, was born Dec. 12, 1745, in New York city.
He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1774 to 1777, and from 1778 to 1779. In 1776 he was recalled from congress to aid in forming the government of New York, and for that reason was not present to sign the declaration of independence.
From 1777 to 1779 he was chief justice of the state, but resigned to fill the post of president of congress. He was appointed secretary of state. Though not a member he aided at the convention which framed the federal constitution. In 1789 he was appointed chief justice of the supreme court of thè United States, which position he resigned in 1794 to accept the mission to England, when he negotiated the treaty which bears his name. He was governor of New York from 1795 to 1801, after which he retired to private life. His Correspondence and State Papers were published in 1893. He died May 17, 1829, in Bedford, N. Y.
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.
Jay, William
lawyer, jurist, philanthropist, author, was born June 16, 1789, in New York city. He was son of Chief Justice Jay, and from early life exerted himself in behalf of social and religious reforms. He was for several years president of the American Peace society, and one of the founders of the American Bible society. He was the author of Life of John Jay; War and Peace; and Causes and Consequences of the Mexican War.
He died Oct. 14, 1858, in Bedford, N. Y.
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.
Jeans, Jacob
educator, author, was born Oct. 4, 1800, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was professor of the practice of medicine in the Homeopathic college of Pennsylvania. He was the author of a volume entitled Practice of Medicine. He died Dec. 17, 1877.
Jeffers, William Nicholson
naval officer, author, was born Oct. 6, 1824, in Gloucester county, N. J. He was a United States naval officer who became a commodore in 1878, and was the author of Short Methods in Navigation; Theory and Practice of Naval Gunnery; Inspection and Proof of Cannon; and Ordnance Instruction for the United States Navy. He died July 23, 1883, in Washington, D. C.
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.
Jefferson, Martha Wayles
was born Oct. 19, 1748, in Charles City county, Va. She married Thomas Jefferson in 1772. He retained a romantic devotion for her throughout his life, and because of her failing health refused foreign appointments in 1776, and again in 1781, having promised that he would accept no public office that would involve their separation. She died Sept. 6, 1782, in Monticello, Va.
Jefferson, Thomas
third president of the United States, was born April 13, 1743, in Shadwell, Albemarle county, Va. He was educated at William and Mary college, Virginia, and graduated in 1762. After leaving college he studied law, and in 1769 he was elected a member of the house of burgesses of Virginia. In 1772 he was married to Mrs.
Martha Skelton, wealthy widow, a twenty-three years of age. He was a delegate to the continental congress in 1775, and in 1776 he was chosen chairman of the committee which drafted the declaration of independence, and was the author of that glorious instrument, which was the foundation of American liberty.
He was elected to a seat in the Virginia assembly during the summer of 1776, and resigned his seat in congress. He continued in the assembly in 1777 and 1778. In June, 1779, Jefferson succeeded Patrick Henry as governor of Virginia, and held the office two years. He was elected to congress in 1783, and was chairman of the committee to whom the treaty of peace with England was referred. In May, 1784, he was appointed minister plenipotentiary to Europe, to assist Adams and Franklin in negotiating treaties of commerce. In 1785 congress appointed him minister plenipotentiary to France, and he remained there until 1789.
On his return home Washington offered him a seat in his cabinet, as secretary of state, which he accepted and held until Dec. 31, 1793. In 1796 Jefferson was elected vice-president of the United States, and took his seat March 4, 1797. On the 17th of February, 1801, he was elected president by the house of representatives, the electors having failed to make a choice, and took the oath of office March 4, 1801, at Washington, D. C. In 1804 he was reelected, and took the oath of office March 4, 1805. After completing his second term he retired to Monticello, where, in the language of Daniel Webster, he lived as became a wise man, and died July 4, 1826.
Jefferson held office about thirty years.
He died so poor that, if congress had not given $20,000 for his library, he would have been bankrupt. His literary monument is the world-famous Declaration of Independence. Other writings of his are, Notes on Virginia; Rights of British America; and Manual of Parliamentary Practice. A ten-volume edition of his works was published in 1892.
Jeffery, Edward Turner
railroad president, was born April 6, 1843, in Liverpool, England. Since 1895 he has been president of the Rio Grande Southern railroad, and he has also been president of various other roads.
Jeffords, Elza
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born May 23, 1826, in Ironton, Ohio. He settled in Mississippi in 1864; and was judge of the high court of errors and appeals of the state in 1868 and 1869. He was elected a representative from Mississippi to the forty-eighth congress as a republican.
Jeffrey, Mrs. Rosa Vertner
(GRIFFITH) (JOHNSON), author, poet, was born in 1828 in Natchez, Miss. She was a verse-writer of Lexington, Ky., and the author of Poems by Rosa; Florence Vale; The Crimson Hand, and Other Poems; Marah, a novel; and Woodburn, a novel. She died in 1894.