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(Washington, 1883) ; " On Secondary Enlargements 

 of Mineral Fragments in Certain Rocks " '(Icvvij ; 

 with Charles K. Vanhise " The Archsen Formation of 

 the Northwestern States" (1885); with Thomas C. 

 Chamberlain u The Junction between the Eastern 

 Sandstone and the Keweena\v Series, Keweenaw 

 Point, Lake Superior" (1885): and " The Classifica- 

 tion of the Early Cambrian and Pro-Cumbrian Forma- 

 tions" (1880). * He gained "the reputation of being 

 one of the world's best geologists." 



Jarves, James Jackson, author, born in Boston, Mass., 

 Aug. 20. 1818 ; died in Tarasp, Switzerland, June 28, 

 18ScS. He prepared for college, but a weakness of the 

 eyes caused a change iu his plans, and in 1837 he set 

 out on a journey that embraced California, Mexico. 

 Central America, and South America, and concluded 

 with his settling in Honolulu. He established the 

 first newspaper published in the Sandwich Island^, 

 the " Polynesian," in 1840 ; became director of the 

 Government press in 1844 ; was appointed special 

 commissioner of Hawaii to negotiate commercial 

 treaties with the United States, Great Britain, and 

 France in 1843 ; and after concluding his official du- 

 ties spent several years in Paris, Florence, and Rome, 

 applying himself to literary work and the collection 

 ot art-treasures. He made four notable collections a 

 gallery of masters illustrating the historv and show- 

 ing the development of Italian art, now belonging to 

 Yale University ; a joint collection of old paintings 

 and sculptures, now in Cleveland, Ohio ; a collection 

 illustrating the ancient and modern glass-work of 

 Venice, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New 

 York ; and unique specimens of laces, em broideries, 

 costumes, and various fabrics, dating from the twelfth 

 century, which he sold in New York in 1886. He 

 was United States vice-consul and acting consul in 

 Florence in 1879-' 82, and Italian Commissioner to the 

 Boston Exhibition in 1882-'83; was an honorary 

 member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence ; 

 and had received the decoration of a Chevalier of the 

 Crown of Italy for his services in the interest of Ital- 

 ian art, and that of a Knight-Commander of the Royal 

 Order of Kamehameha I, for diplomatic services to 

 Hawaii. Mr. Jarves corresponded regularly with 

 journals and periodicals for many years, and pub- 

 lished a " History of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Isl- 

 ands " (Boston and London, 1843); "Scenes and 

 Scenery in the Sandwich Islands " (1844) ; " Parisian 

 Sights and French Principles, seen through Ameri- 

 can Spectacles" (New York, 1853); "Art Hints, 

 Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting" (1855); " Ki 

 ana, a Tradition of Hawaii" (Boston, 1855); "Ital- 

 ian Sights and Papal Principles, seen through Ameri- 

 ican Spectacles " (New York, 1855); " The Confes- 

 sions of an Inquirer " (3 parts, Boston, 1857-' 69) ; 

 "Art Studies; The Old Masters of Italy " (New 

 York. 1861) ; " The Art Idea, Sculpture, Painting, 

 and Architecture in America" (Boston, 1866) ; " Art 

 Thoughts; The Experiences and Observations of an 

 American Amateur in Europe" (1869); "Glimpses 

 at the Art of Japan" (New York, 1876) ; and " Ital- 

 ian Rambles" (1884). 



Jenks, Francis H., founder of the American safe-de- 

 posit business, born in Boston, Mass., July 3, 1812; 

 died in Worcester. Mass., Dec. 19, 1888. 'He was a 

 son of the Rev. U illiam Jenks, a distinguished Ori- 

 entalist, author of " The Comprehensive Commen- 

 tary." He was educated in the Boston Latin School, 

 was employed in a mercantile house in Boston, re- 

 moved to "Baltimore in 1832, and was engaged in 

 business there with George H. Weld under the name 

 of Jenks & Weld until 1856, and then settled in New 

 York city. Soon afterward lie originated and en- 

 tered upon the safe-deposit business. In 1861 he ob- 

 tained a charter from the New York Legislature for 

 the Safe-Deposit Company of New York, which he 

 organized in 18(55. He was elected president of the 

 company, and held the office till 1885. 



Jennings, Enssell, philanthropist, born in Weston 

 (now Boston i, Fairfield County, Conn., Feb. 22, 



1800 ; died in Deep River, Conn., March 8, 1888. He 

 was educated at what is now Madison University, 

 was ordained a minister of the Baptist Church while 

 a student, and completed his studies in Newton The- 

 ological Institution. For some years he was a mis- 

 sionary of the Connecticut Baptist Convention, and 

 afterward held pastorates in Say brook, Merideu. Wa- 

 terbury, Norwich, Deep River, "and Haddain. When 

 compelled by his health to decline a further settled 

 charge, he acted as supply to destitute churches, and 

 continued to officiate to within a year and a half of 

 his death. In 1855 he invented the extension-lip bit, 

 and then spent ten years in inventing and making 

 the machinery for its economical manufacture, after 

 which he derived a large income from its sale. Be- 

 fore he had acquired any considerable wealth, he 

 made it a rule to give a portion of his income an- 

 nually to the support of struggling Baptist churches, 

 and at the beginning of his more prosperous days he 

 established a domestic mission of his own, assuming 

 the care of several churches that were unable to sup- 

 port a pastor. By his aid each of these was soon able 

 to maintain a settled pastor. At the same time he 

 was one .if the largest contributors to the funds of the 

 Connecticut Baptist Convention for domestic mis- 

 sions and of the Baptist home and foreign missions. 

 He continued his private domestic mission nearly 

 twenty years, and then gave to each of the churches 

 a fund 'producing a handsome annual interest. In 

 1870 he bought ground in Chester, Conn., built and 

 furnished a church for the congregation at a cost of 

 over $16,000 and a parsonage valued at $2.500, and 

 presented the congregation a fund of $5,000. In 

 South Windsor he bought property at a cost of over 

 $7,000, built a church at a little more cost than the 

 Chester edifice, and presented the whole to the con- 

 gregation. He made further cash donations of $2,000 

 to the Moodus, $4,000 and a parsonage to the Had- 

 dain, 5,000 to the Easton, $5,000 to the Winthrop, 

 $10,000 to the Deep River, $3,000 to the Ro way ton, 

 $3,000 to the New Canaan, $4,000 to the Stepney, 

 $3,000 to the White Hills, $3,000 to the Shelton, 

 $3,000 to the Clinton, $3,000 to the Lyme, $3.000 to 

 the Cromwell, $3,000 to the Plainville.' and $3,000 to 

 the Rainbow Baptist churches. In addition he gave 

 large sums to other churches to aid them in erecting 

 new edifices and parsonages and paying off debts. 

 His private charities were said to be on a correspond- 

 ingly liberal scale. 



Jerome, Lawrence Eosooe, broker, born in Pompey, 

 Onondaga County, N. Y., Feb. 20, 1820; died in 

 Sharon, Conn., Aug. 12, 1888. He was a son of 

 Thomas Jerome and a brother of Leonard and Addi- 

 son Jerome. He worked some years on his father's 

 farm, was then placed with a Presbyterian clergyman 

 in Palmyra, N. Y., to be prepared for a theological 

 education, studied Greek and Latin, decided that he 

 was better fitted to be a physician, studied medicine 

 in his native village, and after a few months re- 

 turned to farm-work. In 1842 he removed to New 

 York city, spent several years in mercantile business, 

 assisted his brother Leonard in establishing the 

 "Rochester American," which the brothers con- 

 ducted for two years as a Whig journal, and in 1854 

 returned to New York city and with Leonard estab- 

 lished a brokerage business in Wall Street. He con- 

 tinued this till about 1879. In 1870 he was elected a 

 member of the Board of Aldermen, and in 1878 was 

 defeated as Tammany candidate for Congress by Gen. 

 Anson G. McCook. He was one of the best known 

 and most popular club-men in New York city and 

 London, a liberal promoter of gentlemanly sports, a 

 capital story-teller, and man of ready wit. 



Johonnot, ' James, educator, born in Bethel, Vt., in 

 1823; died in Tarpon Springs, Fla., June 18, 1888. 

 He received a common-schrol education, and when 

 sixteen years old beeran his special educational work 

 that was continued with few interruptions for almost 

 half a century. He taught for many years, compiled 

 a large number of text-books, began organizing teach- 



