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mathematics and chemistry. In 1855 he was 

 elected Adjunct Professor of Latin and Greek in 

 the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1804 he 

 was made Professor of Latin, which chair he 

 occupied until his death. He was a recognized 

 leader in his subject of instruction, and took a 

 wide interest in everything connected with the 

 university. Through his efforts the library of 

 Prof. Ernst von Leutsch, of Gottingen, compris- 

 ing about 18,000 volumes in classical philology, 

 was secured for the University of Pennsylvania in 

 1888. He also raised the fund for the erection in 

 the college chapel of a memorial tablet to the 

 alumni . who fell in the civil war. For the use 

 of his classes Prof. Jackson published treatises 

 on Latin syntax and prosody, and on the Hora- 

 tian meters, besides emendations of the texts of 

 several Latin authors, and a Latin syllabus to 

 .accompany instruction in the freshman year. 



James, Edward C., lawyer, born in Ogdens- 

 .burg, N. Y., May 1, 1841; died at Palm Beach, 

 Fla., March 24, 1901. He was educated in the 

 public schools and at Walnut Hill Academy, 

 Geneva, N. Y. At the outbreak of the civil war 

 he enlisted in the 50th New York Volunteers, 

 and shortly afterward was made adjutant. Later 

 lie was commissioned assistant adjutant-general 

 of the engineer brigade of the Army of the Poto- 

 mac, aide-de-camp to Gen. Woodbury, major of 

 the 60th New York Volunteers, lieutenant-colonel 

 of the 106th New York Volunteers, and colonel 

 of the same regiment. In the autumn of 1863 

 he resigned on account of disability incurred in 

 the service. Col. James was admitted to the bar 

 in 1863, and practised law in Ogdensburg till 

 1874, when he removed to New York city. He 

 was counsel for the Manhattan Elevated Railway 

 Company and the Jay Gould estate. He recov- 

 ered a verdict of $37,000 against the Metropolitan 

 Street Railway Company for the death of Capt. 

 Rhodes, of the 7th Regiment. He successfully 

 defended Russell Sage in the suit for $100,000 

 damages brought against him by William R. 

 Laidlaw, who was injured when Norcross threw 

 a bomb in Sage's office. 



Janes, Lewis George, political economist, 

 born in Providence, R. I., Feb. 19, 1844; died in 

 Greenacre, Me., Sept. 5, 1901. He was graduated 

 .at the Providence High School, and afterward re- 

 ceived the degree of M. A. from Brown University. 

 He was president of the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Ethical 

 Association from 1885 to 1896; instructor in his- 

 tory in Adelphi Academy in 1894 and 1895; and 

 lecturer on sociology and civics in the School of 

 Political Science, Brooklyn, from 1893 to 1896. 

 In 1896 he removed to Cambridge, Mass., to be- 

 come the director of the Cambridge Conference 

 and the Monsalvat School of Comparative Reli- 

 gion, Greenacre, Me. He was president of -the 

 Free Religious Association of America after 1899. 

 In addition to his lectures and contributions to 

 periodicals, Prof. Janes published A Study of 

 Primitive Christianity (1887); Evolution of Mor- 

 als (1889) ; Scope and Principles of the Evolution 

 Philosophy (1890); Life as a Fine Art (1891); 

 The Problem of City Government (1892); War 

 and Progress (1893) ; Cosmic Evolution as related 

 to Ethics (1895) ; Samuel Gorton. First Settler of 

 Warwick, R. I. (1896); Social Ideals and Social 

 Progress (1899); and Health and a Day (1901). 



Jasper, John, negro clergyman, born in Flu- 

 vanna County, Florida, July 4, 1812; died in 

 Richmond, Va., March 30, 1901. He was the 

 youngest of 24 children, and in his boyhood 

 worked on the plantations with the other slaves. 

 On his twenty-seventh birthday he was converted, 

 and on the 25th of the same month united with 



the church, lie at once s 1< ;mi to 



read, that he might be al.l.- i - . Scrip- 



tures, and after seven month.-, 

 a spelling-book, assisted by an 

 William Jackson, he advane-'d . 

 preach in the neighborhood on 

 said that during the civil war lie \ 

 visitor to the wounded in the Coin 

 near his master's home. His first pastoia! 

 was in Petersburg, where he is said on 

 sion to have baptized 300 candidates in two hour 

 He served several negro churches in Richmond 

 and other cities, and soon after the civil w.u 

 became the pastor of the Sixth Mount '/Aon iiap- 

 tist Church, of Richmond. In 1868 his congrega- 

 tion bought a neat brick edifice, which has since 

 been remodeled. The church has a membership 

 of more than 2,000, and has long been prosperous. 

 There he first delivered the " sun do move " ser- 

 mon which made him famous. This sermon was 

 based on Exodus xv, 3 : " The Lord is a man of 

 war; the Lord is his name," and in it the preacher 

 held that " we live on a four-cornered earth," 

 around which the sun moves. " The Bible says 

 the sun stood still," he announced dogmatically. 

 " Is anybody going to say the sun was standing 

 still before Joshua told it to stand still? Do you 

 think Joshua would have asked the privilege to 

 stop the sun if she had not been moving? This 

 morning when the sun rose she was over there 

 [pointing to the east]. How in the name of God 

 could the sun get from that side of the house 

 over to this [pointing to the west] unless it 

 moved? Now, Solomon was certainly a scholar. 

 Do you know he was the man who said, ' The 

 sun ariseth and goeth down and hasteneth back 

 to the place she moved from ' ? It is nonsense to 

 say that the sun does not move. Every man who 

 ever read the Bible knows the sun do move." 

 This sermon was published in a local paper, and 

 was copied all over the country and throughout 

 Europe. In some foreign quarters it was taken 

 seriously, and many ludicrous discussions re- 

 sulted. Jasper refused offers of lecture engage- 

 ments, but by request repeated his famous ser- 

 mon many times, and up to the time of his death 

 the announcement that he would preach from the 

 text " The Lord is a man of war " was enough 

 to fill the church to overflowing. 



Joos, Edward, clergyman, born in Somergem, 

 Belgium, April 9, 1825; died in Monroe, Mich., 

 May 18, 1901. He completed the classical course 

 in the College of Thiel, studied at the Seminary 

 of Ghent, and was ordained in the Cathedral 

 there, June 17, 1848. In September, 1856, he 

 came to the United States and was stationed at 

 St. Anne's Church, Detroit, till Nov. 5, 1857, 

 when he was appointed pastor of St. Mary's par- 

 ish, Monroe, Mich., and placed in charge of the 

 newly organized Congregation Sisters, Servants 

 of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. There he was 

 identified for nearly half a century with the work 

 of Catholic education, building up not only an 

 institution of learning, but a community of 

 trained teachers as well. When Bishop Borgess 

 resigned, in 1887, Father Joos was again ap- 

 pointed administrator by Rome, which office he 

 held till the consecration of the Right Rev. 

 Bishop Foley, who on his first visit to St. Mary's 

 Academy, Dec. 3, 1888, named Father Joos vicar- 

 general of the diocese. In recognition of his serv- 

 ices to the Church and to the cause of education, 

 Leo XIII, in April, 1889, conferred upon him the 

 title of Monsignor, Domestic Prelate of the Pope. 



Kellogg, Elijah, clergyman and author, born 

 in Portland, Me., May 20, 1813; died in Harpswell, 

 Me., March 17, 1901. He was graduated at Bow- 



