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JUNCKER, HENRY D. 



JUNKIN, GEORGE. 



which attained a wide popularity. He had 

 also been engaged with several others for some 

 years on a translation of, and commentary on, 

 several books of the Old Testament. He had 

 nearly prepared for the press, at the time of 

 his death, a German work on synonyms. He 

 had been a frequent and always able con- 

 tributor to the Methodist Quarterly Review. 

 Through his whole public life, from his grad- 

 uation to his death, he had been occupied as a 

 teacher, so that he had never entered into the 

 pastoral relation ; he was very popular and in- 

 teresting as a preacher. In social life, he was 

 courteous, gentle, and remarkable for the sua- 

 vity of his manners. His thorough and accurate 

 scholarship, his genial manners, and his aptness 

 in teaching, permanently fitted him for the 

 positions as professor and president which he 

 had filled with such success through a period 

 of twenty-nine years. 



JUNCKER, Rt. Rev. HENEY DAMIAN, D. D., 

 Roman Catholic Bishop of Alton, 111., born in 

 Fenetrange, diocese of Nancy, Lorraine, France, 

 about 1810; died at Alton, October 2, 1868. 

 Dr. Juncker was of German family, and emi- 

 grated to the United States in early youth. His 

 ecclesiastical studies were conducted in Cin- 

 cinnati, and for a considerable portion of his 

 seminary life he was engaged in the instruction 

 of youth in connection with the prosecution of 

 his own studies. He was ordained priest by 

 Archbishop Purcell, March 16, 1834, and his 

 first charge was the First German Catholic 

 congregation of Cincinnati. Some years later 

 he was transferred to St. John's Church, Can- 

 ton, Ohio, and, subsequent to 1850, to Dayton, 

 Ohio. When a new diocese was erected in 

 Illinois, having Alton for its central point, Dr. 

 Juncker was appointed its first bishop, and con- 

 secrated as such by Archbishop Purcell, April 

 26, 1857. He entered upon the duties of the 

 episcopate with great zeal and energy, estab- 

 lishing schools, convents, and institutions of 

 charity, and erecting a beautiful cathedral and 

 episcopal residence. In all these enterprises 

 he carefully avoided involving the diocese in 

 debt, and ere his long and painful final illness 

 commenced he had the satisfaction of seeing 

 his charge prosperous, and enjoying a rapid 

 growth in numbers and intelligence, and free 

 from all incumbrances. 



JUNKIN, GEOEGE, D.D., LL. D., an emi- 

 nent Presbyterian minister, author, and college 

 president, born near Kingston, Cumberland 

 County, Pa., November 1, 1Y90 ; died in Phila- 

 delphia, May 20, 1868. He was of Scotch- 

 Irish extraction on both the father's and moth- 

 er's side. His early education was conducted 

 by his parents, and in schools in the vicinity 

 of his home. In 1806 the family removed to 

 Mercer County, then a frontier settlement, and 

 there, with such opportunities as could be had, 

 he completed his preparation for college, and 

 in 1809 entered Jefferson College, graduating 

 with distinction in 1813. The war with Great 

 Britain commenced while he was in college, 



and he was as patriotic then as when, fifty 

 years later, he abandoned home, property, and 

 friends, for the sake of the Union. Some yet 

 living remember his eloquent appeals to the 

 people of Mercer to volunteer in that war, and 

 his rejoicing that four of his own family were 

 enrolled among the defenders of their country. 

 In October, 1813, Mr. Junkm set out on horse- 

 back for the then distant city of New York, 

 where he spent the next three years in study- 

 ing theology under the learned and eloquent 

 Dr. John M. Mason. In September, 1816, he 

 was licensed to preach by the Associate Re- 

 formed Presbytery of Monongahela, but was 

 not ordained till 1818, and soon after settled as 

 pastor of the united congregations of Milton 

 and McEwensville, Pa. In 1825 a union was 

 formed between a part of the Associate Re- 

 formed Church and the Presbyterian Church, 

 and Mr. Junkin became a member of the latter. 

 About this time he edited for some years the 

 Religious Farmer, a bi-monthly magazine, and 

 took an active part in the establishment of the 

 Milton Academy, for many years a famous in- 

 stitution in that part of Pennsylvania. In 

 1830 he was called to be principal of the Penn- 

 sylvania Manual Labor Academy at German- 

 town, Philadelphia County. In 1832 he ac- 

 cepted the presidency of Lafayette College at 

 Easton, Pa., then just organized, and mainly 

 through his efforts. Here he labored most 

 zealously and effectively for nine years, ex- 

 pending upon it incalculable toil of body and 

 mind, and much of his private means. In 

 1841, when almost exhausted with his labors 

 at Easton, he was offered the presidency of 

 Miami University, Ohio, and accepted it. There 

 in the following three years he accomplished a 

 great work in inaugurating discipline, and ele- 

 vating the standard of scholarship. In 1844 

 he was recalled to Lafayette College by the 

 unanimous vote of the trustees, and resumed 

 his labors there with all his former zeal and 

 success. In 1848 he was called to preside over 

 Washington College, Lexington, Va., the same 

 institution of which General Robert E. Lee is 

 now president, and continued there until 1861, 

 when, on account of his attachment to the 

 Union and Government, he left his posi- 

 tion, his home, his property,. his friends, and a 

 part of his own family, and came to the North 

 for protection. For the next seven years he 

 made his home mostly in Philadelphia, though 

 some time was spent at Easton, where the 

 trustees of Lafayette College, to show their 

 sense of his great services to that institution, 

 had made him Emeritus Professor, and in New 

 York, where he was welcomed by a -wide circle 

 of friends, and where he put forth some of his 

 best efforts in behalf of the Union, temper- 

 ance, and the observance of the Sabbath. He 

 had, during his previous active and laborious 

 life, found time for the preparation of several 

 works of a theological and religious character ; 

 but during these last seven years his pen had 

 been busier than ever, and he produced sev- 



