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these plans. They engaged to try the experi- 

 ment, and an agreement was signed by repre- 

 sentatives of the three largest furnaces in the 

 neighborhood, by which the expenses were to 

 be shared between them in case the attempt 

 proved a failure. The Kurds were successful, 

 however, and erected the first hot-blast oven 

 in the United States, which gave an impetus 

 to the development of the iron industry. 



Irwiii, William, an American legislator, born 

 in Union Township, Butler County, Ohio, in 

 1827 ; died in San Francisco, Cal., March 15, 

 1886. He was educated at Carey's Academy, 

 near Cincinnati, and at Marietta College, being 

 graduated at the latter in 1848, and spending 

 the next three years teaching in Port Gibson, 

 Miss., and at Marietta College. He began the 

 study of law in Chicago, but, disliking it, went 

 to California in 1852, and, after passing two 

 years in Oregon, settled in Yreka, Siskiyou 

 County, Cal., engaging in mining, lumbering, 

 and publishing a newspaper. In 1861 he en- 

 tered public life, being elected a member of 

 the Legislature, and was re-elected in the fol- 

 lowing year. In 1865 he was defeated for 

 county collector. In 1866-'67 he published 

 the "Yreka Union." In 1869 and 1873 he was 

 elected to the State Senate, and was president 

 pro tern, during his second term ; in 1874, 

 when Gov. Booth, elected to the U. S. Senate, 

 was succeeded by Lieut.-Gov. Pacheco, he be- 

 came Lieutenant-Governor; and in 1875 he was 

 elected Governor as a Democrat, for the term 

 ending in December, 1879. 



Jack, Alexander I?., an American clergyman, 

 born in Scotland, in 1834; died in Hazleton, 

 Pa., May 21, 1886. He came to America at an 

 early age, completed his studies for the minis- 

 try at the Presbyterian Theological Seminary 

 in Newburg, N. Y., and became pastor of the 

 Union Church in that city when twenty-one 

 years old; in 1869 removed to Danville, Pa., 

 where he remained two years, and then set- 

 tled in Hazleton. He was a fine pulpit orator. 



Jameson, Senar E., an American agriculturist, 

 born in 1835 ; died in Irasburg, Vt., Jan. 4, 

 1886. He was a practical agriculturist of wide 

 reputation, and a popular writer on agricultu- 

 ral topics. He had been a member of the Leg- 

 islature and of the State Board of Agriculture, 

 and also a member and lecturer of the State 

 Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, with 

 which organization he identified himself from 

 its inception. 



Johnson, Rowland, an American abolitionist, 

 born in Germantown, Pa., May 24, 1816; died 

 in West Orange, N. J., Sept. 25, 1886. His 

 parents were members of the Society of 

 Friends, and in early life he was a preacher of 

 that sect. In 1850 he removed to New York 

 city, and engaged in business as a broker and 

 commission -merchant in China and East India 

 goods, occupying premises in Beaver Street for 

 a period of thirty-three years. At the begin- 

 ning of the abolition movement he became one 

 of its most prominent supporters, and was at 



one time the leader of the Anti-slavery party 

 in New York. He was an ardent admirer of 

 William Lloyd Garrison, and co-operated effi- 

 ciently with him in his great work ; was one 

 of the first members of the Union League Club 

 of New York ; was a member of the National 

 Silk Association of America; and was active 

 and liberal in works of charity and reform. 



Jndson, Edward Z. Ct, an American author, 

 born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1822 ; died in 

 Stamford, Delaware County, N. Y., July 16, 

 1886. His father, a lawyer, undertook to edu- 

 cate him for the bar ; but when eleven years 

 old he ran away to sea as a cabin-boy, and in 

 the following year entered the Government 

 service as an apprentice, on board a man-of- 

 war. When only thirteen years old, he res- 

 cued the crew of a boat run down by a Fulton 

 ferry-boat in the East River, and for this meri- 

 torious conduct President Van Buren sent him 

 a commission as midshipman in the navy. Re- 

 porting for duty, he was assigned to the " Le- 

 vant " ; and soon challenged the other mid- 

 shipmen to fight, for refusing to mess with 

 him because he had been a common sailor. He 

 succeeded in getting seven duels on his hands, 

 from all of which he escaped without a scratch. 

 These events gave him the reputation of being 

 the best shot in the navy. During the civil 

 war he was chief of scouts among the Indians, 

 with the rank of colonel, and received twenty 

 wounds seven of which were sustained in bat- 

 tle. His first effort as a story-writer was made 

 in 1838, when his " Captain's Pig " was pub- 

 lished in the " Knickerbocker Magazine." He 

 became the editor of a weekly story- paper 

 called " Ned Buntline's Own," and during the 

 Macready riots he was arrested for having in- 

 cited the outbreak against the tragedian in his 

 paper. For this he was sentenced in Septem- 

 ber, 1849, to a year's imprisonment on Black- 

 well's Island, and a fine of $250. After his re- 

 lease he became a prolific writer, under the 

 pen-name of Ned Buntline, of sensational sto- 

 ries for the weekly papers, producing in all, it 

 was estimated, 400 distinct serials. He was an 

 incessant worker, commanding an average of 

 $2,000 for a story running through twelve 

 numbers of the " New York Ledger " or the 

 " New York Weekly," and having a pen-in- 

 come for many years of $20,000 per annum. 

 He was a temperance man in theory and prac- 

 tice, frequently relieving himself of the strain 

 of story-writing by delivering lectures on the 

 subject. In politics he was an ardent Repub- 

 lican until Mr. Blaine was nominated for the 

 presidency, when he entered the canvass as a 

 supporter of Gov. Cleveland. 



Kalisch, Isidor, an American clergyman, born 

 in Krotoschin, duchy of Posen, Prussia, Nov. 

 15, 1816; died in Newark, N. J., May 11, 

 1886. In his ninth year he was remarkably 

 proficient in Talmudical and Hebrew learning. 

 After studying theology, philology, and phi- 

 losophy in the Universities of Berlin, Breslau, 

 and Prague, he entered upon his ministerial 



