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icntly studied ur Princeton and . \in lover The- 



.! Seminary, lie held pastorates lor nine yearn 



in-, Atchison, anil Kinporia, KUII. ; became it 



regent it' tlic Kansas Siatr University and a trustee 



hliuril <'O||CL:C, and IV 1.VS7 \vus I'lV.-i.lrlit of 



l>niry College at Springfield, Mo. Ho was a brother 

 'iited Stall ^ Senator In^alls. 



Irving, Levin, T.H,, Jurist, born April K, 1*28; died 

 in I'rin. v.-s Ann.-, Md., Aug. _'!, IV.'L'. llo was g rad- 

 ii Princeton, in 1-l'i; \MIS admitted to the bar 

 .and practiced in Salisbury tor seven years; 

 then spent (me your in Cincinnati, returning to his 

 home in 1857. Ill 1807 lie was eleeted assp- 

 . 'late judirc of the Court of Appeals of Maryland; in 

 April, 1>7'.', was appointed chief judge to till u va- 

 .anev ; and in November, following, he was elected 

 otliee fora term of fifteen years. 



Jackson, A. Beeves, physician, born in Philadelphia 

 in lM-'7 ; died in Chicago. 111., Nov. 12, 1892. lie rc- 

 a public-school education, was graduated in 

 medicine at Pennyslvauia College in 1848, and prac- 

 11 Stroudsburg, Pa.,till the beginning of the civil 

 war, \\ lien he entered the national army as a surgeon. 

 I luring his service he was for some time medical di- 

 of the forces in Virginia. After the war ho 

 resumed practice in Stroudsburg till 1870, when ho 

 removed to Chicago. His flrst year there was spent 

 in orirani/ing the Woman's Hospital of Illinois, 

 whieli was incorporated in September, 1871, and of 

 which he became surgeon-general. He subsequently 

 was appointed lecturer on gynaecology in the Rush 

 Medical College. During his residence in Chicago, 

 notwithstanding his extensive hospital duties and his 

 large private practice, he wrote considerably for pub- 

 lication, and was editor of the "Medical Register." 

 At the time of his death he was President of the 

 America!. A ssociation of Gynaecologists. Dr. Jackson 

 wax the original" My Friend, the doctor," in Mark 

 Twain's " Innocents Abroad." 



Jackson, Richard H., military officer, born in Ireland, 

 .Inly 14, iv.o; d_ied in Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 28, 1892. 

 lie entered the United States army as a private, Dec. 

 I-', ls51, and received several promotions prior to 

 Sept 13, 1859, when he was brevetted 2d lieutenant 

 4th United States Artillery. He was promoted 2d 

 lieutenant 1st Artillery, July 15, I860; 1st lieutenant, 

 May 14, IM'.I ; captain, Feb. 20, 1862; major, 5th Ar- 

 tillery, July 1, 1880 ; and lieutenant-colonel 4th Ar- 

 tillery, Dec. 4, 1888. In the volunteer service he was 

 lieutenant-colonel and assistant inspector-general 

 from April 15, 1863, till May 23, 1865; was promoted 

 brigadier-general May 19, and brevetted major-gen- 

 eral Nov. 24, 1865; and was mustered out of the 

 volunteer service Nov. 1, 1866. During the civil war 

 he received brevets of major, May 15, 1864, for gallant 

 and meritorious services in the battle of Drury's 

 Hlntl'; lieutenant-colonel, Oct. 7, for the action at 

 Newmarket Heights; brigadier-general of volunteers, 

 Jan. 1, 1865, for service in the campaign of 1864 ; col- 

 onel and brigadier-general, March 13, for services in 

 the field during the war; and major-general of volun- 

 teers, Nov. 24, for gallantry through the war. Ho 

 took part in the defense of Fort Pickens, Fla., in 1861, 

 and in the operations against Fort Stimter in ISIJ'J and 

 1868; and was acting chief of artillery in the Armv 

 of the James in 1865. In the campaign closing with 

 the. surrender at Appomattox Courthouse he com- 

 manded the 3d division of the 25th Army Corps. 

 After the war lie was stationed at various forts iti the 

 vicinity of New York city, had command of the de- 

 tachment of the :>th Artillery at Mount McGregor at 

 the time of lien. Grant's death, and several times was 

 detailed as inspector of the New York State Military 

 i 'amp of Instruction. While at Mount McGregor, he, 

 with another otlicer, was struck by lightning, from the 

 effects of which lie never recovered. At thetiuie of 

 his death he was stationed at Fort McPherson. 



Jardine, David, architect, l>orn near Whithorn, Scot- 

 land, July 25, 1880; died in Larehmont, N. Y., May 

 -'.' His father was an architect and builder, 

 with whom he learned the building trade. In 1850 



he came to New York, and opened an architectural 

 (Mice with Kdward G. Thompson, with whom he re- 

 mained till the beginning of UM civil war. After the 



war he formed a partnership with h'm brother, John 

 Jardine, and nuhscqiu-ntly admitted to il 

 Jardine and John 11. Van Norden. Among the build- 

 ings erected after the plans of this firm are the West- 

 minster Presbyterian Church, in Brooklyn; the origi- 

 nal Firth Avenue Theatre in New York city ; the 

 Harlem Presbyterian Chun-h, the Memorial Presby- 

 terian, and the Fourth Presbyterian Chun-hew. and the 

 Synagogue Anshi i'hesed, New York city; a Baptist 

 home for the a:.'ed,the Hebrew Home, the Methodist 

 Home, the Ophthalmic Hospital, the University Medi- 

 cal College, the Training Schools for Nurses, the 

 Home for the Aged of the Little Sisters of the Poor, 

 the American Horse Exchange, the Town Hall at 

 Stamford, Conn., and the" Walbruham," in New York. 

 Johnson, Bradish, sugar planter, born on Wood lawn 

 Plantation, La., April 22, 1811; died in Bay Shore, 

 Long Island, N. Y., Nov. 3, 1892. He was graduated 

 at Columbia College, became connected with bin 

 father in the distillery business, subsequently en- 

 gaged in sugar planting and refining, and at the time 

 of his death owned three large sugar plantations near 

 New Orleans, besides the building of the Lotos Club 

 and much other property in New York city. In the 

 early part of the civil war, and before President Lin- 

 coln issued his emancipation proclamation, he freed 

 all his slaves; and when the United States vessels first 

 went up the Mississippi river he raised the American 

 flag on Woodlawn Plantation, and kept it flying 

 there during the remainder of the war. 



, Samuel, jurist, born in New York city in 

 1825; died in P'oughkcepsie, N. Y., Aug. 11, 1892. 

 He was a grandson of Samuel Jones, a member of the 

 convention that framed the Federal Constitution, and 

 a son of Samuel Jones, who became Chancellor of the 

 State in 1826, flrst chief justice of the Superior 

 Court of New York city in 1828. and presiding jus- 

 tice of the Supreme Court in the district of New i ork 

 city in 1848. The third Samuel Jones studied law 

 with his father, was admitted to the bar soon after 

 reaching his majority, and was Judge of the Superior 

 Court of New York from January, 1866, till January, 

 1872. In August, 1889, he succeeded Nathaniel Jar- 

 vis, Jr., as Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of 

 New York citv, and, owing to the exactness with 

 which he conducted the business of his office, his 

 resignation was sought by Tammany leaders and was 

 tendered in June, 1892. Ho was aorother-in-law of 

 Judges Joseph F. Barnard and George G. Barnard. 

 Though ho was contemporary on the Superior Court 

 bench with Judge McCue, who wits impeached for 

 participation in the frauds of the Tweed ring, and on 

 terms of intimacy with the Tammany leaders of that 

 day, no suspicion ever attached to Ins integrity. On 

 his retirement from the bench he co-operated with 

 ex-Judge Spencer in publishing " Jones and Spencer's 

 Law Reports of the Common Pleas." 



Joy, Edmund Lewis, merchant horn in Albany, N. Y., 

 Oct. 1, 1835; died in Newark, N. .1.. Feb. J4, 1898. 

 IK- was a descendant of Thomas Jov. who came to 

 the United States with Winthrop in 1630, and, on hw 

 mother's side, of Anthony Stoddard, who came to 

 America in \>'<W. In 1850 he accompanied his parent* 

 to Newark, llo was graduated at the University of 

 Rochester in 185fi, was admitted to the bar in New 

 York city in 18f>7, and practiced in Ottumwa. Iowa, 

 till the Snaking out of the civil war. Durinir his 

 residence in Ottumwa he served a tonii as city at- 

 torney, and became active as a Republican spvakcr. 

 In the early part of the w-ar he was engaged in rais- 

 ing troom tor the national nnnv: in 18A3- he was 

 commissioned colonel of the 26th Iowa Infantry, with 

 which he took part in many battles up to the capture 

 of Vicksburir; and in 186* he was ap[>omtod a judge 

 advocate and assigned to duty in the 7tli Army Corps, 

 with headquarters at Little Book, Ark. He had much 

 to do in the administration of justice in Arkansas and 

 in Indian Territory, and later in the work of noon- 



