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Mr. Powderly, then the head of the Knights of 

 Labor, was opposed to the strike, and this eventu- 

 ally led to his retirement from the leadership of 

 the organization. Irons entered the contest for 

 tin* presidency, but failed of election. 



Jackson, Henry Melville, clergyman, born in 

 Leesburg, Va., July 28, 1848; died, May 4, 1900. 

 He was educated at the Virginia Military Insti- 

 tute and at the Virginia Theological Seminary, in 

 Alexandria, and after taking deacon's orders in the 

 Episcopal Church, in 1873, he was admitted to the 

 priesthood the next year. He was in charge suc- 

 cessively of Montgomery parish, Virginia, and 

 Christ Church, Greenville, S. C., and was rector 

 of Grace Church, Richmond, Va., in 1876-'91. He 

 was one of the editors of the Southern Pulpit, 

 afterward united with the Pulpit Treasury, and 

 for a time was on the editorial staff of the South- 

 ern Churchman. In January, 1891, he was conse- 

 crated Bishop Coadjutor of Alabama, which office 

 he resigned in April, 1900. 



Jessing', Joseph, educator, born in Miinster, 

 Westphalia, Nov. 17, 1836; died in Columbus, 

 Ohio, Nov. 2, 1899. He entered the Prussian 

 army at an early age, and attended the royal 



military academy. 

 In 1860 he gave 

 up his military 

 studies for an ec- 

 clesiastical career, 

 but he returned 

 to the army to 

 serve through 

 the Schleswig-Hol- 

 stein War of 1864 

 and the Austrian 

 War of 1866. He 

 then resolved to 

 devote himself to 

 missionary work, 

 and came to the 

 United States. He 

 completed his the- 

 ological course at 

 Mount St. Mary's 

 of the West, was 



ordained, and began his labors in Columbus, 

 Ohio. Afterward he was assigned to the 

 charge of the Sacred Heart Church, in Pom- 

 eroy, Ohio. There he began the publication 

 of a journal, entitled Ohio Waisenfreund, the 

 profits of which he devoted to the support and 

 education of homeless orphan boys. The venture 

 was very successful, and in 1875 he established an 

 orphan asylum in Pomeroy. Two years later he 

 gave up his parochial charge, and removed to Co- 

 lumbus, where he began at once the work of build- 

 ing up an institution that now covers an entire 

 square and is entitled the Pontificium Collegium 

 Josepninum de Propaganda Fide. It has 11 fine 

 buildings, and comprises an orphanage, a house for 

 the Franciscan Sisters, who attend to the domestic 

 duties that arise in connection with the institu- 

 tion, a college for theological training, an indus- 

 trial school of art, a printing office, and mechan- 

 ical workshops. Father Jessing also purchased 100 

 SXTCS near Columbus for farm work, where sup- 

 plies are raised for the institution. Students who 

 are unable to pay for tuition receive it free. In 

 1892 the Congregation for the Propagation of the 

 Faith gave the college canonical constitutions, and 

 this action was ratified by Pope Leo XIII. It is 

 also incorporated under the laws of Ohio, and has 

 power to confer degrees. It now has about 170 

 students. In 1894 Father Jessing was appointed 

 to the dignity of domestic prelate, which gave him 

 the title of Monsignor. 



Jones, Alfred, engraver, born in Liverpool, 

 England, April 7, 1819; died in New York 

 city, April 29, 1900. He carne to New York 

 in 1824. He apprenticed himself to a firm of 

 bank-note engravers, and when still a young man 

 he was put in full charge of the engraving de- 

 partment. Mr. Jones made many of the best 

 plates used by New York publishers of half a cen- 

 tury ago. His first piece of art work to attract 

 attention was The Proposal, engraved for Gra- 

 ham's Magazine. In 1839 he took a first prize in 

 the New York Academy of Design for a drawing 

 from Thorwaldsen's Mercury. The Proposal and 

 The Farmer's Wooing also took first prizes. In 

 1846 he went to Europe and spent several months 

 in perfecting himself in engraving. After 1848 he 

 devoted himself almost entirely to bank-note 

 engraving. He designed the 2-cent, 30-cent, 

 4-dollar, and 5-dollar postage stamps in the 

 Columbian series for the American Bank Note 

 Company. In 1841 he was made an associate and 

 in 1851 a full member of the National Academy 

 of Design, and he was for many years its secre- 

 tary and treasurer. Among his engravings are 

 The Image Breaker, after Leutze, a half-sitting 

 sketch of Adoniram Judson; William Cullen Bry- 

 ant; The Capture of Major Andre, after Durand; 

 Sparking, after Edmonds; The New Scholar, after 

 Edmonds; and Mexican News, after Woodrich. 

 Among his later works were a large portrait of 

 George Washington, and two portraits of Thomas 

 Carlyle for the Grolier Club, New York. 



Jones, Patrick Henry, lawyer, born in the 

 county of Westmeath, Ireland, Nov. 20, 1830 ; died 

 in Port Richmond, N. Y., July 23, 1900. He came 

 to the United States in 1840, and worked on his 

 father's farm in Cattaraugus County, New York. 

 In 1850 he became connected with a New Y'ork 

 paper as correspondent, and later he was local 

 editor of the Buffalo Republic. In 1853 he gave 

 up journalism to study law, and in 1856 was ad- 

 mitted to practice at Ellicottville, N. Y. At the 

 outbreak of the civil war he enlisted in the 37th 

 New York Regiment as second lieutenant. He 

 was promoted to adjutant and then to major of 

 that regiment, and was made colonel of the 154th 

 New York Regiment, Oct. 8, 1862. He was 

 wounded and taken prisoner at Chancellorsville, 

 and after his exchange, in October, 1863, served 

 in the West and in the Atlanta campaign, and in 

 June, 1864, was assigned to the command of a 

 brigade. He was commissioned brigadier general 

 of volunteers, Dec. 4, 1864. In June, 1865, he 

 returned to his law practice. In 1865 he was 

 elected clerk of the Court of Appeals of New York 

 State, which office he held three years. April 1, 

 1869, he was appointed postmaster of New York 

 city, and he served as such during President 

 Grant's first term, after which he again returned 

 to his law practice. In 1875 he was appointed 

 register of the city and county of New York, and 

 he held the office three years. 



Judd. Albert Francis, jurist, born in Hono- 

 lulu, Hawaiian Islands, Jan. 7, 1838; died there 

 May 20, 1900. His father was Dr. Gerrit Parmele 

 Judd, a medical missionary under the auspices of 

 the American Board. Chief-Justice Judd was 

 graduated at Yale University in 1862, aqd at 

 Harvard Law School in 1864. He returned to 

 Honolulu and began the practice of law. From 

 1868 till 1872 he served in the Hawaiian Legisla- 

 ture. In 1873 he was made Attorney-General by 

 King Lunalilo. The following year he became 

 a justice of the Supreme Court, and since 1881 

 had been Chief Justice. In comment upon this 

 court, in a letter to a friend, he wrote: "I feel 

 that no court has ever had such a diversified num- 





