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OBITUAKIES, AMEKICAN. (Huxi JE\VETT.) 



Canandaigua, N. Y., Doc. 13, 1898. He removed 

 with his parents to western New York in 1884. and 

 was graduated at Geneva Medical College in 1847. 

 In 1862 he was appointed assistant surgeon of the 

 126th New York Regiment, and in 1864 he was pro- 

 moted to surgeon of the 39th Regiment. While on 

 duty with the 126th Regiment he was taken prisoner 

 at Harper's Ferry, but he was soon exchanged. He 

 was with the 39th Regiment from Gettysburg to 

 Appomattox, and was mustered out of the service 

 at the close of the war. In 1852, and again in 1867, 

 he represented Yates County in the Assembly of 

 New York. During the latter year, as Chairman of 

 the Committee on State Charitable Institutions, he 

 succeeded in having passed a law establishing a 

 State Board of Charities, of which in 1868 he, was 

 made secretary, an office that he occupied till, in 

 1894. he became Superintendent of State and Alien 

 Poor. His most important work while secretary 

 was the execution of the State pauper act of 1873, 

 and the alien poor act of 1880. Owing to his 

 efforts in enforcing the latter act more than 3,500 

 infirm alien paupers were returned to their native 

 countries between 1880 and 1898, and the whole 

 number of removals to other countries and to other 

 States of the Union under both acts was 27.752 

 between 1873 and 1898. He gave his personal at- 

 tention to nearly all such removals, and thus saved 

 the State of New York an expenditure estimated at 

 $42,628.000. The State Board of Charities in its 

 annual report for 1896 commended his work in the 

 highest terms and declared that no criticism or 

 complaint of his conduct had ever been made. 

 He was an active agent in the opening of the Craig 

 Colony for Epileptics in 1894. He prepared many 

 papers on immigration. In 1874 he was an organizer 

 of the National Conference of Charities and Correc- 

 tion, and he was elected president of it in 1888. 



Hunt, Albert Sanford, clergyman, born in 

 Amenia, N. Y., July 3, 1827: died in Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., Sept. 11, 1898. He studied at Amenia Semi- 

 nary and was graduated at Wesleyan University in 

 1851, where he served as tutor and Adjunct Pro- 

 fessor of Moral Science till 1855. In 1859 he joined 

 the New York East Conference, his first pastorate 

 being the old Nathan Bangs's (now New York Ave- 

 nue) Church, Brooklyn. He was successively pastor 

 of the South Fifth Street, First Place, Washington 

 Street, Hanson Place, and Pacific Street Churches. 

 In 1872, 1874, and 1884 he was elected to the General 

 Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church ; in 

 1874 was chairman of the fraternal delegation to 

 the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal 

 Church, South, at Louisville, Ky., and in 1886 went 

 to England as delegate to the British Wesleyan 

 Conference. In 1878 he was elected corresponding 

 secretary of the American Bible Society, and he held 

 this office till his death. In his official capacity he 

 presented the Bible cause in every State and Ter- 

 ritory in the United States. (See GIFTS AND BE- 

 QUESTS.) 



Hurt. Ashley D., educator, born in Petersburg, 

 Va., in 1834; died in New Orleans, La., March 10, 

 1898. He was graduated at the I'niversity of Vir- 

 ginia and the University of Gottingen, Germany; 

 was for some time principal of the high school 'at 

 Louisville, Ky.. the Florida Agricultural College, at 

 Lake City, and Tulane High School, at New Or- 

 leans, and since 1894 had been Professor of Greek 

 in Tulane University. Prof. Hurt held high rank 

 as a Greek scholar. 



Jackson, Henry Rootes, military officer, born 

 in Athens, Ga., June 24, 1820; died in Savannah. 

 Ga., May 23. 1808. He was a son of Prof. Henry 

 Jackson. of the University of Georgia : was gradu- 

 ated at Yale College in is:?!. was admittnl to the 

 bar in 1840, and settled in Savannah. In 1843 he 



was appointed United States district attorney for 

 Georgia. He served'in the Mexican War as colonel 

 of the 1st Georgia Volunteers, and after its close 

 was for a year editor and part owner of " The Geor- 

 gian," of Savannah. The Legislature in 1849 elected 

 him judge of the Superior Court for the Eastern 

 Circuit for the term of four years, and in May. 

 1853, he was appointed United States cJiaryi' 

 d'affaires at the court of Austria. In 1804 the gradu 

 of the mission was raised, and he served as minister 

 resident till his resignation, in July, 1858. Soon 

 after his return he was commissioned by the Fed- 

 eral Government to assist the United States district 

 attorney of Georgia in prosecuting notorious slave- 

 trading cases, in which he encountered the opposi- 

 tion of a large popular sentiment. On the seces- 

 sion of his State he was appointed major general in 

 command of the State militia, and in August, 1861, 

 he entered the Confederate army as brigadier gen- 

 eral. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Nash- 

 ville, in December, 1864, and was held till the close 

 of the war. He then resumed law practice in Sa- 

 vannah. From 1875 till 1888 he was a trustee of 

 the Pcabody Education fund, and from 1872 till 

 his death was president of the Georgia Historical 

 Society. In March, 1885, he was appointed United 

 States minister to Mexico, but he resigned within a 

 few months, owing to a difference of opinion with 

 the Government relative to the course to be pur- 

 sued on the seizure of the American vessel "Rc-1 

 becca " by Mexicans. Gen. Jackson was author of 

 "Tallulah, and Other Poems" (Savannah, 1850). 

 and of several separate poems which have had a 

 large circulation in the South. His most popular 

 poem was " The Old Red Hills of Georgia," which 

 he wrote while serving in the Mexican War. 



Jewett, Hugh Judge, railroad president, born 

 in Deer Creek, Harford County. Md., July 1, 1817: 

 died in Augusta, Ga., March 6, 1898. He was edu- 

 cated at Hiram College, Ohio ; admitted to the bar 

 at Elkton. Md., in 1838; and engaged in practice at 

 St. Clairsville, Ohio, till 1848. In the last year he 

 removed to Zanesville, and became president of a 

 branch of the State Bank of Ohio. Soon afterward 

 through the influence of his elder brother Thomas, 

 he was elected president of the Central Ohio Rail- 

 road Company. Within a short time he became 

 one of the best-known lawyers in Ohio in matters 

 relating to commercial, banking, and railroad 

 affairs. In 1852 he was a Democratic presidential 

 elector, in 1853 was elected to the State Senate, 

 and in 1854 was appointed United States attor- 

 ney for the Southern District of Ohio. He wa. 4 - 

 credited with the organization of the Pittslmrg. 

 Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad : was one of the- 

 organizers of the Pennsylvania Railroad : and under- 

 took the construction of the Kansas Pacific and 

 other Western railroads. In 1871 he was appointed 

 general counsel of the Pennsylvania Railroad, am 

 in 1872 was elected to Congress. In June, 1874, 

 Peter H. Watson, who had been president of the 

 Erie Railway Company for two years, resigned tho 

 office. The English holders of the Erie bonds in- 

 vited Thomas A. Scott, then first vice-president of 

 the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, to accept tin- 

 office, and he had prepared to do so when the death 

 of President FranK Thompson advanced him to th - 

 head of that company. This event complicated thu 

 memorable struggle for control of the Hrie. Tin 1 

 English bondholders appealed to Col. Scrtt to sug- 

 gest a suitable man for their president, and h<' 

 recommended Mr. Jewel I. A contract was mado 

 with the latter, under which he resigned his seat in 

 Congress and assumed the presidency for a term of 

 ten years at a salary of $40.000 per annum and "ii 

 the immediate payment of $150,000 in a lump sum. 

 or $15,000 for each year of the contract . This was 



