JEFFERSONVILLE 



3136 



JEHU 



Here are also located the machine shops and 

 roundhouses of the Missouri Pacific Railway. 

 About 1,000 people are employed in the shop 

 factories and about 200 in an overall factory. 



Legally and officially, the city is known as 

 The City of Jefferson. It was founded in 1822, 

 and named for Thomas Jefferson. The first 

 legislature met here in 1826; it became the 

 county seat in 1828, and a city charter was 

 granted in 1839. E.S.A. 



JEFFERSONVILLE, IND., the county seat of 

 Clark County, situated in the southeastern part 

 of the state, 108 miles south of Indianapolis, 

 and on the Ohio River opposite the city of 

 Louisville, Ky., with which it is connected by 

 several bridges. It is on the Pittsburgh, Cin- 

 cinnati, Chicago & Saint Louis, the Louisville 

 & Northern, the Baltimore & Ohio Southwest- 

 ern, and the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago 

 Saint Louis railroads; it is also served by 

 interurban electric lines. In 1910 the popula- 

 tion was 10,412, and it was practically the same 

 in 1917. 



The elevated position of Jeffersonville, on 

 bluffs along the river, affords its residents fine 

 views of Louisville and the surrounding coun- 

 try. In the town are a United States quarter- 

 master's supply depot, the Indiana Reforma- 

 tory, the city and state reformatory libraries 

 and an orphans' home. Jeffersonville ships 

 quantities of strawberries, and has important 

 manufactories of river steamboats, freight and 

 passenger cars and foundry and machine-shop 

 products. 



The United States government established 

 Fort Tinney here in 1786, but it was abandoned 

 in 1791. A later settlement was incorporated 

 in 1815 and became a city in 1839. 



JEFFREYS, jcj'riz, GEORGE, LORD (1648- 

 1689), a judge of ill repute, who was called to 

 the bar in England in 166S and became a will- 

 ing tool of the Crown; was rewarded by special 

 favors from James, the heir to the throne, and 

 knighted soon after the latter became king as 

 James II. Lord Jeffreys took an active part 

 in the Popish Plot prosecutions and was made 

 Chief Justice of Chester and king's sergeant 

 in 1680; he was made a baronet in 1681, and 

 Chief Justice of the King's Bench in 1683. As 

 Jeffreys made his way through Dorset and 

 Somerset during the "Bloody Assize" he caused 

 320 rebels to be hanged, sentenced 840 to be 

 transported, and a greater number to be im- 

 prisoned and whipped. After the downfall of 

 James, Jeffreys attempted to escape, disguised 

 as a sailor, but was caught and sent to the 



Tower of London, where he died four months 

 later. 



JEHOSHAPHAT, ;'. honh 'a fat, one of the 

 best kings of Judah, whose prosperous reign 

 was blessed with riches and honor by the favor 

 of God, whom he worshiped. For five years 

 before the death of his pious father, Asa, he 

 appears to have been associated with the gov- 

 ernment, so his reign extended over twenty- 

 five years. Soon after Jehoshaphai became 

 sole ruler of his country he appointed a com- 

 mission to instruct the people of Judah con- 

 cerning God. The nation reached such a high 

 degree of piety that "the fear of the Lord 

 fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that 

 were round about Judah" (77 Chronicles XVI 1, 

 10). This was the climax of their prosper- 

 ity, for even the Philistines and Arabians, 

 instead of making war, brought presents and 

 tribute money to Jehoshaphat. His reign, 

 which ended in 850 B. c., when he was sixty 

 years old, stands out in marked contrast to the 

 succeeding reigns, characterized as they were 

 by idolatry; moral degradation and political 

 disaster. However, he sowed the seed of future 

 evil when he married his son Jehoram. who 

 was the successor to the throne, to the daughter 

 of Ahab, the idolatrous king of Israel. 



JEHO'VAH, in the Old Testament the sa- 

 cred name for God among the Hebrews, espe- 

 cially during the period of the prophets. At 

 the time of the patriarchs the name was known, 

 and it was revealed anew to Moses, but it was 

 not until the great awakening of the prophetic 

 spirit under Samuel that the true meaning of 

 Kcdccmer became attached to -it. The name 

 Elohim was frequently used by the psalmists, 

 but Jehovah had the deeper significance, -and 

 was regarded with great awe by many, who 

 avoided pronouncing the word by using instead 

 the term Adonai, meaning the Lord. See GOD. 



JE'HU, the founder of the fourth dynasty 

 of rulers in the kingdom of Israel, who as- 

 cended the throne in 842 B. c., after a wholesale 

 massacre of the family of the idolatrous king 

 Ahab. Although a son of Jehoshaphat, the 

 king of Judah, he entered the service of Ahab 

 as a soldier and served for twelve years, when 

 F.lisha. the pvat prophet of God, sent a mes- 

 senger to anoint him king of Israel. To obtain 

 the throne, Jehu led the soldiers whom he 

 commanded against Jehoram, Ahab's son-in- 

 law, then ruler. After killing him he ordered 

 all the seventy sons of Ahab put to death and 

 lured the 'priests of Baal into a heathen temple, 

 where they were massacred. Soon after as- 



