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fort, N.C., 1910. Graduate student, Univ. of Chicago, 1908 and 1912. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, 1909. A.A.A.S. N.C. Acad.

Ivie, Joseph Henry, clergyman, of 2112 Fifth Ave., New York City, was born, N.Y. City, 1869; s. William and Catherine Ivie; grad. St. Stephen's Coll., B.A., 1892; M.A., 1894; Philadelphia Div. Sch., 1894; m. Garden City, L.I., Feb. 19, 1895, Enid Schuyler Kenyon. Ordered deacon 1894, ordained priest 1896, by Rt. Rev. A. N. Littlejohn, D.D., Bishop of Long Island. Formerly at St. Joseph's Ch., Queens, L.I., 1894-1897; rector Trinity Ch. (Episcopal), Fishkill, N.Y., 1897-1907; pastor St. Bartholomew's Ch., N.Y. City, 1907-1910; vicar St. Andrew's Ch., N.Y. City, and fire chaplain, since 1910.

Ivins, William Mills, lawyer; born in Monmouth County, N.J., April 16, 1851; son of Augustus and Sarah (Mills) Ivins. He removed in early childhood to Brooklyn, and was one of the first graduates of Adelphi Academy in that city. After his graduation he was for a time in the employ of D. Appleton & Company, publishers, but left their employ to enter Columbia Law School. He was admitted to the bar of New York in 1873, and the United States Supreme Court in 1879. He began practice in Brooklyn as a member of the firm of Bergen and Ivins. He was soon active in politics and took part in the movement headed by General Slocum against the Brooklyn ring. In 1879 he conducted the prosecution of the O'Reilly cases, resulting in the imprisonment of the Brooklyn Board of Aldermen for contempt of court. He was private secretary to Mayor Grace, of New York, in 1881; was a school commissioner of the City of New York, 1883-1886; city chamberlain of New York, 1885-1889, during the administrations of Mayors Grace and Hewitt. He was judge-advocate general of the State of New York, 1886-1888; was counsel for the Senate Committee on Cities in 1891, and took an active part in the movement for ballot reform which culminated in the general adoption of the Australian ballot. Among his most interesting clients were the late Mme. Blavatsky, and the late General Garcia. He has traveled widely throughout South America, and is an expert in the rubber business. As a lawyer, Mr. Ivins has had charge of numerous cases of international importance, and he is now head of the firm of Ivins, Wolff and Hoguet. He was the Republican candidate for mayor of New York City in 1905. In 1907, after the passage of the bill to establish the New York Public Service Commission, he was appointed special counsel of the commission, and conducted the investigation of the Metropolitan Street Railway System. He is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and of the Manhattan, Union League, Republican, Down Town, New York Yacht and Barnard Clubs of New York City, and the St. Stephen's Club of London. He was a member and chairman of the New York charter commissions of 1908 and 1909, appointed by Governor Hughes. Mr. Ivins married in 1879, Emma L. Yard, of Freehold, N.J., and he has two sons and two daughters. Residence: 45 West 58th St. Office: 27 William St., New York City.

Jackling, Daniel Cowan, mining; unmarried; born Appleton City, Bates County, Missouri, August 14, 1869; son Daniel and Lydia Jane (Dunn) Jackling; edu. State Normal Sch., Warrensburg, Mo.; B.S. and Metall. Engr., Mo. Sch. Mines, Rolla, 1892; asst. prof. chemistry and metallurgy, Mo. Sch. Mines, 1891-3; chemist and metallurgist, Cripple Creek District, Colo., 1894-96; in charge construction and operation metallurgical works of Consolidated Mercur Gold Mines, Mercur, Utah, 1896-1900; organized 1903, and since vice president and managing director, Utah Copper Co. (Utah); also vice president and managing director of Ray Cons. Copper Co. (Arizona), Chino Copper Co. (New Mexico), and Alaska Gold Mines Co. (Alaska); director, Butte & Superior Copper Co. (Montana); vice president and general manager, Ray & Gila Valley R.R. (Arizona), and Bingham & Garfield Ry. (Utah); vice president, Nevada Northern Ry., and Nevada Consolidated Copper Co. (Nevada); president, Utah Power & Light Co. (Utah), and Hotel Utah Operating Co. (Salt Lake); vice president, McCornick & Co., bankers, Utah State National Bank (Salt Lake), and Garfield (Utah) Banking Co.; director, Salt Lake Security & Trust Co., Utah Hotel Co., and Utah Fire Clay Co. (Salt Lake); Colonel on staff Gov. J. H. Peabody, Colorado, 1903-04, and on staff of Gov. William Spry, Utah, 1909-14; Utah commissioner to Seattle Exposition, 1909; member Am. Inst. Mining Engrs., and Metallurgical Society of America. Clubs: Alta (president, 1909), University and Country (Salt Lake); Rocky Mountain, and N.Y. Yacht (New York); California (Los Angeles); El Paso (Colorado Springs); Pacific Union, Bohemian, and Family (San Francisco); Sequoyah Country (Oakland); Rainier (Seattle). Address: 18th Floor Hobart Building, San Francisco, Calif.

Jackson, Abraham Valentine Williams, educator, Orientalist and archæologist; born in New York City, Feb. 9, 1862; son of David Sherwood and Elizabeth Sandford (Williams) Jackson. He was graduated from Columbia College, A.B., 1883 at head of class; received prize fellowship in letters at Columbia, held it for three years, 1883-1886; instructor in Anglo-Saxon and Iranian languages in Columbia, 1886-1887; student, University of Halle, Germany, 1887-1889, devoting special attention to Oriental languages, as well as to Anglo-Saxon. He was instructor, 18891891; adjunct professor of English language and literature, 18911895, and was appointed in 1895 to fill the newly founded chair as professor of Indo-Iranian languages at Columbia, which he still holds. Professor Jackson has lectured much in public on subjects relating to the Orient and to English literature. He has traveled in the East for purposes of study and research, visited India and Ceylon, 1901, receiving special attention from the Parsis, and made an extensive journey through Persia and Central Asia in 1903 and again in 1907, for archæological investigations, the result of which, have since been published. He is author of: A Hymn of Zoroaster, 1888 (Stuttgart); An Avesta Grammar in Comparison with Sanskrit, 1892 (Stuttgart); An Avesta Reader, 1893; Zoroaster, the Phophet of Ancient Iran, 1898; Die

Iranische Religion, 1900, 1904 (Strassburg); Persia Past and Present, 1906; From Constantinople to the Home of Omar Khayam, 1911; A Catalogue of the A. S. Cochran Collection of Persian Manuscripts in Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y. (prepared collaboration with Abraham Johannan); also various Iranian and Sanskrit studies in learned journals at home and abroad. He also edited a History of India, nine volumes, 1906-1907. Since graduation from college he has been a member and is now a director of the American Oriental Society. He has been a trustee of the Board of Education of Yonkers, N.Y., 1898-1909, and a trustee of the Yonkers Public Library. Professor Jackson is a member of the Century Association of New York and the Psi Upsilon fraternity and Author's Club. He married at Yonkers, N.Y., June 25, 1889, Dora Elizabeth Ritter, of Yonkers (died Nov. 15, 1909); 2d m., Feb. 28, 1911, Kate Brigham, of Savannah, Ga. Res. 668 Riverside Drive, New York, Office: Columbia University, New York City.

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Jackson, Daniel Dana, sanitary engineer and chemist of Engineering Building at Columbia University, New York City, was born Aug. 1, 1870, in Gloucester, Mass. He has been chief chemist of the Brooklyn Water Supply and director of the laboratories department of water supply, gas and electricity, New York City. He graduated from New York University in 1908 with the degree of M.S. He is author of several papers on sanitary engineering, chemistry and bacteriology. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is now professor of sanitary engineering.

Jackson, David Henry, lawyer, banker; born Chicago, Jan. 14, 1874; son of Johnathan and Mary (Forsythe) Jackson; graduated from Lake Forest College, A.B., Northwestern Law School, LL.B. Admitted to bar 1901, and has since practiced in Chicago and Lake County, Ill.; helped organize and has been president since 1907 of First National Bank of Lake Forest. Member law firm of Chipman & Jackson. Former alderman, mayor of Lake Forest, and city attorney; formerly chairman Lake County Republican Central Committee; member Lake County Board of Review. Republican; Presbyterian. Member Illinois Bar Association, Lake County Bar Association; president North Shore Sanitary District. Mason; member Phi Delta Phi and Beta Theta Pi fraternities. Clubs: Hamilton (Chicago); Young Men's (president); Winter (Lake Forest). Residence: Lake Forest, Ill. Office: Harris Trust Building, Chicago.

Jackson, Ernest A., banker, of Dallas, S.D.; born Greene, Ia., Feb. 25, 1881; son of Frank D. and Anna (Brock) Jackson; graduated from law class, University of Iowa, 1901; married, Omaha, Neb., Sept. 30, 1903, Catherine Munger. President Western Townsite Co., Western Telephone Co., Western Abstract Co., Bank of Dallas; vice-president Carter State Bank, Roseland State Bank, Augusta State Bank, Bank of Winner; member of co-partnership, Jackson Brothers. United States Commissioner 1905-06 for the District of South Dakota. Republican; Episcopalian. Member Beta Theta Pi fraternity.

Jackson, William Furnell, United States senator from Maryland, was born Jan. 11, 1868, in Salisbury, Md. He was a member of the fifty-ninth and sixtieth congresses. He was appointed United States senator for the unexpired term of the late Senator Rayner, and resides in Salisbury, Md.

Jacobi, Abraham, physician, of 19 E. 47th St., New York City, was born, Hartum, Westphalia, Germany, May 6, 1830; educated in Gymnasium of Minden, universities of Greifswald, Göttingen and Bonn; M.D., Bonn, 1851; LL.D., Univ. of Mich. 1898, Columbia 1900, Yale 1905, Harvard 1906, Jefferson 1913; married, 1873, Dr. Mary C. Putnam (died June 10, 1906). Prof. diseases of children, N.Y. Med. Coll., 1860-1865; Med. Dept. N.Y. Univ., 1865-1870; Coll. Phys. and Surg. (Columbia), 1870-1903; prof. emeritus since 1902. Consulting physician to German Dispensary and Hosp., Women's Infirmary, Bellevue, Babies' Orthopedic and other hospitals. Ex-pres. N.Y. Obstet. Soc., N.Y. Pathol. Soc., Med. Soc. County of N.Y., Med. Soc. State of N.Y., N.Y. Acad. of Medicine, Assn. Am. Physicians, Am. Pediatric Soc., Am. Climatol. Assn.; hon. fellow of med. socs. of Wurzburg, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Budapest, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Vienna; Pediatric Socs. of Germany and Spain; Med. Socs. of Philadelphia, Boston, Louisville, Brooklyn, etc. Author: Dentition and Its Derangements, 1862; Treatise on Diphtheria, 1880; Therapeutics of Infancy and Childhood, 1896, 1900, 1903. Mugwump in politics; twice mem. Com. of Seventy. Clubs: Century, City.

Jacobsohn, William, physician, of 237 W. 111th St., New York City, was born, N.Y. City, Sept. 1, 1870; son Rev. Moritz and Fredericke (Appel) Jacobsohn; educated Grammar Sch. No. 74, N.Y. City, 1885; Coll. City of N.Y., B.S., 1890; N.Y. Univ., M.D., 1893. House physician and surgeon Randall's Island Hosps. and Infants' Hosp., N.Y. City, 1893-1894; attending physician children's dep't, Demilt Dispensary, 1894-1895; med. and sanitary insp. for Health Dep't, N.Y. City, 1895-1897; physician and surgeon N.Y. Polyclinic Sch. and Hosp. and Mt. Sinai Hosp., 18961904; consulting physician German Odd Fellows' Home and Orphan Asylum, N.Y. City. Physician Lebanon Hosp., Dep't for Diseases of Children. Author: Significance and Management of Fever in Children; contribution to Cellular Therapy; Diagnosis of Small Pox in Early Stages; Nuclein in Fever and Toxæmia; Antitoxin and Communicable Diseases; Tuberculosis and Childhood. Mem. N.Y. County Med. Soc., Am. Med. Ass'n. Mason. Jacobus, John W., thread merchant, 260 West Broadway, New York City; residence, 209 West 55th St. Born in New York City, Sept. 19, 1844. Educated in public schools. (Married.) Connected with The American Thread Co. Member of the Board of Aldermen, 1878-80; United States Marshal, Southern District of New York, 1890-5. Member Republican, New York Athletic and Columbia Yacht Clubs. Kimball Post No. 100, G.A.R., Past Master Bethel Lodge 733 F.&A.M., Palestine Commandery, No. 18, and Mecca Temple, A.A.O.N.M., of New York.

Jacoby, Morris, real estate, 147 Nassau St., New York City; residence, 285 Central Park West; born in Germany, May 3, 1857.

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Educated in New York City public schools. (Married.) clerk to New York Assembly Committee on Affairs of Cities 1891, and member of Assembly 1893. Secretary, manager and director Mount Zion Cemetery; official appraiser for the City of New York in condemnation proceedings, particularly Division Street Park, Eleventh Ward Park and the new East River Bridges. Member Tammany Society and a number of religious and charitable societies.

Jacoway, Henderson Madison, congressman, was born in Dardanelle, Yell County, Nov. 7, 1870. He was elected a member of the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses from the fifth district of Arkansas. Mr. Jacoway is a member of the Committee on Agriculture and was appointed a member of the committee consisting of five Democrats and four Republicans to investigate the American Sugar Refining Company and others; and resides in Dardanelle, Ark.

James, Clinton R., capitalist of 135 Broadway, New York City. He was educated at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. He. is president of the New York Title Insurance Company, the New York Mortgage and Security Co., and the Lawyers' Engineering and Surveying Co. He is vice-president of the First Mortgage Guarantee Co., United Assets Corporation, Chelsea Realty Co. and the Brooklyn Real Estate Exchange, Limited. He is a trustee of the Brooklyn Savings Bank; and a director of the Bank of Flatbush, the United Cities Realty Corporation, the Wood Harmon Warranty Corporation and the King's County Mortgage Company.

James, Ollie M., United States senator from Kentucky, was born July 27, 1871, in Crittenden County, Ky. He was one of the attorneys for Governor Goebel in his celebrated contest for governor of Kentucky. In 1896 and 1904 he was a delegate to

the democratic national conventions. He was a member of the fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses from Kentucky as a democrat. He was re-elected to the sixty-second congress for term ending in 1913. He is now United States senator for term ending in 1919; and resides in Marion, Ky.

James, Walter Belknap, physician, of 17 W. 54th St., New York City, was born Baltimore, Md., May 11, 1858; son Henry and Amelia (Cate) James; educated Yale, A.B., 1879; Coll. Phys. and Surg. (Columbia), M.D., 1883, LL.D., 1904; married N.Y. City, 1894, Helen G. Jennings. Practicing medicine in N.Y. City since graduation. Consulting physician to N.Y. Hosp. for Ruptured and Crippled; prof. of clinical medicine in Columbia Univ.; consulting physician to Manhattan Eye and Ear Hosp., and N.Y. Eye and Ear Infirmary. Mem. N.Y. County Med. Soc., N.Y. Acad. Medicine. Practitioners' Soc. of N.Y. Clubs: University, Metropolitan, Century Ass'n, Riding Club.

James, William P., judge; born, Buffalo, N.Y., Jan. 10, 1870; son, David and Jane (Parry) J. Moved to Cal., 1873. Grad., Los Angeles high school, 1891; studied law while employed on San Francisco newspaper, and later as Court Reporter on Los Angeles morning paper. Dep. Dist. Atty., 1894-98; Chief Dep.

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