History of Jamestown, (Chautauqua County) New York United States of America

Gilbert Dennison Harris, educator, was born in Jamestown, N.Y., Oct. 2, 1864; son of Francis Eugene and Lydia Helen (Crandall) Harris; and grandson of Jonathan Grant and Marcia (Miller) Harris, and of Stephen and Christiana (Benjamin) Crandall. He was graduated from Cornell university in 1886, and was employed on the U.S. geological survey, and on the state geological surveys of Arkansas and Texas, 1887-93. He was editor and proprietor of the Bulletins of American Paleontology, and publisher of the Reprint of Conrad's Fossil Shells of the Tertiary Formations of the United States. He was elected professor of paleontology and stratigraphic geology at Cornell university in 1894, was state geologist of Louisiana in 1899 and was elected a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Harry Pratt Judson, educator, was born at Jamestown, N.Y., Dec. 20, 1849; son of the Rev. Lyman P. and Abigail C. (Pratt) Judson, grandson of Silas Judson and of Harry and Susan (Cleveland) Pratt, and a descendant of John Pratt, one of the party of the Rev. Thomas Hooker, who removed from Massachusetts Bay and settled in Connecticut in 1636, and of Moses Cleaveland, who came to Massachusetts from England about 1635. He was graduated from Williams college in 1870, was a teacher and the principal of the high school at Troy, N.Y., 1870-85, professor of history at the University of Minnesota, 1885-92; lecturer on pedagogy there, 1886-92; and became head professor of political science and dean of the faculties of art, literature and science at the University of Chicago in 1892. He was elected a member of the American Historial association. He was one of the ninety-seven judges who served as a board of electors in October, 1900, in determining the names entitled to a place in the Hall of Fame, New York university. He received the degree of LL.D. from Williams college in 1893. He became co-editor of the American Historical Review in 1895, and is the author of: History of the Troy Citizens' Corps (1884); C?sar's Army (1885); Europe in the Nineteenth Century (1894); The Growth of the American Nation (1895); The Higher Education as a Training for Business (1896); The Latin in English (1896); The Mississippi Valley (in Shaler's "United States of America," 1894); The Young American (1897); The Government of Illinois (1899), and historical and educational articles in periodicals.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Emerson Willard Keyes, educator was born in Jamestown, N.Y., June 30, 1828. His father settled in Jamestown about 1820, where he was an ardent abolitionist and agent for the "underground railroad" in assisting slaves to escape from their masters. Emerson was graduated from the State Normal school in 1848; taught in seminaries and academies in central New York and removed to New York city in 1856. He taught in the evening schools in that city, 1856-57; was deputy superintendent of public instruction for the state of New York, 1857-65, and acting superintendent, 1861-62. He was admitted to the bar in 1862. He was deputy superintendent of the banking department of the state in 1865; acting superintendent, 1865-66, and bank examiner, 1870-78. He practised law in New York city, 1878-82; was a member of the New York Bar association, and chief clerk of the Brooklyn department of public instruction, 1882-97. He is the author of: New York Court of Appeals Report (4 vols., 1866-69); History of Savings Banks in the United States (2 vols., 1876-78); New York Code of Public Instruction (1879); a treatise on Principles of Civil Government Exemplified in the State of New York; and the chapter on "Education" in the Greater New York charter. He died in Brooklyn, Oct. 17, 1897.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Alva Licander Hager, representative, was born near Jamestown, N.Y., Oct. 29, 1850, son of William B. and Elmina (Baker) Hager, and grandson of William and Polly Hager, and of Seth and Julia Baker. He removed with his father's family to Iowa in 1859 and settled in Jackson county. In 1863 he engaged in farthing near Langworthy, Jones county. He was graduated from the Iowa City law school in 1875, practising in Greenfield. He was elected to the state senate in 1891 was chairman of the Iowa Republican state convention in 1892; and was a Republican representative from the 9th district of Iowa in the 53d, 54th and 55th congresses, 1893-99.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Jamestown, (Chautauqua County) New York

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