THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE NAMES

THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE NAMES

HELEN HUNT JACKSON

(1830-1885) Author from Massachusetts.

HOWELL E. JACKSON

(1832-1895) Justice of Supreme Court 1893-1895. Senator from Tennessee
1881-1886.

JAMES JACKSON

(1757-1806) Congressman from Georgia 1789-1791. Senator 1801-1806.

RACHEL JACKSON

(1768-1849) Wife of President Andrew Jackson.

SAM JACKSON
(1851-1912) Presbyterian minister and author from New York.

SHELDON JACKSON

(1834-1909) Presbyterian missionary to the Rocky Mountain states and Alaska.
First Superintendant of Schools in Alaska 1885-1909.

T. J. JACKSON

(1824-1863) “Stonewall” Jackson. Confederate General.

WILLIAM H. JACKSON

(1835-1903) Confederate General from Tennessee.

MELVILLE JACOBY

(1917-1942) Time-Life correspondent during World War II killed in Australia.

WILLIAM JAMES

(1842-1910) Philosopher, psychologist at Harvard.

EDWARD G. JANEWAY

(1841-1911) Pathologist. Dean of New York University.

TH0MAS J. JARVIS

(1836-1915) Confederate soldier. Governor of North Carolina 1879-1885.

JOHN JAY

(1745-1829) Member of the Continental Congress from New York. First Chief
Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1790.

JOSEPH JEFFERSON

(1829-1905) Actor who spent 71 years on the American stage.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

(1743-1826) Statesman, author, scientist, architect. Third President of the
United States.

SAMUEL L. JEFFERY

(1920-1942) Merchant seaman lost on the tanker “S.S. Ario” when it was
torpedoed and shelled off of Cape Lookout, North Carolina, in 1942.
C. FRANCIS JENKINS

(1867-1934) Physicist and inventor. Invented the movie projector.

JONATHAN JENNINGS

(1784-1834) Congressman from Indiana. Governor of Indiana 1816.

W.S. JENNINGS

(1863-1920) Governor of Florida 1901-1905.

WILLIAM F. JERMAN

(1914-1942) Merchant seaman on the tanker “S S. Cities Service Empire” lost
when it was sunk in 1942, off Bethel Shoals, by German submarine.

SARAH ORME JEWETT

(1849-1909) Author from Maine.

HENRY JOCELYN

(1606-????) Deputy Governor of Province of Maine 1646. Chief Justice 1646.

ALLEN JOHNSON

(1870-1931) Teacher and writer of history and geography.

DAVID B. JOHNSON

(1856-1928) Founder and president of Winthrop College 1886, in South Carolina.

JAMES W. JOHNSON

(1871-1938) Educator active in the NAACP.

KYLE V. JOHNSON

(1904-1944) Merchant seaman lost on the “S.S. Maiden Creek II” when it was
sunk off of the coast of Algeria in 1944.

MARTIN JOHNSON

(1884-1937) Explorer, and motion picture producer of travel films.

REVERDY JOHNSON

(1796-1876) Senator from Maryland 1845-1849.

RiCHARD M. JOHNSON

(1780-1850) Congressman and Senator from Kentucky. Vice-president of the
United States 1837-1841, under Van Buren.

ROY K. JOHNSON

(1918-1942) Merchant seaman killed in the shelling and torpedoing of the “S.S.
Alaskan” off the coast of Brazil in 1942.

THOMAS JOHNSON

(1732-1819) Member of the Continental Congress from Maryland. First elected
governor of Maryland in 1777. Justice of the Supreme Court 1791-1793.

WILLARD R. JOHNSON

(1914-1943) Merchant seaman lost on the “S.S. Yankee Arrow” in 1943 off Bizerte.

WILLIAM JOHNSON

(1771-1834) Supreme Court Justice from South Carolina1804-1834.

WILLIAM W. JOHNSON

(1841-1927) Mathmatician at U.S. Naval Academy.

DANIEL L. JOHNSON

(1907-1942) Merchant seaman lost on “S.S. Caddo” in the North Atlantic 1942,
when torpedoed by the German Submarine U-518, enroute Baytown to Iceland.

JOSEPH E. JOHNSON

(1807-1891) Confederate General. Congressman from Virginia 1879-1881.

SAMUEL JOHNSTON

(1733-1816) Revolutionary leader from North Carolina. Governor of North
Carolina 1787-1789. Senator from North Carolina 1789-1793.

T. A. JOHNSTON

(1848-1934) Co-founder of the Kemper Military School 1872, in Missouri.

LOUIS JOLIET

(1645-1700) With Marquette, was the first to explore the Mississippi.

ANSON JONES

(1798-1858) Last President of the Republic of Texas 1844-1846.

C. H. M. JONES

(1886-1944) Ship news reporter for New York American. Known as “Casey Jones”
to newspapermen. Later assistant to the President of Todd Shipyards.

CHARLES C. JONES

(1831-1893) Lawyer and historian. Author “History of Georgia” 1883.

JEROME K. JONES

(1837-1916) Merchant. Chairman of Chamber of Commerce Maritime Committee.

JOHN PAUL JONES

(1747-1792) Merchant captain, naval officer. Revolutionary War hero.

PAUL DAVID JONES

(1921-1944) Merchant seaman who died trying to rescue the Master of the “S.S.
Bostonian” from the pump room in 1944.

RUSSELL R. JONES

(1912-1942) Merchant seaman lost on the “S.S. Masmar” off Iceland 1942, when it
was sunk by mines, enroute Murmansk to New York.

WILIAM A. JONES

(1817-1900) Author. Librarian at Columbia University 1861-1865.

WILLIE JONES

(1741-1801) Revolutionary leader from North Carolina.

DAVID STARR JORDAN

(1851-1931) First president of Stanford University 1891-1913.

ROBERT JORDAN

(1641-1697) Clergyman from South Portland, Ma. Owner of Trelawny Plantation.

HAROLD A. JORDAN

(1911-1942) Merchant seaman lost on the “S.S. Bailadier” in 1942 when it was
torpedoed and sunk in the North Atlantic, enroute New York to Reykjavik.

CHIEF JOSEPH

(1840-1904) Nez Perce chief considered to be the greatest of all Indian
strategists. Lead his people on a 1000 mile retreat from Idaho to Montana.

FRED E. JOYCE

(1890-1942) Merchant seaman killed in the shelling and torpedoing of the “S.S.
Sawokla” off of Madagascar in 1942.

BENITO JUAREZ

(1806-1872) Mexican statesman. President of Mexico 1860.

ADONIRAM JUDSON

(1788-1850) Baptist missionary to Burma.

HARMON JUDSON

(1846-1927) Attorney General under Cleveland. Governor of Ohio 1908.

GEORGE W. JULIAN

(1817-1899) Congressman from Indiana 1849-1851; 1861-1871.

SOLOMON JUNEAU

(1793-1856) Founder of Milwaukee, where he had established a trading