JESSUP, William, jurist, born in Southampton, New York, 21 June, 1797; died in Montrose, Pennsylvania, 11 September, 1868. He was graduated at Yale in 1815, removed to Montrose in 1818, and was admitted to the bar there. From 1838 till 1851 he was presiding judge of the 11th judicial district of Pennsylvania, and in April, 1861, was one of the committee of three that was sent by the governors of Pennsylvania, New York, and Ohio to confer with President Lincoln relative to raising 75,000 men. He was a pioneer in the cause of education and temperance in northern Pennsylvania, and the chief founder of the County agricultural society. In 1848 Hamilton college conferred on him the degree of LL. D.--His son, Henry Harris, missionary, born in Montrose, Pennsylvania, 19 April, 1832, was graduated at Yale in 1851, and at Union theological seminary in 1855, and was ordained a minister of the Presbyterian church in November, 1855. He was a missionary at Tripoli and Syria in 1856-'60, and since then has been stationed at Beirut. He was moderator of the general assembly that met at Saratoga, New York, in 1879. The University of New York and Princeton conferred on him {he degree of D. D. in 1865. He is the author of "Mohammedan Missionary Problem" (Philadelphia, 1879), and "Women of the Arabs" (New York, 1873).--Another son, Samuel, missionary, born in Montrose, Pennsylvania, 21 December, 1833, after engaging for a time in mercantile pursuits, entered Yale, and then Union theological seminary, where he was graduated in 186i. In 1.862 he was ordained by the presbytery of Montrose, and has since been engaged in mission work in Syria, having charge of the mission printing establishment and publishing house in that city. He is the author of "Husn Sulayman" (Palestine exploration society, 2d statement, 1873).