Jarvis

Sculpture, Paintings, and Architecture in Amer-
ica, With later editions following; Art Thoughts,
the Experiences and Observations of an Ameri-
can Amateur in Europe (1869,1871, and 1879) ;
"Museums of Art, Artists, and Amateurs in
America," the Galaxy, July 1870; A Glimpse at
the Art of Japan (1876) ; Italian Rambles: Stud-
ies of Life and Manners in New and Old Italy
(1883, 1885); Retrospective Art Catalogue of
the Boston Foreign Art Exhibition (1883);
Hand Book for Visitors to the Hollenden Gal-
lery of Old Masters, Exhibited at the Boston
Foreign Art Exhibition in 1883-84 (1884);
and Pepero, the Boy Artist; A Brief Memoir of
James Jackson Jarves, Jr. (1891), a tribute to
his son, an artistic genius, who died at the age
of fifteen, written the year of Jarves' death and
published three years later.

[For Jarves' career in Hawaii see the Polynesian
during his editorship, 1840-48; the Report of the Case
of Peter Allen Brinsmade vs. James Jackson Jarves,
Editor of the Polynesian, for Alleged Libelons Publi-
cation (Honolulu, 1846), and Laura Fish Judd, Hono-
lulu, Sketches of Life Social, Political, and Religious,
in the Hawaiian Islands from 1828 to 1861 (1880).
For the Jarves collection at Yale see Letters Relating
to a Coll. of Pictures made by J. 7. Jarves (p.p. 1859),
with introductory note by C. E. Norton; Russell Stur-
gis, Jr., Manual of the Jarves Coll of Early Italian
Pictures (1868) ; Osvald Siren, A Descriptive Cat. of
the Pictures in the Jarves Coll. Belonging to Yale Univ.
(1916) ; and Richard Offner, Italian Primitives at Yale
Univ., Comments and Revisions (1927). For the Cleve-
land pictures see Stella Rubinstein, Cat. of the Coll. of
Paintings Presented to the Cleveland Museum of Art
by Mrs. Liberty E. Holden (1917), and for the Welles-
ley Coll. textiles see List of the Jarves Coll. of Laces,
Stuffs, Embroideries (1887). Other sources include:
family records in possession of Mrs. W. R. (Annabel)
Kerr, a daughter by Jarves' second marriage; infor-
mation as to certain facts from Miss Flora Jarves,
Kingston, R. I.; scrap-books in the Gallery of Fine
Arts at Yale; records of the Yale Corporation, the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, N. Y., the N. Y. Hist.
Soc., in the State Dept, Washington, D. C., and in the
City Hall, Boston; and the Boston Daily Advertiser,
July 2, 1888. Facts regarding Jarves' marriages were
taken from the vital records of New Bedford, Mass.,
and from the^records of the Church of the Advent, Bos-
ton. There is a bronze bas-relief bust of Jarves by
Larkin Goldsmith Mead in the "Jarves Room" at the
Yale Gallery of Fine Arts.] T. S.

JARVIS, ABRAHAM (May 5,1739 o.s.-May
3,1813), Episcopal clergyman, second bishop of
Connecticut, was a native of that state, his par-
ents, Samuel and Naomi (Brush) Jarvis, having
moved to Norwalk from Huntington, Long Is-
land, some two years previous to his birth. He
prepared for college at Stamford, Conn., tinder
Rev. Noah Welles, a Congregational minister,
and graduated from Yale in 1761. In November
1763, having in the meantime acted as lay-reader
in Middletown, Conn., while preparing for the
Episcopal ministry, he sailed for England where
he was ordained deacon by Frederick Keppel,
bishop of Exeter, on Feb. 5, 1764; and priest

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by Charles Lyttelton, bishop of Carlisle, on Feb.
19. Returning to Connecticut, he became rector
of Christ Church, Middletow'n. During the agi-
tation which preceded the Revolution he was the
object of no little abuse, because in common with
other Episcopal clergymen, he felt that rebellion
against the King was violation of his ordination
vows. He seems to have conducted himself with
much discretion, however, for in a letter pub-
lished in the Connecticut Journal, Oct. 21,1774,
he disowns any desire to heighten the "gloomy
aspect that now lowers over the face of our
country and our common interests. . . . This,"
he affirms, "we have not designedly done, and
mean not to do." He was chairman of the con-
vention of Episcopal clergymen, held in New
Haven, July 23, 1776, at which they decided to
suspend all public worship in their churches,
and thus avoid the reading of the liturgy with
its prayer for the king.

After the Revolution he was among those who
took the lead in the organization of the Epis-
copal Church in Connecticut. He was secretary
of the secret meeting held at Woodbridge late in
March 1783, when it was decided to send a
clergyman to England to be made bishop, and
prepared the letter to the Archbishop of York
which Samuel Seabury [q.v."\ later took with
him on his quest for consecration. At the con-
vention held at Middletown, August 1785, in
behalf of the clergy he received and acknowl-
edged Seabury as their bishop; and was ap-
pointed one of a committee to make with the
bishop the changes in the liturgy that existing
conditions required. In order that the canonical
number of bishops of the Scottish line might be
established in New England, he was appointed
February 1787, to proceed to Scotland for con-
secration, but subsequent events made such ac-
tion unnecessary. After the death of Seabury,
however, he was unanimously elected on June 7,
1797, to succeed him, a previous election in
1796, which was not unanimous, having been
declined. He w'as consecrated at Trinity Church,
New Haven, by Bishops White, Provoost, and
Bass on Oct 18, 1797. He continued to reside
in Middletown until 1799, when he removed to
Cheshire. After 1803 his home was in New
Haven. His first wife, Ann, daughter of Samuel
Farmer of New York, whom he married May
25, 1766, died in 1801; and on July 4, 1806, he
married Lucy, widow of Nathaniel Lewis of
Philadelphia. He was a man of solid attainments
and old-fashioned dignity of demeanor, slow in
making up his mind, tenacious in seeking his
ends, sometimes arbitrary, and often prone to
emphasize small details. He performed his duties

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