1. William Jessup was a Pennsylvania judge and father of the missionary Henry Harris Jessup.
10 Facts About William Jessup
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William Jessup left his native home, Long Island, in early adulthood to study at Yale College, graduating in 1815.
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William Jessup moved in 1818 to Montrose, Pennsylvania, and made it his lifelong home.
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William Jessup read law with an established firm, and was admitted to the bar.
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William Jessup married and fathered two sons, Henry Harris and Samuel Jessup, born in 1832 and 1833.
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In 1838 Jessup became the presiding judge of the Eleventh Judicial District of Pennsylvania, in which capacity he rode circuit from 1838 until 1851.
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In 1858, William Jessup was the Vice President of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
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The platform adopted by William Jessup's committee was approved by the convention by a unanimous vote.
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In 1861, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania appointed William Jessup to serve as a liaison with the White House, naming him as their emissary to a high-level conference in early 1861 on how to implement Lincoln's call for the enlistment of 75,000 members of the Northern state militias into the new Federal army.
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William Jessup is the 3x great-grandfather of American television writer Ted Jessup.