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Jay was born on June 23, 1817, in New York City, the grandson of Chief Justice John Jay, and the only son who grew to maturity of Judge William Jay and Hannah Augusta (McVickar) Jay.
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Jay was born on June 23, 1817, in New York City, the grandson of Chief Justice John Jay, and the only son who grew to maturity of Judge William Jay and Hannah Augusta (McVickar) Jay.
Prepared for college at Dr. Muhlenberg's Institute, Flushing, Queens, Jay was graduated from Columbia in 1836, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1839. While still a student in Columbia College he was manager of the New York Young Men's Antislavery Society.
Jay practiced in New York City for about twenty years. On the death of his father in 1858 he retired from practice to give the rest of his life to the care of the ancestral estate and to public service. Oppressed or suffering humanity everywhere had his sympathy. As a young lawyer Jay was particularly prominent in the seven-years struggle (1846-1853) to procure the admission of St. Philip's Church (Negro) to the Protestant Episcopal Convention. He served as secretary of the Irish Relief Committee during the potato famine in 1847.
After the enactment in 1850 of the Fugitive-Slave Law he acted as counsel for many black fugitives. At a mass meeting in the Broadway Tabernacle, January 30, 1854, he framed the resolutions that were adopted opposing the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. In the following year he was an enthusiastic leader in the organization of the new Republican party in New York State. He favored enlistment of the blacks in the Union army, the proclamation of emancipation, the organization of the Freedmen's Bureau, and the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment. On the other hand, Jay showed a liberal attitude toward the defeated South in favoring an allotment in the National Cemetery at Antietam for fallen Confederate soldiers. As minister to Austria, 1869-1874, he had the difficult task of bringing order out of a calumniating chaos in connection with the United States Commission to the International Exhibition held in Vienna in 1873.
After his return he was appointed chairman of a commission to investigate the New York Custom House for the Treasury Department, he was vice-president of the Civil Service Reform Association of the State of New York, a member, 1884-1887, of the state Civil Service Commission, and one of the framers of the state's first civil-service law. A stout defender of the public schools, he assailed the Roman Catholic Church for its attempts "to overthrow our common school system, to tax the people for Romish schools where children will be bent like the twig, moulded in the confessional, educated as subjects of the Pope, owing to him their chief allegiance. ". In his presidential address before the American Historical Association (1890), he maintained that the only sure guarantee of America's continued greatness was that every teacher in the common schools should be well grounded in American history. That Jay was well grounded himself is evidenced in all of his writings, especially in an excellent piece of historical research, The Peace Negotiations of 1782 and 1783, published by the New-York Historical Society in 1884, and under slightly different titles as a chapter in Volume VII of Justin Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of America (1888) and in Papers of the American Historical Association, vol. III (1888). In November 1877 he contributed "Motley's Appeal to History" to the International Review, an article which precipitated a controversy by its criticism of Grant's administration. Jay died on May 5, 1894, in New York City.
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Jay served as President of the Union League Club (1866, 1877), President of the Huguenot Society of America (1883-1894); he was also the founder of the American Geographical and Statistical Society (1852), a member of the New-York Historical Society, a member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a member of the National Academy of Design.
Jay married, June 23, 1837, Eleanor Kingsland Field, of New York City.
