James Frazier Jaquess

Birth Date

1819-11-18

Death Date

1898-06-16

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Quincy, Illinois, minister, chaplain, and soldier. Evansville, Indiana, native. Married to Sarah J. Jaquess. Father of Maggie W. Jaquess, Laura J. Jacquess, and William G. Jaquess. Graduated from Asbury University in Greencastle, Indiana, with undergraduate, A.M., and D.D. degrees. Licensed as a minister in 1847. Admitted to the Illinois Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. President of Illinois Female College at Jacksonville, Illinois, in 1849. Resumed preaching in 1855. Served in the 6th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as chaplain and colonel to August 21, 1862. Served in the 73rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment as colonel from August 1862 to January 1865. Special agent to President Abraham Lincoln in July 1864. Commandant of Camp Nelson and superintendent of of the Colored Refugee Home at Camp Nelson, charged with its dismantling, from August 23, 1865.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Illinois, Adams County, Quincy, First Ward, p. 46.
Patricia B. Burnette, James F. Jaquess: Scholar, Soldier and Private Agent for President Lincoln (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 2013).
Richard D. Sears, Camp Nelson, Kentucky: A Civil War History (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002), 239-240, 244 .
William Henry Newlin, A History of the Seventy-Third Regiment of Illinois Infantry (Published by Authority of the Regimental Reunion Association of Survivors of the 73d Illinois Infantry Volunteers, 1890), 534-57.
KYR-0003-092-0132.
KYR-0003-092-0136.

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