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Stimson (FREDERIC JESUP an American)

FREDERIC JESUP, an American lawyer; born in Dedham, Mass., July 20, 1855; was graduated at Harvard University in 1876, and at Harvard Law School in 1878; was admitted to the New York and Boston bars; became assistant attorney-general of Massachusetts in 1884, and later was chosen general counsel to the United States Industrial Commission. He was the author of several law books, novels, essays, mostly under the pseudonym of "J. S. of Dale," including: "Rollo's Journey to Cambridge"; "First Harvests"; "King Noanett"; "Jethro Bacon of Sandwich"; "The American Constitution" (1906); "Popular Law Making" (1910); "The STING Light of Provence," a play in verse; "My Story," an imagined autobiography of Benedict Arnold (1917).