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James Henry Jarrett (Dickinson Chronicles)
John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “James Henry Jarrett,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/j/ed_jarrettJH.htm.
James Henry Jarrett was born in Jarrettsville, Maryland on February 23, 1832 to Luther and Julia A. Jarrett. The town was known as Carman at the time of his birth. His father was a substantial landowner there and the first postmaster, however, and the postal name of the town was changed to Jarrettsville in 1838. The younger Jarrett entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1849 with the class of 1852 and was elected to the Union Philosophical Society.