James Jackson Jarves
1818–88
American journalist, diplomat, and art connoisseur. Lived on the Hawaiian islands at intervals from 1839 until 1851. Editor of a newspaper, the Polynesian, and author of books on the Hawaiian islands. Special commissioner to the king of Hawaii, Kamehameha III, in negotiating a treaty with the US in 1849. Went to Europe in 1851, living in Paris and Florence, where he wrote on and collected art. US vice-consul in Florence, 1880–2.
Source
ANB.
Bibliography
ANB: American national biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. and supplement. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999–2002.
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