All per Mary Frost Jessup’s History of the Jessup Family in Montrose, Pennsylvania:
-graduated from Yale University and Union Theological Seminary
-missionary connected with the American Mission in Beirut, Syria
-1879 elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the USA
- published an autobiography “53 Years in Syria”
- descendants broke from Yale tradition

1850FCI Wm Jessup Sr & fam; Pennsylvania > Susquehanna > Montrose, image 1 of 23 @ancestry.com; Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: Montrose, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania; Roll: M432_829; Page: 178A; Image: 358
Name: William Jessup; Age: 53; Estimated birth year: abt 1797; Birth place: New York; Gender: Male; Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Montrose, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania; Page: 178; Roll: M432_829
Household:
Amanda age 52
William H age 20 student at law
Henry H age 18
Samuel age 16
Fanny M age 14
George H age 12
Phebe Ann age 10
Hunting C age 7
& 3 servants

News1865 RevHHJessupLocusts
Altoona Tribune (Altoona, Pennsylvania)
24 Jun 1865, Sat
Page 2
Rev HH Jessup of Beirut, in a letter recently received in theis country says: “Locusts which have not appeares for 20 years are now coing over Syria like a cloud, and today (April 5) the whole population of Beirut is ordered out to kill them. The shops are shut, all business suspended, and all minds filled with apprehension and gloom.

New York City, Marriages, 1600s-1800s @ancestry.com
Name: Henry Jessup
Spouse Name: Harriet Dodge
Marriage Date: 1868
Marriage Place: Manhattan, New York, New York
Marriage ID: 2220782222
Certificate Number: 5443
Other Comments: See Family History Library catalog for films 1543971-1562446 (Manhattan) and Film 1653852 (Brooklyn), for actual certificate.
Source: Marriage Registers, Extracts from Manhattan (1869-1880) and Brooklyn (1895-1897)
Publisher: Dept. of Health, Division of Vital Statistics, New York.
Publication Place: New York, NY

U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930; New York New York Evening Post Marriage 1884-1890; image 27 of 282 @ancestry.com; Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors.
Original data: Newspapers and Periodicals. American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Name: Henry H Jessup
Event: Marriage
Marriage Date: 23 Jul 1884; Marriage Place: Binghamton, New York
Spouse: Theodosia Davenport Lockwood
Spouse Father: Peter Lockwood
Newspaper: New York Evening Post
Publication Date: 26 Jul 1884
Publication Place: New York, USA
Call Number: 485767

Presbyterian Ministerial Directory 1898
Source Information: Armstrong, Amy, comp. Presbyterian Ministerial Directory 1898 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.
Original data: The Ministerial Directory of the Ministers of the Presbyterian Church. Oxford, OH, USA: The Ministerial Directory Company of Oxford, Ohio, 1898.
Name: Henry Harris Jessup
Country: Syria
Birth State: PA
Birth Country: U.S.A.
Birth Date: 1832
PostID: 6721
Ordination: 1855
City: Beirut
Birth City: Montrose

U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925; Passport Applications, 1795-1905 (M1372) > 1902 - 1904 > Roll 642 - 01 Feb 1904-17 Feb 1904 > 578; image 578 of 635 @ancestry.com; Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.
Name: Henry Harris Jessup
Birth Date: 19 Apr 1832
Birth Place: Montrose, PA, Pennsylvania
Residence: New York
Passport Issue Date: 16 Feb 1904
Passport Includes a Photo: N
Source: Passport Applications, 1795-1905 (M1372)
accompanied by my wife Theodosia
have lived in Syria since Nov 1884
occupation of missionary
intend to return to the US on furlough from time to time

U.S., Consular Registration Certificates, 1907 - 1918
Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., Consular Registration Certificates, 1907 - 1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.
Original data: Consular Registration Certificates, compiled 1907–1918. ARC ID: 1244186. General Records of the Department of State, 1763–2002, Record Group 59. National Archives at Washington, D.C.
Name: Henry Harris Jessup
Birth Date: 19 Apr 1832
Birth Place: Montrosa, PA
Residence: Beirut, Syria
Civil Date: (expires) 11 Dec 1910

Find A Grave Memorial# 103602200
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&a...200&ref=acom
Henry Harris Jessup
Birth: 1832 Montrose, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death: 1910 Beirut, Bayrut, Lebanon
Henry Harris Jessup (1832-1910) was an American Presbyterian missionary, author, and a founder of the American University of Beirut.
He was born at Montrose, Pennsylvania, son of the jurist William Jessup (1797-1868). He was the grandfather of noted international jurist and diplomat Philip Jessup. He enrolled at Cortland Academy in Homer, New Yorkfor one year before attending Yale University. He graduated from Yale in 1851 and from Union Theological Seminary in 1855 at which point he was officially ordained; he immediately entered the foreign-missionary service of the Presbyterian church.
He spent his first four years of service in Tripoli, Lebanon, devoting much time to leaning Arabic at which he proved extremely deft. He married Caroline Bush during one trip back to America in 1857 and returned to Tripoli within a matter of months. During the Druse Revolts, the Jessups moved to Beirut and had three children. His wife took ill on sea voyage prescribed by a doctor and she died in Alexandria, Egypt. Jessup remarried in 1869 to Harriet Elizabeth Dodge with whom he had five children, though she too died in 1882. During one of his few trips back to America in 1884, Jessup married for the third and last time to Theodosia Davenport Lockwood.
Jessup served as the acting pastor for the Syrian Church of Beirut and superintendent of its school for thirty years, teaching almost any grade. He also became the first secretary of the Asfuriyeh Hospital for the Insane, acted for a time as missionary editor for the Arabic journal El-Neshrah, and in 1866, was one of the founders of the Syrian Protestant College, now known as the American University of Beirut. Serving and teaching in Beirut tirelessly, he refused a professorship at Union Seminary in 1857, a position as secretary of the Presbyterian Board in 1870, and the post of United States minister to Persia in 1883.
Jessup also authored numerous books about Syrian history, which culminated in the work for which he is best known, "Fifty-Three Years in Syria", published in 1910, a two volume memoir and historical account of his life there. He died and was buried in Beirut.
Family links:
Spouse:
Theodosia Davenport Lockwood Jessup (1839 - 1907)
Children:
William Jessup (1872 - 1920)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial: Anglo-American Cemetery, Beirut, Bayrut, Lebanon
Plot: II E 5
Created by: HWA; Record added: Jan 15, 2013


Obituary The Scranton Republican Friday January 17, 1902 pg 3 col 2, 3 &4
“Judge Jessup Dead”:
“... Judge Jessup is survived by his wife and daughters, Miss Louise, Mrs. AC Leisenring, of Upper Lehigh; Mrs WH Woodin, of New York city; and one son Attorney WH Jessup jr, of this city: also two brother, Dr Henry Jessup and Dr Samuel Jessup, Presbyterian missionaries in Syria; also one sister, Miss Fanny Jessup of Montrose. Mr Isaac Post, cashier of the First National Bank is a nephew... services... First Prestbyterian Church...interment in Montrose...
....Hon. William Hunting Jessup was born in Montrose, Susquehanna county, Jan 29, 1830, and was a dcescendant of the Jessup family which immigrated from England to Rhode Island about the middle of the seventeenth century. He was the eldest of five sons of Hon. William Jessup, LL D, who came to Northeastern Pennsylvania from Southampton, Long Island in 1818 and made his home in Montrose for the remainder of his life. The elder Judge Jessup was president judge of the district composed of the counties of Luzerne, Wayne, Pike, Monroe and Susquehanna for many years. The two brothers of Judge Jessup next younger than himself are Rev Henry H Jessup D D and Rev Samuel Jessup D D who have been for 33 and 26 years respectively and still are missionaries un der the care of the Presbyterian Board of Foriegn Missions at Beirut, Syria. The only other survivor of the brothers and sisters is Miss Fanny M Jessup of Montrose....
....In 1846 at the age of 16 he entered the sophomore class of Yale college, from which he graduated in 1849 at the age of 19.... was admitted to the bar in November 1851, at the last term of court held by his father, with whom he immediately entered into partnership in the practice of law... In 1877 he was appointed president judge of the 34th district.... he served... until 1879.... About 1889 he removed to Scranton...
... In politics Judge Jessup was an ardent Republican, having assisted in organizing the Republican partyin his native town in November 1854....He personally represented his district in the convention which nominated Abraham Lincoln for his second term, his father having been a mamber of the convention which first nominated Lincoln.He was a delegate to the convention which nominated Gen Grant to the presidency of 1868, and was one of the delegates at large from Pennsylvania to the convention which names Mr Blaine in 1884. Though prevented form enlisting during the war of the Rebellion by his large business responsibilities and the necessary care of an ages and infirm father, he was unceasingly active in the support of the government, giving largely of time and money, and during the invasions of Pennsylvania in 1862-63 he was in active sevice as major of the Twenty-eighth regiment of Pennsylvanis Volunteer militia. In 1863 he was appointed by president Lincoln assessor fin ternal revenue for the Twelfth Collection ditrict of Pennsylvanis, one of the richest districts of the state. In 1871, he was commissioned by the govenor John W Geary, majorgeneral of the Tenth Division of the National Guard of Pennsylvania...
...In October 1853 he married Miss Sarah W Jay of Belvedere, NJ by whom he has had 2 sons and 4 daughters, of whom there survive him his son William H Jessup, jr, his partner in business at the time of his death; Mrs Albert Leisenring of Upper Lehigh, Pa.; Mrs William Woodin of Berwick, Pa, and Miss Louise Jessup of Montrose.”


U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 Record for Henry Herbert Jessup image 460 thru 463 of 561 @ancestry.com; Source Citation: Volume: 167; SAR Membership Number: 33364. Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
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son of Henry Wynans Jessup(1864) and Mary Hay Stotesbury
grandson Henry Harris Jessup(1832-1910) and Caroline Bush(1833-1864)
gr-grandson of William Jessup(1797-1868) and Amada Harris(1798-1893)
2gr-grandson Zebulon Jessup(1755-1822) and Zerviah Rhodes huntting (1757-1835) marr 1780
3gr-grandson of Thomas Jessup(1721-1809) and Mehetable Foster(1719-1768)
4gr grandson of Henry Jessup and Bethia
*Zebulon Jessup (1755-1822) private 3rd regiment NY Continental Line; also in Col Josiah’s Smith’s (First of Suffolk Co NY) regiment of Minute Men 1776
and (page 3)
gr-grandson of Wynans Bush ans Julia Ann Loomis (1805)
2gr-grandson of William T Bush (1782-1825) and Esther Bull
3gr-grandson of SimeonTerBosch (1737-1814)
*SimeonTerBosch (1737-1814) Private soldier in Col Ho,mes (Fourth) regiment of the NY Continental Line; also private in Col Swartwout’s regimant of Dutchedd Co NY Militia



Annie Jessup of Montrose 
Author: Philip Jessup
Date: 24 Feb 2001 10:03 AM GMT  
In Reply to: jessup  by:  James Rouse
You may be referring to Anna Harris Jessup, whose parents were Henry Harris Jessup (1832-1910) and Caroline Bush (1833-1864). Caroline was the first of his three wives. Henry's parents were The Honorable Judge William Jessup (1797-1868) and Amanda Harris.