All per Mary Frost Jessup’s History of the Jessup Family in Montrose, Pennsylvania:
-attended Yale and Union Theological Seminary
- stationed in Tripoli and later in cahrge of the Mission Press in Beirut
-1st missionary of ABCFM to cross Atlantic in a steamer in 1863
-served as Chaplain of the 6th Pennsylvania Reserves during Civil War

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

1860FCI WmJessup Jr & Sr fam; Pennsylvania > Susquehanna > Montrose; image 24 of 32 @ancesttyr.com; William Jessup; home Montrose, Susquehanna, PA; age 63; b abt 1796; New York; Male; Post Office: Montrose; Roll: M653_1186; Page: 527; Year: 1860; HOH: William Jessup
HOusehold:
Amanda Jessup, age 61, b abt 1798 in New York
Saml Jessup, age 26, b abt 1833 in Pennsylvania
Faney Jessup, age 24, b abt 1835 in Pennsylvania
George Jessup, age 22; b abt 1837
Anna Jessup, age 19; b abt 1840 in Pennsylvania
Hunting Jessup, age17, b abt 1842 in Pennsylvania
Next Household:
W H Jessup, age 30, b abt 1829 in Pennsylvania
Sarah Jessup, age 26, b abt 1833 in New Jersey
Lillie Jessup, age 5, b abt 1854 in Pennsylvania
William Jessup, age 2, b abt 1857 in Pennsylvania
Mary C Jessup, (b abt 1860) age 3.12,in Pennsylvania
and 2 servants

News1891 RevSamuelJessupDD
The Montrose Democrat (Montrose, Pennsylvania)
27 Feb 1891, Fri
Page 3
Rev Samuel Jessup of Montrose, and for 25 years missionary to Syria, has had the degree of D.D. conferred upon him by Princeton University, in recognition of his long and faithful labors

U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930 Massachusetts Boston Transcript 1900-1930: Gab-Oyama; image 425 of 1010 @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: William Hunting Jessup
Event: Death Death Date: Abt 1902
Newspaper: Boston Transcript
Publication Date: 21 Jan 1902
Publication Place: Massachusetts, USA
Call Number: 486701
on same page:
Jessup Rev Samuel d-- (T july 17, 1912)
Jessup Mrs Theodosia DL d Dec 18 1907 (T Dec 24)
Jessup William Hunting d-- (T Jan 21 1902)

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.”