the founding of the Republican Party. U.S. Minister to Austria-Hungary President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Jay as the United States Minister to the Austria-Hungary empire, where he served from 1869 to 1875. In 1877, Secretary of the Treasury John Sherman appointed him chairman of the special commission to investigate Chester A. Arthur's administration of the New York Custom House. In 1883, Democratic Governor Grover Cleveland (later U.S. President) appointed Jay as the Republican member of the New York Civil Service Commission, of which he later became president. Jay published several speeches and pamphlets on slavery and other issues. He wrote a biographical article for Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography about his grandfather, John Jay, the Chief Justice; it included sections on his father and himself. In 1889, he was elected as president of the American Historical Association. Personal life In 1837, Jay was married to Eleanor Kingsland Field (1819–1909), daughter of Eleanor and Hickson Woolman Field, and cousin of Benjamin Hazard Field. Hickson was a prominent merchant in New York City. Together, they were the parents of six children, including: Eleanor Jay (1839–1921), who married Henry Grafton Chapman Jr., the president of the New York Stock Exchange, and son of abolitionist Maria Weston Chapman. William Jay (1841–1915), who married Lucie Oelrichs (1854–1931), sister of Hermann Oelrichs (husband of Theresa Fair Oelrichs), and Charles May Oelrichs (husband of Blanche de Loosey Oelrichs). John S. Jay (1842–1843), who died young. Augusta Jay (1844–1878), who married Edmund Randolph Robinson, son of prominent civil engineer Moncure Robinson. Mary Jay (1846–1916), who married William Henry Schieffelin, son of author Samuel Schieffelin. Anna Jay (1849–1925), who married General Hans Lothar von Schweinitz, German Ambassador to St. Petersburg. Jay died on May 5, 1894 in Manhattan at the age of 76. He was buried in John Jay Cemetery, established for his grandfather and owned by his family in Rye, New York. Published works Jay's published works included: "America Free, or America Slave" (1856) "The Church and the Rebellion" (1863) "On the Passage of the Constitutional Amendment abolishing Slavery" (1864) "Rome in America" (1868) "The American Foreign Service" (1877) "The Sunday-School a Safeguard to the Republic" "The Fisheries Question" "The Public School a Portal to the Civil Service." References External links 1817 births 1894 deaths 19th-century American diplomats Ambassadors of the United States to Austria-Hungary American abolitionists American lawyers American male non-fiction writers American political writers Columbia College