James Postell Jervey, USMA 1892

14 November 1869 (Powhatan, VA) --- 12 March 1947 (Washington, DC)

• Briganier General, Retired September 21, 1920.
• Professor of Mathematics, University of the South, Sewanee, TN, October 1, 1926-1945

Not in MathSciNet, the University of the South catalog or the USMA library catalog.

Publications:

• "The Confederate General," Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, VII, 1938, The Bishop Leonidas Polk Centennial Number,
  1838-1938.
• "Charles Patton Echols," Annual Report [of Association of Graduates of USMA], 1941, pp. 191-197.

Genealogy:

His son James Postell Jervey, Jr., (#6084) is also a USMA grad: USMA 1918. Retired 1948. Died 1971. 

References:

Arney, Chris, West Point's Scientific 200: Celebration of the Bicentennial. Biographies of 200 of West Point's Most Successful and Influential Mathematicians, Scientists, Engineers, and Technologists, 2002.

Cullum # 3451.