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| | Lynn Harvey's William Jay: Biographical Sketch |
 | | William Jay was born at Bath, England in 1792 to a famous dissenting minister of the same name. |
 | | He was a close friend of William Etty, R.A., a famous painter of nudes, who, in 1818, contributed panels to Jay's Savannah Theatre, and painted portraits of Jay's father, sisters and brother-in-law. |
 | | Jay maintained an office in Charleston, and continued to work there and in Savannah, erecting a number of exquisite structures among them the William Mason Smith House and the Joseph Turpin Weyman House. |
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