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Jones, Benjamin O – Jones, Francis Wiley

Jones, Benjamin O

lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Nov. 23, 1844, in Graves county, Ky. During 1874-76 he was a member of the twenty-ninth general assembly of Illinois; in 1881-85 he was state's attorney of Massac county, Ill.; and in 1890-94 was county judge of the same county. He has attained prominence in his profession of law, and has a large practice at Metropolis, Ill.

Jones, Burr W

lawyer, congressman, was born March 9, 1846, in Union, Wis. He was elected district attorney of Wisconsin in 1872, and re-elected in 1874.

He was elected a representative from Wisconsin to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat.

Jones, Charles A

lawyer, poet, was born about 1805 in Philadelphia, Pa.

His first articles, a series of satirical ly. rics, appeared in the Cincinnati Gazette, under the title of Aristohaniana. After studying law he removed to Louisiana. and practiced in New Orleans. He published The Outlaw. He died July 4, 1851, in Mill Creek, Ohio.'

Jones, Charles Colcock

clergyman, author, was born Dec. 20, 1804, in Georgia. He is a presbyterian clergyman of Georgia; and the author of Religious Instruction for Negroes; and History of The Church of God.

Jones, Charles Colcock

lawyer, archæologist, author, was born Oct. 28, 1831, in Savannah, Ga. He was a lawyer and archæologist of Augusta, Ga.; and the author of Ancient Tumuli in Georgia; Antiquities of the Southern Indians; The History of Georgia; Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast; Biographical Sketches of the Delegates from Georgia to the Continental Congress; and The English Colonization of Georgia. He died in 1893.

Jones, Charles H

journalist, was born March 7, 1848, in Talbottom, Ga.

In 1888 he removed to St. Louis to take charge of the old Missouri Republican, now known as the St. Louis Republic, which, under his management, has attained a success unprecedented in its history.

Jones, Charles W

lawyer, legislator, United States senator, was born in 1834, in Ireland. In 1874 he was elected a member of the lower house of the state legislature from Escambia county; in 1874 was elected a senator in congress from Florida for the term ending in 1881; and was re-elected for the term ending in 1887.

Jones, Daniel T

congressman, was born in Connecticut. He settled in New York; and was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1851 to 1855.

Jones, David Rump

soldier, was born in 1825, in South Carolina. In 1861 he entered the confederate army, where he was appointed brigadier-general. He died March 8, 1863, in Richmond, Va.

Jones, Florence Augusta

poet, was born in August, 1861, near Madison, Wis. She is the author of several poems; several of them have been set to music, notably that of Bylo Land.

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Jones, Francis

congressman. was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1817 to 1823.

Jones, Francis Wiley

electrician, inventor, was born May 22, 1846, in Weymouth, N. S. He was the first president of the New York Electrician society. Many of his inventions are used by telegraph companies in the United States and Canada.