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Jones, John Beauchamp

journalist, author, was born in 1810, in Baltimore, Md. He was the author of A Rebel War Clerk's Diary; Wild Western Scenes; Border War; Love and Money; Life and Adventures of a Country Merchant; War Path; Freaks of Fortune; and The Rival Belles. He died in 1866.

Jones, John Glancy

lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 7, 1811, at Conestoga River, Pa. While deputy attorneygeneral of the state he was elected a representative in congress from Pennsylvania, serving from 1850 to 1858. He was the author, in the house, of the bill creating the court of claims, when a member of the committee on claims. He died March 24, 1877, in Pennsylvania.

Jones, John J

lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 13, 1824, in Burke county, Ga. He was a representative from Georgia to the thirty-sixth congress.

Jones, John Mather

merchant, journalist, author, was born June 9, 1826, in North Wales. After the close of the civil war he founded the Welsh town of New Cambria, Mo.; and in 1869 bought a large tract of land in Osage county, Kan., where he founded the town of Avonia. He died Dec. 21, 1874, in Utica, N. Y. son

Jones, John Paul

naval officer, was born July 6, 1747, in Scotland. He was a of John Paul, and subsequently added the name of Jones. He settled in Virginia in his boyhood; entered the American navy in 1775; and was commodore during the revolutionary war. He was an intrepid and daring officer; and was afterward rear-admiral in the Russian service.

He died July 18, a 1792, in Paris, France. He received a vote of thanks from congress for his important services.

Jones, John Percival

farmer, state legislator, United States senator, was born in 1830, in Wales. He served in both houses of the California state assembly. He went to Nevada in 1867; and was elected to the United States senate for the term commencing in 1873; and was re-elected in 1879, 1885, 1890, and 1897. His last term expires in 1903.

Jones, John Pringle

lawyer, jurist, author, was born in 1812, near Newton, Pa. Under the elective judiciary system of 1851 he was elected president of the Berks county, Pa., courts for the term of ten years. He was the author of Eulogy on A. Laussat; and volumes eleven and twelve of Pennsylvania State Reports.

He died March 16, 1874, in England.

Jones, John Richter

soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 2, 1803, in Salem, N. J. In 1836 he was appointed one of the judges of the court of common pleas of Philadelphia county, which post he held until 1847.. He died May 23, 1863, near New Berne, N. C.

Jones, John Sills

soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born Feb. 12, 1836, near St. Paris, Ohio. He served through the civil war, and was promoted to first lieutenant, captain, and was brevetted brigadier-general for gallantry. In 1866 he was mayor of Delaware, Ohio; was prosecuting attorney in 1868-70; was twice elected to the general assembly of the Ohio state legislature; and served as a member of the forty-fifth congress as a republican.

Jones, John W

physician, educator, state legislator, congressman, was born April 14, 1806, in Rock Creek, Md. In 1840 he was elected to the Georgia legislature; and was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1847 to 1849. He was appointed a medical professor in the Atlantic Medical college. He died in 1872, in Atlanta, Ga.

Jones, John Winston

congressman, was born Nov. 22, 1791, in Chesterfield, Pa. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1835 to 1845; and was speaker of the house of representatives during the twenty-eighth congress. He died Jan. 29, 1848. was