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Jones, William – Jordan, James H

Jones, William

soldier, banker, congressman, was born in 1760, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1801 to 1803. He died Sept. 5, 1831, in Bethlehem, Pa.

Jones, William Alfred

critic, author, was born June 26, 1817, in New York city. He is a critic and essayist of Norwich, Conn.; and the author of The Analyst; Essays upon Authors and Books; Characters and Criticisms; and Literary Studies.

Jones, William Carey

lawyer, congressman, was born April 5, 1855, in Remsen, N. Y. He was elected to the office of attorney-general of the state of Washington upon the admission of the state into the union in 1889, and again in 1892. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a free silver republican.

Jones, William Edmondson

soldier, was born in May, 1824, near Glade Spring, Va. He entered the confederate army as captain in 1861; and was made major-general in 1863. He died June 5, 1864, near New Hope, Va.

Jones, William G

lawyer, jurist.

He was a judge of the United States court for the district of Alabama.

Jones, William Lucius

journalist, was born June 7, 1859, in Lebanon, Ill.

He is the editor and owner of the Journal of Lebanon, Ill.; and president of the Southern Illinois Press association in 1891.

Jones, William Palmer

educator, journalist, physician, state senator, was born Oct. 17, 1819, in Adair county, Ky.

He aided in founding Shelby Medical college in 1858, and filled its chair of materia medica, and in 1876 became president of Nashville Medical college in Tennessee, and professor of psychological medicine and mental hygiene. As a member of the state senate he introduced the public school law, which provides equal educational advantages for children of all races.

Jones, William T

soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Feb. 20, 1842, in Corydon, Ind. He served in the army as lieutenant, captain and major of the seventeenth Indiana volunteers; and was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of Wyoming in 1869. He was elected a delegate from Wyoming territory to the forty-second congress as a republican.

Jones, Willie

patriot, was born in 1731 in Halifax, N. C. He was a delegate to the continental congress in 1780 and 1781 from North Carolina. He died in 1801 near Raleigh, N. C.

Jordan, Ambrose Latting

lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born in 1791 in Hillsdale, N. Y. He attained eminence as a lawyer of New York city; was a member of the assembly; a state senator; judge of the court of appeals; and attorney general of the state. He died July 16, 1865, in New York city.

Jordan, Isaac M

lawyer, congressman, was born May 5, 1835, in Union county, Pa. He was nominated by acclamation, and elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat.

Jordan, James H

soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 21, 1842, in Woodstock, Va. He served as a soldier in the union army during the civil war; has been state's attorney; and is now a judge of the supreme court of Indiana.