Jones, James Taylor – Jones, Obadiah
Jones, James Taylor
lawyer, soldier, congressman, was born in 1832, in Richmond, Va. He served as an officer in the confederate army throughout the civil war. He was a state senator in 1872 and 1873. He was elected a representative from Alabama to the forty-fifth congress; and was again elected to congress in 1883 to fill a vacancy in the fortyeighth congress. He was re-elected to the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a democrat.
Jones, Jenkin Lloyd
clergyman, author, poet, was born in 1843, in Wales.
He is a unitarian clergyman of Chicago; editor of Unity from 1880; and the author of Practical Piety; and The Faith that Makes Faithful.
Jones, Joel
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Oct. 25, 1795, in Coventry, Conn.
He was a jurist of Philadelphia who wrote much on theological topics, and was the first president of Girard college. He was the author of Manual of Pennsylvania Land Law; Jesus and the Coming Glory; and Knowledge of One Another in a Future State. He died Feb. 3, 1860, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Jones, John
educator, physician, surgeon, was born in 1729, in Jamaica, N. Y. He was professor of surgery in King's college from 1767 till 1776, and one of the two original founders of the New York hospital. He died June 23, 1791, in Philadelphia, Pa.
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
Jones, Joseph
congressman, born in 1727, in Virginia. He was a delegate from Virginia to the continental congress from 1777 to 1778, and again from 1780 to 1783. He died Oct. 28, 1805, in Virginia.
Jones, Joseph
educator, physician, author, was born Sept. 6, 1833, in Summerville, Ga. He is a physician, and professor in Tulane university, New Orleans, since 1869. Among his writings are, Sanitary Memoirs of the War of the Rebellion; Surgical Memoirs of the War of the Rebellion; Hospital Construction and Organization; and Medical and Surgical Memoirs.
Jones, Joseph Huntington
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 24, 1797, in Coventry, Conn. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia; and the author of The Effects of Physical Causes on Christian Experience; Life of Ashbel Green; and Revival of Religion. He died Dec. 22, 1868, in Coventry, Conn.
Jones, Joseph Jerome
educator, lawyer, was born April 3, 1864, near Cowden, Ill. He attended the high school of Shelbyville, Ill.; and for three years studied in the Northern Indiana Normal school of Valparaiso; graduating in the scientific course in 1887. For many years he was engaged in educational work in the public schools of Illinois; and now practices his profession in Coalville, Utah.
Jones, Joseph Russel
merchant, was born Feb. 17, 1823, in Conneaut, Ohio.
In 1860 he was elected as a republican to the general assembly from the counties of Jo Daviess and Carroll. In 1861 he was appointed United States marshal for the northern district of Illinois. He organized the Chicago West Division Railway Co. in 1863, and was elected its president. He retired practically from business in 1888, but is yet a director of the Chicago and the Central Union Telephone Co's and the Central Music Hall Co., and president of the Northwestern Horse Nail Manufacturing Co.
Jones, Joseph Seawell
author, was born about 1811, probably in North Carolina. He was a southern writer who published Defense of the Revolutionary History of North Carolina; and Memorials of North Carolina. He died in 1855.
Jones, Joseph Stevens
author, was born in 1811. He was an extremely prolific playwright of Boston, among whose best known productions are, Solon Shingle; Eugene Aram; The Silver Spoon; The Liberty Tree; and Moll Pitcher. He died Dec. 30, 1877, in Boston, Mass.
Jones, Leonard Augustus
lawyer, journalist, author, was born Jan. 13, 1832, in Tampleton, Mass. He is a lawyer of Boston; editor of the American Law Register; and the author of Personal Property; The Law of Mortgages of Real Property; On The Law of Pledges; Pledges and Collateral Securities; Corporate Bonds and Mortgages; Chattel Mortgages; Liens; Real Estate in Conveyancing; and Forms in Conveyancing.
Jones, Morgan
machinist, congressman, was born Feb. 26, 1832, in New York city. In 1864 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-ninth congress.
Jones, Nathaniel
congressman, state senator. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1827 and 1828; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1837 to 1841. He was a state senator in 1852 and 1853; and also held the offices of surveyor-general of the state, and canal commissioner. He died July 21, 1866, in Newburg, N. Y.
Jones, Ophelia Cook
educator, poet, was born Feb. 5, 1849, in Brownsville, Miss. For nearly a quarter of a century she has been engaged in educational work. Mrs. Jones is the author of the poem, What My Lover Said, which has been attributed to several national poets.
She is the author of numerous beautiful poems, some of which were published in Poets of America, and other standard works.
Jones, Noble Wimberly
physician, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1724, near London, England. He was a member of the Georgia assembly in 1761, and subsequently, being several times speaker; and was speaker of the first Georgia legislature. He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1775 to 1776, and from 1781 to 1783. He was president of the convention which revised the state constitution in 1795. He died Jan. 9, 1805, in Savannah.
Jones, Obadiah
lawyer, jurist. He was appointed in 1805 United States judge for the territory of Mississippi; served one year as territorial judge for Illinois in 1809; and was reappointed to the same position in Mississippi in 1810. When the state government was established he was appointed United States judge for that district, but only held the office a short time.