Jones, Owen – Jordan, Charles E
Jones, Owen
lawyer, congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in the thirty-fifth congress from his native state.
Jones, Phineas
manufacturer, state legislator, congressman, was born April 18, 1819, in Spencer, Mass. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1874 and 1875; and was elected a representative from New Jersey to the forty-seventh congress as a republican.
Jones, Roland
congressman, was born in North Carolina. He was a representative from Louisiana to the thirtythird congress.
Jones, Samuel
lawyer, jurist, was born July 26, 1734. He was chief justice of New York, and called the father of the New York bar. He died Nov. 21, 1819, in Westneck, N. Y.
Jones, Samuel
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born May 26, 1769. He was a member of the assembly in 1812-14; recorder of New York city in 1823; chancellor of the state in 1826-28; chief justice of the superior court of New York city in 1828-47; and justice of the state supreme court in 1847-49. He died Aug. 9, 1853, in Cold Spring, N. Y.
Jones, Samuel
soldier, was born in 1820, in Virginia. He served in the civil war, and received the rank of brigadiergeneral. He died July 31, 1887, in Bedford Springs, Va.
Jones, Samuel Porter
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 16, 1847, in Chambers county, Ala. He is a noted and eccentric revival preacher; and the author of Sam Jones's Sermons; Music Hall Sermons; and Sam Jones's Own Book.
Jones, Seaborn
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1788, in Augusta, Ga. He was made solicitor-general of the state in 1823; and was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1833 to 1835, and from 1845 to 1847. He died in 1874, in Columbus, Ga.
Jones, Thomas Goode
soldier, lawyer, legislator, governor, was born Nov. 26, 1844, in Macon, Ga. He served as a soldier in the confederate service, and was promoted to aide-de-camp. In 1866 he was admitted to the bar; became editor of the Daily Picayune of Montgomery; and during 1870-80 was reporter of decisions of the supreme court of Alabama. In 1875-85 he was alderman in the city of Montgomery; in 1884-87 was a member of the Alabama general assembly; and speaker of the house during his latter term. In 1890 he was elected governor of Alabama; served with distinction, and received the re-election in 1892. He is the author of Code of Ethics, adopted by the Alabama State Bar association; author of / the law regulating the employment of state troops in enforcement of the law; and has been prominently identified with the history, growth and prosperity of the state of Alabama.
Jones, Thomas Laurens
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 22, 1819, in Rutherford county, N. C. He was a member of the general assembly of Kentucky in 1853 and 1854. He was elected to the fortieth and forty-first congresses, and reelected to the forty-fourth congress.
Jones, W. A
educator, manufacturer, state legislator, was born Sept. 27, 1844, in Wales. He was county superintendent of schools for four years; has been mayor of Mineral Point, Wis.; and in 1896 was elected a member of the Wisconsin state legislature. In 1897 he was appointed United States commissioner of Indian affairs.
Jones, Walter
physician, congressman, was born in 1745, in Virginia. In 1777 he was appointed by congress physician-general of the hospital in the middle department. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1797 to 1799, and again from 1803 to 1811. He died Dec. 31, 1815, in Westmoreland county, Va.
Jones, William
soldier, governor, merchant, state legislator, was born in 1754, in Newport, R. I. He entered the army in 1775 as a captain in Colonel Lippitt's Rhode Island regiment. For several years he was a representative from Providence in the assembly, and also speaker of that body. He was governor of Rhode Island from 1811 to 1817. He died April 9, 1822, in Providence, R. I.
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 Atkinson
lawyer, congressman, was born March 21, 1849, in Warsaw, Va. He entered the Virginia Military institute, where he remained until the evacuation of Richmond, serving as occasion required with the cadets in the defense of that city. He entered the academic department of the university of Virginia, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of B. L. in 1870. He was admitted to the bar in July, 1870, and has continued to practice law since; was a delegate at large from his state to the national democratic convention in 1896; and was chairman of the Virginia delegation in that body. He was elected to the fifty-second, fifty-third, and fifty-fourth congresses, and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
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 Caswell
lawyer, jurist, author, poet, was born July 15, 1848, in Hutsonville, Ill. His father was Caswell Jones, a merchant and beloved citizen who died when the son was in his fifth year. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools; spent three years at the Ohio Wesleyan university of Delaware; and graduated from the law school of Ann Arbor, Mich. In 1868 he was admitted to the bar; and served with distinction as a member of the twenty-seventh general 1 assembly of Illinois in 1871 and 1872. In 1877 he was elected county judge of his county; was elected to the circuit bench in 1879; and re-elected circuit judge in 1885, his term expiring in 1891. He immediately returned to the practice of law in Robinson, Ill., and has a large practice. He is one of the authors of a standard work entitled Jones and Cunningham's Practice in County Courts in Illinois, a second edition of which was published in 1893. He has written extensively both prose and verse for current periodicals and magazines; and is the author of Birch-Rod Days, and Other Poems, published by the American Publishers' association. He is also the author of Elements and Science of English Versification, a most valuable work destined to become a standard work on that subject.
Judge Jones has been a successful business man and financier; is vice-president of the Robinson bank; and is also extensively engaged in farming and stock raising.
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, Charles E
lawyer, was born Sept. 28, 1865, in Palmyra, N. Y. He received his education at the Palmyra Union school, and the Union university.
In 1887 he was admitted to the bar of the state of New York; and has since been actively engaged in the practice of law.
He is one of the foremost lawyers of Alabama, and has a large practice at Florence.