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NAME JOHNSTONE 634 JONES and Dr. Johnstone survived this operation only two hours, conscious almost to the last, and assuring those around him that the operation had given him his one chance of recovery. Dr. Johnstone was always a student and an investigator, and his eagerness was both at- tractive and contagious. Each year saw him seeking fresh knowledge in various schools and post-graduate courses. A list of his many contributions to medical literature may be found in the Transactions of the American Gynecological Society, 1906, vol. ^^^'- Howard A. Kelly. Trans. Amer. Gyn. Soc, 1906, vol. xxxi. Johnstone, Robert (1805-1847) Robert Johnstone was born in Goshen, County Longford, Ireland, in January, 1805, and had the usual elementary education avail- able for boys of his day and locality. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to Mr. Martin Ford, an apothecary of Tuan, County Gal way, for the term of three years, and in 1823 matriculated in Trinity College, Dublin, where he probably took his M. D. in 1827. His diploma as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of London bears date June 13, 1828,. and is distinguished by the autographs of Sir Astley Cooper, John Abernethy and other celebrities. After some hesitation in deciding upon a place for permanent settlement. Dr. Johnstone finally selected the United States and came here with his wife in 1831, settling first in Cleveland, Ohio, then removing for a year to Millersburg, Ohio, and then returning again to Cleveland. Here he soon built up a good practice and was on the high road to success when he was cut ofT prematurely by an attack of typhus fever contracted from a patient, which terminated his life July 16, 1847. Dr. Johnstone's taste was for surgery rather than medicine, though he practised both. On January 20, 1846, he successfully removed, for a medullary sarcoma, the left superior maxil- lary bone of a child aged four and one-half years, the son of Daniel Solloway of Cleve- ^3"°- Henry E. Handeeson. A fine portrait of Dr. Johnstone is in the pos- session of his son, Mr. Arthur Johnstone, in Cleveland. Jones, Calvin (1775-1846) Major-General Calvin Jones, an officer of North Carolina troops through the second war with Great Britain, a physician of marked ability and grand master of the Masonic grand lodge of North Carolina, was born at Great Barrington, Massachusetts, April 2, 1775. His father was Ebenezer Jones, a sol- dier in the .^rmy of the Revolution, and the maiden name of his mother was Susannah Blackmore. The family's earliest progenitor in America was Thomas Ap Jones, a Welsh- man, who settled at Weymouth, Massachu- setts, in 1651. From him, Ebenezer Jones was fourth in descent. Of the early life of Calvin Jones we know little. We get a slight glimpse of the surroundings of his infancy in a letter to him from his father's sister, Mrs. Mary Collins, who says : "I came to your father's house to stay with your mother while your father and Uncle Joseph went to fight for their dear country. You were then 16 months old." A letter from his father declares : "Your mother and I made slaves of ourselves that our children might have education." We are unable to ascer- tain in what institutions Calvin Jones received his education, but that he was possessed of a varied store of knowledge in state-craft, medicine, surgery, science, history, botany, and polite literature, there is ample proof. The study of medicine he began in boyhood, and he made such wonderful progress in that science that he was able to stand an examination on the subject at the early age of seventeen. A certificate, or medical license, now owned by his descendants, reads as follows : These may certify that Calvin Jones, on ye 19th of June, 1792, offered himself as a candidate for examination in the Healing Art before the United Medical Society. He was likewise examined and approved of by the said Society as being well skilled in the Theory of the Physical Art, and by them is recommended to the Publick, as per Order of James Batten, president. DoCT. David Doty, Secretary. We have never been able to learn where this United Medical Society was situated. Before leaving New England, Dr. Jones practised his profession with marked success, as we learn from general letters of recom- mendation and introduction from physicians with whom he had been associated before removing to North Carolina. It was abaut the year 1795 that Dr. Jones settled in Smithfield, in Johnston County, North Carolina. He soon gained the esteem and confidence of the general public in his new home, likewise attaining high rank among the most progressive and enlightened medical men of North Carolina. In the course of time. Dr. Jones was called into public life by the voters of Johnston County, being twice elected a member of the North Carolina House of Commons, serving