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NAME JONES 637 JONES Western Hospital of the Insane. He died September 20, 1846. While a practising physician in Raleigh, Dr. Jones had become engaged to be married to Ruina J. Williams, a young woman of rare loveliness, who was the daughter of Major William Williams of "The Forks" in Frank- lin County, not far from the county of War- ren. Before the union could be consummated, however, she fell a victim to consumption, passing away on September 20, 1809, in the twenty-first year of her age. Nearly ten years later, on April 15, 1819, when forty- four years of age. Dr. Jones married the widowed sister of Miss Williams. This was Mrs. Temperance Boddie Jones, nee Williams, widow of Dr. Thomas C. Jones of Warren- ton. General Jones was a man of striking appear- ance. He was 5 feet 10% inches in height, deep-chested, and weighed about 240 pounds. His eyes bore a kindly expression and were hazel in color, his hair was brown, his fore- head high, his nose slightly Grecian, and his mouth clearly portrayed the firmness and decision which marked his character through life. Viewed from any standpoint, he was a strong man — strong morally, mentally, and physically. Marshall DeLancey Haywood. Condensed from "Calvin Jones, Physician, Sol- dier and Freemason," by Marshal DeLancey Haywood, in the Proceedings of the Masonic Grand Lodge of North Carolina. A. D.. 1919. Reprint issued by James W. Jones, Bolivar, Tenn. Three portraits of Dr. Jones are now in Wake County: one in the Grand Lodge Hall, and one in the office of the Adjutant-General, at Raleigh; and one at Wake Forest — the last mentioned having been presented to the col- lege by Wake Forest Lodge, now No. 282 but originally No. 97. Jones, Ichabod Gibson (1807-1857) Ichabod Gibson Jones 'Was born in Unity, Waldo County, Maine, in 1807 and died at his home in Columbus, Ohio, in 1857. In 1831 he came from Maine to Worthing- ton, Ohio, where he remained until 1834, when he removed to Columbus, in which city he lived until his death. His tastes inclined him to internal medicine and obstetrics, almost to the exclusion of sur- gery, which he studied only to attain profi- ciency in the more common operations incident to parturition. His primary education was obtained in local schools. At the age of twenty he studied medicine with his uncle. Dr. Gibson, of Bos- ton, and then entered New York University from which, when twenty-four, he obtained the M. D. degree, and in 1831 was appointe3 teacher of practical medicine and therapeutics in the Eclectic School at Worthington, Ohio, a position held until 1834. He was tall, very slender; had brown hair, irregular features, and an erect carriage. To the stranger his manner was austere and his expression rather that of melancholy, in- cident perhaps to discomfort from dyspepsia, from which he suffered almost constantly for many years prior to his death. Through his own suffering he became al- most a fanatic on the subject of diet, and often restricted his patients so much that some of them said they were in greater danger from starvation than from their diseases. He was a vigorous advocate for vaccination, which then as now was opposed by many swayed by prejudice or the hope of notoriety. The opposition came mainly from practitioners of his own school, and Dr. Jones joined the regulars in combating it. He believed that the immunity resulting from thorough impreg- nation of the system with the vaccine virus is permanent, and that when the first operation is properly performed and the virus active, a second is never necessary — a failure of the first is evidence of lack of care in the per- formance of the operation, or of the inertness of the virus. In 1833 he married Cynthia Kilbourne, a daughter of Col. James Kilbourne, the founder of the village of Worthington. There were four children ; Louisa, James Kilbourne, Emma, and Elizabeth. Dr. Jones died in Columbus, Ohio, in 1857 from cancer of the stomach. Through his lectures in the Eclectic school he naturally became interested in botany, writ- ing several papers descriptive of indigenous plants and trees, of which the most notable, perhaps, is a description of the grasses of this region; and he prepared an herbarium of the flora of central Ohio, the only complete work of the kind of his time. He wrote many papers on professional sub- jects, and in 1853 published a voluminous work on "Bractical Medicine and Therapeu- tics," differing from ordinary works of the kind only in treatment, as it embraced the doctrines of the Eclectic school. Starling Loving. Biographical Sketch, Address to the Old North- west Genealogical See, Starling Loving, 1903. Jones, James (1807-1873) James Jones, New Orleans obstetrician, was born in Georgetown, District of Columbia, Nov. 18, 1807, son of Edward Jones, of New York, and Louisa, daughter of Dr. Matthew