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NAME JONES 640 JONES solicitor-general to the state for over thirty years. Johnston Jones received his early education in Raleigh, under a noted educator, Mr. Jo- seph G. Cogsvifell, afterwards spending several years at the University of North Carolina but not taking a degree. He began his medical studies in Charleston, South Carolina, but owing to delicate health was advised to go abroad, so, choosing Paris, he studied medi- cine for two years. During his student days in the French capital he was known as "the handsome American" — in fact, from youth to age he was remarkable for a physical beauty which seemed but the outward expression of the luminous mind within. At the expiration of his stay in Paris he- made a six months' tour of Scotland and Ireland, visiting kins- folk and friends. Soon after his return to America he attended medical lectures at the Medical College of South Carolina, at Charleston (1836-37), and received his M. D. there in 1841. The same year he began to practise in the little town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the home of the State University, where he re- mained until 1868, then removed to the city of Charlotte where he practised until his death, March 1, 1889. He died a poor man so far as worldly goods go, but rich in the respect and love of those who had known his kindness and experienced the benefit of his skill. He was one of the prime movers in the or- ganization of the North Carolina Medical So- ciety, and always took the deepest interest in its welfare. His mind was acute, vigorous, original and analytic, and to great professional learning he added extensive and accurate information on many subjects. Much of his practice was in the department of diseases of women, in which he had a considerable vogue. In 1841 he married Ann Stuart, and was survived by two sons, one of whom was Dr. Simmons B. Jones of Charlotte, North Caro- lina, and by two daughters. LiDA T. Rodman. Cyclopedia of Representative Men of the Caro- Unas. Brant and Fuller, 1882, vol. ii. Phys. & Surgs. of the U. S., W. B. Atkinson, Phila., 1878. Jone>, Joseph (1833-1896) Best known for his writings on "Diseases in the Southern States," Joseph Jones was born on September 6, 1833, in Liberty County, Georgia, the son of the Rev. Charles and Mary Jones Jones. As a boy he had private tuition and five years at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, taking his A. B. from Princeton College, 1853, A. M. in 1856, and his M. D. from the University of Penn- sylvania in 1856. The University of Georgia gave him her LL. D. in 1892. The Savannah Medical College chose him as her professor of chemistry in 1858. Three years after he was for one year professor of natural philosophy and natural theology in the University of Athens, Georgia, then professor of chemistry in the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta. Dur- ing the war he was six months in the cavalry and for the rest of the time full surgeon-ma- jor in the Confederate Army. Keen in his studies of disease, he made in- vestigations in most of the southern states, being more in the center of activities by his service as professor of chemistry and clinical medicine in the university of Louisiana and as president of the board of health in that state. He had the usual difficult experience of all sanitary inspectors, especially at the ports. After a continuous battle of four years with the maritime and railroad interests, the court voted quarantine to be a legitimate exer- cise of police rights. The whole life of Dr. Jones was devoted to the thankless task of pro- moting civic and military hygiene m the city. His writings included "Digestion of Albumen and Flesh," 1856; "Physical, Chemical and Physiological Investigations on Solids and Fluids of Animals," 1856 (his M. D. thesis) ; "Observations on the Chemical, Physical and Pathological Phenomena of Malarial Fever," 1859; "Inquiries on Hospital Gangrene," 1869; "Explorations and Researches concerning the Destruction of the Aboriginal Inhabitants of America by Various Diseases, etc.," 1878; "Observations on the Losses of the Confeder- ate Armies from Wounds, etc.," 1861 ; "Con- tributions to the Natural History of Specific Yellow Fever," 1874; "Observations on the African Yaws and Leprosy," 1877 : "Sanitary Memoirs of the United States Sanitary Com- mission," New York, 1890 ; "Medical and Sur- gical Memoirs ;" "Contributions to Teratolo- gy," 1888; "Explorations of the Aboriginal Re- mains in Tennessee." It can be imagined that such a widely inter- ested man was foremost in founding the Southern Historical Society. He was also honorary member of the Virginia Medical So- ciety; of the Physicians and Surgeons of Phil- adelphia, and a member of the Louisiana Medical Society. He married, in 1858, Caroline S. Davis of Augusta, Georgia, and two years after her death in 1868, Susan Rayner Polk, daughter