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NAME JONES 642 JONES to success and leading his class after one fail- ure. This was to assist him in handling the legal phases of the malpractice suits against the Medical Society. From 1903 to 1908 Dr. Mills represented his state society in the house of delegates of the American Medical Association and from the latter date until his death served the associ?.- tion as a member of the board of trustees. Through Dr. Jones's eflforts the California profession developed a strong organization, professionally, socially and scientifically. In 1915 Dr. Jones married Helen Louise Spalding, daughter of Edward B. and Frances A. Spalding. Edito. Northwest Med., Jan., 1917. Calif. St. Jour, of Med., Jan., 1917, vol. xv, 8-11. Jour. Amer. Med. Asso., 1916, vol. Ixvil, 1677 and 1084. Jones, Samuel Jones (1836-1901) Samuel Jones Jones, an oto-ophthalmologist ofChicago, 111., was born at Bainbridge, Penn- sylvania, March 22, 1836. The son of Dr. Robert H. Jones, a native of Donegal, Ireland, and of Sarah M. Ekel Jones, of Swiss-Amer- ican ancestry, he received the degree of Bach- elor of Arts at Dickinson College, Carlisle. Pennsylvania, in 1857. In 1860 he received from his alma mater the degree of A. M. and in 1884 that of LL. D., honoris causa. In 1860. at the University of Pennsylvania, he received his medical degree, after a three years' course of study, and at once entered the navy as assistant surgeon where he served until 1868. having been advanced to the rank of surgeon. Then he resigned and went to Europe to study ophthalmology. Returning to America, he settled in Chicago, and soon was made professor of ophthalmol- ogy and otolog>' in the Northwestern Univer- sity Medical School— a position which he held for many years. In this capacity he gave clin- ical instruction at Mercy Hospital and at the Southside Free Dispensary. He was also oph- thalmic and aural surgeon to St. Luke's Hospi- tal. For several years he was editor of the Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner — a publication which prospered greatly under his management. Dr. Jones was also a member of numerous medical societies, both general and special. In 1876 he was a delegate from the Illi- nois State Medical Society to the Centennial International Medical Congress, held in Phila- delphia. In 1881 he was a delegate from the American Medical Association and the Ameri- can Academy of Medicine to the Seventh In- ternational Medical Congress, which met in London. In 1887 he was president of the Otological Section of the Ninth International Medical Congress, at Washington. Dr. Jones was twice vice-president of the American Academy of Medicine, and in 1890 its presi- dent. Dr. Jones never married. He was a large, stately man, extremely courteous and rather formal. About five feet ten inches high, he weighed 200 pounds. He was a reddish blonde, with dark brown hair and beard, and "eyes of a dancing blue, or blue-gray." His office contained two, and sometimes three, re- ception rooms, for different classes of patients, and his fees were high. His only hobby was horses, and still more horses. He would never proceed to a lecture at the College or a clinic at the Hospital, except when drawn in a stately carriage by a beautiful pair. A staunch Republican in politics, he took no public part in political affairs, except in matters pertain- ing to the public health — especially the anti- noise crusade and the pure food propaganda. In neither of these affairs was he verj' success- ful, — a fact by no means due to any fault of his, but rather to the obstinacy of the city authorities. His skill as an ophthalmic opera- tor was undeniable. Dr. Jones died at Chicago, Oct. 4, 1901. Thomas Hall Shastid. Emin. Amer. Phys. & Surgs., R. F. Stone, 1894. Phila., p. 257. Private sources. Jones, Walter (1745-1815) Born in Northampton County, Virginia, in 1745, he was educated at William and Mary College, graduating in 1760 and studying med- icine at, and graduating M. D., from the Uni- versity of Edinburgh, in 1769, the subject of his thesis being "De Dysenteria." He is said to have been held in high esteem by Cullen and his other professors, and was described as "the most shining young gentleman of his profession in Edinburgh, and one who would make a great figure wherever he went." He settled and practised in his native county, and maintained the highest standing as a physician and scholar, and on April 11, 1777, received the appointment from Congress of physician- general to the hospitals of the Middle Military Department, but held the position only two months, resigning the first of July following. He was elected to and served in Congress m 1797-99, and in 1803-11. It was said of him by an intimate acquain- tance that "for the variety and extent of hi? learning, the originality and strength of his mind, the sagacity of his observations, and captivating powers of conversation, he was one of the most extraordinary men I have