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Rh JONES, Amanda Theodosia, author, b. in East Bloomfield, Ontario co.. N. Y., 19 Oct., 1835. She was educated in the public schools, began to teach at fifteen years of age, and contributed her first literary work in 1854 to the " Ladies' Repository," a Methodist magazine. During the civil war she wrote several war-songs that were widely circu- lated. She was associate editor of the " Universe," a Chicago journal, in 1869, was subsequently con- lected with the " Western Rural," and in 1870 be- came editor of " The Bright Side," a juvenile reekly. Since 1873 she has partially given up literary work, and engaged in inventing. She has aublished several volumes of verses, including "Ulah, and Other Poems " (Buffalo, N. Y., 1860) ; "Atlantis, and Other Poems" (1866); and "A Prairie Idyl, and Other Poems" (Chicago, 1882).

JONES, Anson, president of Texas, b. in Great Barrington, Mass., 20 Jan., 1798 ; d. in Houston, Texas, 8 Jan., 1858. He studied medicine in Litch- field, Conn., was licensed to practise in 1820, and after residing successively in Philadelphia, New Orleans, and in South America, he went to Texas and settled in Brazoria county in 1833. As chairman of a mass-meeting that was held there in Decem- ber, 1835, he drew up resolutions in favor of a declaration of independence, and of a convention of the people of Texas to form a constitution. He afterward raised a military company, with which he was engaged in the battle of San Jacinto, was judge-advocate-general, held several other military commissions in 1836-'7, and in the last year was a member of the Texas congress. He was minister from Texas to the IT. S. government in 1837-'9, President of the senate and ex-officio viee-presi- ent of the republic in 1840, secretary of state in 1841-'4, and president from 1845 till the annexa- tion of Texas to the United States. His earnest opposition to this measure greatly affected his gipularity, and destroyed his political influence, is reason became unsettled, and in a fit of insan- ity he died by his own hand. The county of Jones, Texas, and its court-house, Anson, are named in his honor. His journal, preceded by a brief autobi- ography, was printed privately in 1859.

JONES, Catlit, pioneer, b. in Virginia about 1750 ; d. in Columbiana county, Ohio, in 1829. He accompanied Daniel Boone to Kentucky, was one of the twelve settlers that rescued the daughter of Boone, who had been captured by Indians, and while guarding the " corn-patch " with Boone was severely wounded. After serving throughout the Revolution, he joined the Society of Friends, be- came a preacher, and in 1801 emigrated to Ohio.

JONES, Charles A., poet. b. in Philadelphia, Pa., about 1815 ; d. in Mill Creek, Hamilton co., Ohio, 4 July, 1851. He removed with his parents to Cincinnati in childhood, and contributed to the press at an early age. His first articles, a series of satirical lyrics, appeared in the Cincinnati " Ga- zette," under the title of " Aristohaniana." After studying law he removed to Louisiana, and prac- tised in New Orleans. He published " The Out- law " (Cincinnati, 1835).

JONES, Charles Colcock, clergvman, b. in Lib- erty county, Ga., 20 Dec, 1804 ; d. there, 16 March, 1863. He was educated at Andover and Princeton theological seminaries, was licensed to preach in 1830, and in 1831 became pastor of the 1st Pres- byterian church of Savannah. Ga. In 1832 he re- turned to Liberty county and devoted himself to the education of the negro race. He was professor of church history and polity in Columbia seminary, S. C, in 1835-'8, returned to missionary work in 1839, and was again professor in this institution in 1847-50. He then removed to Philadelphia, and was secretary of the board of domestic missions of the Presbyterian church until failure of health necessitated his return to Georgia in 1857. Besides many tracts and papers, he published " Religious Instruction for Negroes in the Southern States" (Savannah, 1837) ; " Suggestions on the Instruction of Negroes in the South " (1855) ; and a " History of the Church of God," edited by his eldest son, Charles (New York, 1867).— His son, Charles Col- cock, lawyer, b. in Savannah, Ga., 28 Oct., 1831, was graduated at Princeton in 1852, and at the Har- vard law-school in 1855. Returning to Savannah, Ga., he was admitted to the bar the next year, and practised his profession, holding the office of mayor in 1860-'l. He joined the Confederate army in 1862, and served as colonel of artillery, surrendering with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston in April, 1865. Mr. Jones removed to New York city in 1866, practised law there ten years, and, return- ing to Georgia in 1876, settled in Augusta. He has devoted much time and research to the his- tory of his state and that of the antiquities of southern Indians, and his archaeological and his- torical collections are of interest and value. He received the degree of LL. D. from the Uni- versity of New York in 1880, and from Oxford university, Ga.. in 1882. Since 1879 he has been president of the Confederate survivors' associa- tion of Augusta. He has published, besides many papers on historical and scientific subjects, "Monumental Remains of Georgia" (Savannah, 1861); "Historical Sketch of the Chatham Ar- tillery during the Confederate Struggle for In- dependence " (Albany, N. Y., 1867) ; " Historical Sketch of Tomo-chi-ehi, Mico of the Yamacraws" (1868) ; '" Reminiscences of the Last Days of Gen. Henry Lee" (1870); "Antiquities of the Southern Indians" (New York, 1873): "Siege of Savannah in 1779" (Albanv, 1874); "Life of Commodore Josiah Tatnall" (Savannah, 1878); "Dead Towns of Georgia" (1878); "Hernando de Soto and his March through Georgia " (1880) ; " Memoir of Jean Pierre Purrv" (Augusta, Ga., 1880); "History of Georgia" (2 vols., Boston and New York. 1883); "Life, Labors, and Neglected Grave of Richard Henry Wilde " (1885) ; " Nine Annual Addresses before the Confederate Survivors' Association of Augusta, Ga." (1879-87); and has edited, besides, his father's "History of the Church of God"; "Acts passed by the General Assembly of the Colony of Georgia from 1755 till 1774" (Wormsloe, Ga., 1881) : and " Journal of the Transactions of the Trustees of the Colony of Georgia by Rt. Hon. John, Earl of Egmont" (1886). — Another son, Joseph, physician, b. in Liberty county. Ga., 6 Sept., 1833. was graduated at Princeton in 1853, and at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1855. He was professor of chemistry in the Medical college of Savannah, Ga., in 1856-'7,of natural philosophy in the University of Georgia in 1858. of chemistry in the Medical college of Georgia. Augusta, in 1859-*65, and also a surgeon in the Confederate army. In 1866-'8 he was professor of medicine in the University of Nashville, and since 1869 has been professor of chemistry and clinical medicine in Tulane uni- versitv. New Orleans, La. He was president of the boardof health of the state of Louisiana in 1880-'4. and is now (1887) president of the Louisiana state medical society. Dr. Jones has devoted his life to the investigation of the causes and prevention of disease in civil and rmlitary hospitals, as well as in private practice, and while president of the board of health was successful in excluding yellow