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Rh the remainder of his life. In his new home he was highly esteemed, holding several offices of trust and importance connected with his profession. He was honored by the confidence and friendship of Washington and Franklin. On a critical occa- sion he was sent for to attend the president in New York in 1790, and in the same year attended Franklin in his last illness, of which he has left a detailed and interesting account. Dr. Franklin remembered him in his will as among his personal friends. Dr. Jones was the author of " Plain Re- marks upon Wounds and Fractures, designed for the Use of the Young Military Surgeons of Amer- ica" (New York, 1775 ; new ed., with a memoir by Dr. James Mease, Philadelphia, 1795).

JONES, John, vocalist, b. in London, England, in 1796; d. in New York city, 2 Nov., 1861. He made his first appearance at the Adelphi theatre, London, in 1816, in an operetta, " The Conjurer." In 1828 Jones came to this country, where he first sang in public at Niblo's garden, New York city, in a musical play entitled " Amateurs and Actors." Soon afterward he appeared at the Park theatre as Prince Orlando in "The Cabinet." In 1831 he was engaged for a short time at the Chestnut street theatre, Philadelphia, but returned to New York city and accepted a permanent engagement at the Park theatre, which lasted for many years, interrupted only by a brief visit, to Europe in 1835. Having partially lost his voice, Jones retired from the stage in 1844, and became a teacher of vocal music in the eastern states. As such he eventual- ly settled in New York city, where, some years be- fore his death, he became the recipient of an annu- ity from a dramatic benevolent association. Some of his best performances were the leading tenor characters in " La Dame Blanche," " Norma," and " Cinderella." Among the songs he published was "The Mellow Horn." which was verv popular.

JONES, John B., author, b. in Baltimore, Md., in 1810. He was for many years engaged in jour- nalism, and in 1857 established a weekly paper in Philadelphia entitled the " Southern Monitor," de- voted to the advocacy of southern interests. He is the author of " Books of Visions " (Philadelphia, 1847); "Rural Sports, a Poem" (1848); "The Western Merchant " (1848) ; " Wild Western Scenes " (1849) ; "The Rival Belles " (1852) ; "Ad- ventures of Col. Vanderbomb " (1852) ; " The Mon- archist " (1853) ; " Life and Adventures of a Coun- try Merchant " (1854) ; " Freaks of Fortune " (1854) ; and a " Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confed- erate States Capital " (1866).

JONES, John Glancy, lawyer, b. in the valley of Conestoga river, Pa., 7 Oct.", 1811 ; d. in Read- ing. Pa., 24 March, 1877. He studied theology, but left it for law, was admitted to the bar, and practised successfully at Reading, Pa. He was for a time deputy attorney-general of Pennsylvania, and except for part of the 33d congress was a rep- resentative from Pennsylvania from 1850 till 1858, having been chosen as a Democrat. He served on the committee on claims in the house and was the author of the bill creating the court of claims. In 1856 he was a presidential elector, and, having pre- viously declined the Berlin mission, was appointed by President Buchanan minister to Austria, where he served from 1 Nov., 1858. till 14 Nov., 1861.

JONES, John Marshall, soldier, b. in Charlottesville, Va., 26 Julv, 1820; d. in Spottsvlvania, Va., 10 May, 1864. He was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1841, and after serving on frontier duty was assistant instructor of infantry tactics at the academy from 1845 till 1852. In 1854-'5 he was a member of the board to revise rifle and light artillery tactics, and on 3 March, 1855, he was promoted captain. He was then in garrison at various forts, and in the Utah expedi- tion of 1858-'60, and on 27 May, 1861, resigned and entered the Confederate army. He was appointed colonel of a Virginia regiment, and in 1863 pro- moted brigadier-general and given a command in Gen. Longstreet's corps. He was severely wounded at Gettysburg, and took part in the siege of Knox- ville, Tenn., and in the operations from the Wil- derness to Spottsvlvania, where he was killed.

JONES, John Mather, journalist, b. in Bangor, North Wales, 9 June, 1826; d. in Utica, N. Y., 21 Dec, 1874. He was educated in his native place, came to this country in 1849, and, after engaging in mercantile pursuits, made a voyage around the world for his health, acting as purser of a ship of which his brother-in-law was captain. After the close of the civil war he founded the Welsh town of New Cambria, Mo., and in 1869, with James A. Whittaker, he bought a large tract of land in Osage county, Kan., where he founded the town of Avonia. From 1865 till his death he was proprie- tor and publisher of " Y Drych " ("The Mirror"), the oldest Welsh newspaper in the United States, and in this place he exercised much influence over his countrymen. Mr. Jones was an earnest Aboli- tionist and a Republican in politics, but never sought nor held any office. He published a "His- tory of the Rebellion ** in Welsh (Utica, N. Y., 1866).

JONES, John Paul, naval officer, b. in Kirkbean, Scotland, 6 July, 1747; d. in Paris, 18 July, 1792. He was the son of John Paul, gardener at Arbigland. The name Jones was assumed about 1773. At the age of twelve he went to sea, sailing from Whitehaven and visit- ing a brother, in Fredericks- burg, Va., on his first voyage. While under twenty he serv- ed as mate in two vessels that were engaged in the slave-trade, but leaving this traffic in dis- gust, he sailed for England as a passenger. The death of two of the offi- cers of the brig left him the on- ly navigator on board, and he took charge and brought her into port. Her Scotch owners then employed him as master, and he made two voyages to the West Indies. In 1770 a charge of cruelty to one of his crew was made against him at Tobago, and. although it was dismissed as frivolous, the man's death a few weeks later caused it to be revived. Jones was not arrested, but the affair caused him much annoyance, and made him anxious to prove his innocence at home, for which purpose he sent affidavits to his family. The brother in Virginia died in 1773, and Jones took charge of his estate, proposing to settle at Fredericksburg. He. now added the name of Jones to his signature for reasons which are unknown. He continued to correspond with his family, and to give his original name too much prominence for concealment. When congress de-