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Rh Sirams (1845) ; James Hamilton (1848). See also " Paul Jones, der kiihne Seemann " (Leipsic, 1828).

JONES, John Percival, senator, b. in Hay, Brecon co., Wales, in 1830. Before he was a year old his parents came with him to the United States and settled in northern Ohio. He attended the public schools in Cleveland for a few years, and in 1849 went to California and engaged in mining and farming in Tuolumne county. Subsequently he was sheriff of the county, and was several times its representative in the legislature. In 1867 he was an unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant- fovernor of California, and the same year went to levada, where he engaged in mining and became wealthy. He succeeded James Nye as U. S. sena- tor from Nevada, took his seat, 4 March, 1873, and has been twice re-elected. His term of service will expire on 3 March, 1891. He made a notable speech on the inflation bill in 1874.

JONES, John Pringle, jurist, b. near Newton, Berks co., Pa., in 1812 ; d. in London, England, 16 March, 1874. He was graduated at Princeton in 1831, studied law, and was admitted to the bar of Philadelphia in 1834, afterward settling in prac- tice in Reading, Pa. He was appointed in 1839 deputy attorney-general for Berks county, and on 15 March, 1847, presiding judge of the 3d judicial district. Under the elective judiciary system of 1851 he was elected president of the Berks county courts for the term of ten years, at the expiration of which time he devoted himself to literature. In 1867, on the death of Judge Maynard, of the 3d judicial district. Judge Jones was appointed his successor for the unexpired term. In 1872 he travelled in Europe, and was on his way home when he died. He was the author of " Eulogy on A. Laussat " (Philadelphia, 1834) ; and volumes xi. and xii. of " Pennsylvania State Reports " (1850-'2).

JONES, John Sills, soldier, b. in Champaign county, Ohio, 12 Feb., 1836. He was graduated at Ohio Wesleyan university in 1855, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1857. He was elected Erosecuting attorney for Delaware county in 1860, ut resigned in 1861, and enlisted as a private in the National army. He served with distinction throughout the war, rising to the colonelcy of the 174th Ohio regiment, and on 27 June, 1865, he was brevetted brigadier - general of volunteers. In 1866 he was elected mayor of Delaware, Ohio, and was prosecuting attorney of Delaware county, 1866-71, when he declined renomination. He was a member of the board of managers of the Ohio soldiers' and sailors' qrphans' home from 1870 till 1874, and was a trustee of Wesleyan female college at Delaware from 1865 till 1875. He was a presi- dential elector in 1872, and was afterward elected to congress as a Republican, serving from 15 Oct., 1877, till 4 March, 1879. He was elected a mem- ber of the legislature of Ohio in 1879, re-elected in 1881, and was chairman of the judiciary committee of the house. He became a trustee of the Ohio soldiers' and sailors' orphan home in 1887.

JONES, John Taylor, missionary, b. in New Ipswich, N. H„ 16 July, 1802; d. in Bangkok, Siam, 13 Sept., 1851. He was graduated at Am- herst in 1825. studied theology at Andover and Newton seminaries, and was ordained a Baptist missionary to Burmah on 28 July, 1830. Having first acquired the Taling and Siamese languages, he left Burmah for Siam, and reached Bangkok in April, 1833. He visited the United States twice subsequently, and was eminently successful as a missionary. Columbian college gave him the de- gree of D. D. in 1850. Dr. Jones published tracts in Siamese (1834) ; " Brief Grammatical Notices of the Siamese Language" (1842); and a Siamese translation of the New Testament (1843).

JONES, John Winston, member of congress, b. in Chesterfield, Va., 22 Nov., 1791 ; d. 29 Jan., 1848. He was graduated at William and Mary in 1803, and was elected a representative from Vir- ginia in congress, serving bv successive elections from 7 Dec., 1835, till 3 March, 1845, when he de- clined another re-election. He was speaker of the house during his last term.

JONES, John W., physician, b. in Montgomery county, Md., 14 April, 1806; d. in Atlanta, Ga., in 1872. When a boy he removed with his parents to Kentucky. He was graduated in medicine at Jefferson college, Philadelphia, subsequently prac- tised in Griffin, Ga., and, after becoming a mem- ber of the legislature, was elected a representative in congress, and served from 6 Dec, 1847, till 3 March, 1849. He afterward removed to Alabama and engaged in planting, but returned to Georgia and was a professor in the State medical college.

JONES, Joseph, member of the Continental congress, b. in Virginia in 1727; d. there, 28 Oct., 1805. He was a member of the house of burgesses from King George county, served on the committee of safety in 1775 and in the convention of 1776, and represented Virginia in the Continental con- gress in 1778-'9 and 1780-'3. He was appointed judge of the general court on 23 Jan., 1778, but re- signed in October, 1779. He was reappointed to the same court, 19 Nov., 1789, was a member of the convention of 1788, and a major-general of Virginia militia. He was a friend of Washington, and had a correspondence with him relative to the limita- tion of the power of congress by the several states in 1780. In June, 1783, a proposition had been made in the Virginia legislature to revoke the re- lease to the United States of the territory north- west of the Ohio river, but through the opposition of Mr. Jones it was rejected, and the legislature was induced to conform to the wishes of congress. — His sister, Elizabeth, married Spence Monroe, and became the mother of James Monroe, presi- dent of the United States.

JONES, Joseph Seawell, author, b. probably in North Carolina about 1811 ; d. in 1855. He was graduated at the Harvard law-school in 1833, and was the author of " A Defence of the Revolu- tionary History of North Carolina" (1834), and " Memorials of North Carolina " (1838).

JONES, Joseph Stevens, play-writer, b. in 1811 ; d. in Boston, Mass., 30 Dec, 1877. Early in life he became an actor, and was at different times proprietor and manager of the Old National, Tre- mont, and other theatres in Boston. In 1843 he was graduated at the Harvard medical-school, and held the place of city physician for several years. He wrote about 200 plays; the most popular among them were "Solon Shingle," "Eugene Aram," " The Liberty Tree," " The Fire Warrior," " The Siege of Boston," " Moll Pitcher," " Stephen Burroughs," "The Carpenter of Rouen," with its sequel in " The Surgeon of Paris, or the Mask of the Huguenots," "Job and Jacob Gray," "The Last Dollar," " The People's Lawyer," " The Sons of the Cape," "Zofara,' "Captain Lascar," and "Paul Revere." "The Silver Spoon," in which William Warren, of the Boston museum, made his great success as Jefferson Scattering Batkins, was revived at that theatre through many seasons. He also dramatized " The Three Experiments of Living," by Mrs. Hannah F. Lee.

JONES, Leonard Augustus, author, b. in Templeton, Worcester co., Mass., 13 Jan.. 1832. He was graduated at Harvard in 1855, and at the