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Rh was wounded and taken prisoner at Chancellors- ville, and after his exchange in October, 1863, served in the west and in the Atlanta campaifjn, and in June, 1864, was assigned to command of a brigade, at whose head he continued until the close of the war. He was commissioned brigadier- general of volunteers in 1864, and in June, 1865, resigned and returned to the practice of his pro- fession at Ellicottville. In 1865 he was elected clerk of the court of appeals of the state, and at the close of his three years' term he removed to New York city. In April, 1869, he was appointed postmaster of New York, serving as such during the first presidential term of Gen. Grant, when he resigned and resumed the practice of law in that city. In 1874 he was elected register of New York, serving through his term of three years.

JONES, Roger, soldier, b. in Washington, D. C, 25 Feb., 1831 ; d. in Fort Monroe, Va., 26 Jan., 1889. He was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1851, serve<l on the Texas frontier and in New Mexico, and at the beginning of the civil war was on duty at Harper's Ferrv, where he de- stroyed the arsenal with 20,000 stand of arras, when it was seized bv Virginia state troops on 18 April, 1861 — for whicb act, done in the face of the enemy, he received the thanks of the government. He was appointed captain and assistant quarlerma.ster on 22 April, and as such served in the oflice of the quartermaster-general of the Array of the Poto- mac, and on 12 Nov. was made a major on the staff and aivsigned to special duty as assistant inspector- general. He was attached to Gen. John Pope's staff for two months in 1862, when he was relieve<l, and was awaiting orders and on miscellaneous dutv till December, 1865. From 1866 till 1876 he served as inspector-general of the division of the Pacific. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel on 13 June, 1867, assigned to duty in the inspector-general's offlce at Washington on 15 Jan., 1877, became a colonel on 5 Feb., 1885, afterward acted as insiiector- general of the division of the Atlantic on Giovem- or's island, and in August, 1888, was made briga- dier-general and inspector-general of the army.

JONES, Samuel, clergyman, b. in Beftws par- ish, Glamorganshire, South Wales, 14 Jan., 1735; d. in Philadelphia, 7 Feb., 1814. He was a son of Rev. Thomas Jones, who brought him to this country in 1737. In 1738 Thomas, with a small colony of Welsh Baptists, founded the Tulpehoken Baptist church, Berks county, where he labored for many years. Samuel was graduated at the College of Philadelphia, and was onlained as a Baptist minister. He became pastor of the Southampton and Pennepek (now Lower Dublin) churche.s, but in 1770 devoted his whole time to Penne[)ek, where he remained until his death in 1814. Brown con- ferred on him the degree of I). I)., also the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania. Dr. Jones was one of the most active memljers of the Philadptphia Baptist assfx'iation, and when it was incorporated in 1797 he was chosen president of the board of trustees. remaining so during his life. He was the author of " The Doctrine of the Covenants " (Philadelphia, 1783) ; "A Treatise on Church Discipline " (1797) ; " A Selection of Psalms and Hyrans (Burlington, N. J., 1800); "A Brief History of the Imposition of Hands on Baptized Persons" (Philadelphia, 1804) ; and " A Century Sermon before the Phila- delphia Baptist Association " (1807).

JONES, Sibyl, Quaker preacher, b. in Bruns- wick, We., 12 June, 1808; d. near Augusta, Me., 4 Dec, 1873. Her early life was spent in Augusta, and for eight years she taught in public schools. Her maiden name was Jones, and in 1833 she mar- ried Eli Jones, also a Quaker preacher and educa- tor. During 1845-'6 she visited, with her husband, all the yearly meetings of Friends in the United States, and made three journeys to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. They visited Liberia in 1851, Ireland in 1852, and subsequently Norway, Sweden, and other portions of Europe, returning to this country in 1854. During the civil war she preached to nearly 30,0(X) soldiers in hospitals, and m 1867 she embarked on her last missionary voy- age, visiting Euro[ie, Egypt, and Syria, and pre- senting Christianity from the Quaker standpoint to Mohammedan women. Her travels in the east are set forth in " Eastern Sketches " (1872), by El- len Clare Miller, her companion. See " Life," by her son, Rufus Mott Jones, head-master of the William Penn charter school of Philadelphia.

JONES, Singleton Thomas Webster, A. M. E. Zion bishop, b. in Wrightsville, Pa., 8 JIarch, 1825. He was licensed to preach in Allegheny, Pa., in 1846, became a memoer of Alleghenv con- ference, 23 Aug., 1849, and in 1851 was ordained an elder by Bishop (jeorge Galbreath. He was elected a bishop of the African Methodist Epis- copal Zion church in May, 1868, by the general conference that met in Washington, D. C. in that year. Bishop Jones ha.s attained reputation in his denomination as an energetic worker, a rigid dis- ciplinarian, and an impressive pulpit orator.

JONES, Walter, lawyer, b. in Lancaster county, Va., in October, 1775; d. in Washington, D. C, 14 Oct., 1861. He was the son of Dr. Walter Jones (q. v.). He was educated privately, studied law under Bushrod Washington, was admitted to the bar in May, 1796. and was appointed U. S. attor- ney for the district of Potomac in 1802, and for the District of Columbia in 1804, but resigned in 1821. From the beginning of his re,sidence in Washington Mr. Jones practised before the su- preme court of the United States, and so continu- mg until a few years before his death, was engaged in many important cases l>eforc that tribunal as well as' before the courts of Maryland and Vir- ginia. Among these were the Girard case, the aines case, and the Randolph will case. His s|)eeches were remarkable for profound learning and mastery of principles, as well as for elegant diction. Rufus Choate speaks of his " silver voice and infinite analytical ingenuity and resources."