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Uemucrat. Jones, John Lloyd, c'lfr<: man. ini>M(»Mai}-, author, wa» burn Dw. 11, lb4U, iu Wuleti. Since 1872 he lias fillet! several pastorates in tlif I iiitftl Stat.>, miasiuiiary tu Nevada,

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lii IbUU iu' wad secNational reform asuoeiation

rfiila.i.l|.lii;i. Pa.; :um in IS'.IS u.i- -.-n tral bfcietar^- of the Auifricaii ciLixi-u^lnp alliance. He now fills a pastorate in the cliunli at I'nltiT. N.V. iiictliniji-,t ciit-foiial

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the author ol

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JODM, John Marshall, July 2«,

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wa^ born lie

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appolntinJ colunul of a Virginia regiment; and in 1863 promiitrd liri^^adi<-r-genfral an»l given u coniinund iu <;»-ii<'ral l,nii}»l<' was kill.-d in bullli- May strtret's corps. 10, 18U4. in S].. tls Kama. a. Jones, John Paul^ naval oHicer, was born ti, •hilj, 1747, in St-ollaud. He was a win of John Paul; and aubaequently addrd the name of Jones, lie settled in Virginia in hin boyhood; fnter«d

was

navy

American

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in 1775; and oimn'» IfH e dui

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was a iiig

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he

rwolutioiiury war. lie was an intrepid and a n d daring ollieer

was attcrward rearadmiral in the Russian service. He died Inly in 1792, 18, Paris. France. He revote of thanks from congress for

reived a

important services.

Joim^ John Mather, men anthor, was lM>rn June

hant. joumaliHt.

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in

Aft«'r (lie elose of the civil

..ales.

North war he

founded the Welsh town of New Cumbria, Mo.; and in 18GU iKnight a large tract of land in Oiage county. Kan., where he fonnde>l the town of Avonia. He a^ the aiitlior of History of the Kebellion. lie died Dec. 21. 1874. in Utica, N.Y. Jones, John Percival, farmer, state legisL'nited States senator, was born in 1829 in England. He served in both houses

lator,

of tlif California

a-^snnhly.

stati-

to Xevuda in 18U7; and iu was United States senator.

Ife

w»?nt

Ii:^75-1'.MI3

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John Pringle, lawyer, jurist, nul)orn in 1812 near Newton, Pa. president of the Berks county oonrts in IS.II til. Hi- was (lip author of Kniogy on A. I.aU-^-al ami voiiiini's eleven and twalem,

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N.J. In lS'Mi-47 he was one of the judges of the court ot common pleas of I'liiladelphia county. Ue waa the author of the t/utiker N4ildier. He died May 23, 1883, near .ew Itei hi N .( Jonesy JoLn Sills, auldier, lawyer, legihlator, was born Feb. 12, 1838, near St. faris,.

.

He

(iliiu.

and

wa.'i

1880

lie

-.ervcd

through

tlx-

civil

war;

brevHled

brigadicr-geiivral. la of lielaware, tlhio; waa prosecuting attorney in l.StiS7ii; and was twiee elecied to the general asHciubJy of tihiu. In 1877-79 he was a representati%'e fiOiU tdiio to the forty fifth congre-H a^ a re|)uMicak He died in 1!IU3 ill Delaware, <

was mayor

Miio.

Jones, Jthn Taylor, clergyman, niin.sionaiy, wu.-» born July Hi, lbU2, in New Ipswicli, N.H. In I8:i;i he waa a baptist missionary to Murinah. He wa'> the author of i racts in Siamese; Krief (JrainmatK al Notices of the 8ianie>e Language; and a Siamese translation of the New testament. He died Sept. 13, 18.51, in Bangkok, Siam. Jones, John W., physician, educator, state legislator, congressman, was born April 14, I8U6, in Rode Creek, Md. In 1840 he was tlected to the Ceorgia legislature; and in 1847-4U he was a repres4:ntative from Georgia to the thirtieth congress. He was apI'l.iiitid a inetlical professor in the Atlantic

medical college.

He

died in 1872 iu Atlanta,

Ga. Jones, John Wesley, lawyer. eongresHinan, WHS iKjrn Oct. J), 1803, near Ik'tbany, 111. In 188.') he graduated from the 8mithem Illinois

udlege of Knlleld.

III.

In 18!HM!M»:j

lie WU8 a luendier of the lifty-seveiith congress from Washington as a republican; and now |irnciiees his profession in North .akiina. tash. Jone.s, John William, clergyman, lecturer, anthor, was Ixtrn Sept. 2."), 1S:J(», in Louisa, Va. In IStil he was under appointment as missionary to China. In l8»U-2 he served as private soldier in the confederate states army; and in 18({2-fl3 was chaplain of the thirtwnth regiment Virginia infantry. He was an active worker in great revivals in which over fifteen thousand of I>e*8 vetpnit> -^ed conversion. ( rans Since 1S71 he has been one of the chaplains of Washing* ton college. He is the author of Personal Keniinix-ences Anecdotes of Letter-' of K. K. Lee; Sehind History of the L'nited States; and Jefferson Davis Memorial Volume. Jones, John Win.ston, on^rressman, was l»orn Nov. 22. 1791, in t hcsterlield, Pa. In 18;t.'>-4.T he was a representative from Virginia to the t W4>nty-fourlh, twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth congresses; and was speaker of the house to the twellty-eightn congress. He died Jan.

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Jones, Joseph, congressnum. was bom in 1727 in Virginia. In 1777-78 ami 1780 s:i he was a delegate from irginia to the continental congress. He died Oct. 28, 1805, in Virginia.