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 HERRING8HAWS LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Jones, Lewis Ralph, educator, botnniHt, author, wu>i born iX-c. ft, 1864, in liruudon, Since 1889 he has been professor of V.is. Inilany in the university of

Vermont; was

for tlic Vcnnont experiment staami collalMirator of the bureau of of the United States departindustry jdant ment of agriculture. He is part author of of Vennont. Flora Jones, Marcus Eugene, botanist, geologist,

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tion;

author, waa born April '!'>, 1852, in Jefferson, Ohio. In 1875 he graduated from the Iowa college at Grinhas received the nell degree of A.M.; Uld 1870-77 was a ill tutor in that institu;

He

tion of learning.

has been professor of natural science in the Colorado college; and 1884-86 was principal Jones high of the school of Salt In City, Utah.

Lake 1889

he was a special expert in the United States treasury depart ment; in 1894-95 was special field agent of the United States department of agriculture; and i-i iinw enjrafied as a botanist, geologist and mining e.pert of i^alt Lake City, Utah. He is the author of Excursion Hotanique; Ferns nf the West; Salt Lake

a stale senator in 1852-53; and the ollices of surveyor-general of the state, nd state canal commissioner* He died July

11

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Newburg, N.Y.

Jones, Nathaniel M., manufacturer, leg state senator, inventor, was bom May 1, 1858, on Turks Island, West Indies. He is a noted manufacturer of sulphite pulp of Lincoln, Maine; and the inventor of several improvements in the machinery for its manufacture. He served as state commissioner of Maine for erection "f TTnwland bridge. In 1895-98 he waa a member of the state legislature; and in 1898-1902 was Tn a member of the Maine state senate. 1903 he became a member of the governor h He Is council for term ending in 1907. also the founder and geni>ral manager of the Katahdin pulp and paper cumpauiy of Linislator,

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Maine.

Jones, )felson Edwards, physician, 8ur> geon, author, was born Sept. 20, 1821, in Ross county, Ohio. In 1852 he began the practice of medicine at Circleville, Ohio. In 1864 he was eonunissioned surgeon of the enrollment for the twelfth disIxtard of irict of Ohio, serving to Ihe end of the war. lie served thirty-one years as examining ~^ir;^'i'ing several times and subset]uently, speaker. In 1775-76 and 1781-83 he was a delegate from Georgia to the continental congress. He was president of the convenion w hich revised the state constitution in 17!).'i. He died Jan. 9, 1806, in Savannah, Ga. Jones, Obadiah, lawyer, jurist. He was appointed in 1805 United States judge for the territory of MiMissippi; and served one year as territorial judge for Illinois in 1809. He was reappointed to the same position in When the stat^ gov^lississiitpi in 1810,

nomic -iilij^rfs. lie is a mciubiT of the state and national bar as*

United States judge for that district, only held the office for a short time.

City; Some Phases of Mining in Utah; and various contrilmtions to standard publications and current literature on botanical subjects.

JmuBf Minor S.* lawyer, jurist, was bom In 1878 he was admitted to the bar; and has since attained prominence in in 1850.

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tusville, Fla.

prominently identified with social ion-:

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the business and public affairs of his city

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died in ^Tissiasippi. Jones, OphdJa Cook; educator, poet, was bora Feb. 6, 1840, in Brownsville, Miss. Yor nearly a quarter of a century she was en-

Jones, Morgan, machinist, congressman, was born Feb. 26, 1882, in New Yf>rk ( ity. In 18.58-C2 lie was a member of the N'ew V'ork city council. In 1865-67 he was a representative from New York to the thirty*

gaged in educational work; and was the author of the poem. What Ify Lover Said, whieh has boon altribntcd to several na-

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Jones, Nathaniel, state senator, congress-

man, was bom in Orange county, N.Y. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1827-28; and in 18:^7 41 he was a representative from New York to the twentyfifth and twenty-sixth congresses. He was

Siie died in Brownsville, Miss. Owen, lawyer, congressman, was Pennsylvania. He received a classical educntion: studied law; and began to In 18.^i7-.50 nraetioe in Philadelphia. Pa. he was a represnntalive from Pennsylvania to the thirty fifth congres-s as a democrat. He died in December, 1878, in Philadelphia, Pa.

tional poets.

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