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1808 was aflinitl<ni .luly 3, 1841, in Bridgeport, Comi. In 1S71 lie ffHimlcd and lias since Imm-h proprietor and tiiiinajji^r of tlic Park avenue

Delaware, where he wa? a revolutionary He moved to Pennsylvania, where

in

soldier.

he died in 1854 at the age of one hundred THs progeny was large, and four years. and have established families of that name throughout the middle and western stat««. His son, T)r. Samuel .lones. of Clinton. Mo., is a well known patriarch of the family.

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Jones, Thom«e, soldier, lawyer, jurist, was In born July 25, 1702. in Fort Neck, L-I. 176U-73 he became recorder of New Y'ork

IJridpi port. Conn. Jone.% Mrs, Sibyl, Quaker prenuiicr, was horn June 12, 1808, in Brntiswick. Muinc. During the civil war she pn ai hid to m arly

City,

inatitttte of

thirty thousand soldiers in liosiipitals ; and in 1807 she embarked on her hiHt missionary voyape. visiting Kurope, Kgypt. and Syria, and presenting Christianity from the Quaker standpoint to Mohammedan women. Her travels in the i-a^^l air ><it forth in Eastern Sketches, by Ellen Clare .Miller, her companion. She died Dee. 4, 1873, near Anpiistii.

Miiiiie.

Thomas Webater, clergybom March 8, 1825, in Pa. lirenned Tn 184<» h<to pre^ich in Alleglieny, I'a.; bej ume a member of the Allegheny conference in 1849; Jones, Singleton

man, bishop, was right'=»ville.

and

in IS.")!

was ordained an

elder.

He was

elected a bishop of the African methodist episcopal church in 1868. Jones, Stephen Alfred, educator, college president, was horn on March 21, 1848, in China, Maine. In 1874-82 he was professor of rireek an university. Tn 1889-94 he was director of the agricultural »-periinent station of Nevada; and since 1805 has been professor of pedagog' at the state normal school of San Jos.'. Cal.

Jones, Theodore, soldier, was born in the District of Cohimhia. Tn 1861 he was lieutenant in the tJiirtieni rerfirni'Tit Oliio in fantry; and in 18U5 was brcvetted brigadiergeneral of volunteers. He was honorably mustered out in ISfi.T. Jones. Thomas, soldier, was bom 1665 in Ireland. In 1710 received the commission of ranger-general of the island nf Nassau, then the legal name of l.ong Island, which office gave him (he monop«»ly of the whale and other fisheries from the shores of the island, his jurisiliet inn ranging around the coast from Lillle Neck hay to Jamaica ha v. He died Dec. 13, 1713, in Fort N-ok. L.T. Jones, Thomas, jurist, author, was horn in 1731 in I>ong Island. He was a colonial jurist who was on the side of the king at the time of the American rev(dtition. He was the author of History of New York Dtiring the Re^'olutionarv Period. He died

1802 in Kngland. Jones, Thomas, soldier, pioneer, was bom in 1750 in Wales. His youth was spent

in

when he

su[)reme court.

Wfts appointed judge of the He died July 25, 1792, in

England. Jones, Thonus Goo4e, soldier, lawyer, jurlegislator, governor, was born Nov. 26. 1844, in .Macon, Ga. He served as a soldier in the confederate service and was pronmted ist,

camp. In 186fi he was admitted bar; became editor of the Daily Pieajmne of Montgomery; and in 1870 -SO was reporter of decisions of the supreme In 1875-85 he was alcourt of Alabama. derman in the city of Montgomery; in 1884-87 was a meml>er of the Alabama general assembly; and spealcer of the house during his latter term. Tn 1800 04 lie wa* In the twenty-sixth governor of Alabama. 1901 he was district judge of the United Stati'S court for the northern and middle lie is the author of districts of Alabama. Alabama Supreme Conrt Reports, in eiL'^(e<'n volumes; and Code of Ethics of AIal)ama State Bar Association. (o aide-»le

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to

Jones,

Thomas Laurens,

man, was born Jan.

22.

lawyer, congress1810.

Ruther-

in

county, N.C. He graduated from Princeton college and received the degrees In 1840 of J>L.l). fnnn Harvard college. he was admitted to the practice of the bar; and in 1847 began practicing in New York ford

moved to Newport. Kv. and in was member of the general assem1867-71 and 1875-77 he was a representative from Kentucky to the fortieth, and forty-fourth conforty-first gresses as a democrat. Ci<

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Jones, Mrs. Virginia Smith, arti^(

aTithor

was bom Sept. 0, 1827, in New l^ondon, Conn. She was the author of Hlnatration of fhe Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio, with She died sixty-eight hand-colored plates. in 1906 in Circtcville, .Ofhio.

Jones, W. A. Fkming* XJnited States commissioner, was born Nov. 30, 1871, in Birniinghau), Kngland. He received an academic

education

in

England.

He

an eminent land attorney

is

by

and

[)rofessiuii

financial

Mexico. He is identified with the republican party; is a thirty-two degree Maeon; a member of the Toltec club of El Paso, Texas; and a member of the Klks at Las Cruces. N.M. He has been vicepresident of the New Mexico territorial fair: vice-president of the New Mexico hisfrom Ni-w (oiical society; vice-president Mexico to the National rivers and harbors congress; and is a memhot of the American

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