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vocated a strong Federal government. His daughter, Sarah, became the wife of Col. William R. Davis, of North Carolina. He died in North- ampton county, N.C., Nov. 10, 1798.

JONES, Amos Blanch, educator, was born at Randolph-Macon college, Boydton, Va., Dec. 4, 1841 ; son of Amos W. and Caroline (Blanch) Jones. His parents removed to Jackson, Tenn., in 1845, and he was educated at West Tennessee college, Andi-ew college, Union university, and East Alabama university, but was not graduated from any college because of the civil war. He served as captain in the Confederate army, 1861- 65, and at the close of the war resumed his stud- ies. He was elected a professor in the Memphis Conference Female institute, Jackson, Tenn., in 1868, and was its president, 1878-80, and a mem- ber of the Memphis conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, from 1873. He was pres- ident of the Huntsville Female college, 1880-95 ; and in 1897 was elected president of the Mem- phis Conference Female institute. He was elected president of the Y. M. C. A. of Alabama, and a professor in the Correspondence University of Cliicago. He received the degree of D.D. from the University of Alabama, and that of LL.D, from the Southwestern Baptist university iia 1890.

JONES, Anson, president of Texas, was born in Great Barrington, Mass., Jan. 20, 1789. He studied medicine in Litchfield, Conn., and prac- tised in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1826. He resided successively in New Orleans, La., and South

America and settled in Brazoria county, Texas, in 18:33. He was chairman of a mass meeting held in December, 1835, and drew up resolutions in favor of a Dec- laration of Independ- ence of Texas. Dur- ing the struggle for independence he en- tered the army as a private and engag- ed in the battle of San Jacinto. He was judge-advocate gen- eral, and held several other military commis- sions, 1836-37. He was a representative in the 2d congress of Texas in 1837 ; minister from Texas to the United States, 1837-39 ; senator from Brazoria county ; president of the senate and vice-president of the republic, ex officio, 1840 ; secretary of state in Houston's second administra- tion, 1841-44, and president of Texas from 1844 till after the annexation to the United States,

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ratified in 1846, when he surrendered the execu- tive ollice to James P. Henderson, who had been elected first governor of the state. By his oppo- sition to annexation, Mr. Jones greatly lessened his popularity and destroyed his political influ- ence. The county of Jones, Texas, and its court house at Anson, bear his names. He died in Houston, TexMs. by his own hand, Jan. 8, 1858.

JONES, Archibald Amos, educator, was born at Scottsville, Ala., Sept. 22, IsOO ; son of John Archibald and Mary Vincent (Scott) Jones ; grand- son of Amos and Elizabeth (Holmes) Jones. He was graduated from the University of Alabama, A.B., 1882, A.M., 1883 ; taught in the collegiate institute at Hackettstown, N.J., 1883-85; in the Female college at Dalton, Ga., 1885-89 ; was pres- ident of the Central College for AVomen at Lex- ington, Mo., 1889-97, and was elected president of Asheville College for Young Women, Asheville, N.C., in 1897.

JONES, Augustine, educator, was born in South China, Maine, Oct. 16, 1835 ; son of Rich- ard M. and Eunice (Jones) Jones ; grandson of Ephraim and Susanna (Dudlej') Jones, and of Abel and Susanna (Jepson) Jones : and a lineal descendant on both sides from Thomas Jones, who immigrated from Wales and settled in Han- over, Mass., at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Augustine was prejmred for college at Friends school, Providence, R.I., and the North Yarmouth (Maine) academy ; was graduated at Bowdoin college in 1860, and was principal of the Oak Grove seminary, Vassalboro, Maine, 1860-63. He studied law under the Hon. John A. Andrew and received the degree of LL.B. from Harvard in 1867, being shorth' afterward ad- mitted to the bar. He was married in 1867 to Caroline Rathbone, daughter of William Osborne, of Dover, N.H. He practised his profession in Boston, Mass., 1867-79, and then became prin- cipal of Friends school. Providence, R.I. He was a representative in the Massachusetts legis- lature in 1878, and a member of the Providence common council, 1897-99. He was president of the Advance club, Providence, 1891-94, and was admitted to membership in the New England Historic Genealogical .society, the American Phi- lological association, the Rhode Island Hi.stor- ical society, and tlie Archaeological Institute of America. His published writings include sev- eral pamphlets : Discourse on the Society of Friends, delivered in 1874 in James Freeman Clarke's church in Boston at the suggestion of John G. Whittier ; Nicholas Upsall of Boston (1880); Paries and Tree Lined Avenues (1891); Moses Brown of Providence (1892); Peace and Arbitration (1887) 107.000 copies distributed 1887-97 ; Life and Work of TJiomas Dudley, Second Governor of 3Iassachitsetts (1899).