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the Rt. Hon. John, Earl of Egmont, first presi- dent of the board of trustees of the colony; be- sides numerous other books and papers on histor- ical and scientific subjects, aggregating eighty in number. He died at "Montrose,"' Summer- ville. near Augusta, Ga., July 19, 1893.

JONES, Charles W., senator, was born in Ire- land in 1884. He came to the United States with his parents in 1844, and worked as a mechanic. He settled in Pensacola, Fla., in 1854, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1856. He was a member of the Democratic national convention at Baltimore in 1872; an unsuccessful candidate for representative in the 43d congress the same year; was a representative in the Florida legis- lature in 1874, and U.S. senator 1875-87, tliereafter residing in Detroit, Mich. He received the honor- ary degree of LL. D. from Georgetown university, D C ill 1SS2. He died in Detroit, Oct. 11, 1897. JONES, Daniel Webster, governor of Arkan- sas, was born in Bowie county, Texas, Dec. 15, 1839; son of Dr. Isaac N. and Elizabeth W. Jones, and grandson of Daniel Jones, who emigrated from Scotland, settled in Granville county, N.C.,

and was a soldier in the Continental army under General Wash- ington. His fatlier was educated at the University of North Carolina, practised medicine in his na- tive county and re- moved with his fam- ily to Texas about 1840, where he was a representative in the Texas congress, and subsequently to Washington, Hemp- stead county, Ark. Daniel was educated at Washington academy, and commenced the study of law with John R. Eakin. He entered the Confederate army in April, 1861, as 1st lieutenant; became captain in December, 1861; was promoted major, Jul\', 1862; and colonel of the 20tli Arkansas infantry, De- cember, 1862, for gallantry on the field, and was in command of a brigade of infantry at the close of the war. He was admitted to the bar in 1865; was elected prosecuting attorney of Arkansas in 1874; was a district presidential elector in 1876, and for the state at large in 1880; attorney-gen- eral of Arkansas, in 1884 and again in 1886, and was governor of Arkansas, 1897-1900. He favored expansion, and iia February, 1900, announced him- self as a candidate for U.S. senator in opposition to Senator Berry, anti-expansionist, whose term would expire, March 3, 1901.

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JONES, David, jurist, was born at Fort Neck, L.I., N.Y., Sept. 16, 1099; son of Gen. Thomas and Freelove (Townsend) Jones. He was edu- cated by privateltutors, studied law, and practiced in New York city. He was appointed county judge for Queens county in 1734, and was a member of the colonial assembly of New York, 1737-58, serving as speaker of the assembly for thirteen years. He was elevated to the bench of the supreme court of the colony, serving 1758-73. He w-as married to Anne, daughter of Col. Wil- liam Willett, and they had three sons: Thomas, David and William, and three daughters. His wife died in 1751, and he married secondly Mary, widow of John Tredvvell, and they had no chil- dren. He died at Fort Neck, N.Y.,Oct. 11, 1775.

JONES, David, army chaplain, was born in White Clay Creek Hundred, Del., May 12, 1736; son of Moi-gan and Eleanor (Evans) Jones; grandson of David and Esther (Morgan) Jones, and great-grandson of Morgan ap Rhydderch, of Welsli Tract, Del., born in Cardiganshire, Wales, and immigrated to America in 1710. He was edu- cated at Hopewell academy, N.J.; studied the- ology with his cousin, the Rev. Abel Morgan, and was ordained to the Baptist ministry, Dec. 12, 1766. He was pastor of the Freeliold Baptist church, N.J., 1766-75; the Great Valley Baptist church, Chester county, Pa., 1775-76, and upon the outbreak of the Revolutionary war, he en- tered the Continental army as chaplain of the 3d and 4th Pennsylvania battalions, and on Jan. 1, 1777, he became chaplain under Maj.-Gen. Anthony Wayne, with whom he served until the close of the war. He had charge of the South- ampton Baptist church. Pa., 1786-92, and re- sumed charge of the Great Valley Baptist church in 1792, where he remained until his death. When General Wayne was ordered to the north- west, Mr. Jones accompanied the army as chap- lain, serving 1794-96, and when the war of 1812 broke out, he was appointed chaplain by Gen. John Armstrong, secretary of war, and served under Generals Brown and Wilkinson until peace was declared. He retired to his farm in Chester county, Pa., and devoted himself to its cultiva- tion. He was married, Feb. 22. 17G2, to Anne, daughter of Joseph and Sarah Stillwell of Middle- town, N.J. Brown university confei'red on him the honorary degree of A.M. in 1774. He pub- lished: a journal of two trips in the region of the Ohio (1765); Defensive War in a Just Cause, Sinless (1775); The Doctrine of the Laying on of Hands (1786); A True History of Laying on of Hands upon Baptized Believers as such (1805); A Treatise on the Work of the Holy Ghost under the Oospel Dispensation (1804); Candid Reasons of Peter Edwards Examined (1811). He died in Chester county, Pa., Feb. 5, 1820.