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JONES, David Phillips, naval officer, was born in Pliiladelphia, Pa., Marcli 15. 1841 ; son of David and Mary (Phillips) Jones, and a descendant of the Rt. Hon. William Parry, of Newport, Wales ; of the Rev. William Price, and of the Pi-ices and Bonds of Carmarthenshire, Wales. He attended the Central liigh school of Philadelphia. In 1858 he was appoinleil one of the principal examiners of the Utah surveys, and after the completion of the surveys he was appointed resident-engineer in the surveyor-generars office. Salt Lake City. He entered the U.S. navy as assistant engineer, March 25, 1863, and was attached to the gunboat Cimmerone, of the James river fleet. He partici- pated with Admiral Duponfs fleet in various en- gagements on the St. Johns river. Fla. In 1862- 63 he served on the iron-clad Sangamon, and was afterward detached on account of ill-health. Upon his recovery he was ordered to the Mendota, of the James river fleet, and participated in the various actions preceding the fall of Richmond, While stationed at Hampton Roads he was de- tailed to carry the dispatches from Admiral Porter informing General Grant of the capture of Fort Fisher. The dangerous journey was made by night and the dispatches safely delivered to Grant at army headquarters, City Point. He

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^^^^^.^^pparaiso and Cal- lao by the Span- iards in 1866. He was promoted fii'st assistant en- gineer, Oct. 11) 1866, and was attached to the Gettysburg and the Michigan, and was subsequently stationed at the Portsmouth navy yard. He was on duty in the bureau of steam engineering and was afterward assigned to duty at the U.S. Naval academy, where he remained for five years, and aided in perfecting tlie system of mechanical drawing and machine design, for the cadet engineers. He was niarried in 1872 to Nellie, daughter of Sidney Merrill Kellogg, of Erie, Pa. He was professor of mechanical engineering at the Kansas Normal college, 1884. In 1873, while on leave, he was engineer of the St. Louis and Southeastern rail- way, and while holding that position he designed and constructed the great railway transfers at Evansville, Ind.. and Henderson, Ky. He was promoted chief engineer, Jan. 9, 1889, and was retired. June 21, 1802. After his retirement he engaged in the practice of his profession of con- sulting engineer in Pittsburg, Pa.

JONES, David Rumple, soldier, was born in South Carolina in 1825. He was graduated at the U.S. Military academy in 1846 ; served in the Mexican war and was brevetted first lieutenant for bravery at Contreras and Churubusco, and captain for gallantry at Chapultepec. He was promoted 1st lieutenant in 1849 ; served as assist- ant instructor in military tactics nt West Point, 1851-53 ; was promoted captain and made assist- ant adjutant-general in 1853, and in 1861 resigned from the U.S. army and returned to his native state, where he was made assistant adjutant- general on the staff of General Beauregard, with the rank of major. He carried the final terms of evacuation from General IJcauregard to ^lajor Anderson, April 13, 1861, which led to the sur. render of Fort Sumter to the South Carolina troops. He went with Beauregard to Virginia ; was commissioned Vjrigadier-general in the Con- federate States army and assigned to the com- mand of the 3d brigade in Beaui'egard's Arnn- of the Potomac. His brigade was made up of the 17th and 18th Mississippi regiments and the 5tli South Carolina regiment, and at the first battle of Manassas his brigade covered McLean's Ford. He was promoted major-general and assigned to the command of a division which, with those of Early and D. H. Hill, was transferred to the peninsula and reinforced Magruder's army. At Fair Oaks, May 31, 1862, his division was the ex- treme left of the Confederate force. At Grove- ton his division formed the extreme right of Longstreet's line of battle, and at noon, August 29, rested on Manassas Gap railroad, where he opposed Fitz-John Porter's 5th corps. His, divi- sion, reduced to 2500 men, held the hill com- manding the bridge at Antietam creek, and re- sisted the combined assault of Burnside's corps on the afternoon of Sept. 17, 1862, until rein- forced by A. P. Hill, when the Confederates drove the assaulting force back to the shelter of the Federal artillery and prevented Burnside's contemplated capture of Sharpsburg. General Jones died in Richmond, Va., March 8, 1863.

JONES, David Samuel, publicist, was born in Westneck, L.I., N.Y., Nov. 3, 1777 ; sixth son of Samuel and Cornelia (Herring) Jones. He was graduated at Columbia at the head of the class of 1796. He adopted the profession of his father and grandfather and became a leading attorney and couusellor-at-law in New York city. He was private secretary to Governor John Jay, and sec- retary of the board of regents of the University of the State of New York, 1797-98 ; county judge of Queens county, 1798-1813 ; corporation counsel. New York city, 1813-16 ; trustee of Columbia college, 1820-48 ; trustee of the General Theolog- ical seminary, New York citj', 1822-48, and a trustee of the New York Society library, 1817-36,