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excepting two years, 1832-34, He was again county jvidge of Queens county, 1840-41, and prac- tised law in New York city, 1841-48. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Allegheny college, Meadville, Pa. He was married three times : first to Margaret, daughter of Dr. Thomas Jones and granddaughter of Philip Livingston, tlie Signer ; secondly to Susan, daughter of Her- man Le Roy, wliose younger sister became the second wife of Daniel Webster ; and thirdly, to Mary, daughter of De Witt Clinton. He had in all seventeen children. He died in New York city, May 10, 1848.

JONES, Edward, statesman, was born in Lis- burn, Ireland, March 10, 1762; second son of Dr. Conway and Mary (Todd) Jones, and on his mother's side a descendant, in the fifth genera- tion, of Bishop Jeremy Taylor. He was a brother of William Todd Jones, the Irish imtriot, and by his loyalty to the Irish cause, lost the valuable property of his father that would have come to him on the death of William Todd, in 1818. He immigrated to Philadelphia, Pa., in 1783, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits, but failing to make the business profitable he removed in 1786 to Wilmington, N.C., where again meeting commercial reverses he became a lawyer. He represented the town of Wilmington in the gen- eral assembly, 1788-91 ; and in 1791 was unani- mously elected by the legislature solicitor-general of the state, an office created for him and to which he was elected for life. He was a trustee of the University of North Carolina, 1804-41. He was married, June 20, 1790, to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Peter and Eunice (Curtis) Mallett, and about 1795 removed to Rock Rest, Chatham county. Besides their eleven children they adopted nine pi'oteges, some of whom achieved distinction in after life ; one, Johnston Blakeley (q.v.), the American naval hero, was lost with his vessel in 1814 ; their own son, born that year, was named Johnston Blakeley Jones (q.v.). Another son. Murphy V., was collector of the port of Wil- mington, 1841-45 ; the youngest daughter, Louisa, married Abraham Rencher, of North Carolina (q.v.) ; another, Fanny, the eldest, married the Rev. Dr. William Hooper (q.v.-) ; Elizabeth, the second daughter, married John D. Eccles, a dis- tinguished lawyer of Fayetteville, N.C., and Charlotte married William Hardin, lawyer and teacher. General Jones died in Pittsboro, Chat- ham county, N.C., Aug. 8, 1841.

JONES, Forrest Robert, engineer, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 12, 1861 ; son of Martin Ryan and Susan (Hageman) Jones ; grandson of Adrian and Mary (Faust) Hageman, and a de- scendant of one of the Hagemans who came to New York about 1630 and married Sarah Wykoff, of Dutch descent. The Fausts came from Austria

to America early in the nineteenth century. He was graduated at Cornell university, M.E., 1888 ; was a designer and experimenter in Edison's laboratory. Orange, N.J., 1888; engaged in com- mei'cial electrical engineering, 1889-90 ; was su- perintendent of the mechanical department, Uni- versity of Tennessee, 1890-91, and professor of mechanic arts, 1891-92 ; professor of machine design. University of Wisconsin, 1892-99, and professor of drawing and machine design, Wor- cester Polytechnic institute, 1889. He designed and put into successful use machinery and ap- pliances for putting high resistance electrical in- sulation on wires, for connecting wires perma- nentlj-, and couplings for temporary electrical connection, and other devices, some of which were patented. He was elected a member of the Amer- ican Society of Mechanical Engineers, May 14, 1890, and of the American Society for the Promo- tion of Engineering Education, the Franklin In- stitute and other scientific and engineering so- cieties. He is the author of : Machine Design (1898), and several papers in the journals of engineering and scientific societies, and in engi- neering publications.

JONES, Francis Coates, painter, was born at Baltimore, Md., July 25, 1857 ; son of Hugh Bur- gess and Laura Eliza (Bolton) Jones, grandson of William R. and Jemima Jones and of Hugh and Maria Louise Bolton. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, under Yvon, Lehmann, Boulanger, and Lefebvre, 1876-82, and returning to New York, opened a studio, and established himself as a figure painter. He received the Clark prize at the National Academy of Design in New Y^ork in 1885, for his picture entitled Exclianginy Confidences. He was elected Na- tional Academician in 1894, a member of the Society of American artists, the American Water Color society, the Architectural League and other organizations.

JONES, Frank, representative, was born in Barrington, N.H., Sept. 15, 1832; son of Thomas Jones. He attended the public schools of the neighborhood during the winter and worked on his father's farm in summer until he was seven- teen years old, when he removed to Portsmouth, N.H., and became a clerk and salesman for hi? brother, the proprietor of a hardware store. He subsequently became the owner of breweries in Portsmouth, N.H., and South Boston, Mass. He was married, Sept. 15, 1861, to Martha Sophia Leavitt, the widow of his brother, Hirana Jones. He took an active interest in the political aff"airs of his native state ; was mayor of Portsmouth, N.H., 1868-70 ; a Democratic representative from the first New HamiJshire district in the 44th and 45th congresses, 1875-79 ; the unsuccessful Demo- cratic candidate for governor of New Hampshire