Page:The Biographical Dictionary of America, vol. 06.djvu/155

 JONES

JONES

in ISSO, anil in \>^9S he wns nieiitioiieil as the Re- pnl)licun c-uiulidate. He was president of the Boston and Miiini^ raihoad company for four years. He died in Portsnioutli, N.U., Oct. 2, 1902.

JONES, Gardner Maynard, librarian, was born in Cliarlestown, Mass., June 27, ISoO ; son of Nahuin and Lucy (Blake) Jones ; grandson of Amos and Louisa (Maynard) Jones, and of Sam- uel and Betsey (Fay) Blake, and a descendant of Lewis Jones, who came to Roxbury, ]Mass., be- fore 1640. He was graduated froni tiie high school, Dorchester, Mass., in 1866 ; was employed in various book stores in Boston, 1867-87 ; at- tended the School of Librarj- Economy at Colum- bia college in 1888, and was appointed librarian of the Salem public library in February, 1899. He was treasurer of the Appalachian Mountain club in 1885-86-87, and vice-president, 1889 ; be- came a member of the American Library associa- tion, 1887, and was elected treasurer in 1897, and president of the Massachusetts Library club in 1893. He married, in 1897, Kate Emery Sanborn (q. v.), daughter of E. B. S. Sanborn. He is the author of : List of Subject Headings for use in Dictionary Catalogues (1895); Rough Subject In- dex to the Publications of the Essex Institute (1890), and various papers on library subjects, published in the Libranj Journal and elsewhere.

JONES, George, naval chaplain, was born in York, Pa., July 30, 1800. He was graduated at Yale, A.B., 1823, A.M., 1826. He was an instruct- or of midshipmen on the Brandywine and on the Constitution, 1826-28 ; tutor at Yale, 1828-31 ; was ordained a deacon in the P.E. church in Jan- uary, 1831, and was assistant rector at Middle- town, Conn,, 1831-33, and chaplain in the U.S. navy, 1833-70. His duties in the navy included Perry's expedition to Japan, 1853-55, and he was last stationed as chajjlain of the U.S. naval asylum, Philadelphia, Pa., where he died. His observa- tions while on the northern seas in the expedi- tion to Japan added largely to scientific know- ledge of the nature of zodiacal light, and from his reports, which fill one volume of Perry^s Re- port of the U.S. Expedition to Japan, was de- duced the theory of a nebulous ring around the earth. He is also the author of : Sketches of Naval Life (1836); Excursions to Cairo, Jerusalem and Balbee (1836); Life Sceiies from the Four Gospels, and Life Scenes from the Old Testament (1865). He died in Philadelphia, Jan. 22, 1870.

JONES, George, editor, was born in Poultney, Vt., Aug. 16, 1811. His father immigrated from Wales and settled in Poultney about 1798, where he cultivated a farm and worked in the slate quarries. George was brought up in these rural surroundings, and his first employment outside the farm and quarries was as clerk for Amos Bliss, proprietor of The Northern Spectator and

^^ Jh-^tx^

of a country store. Horace Greeley was a type- setter, and Geoi-ge Jones a clerk in the store at the same time. In 1824 his father and mother both died, and he went first to Burlington, Vt., and then to Albany, N.Y. He drifted to New York city, where Greeley also went about the same time. Here they met again, and Greeley, who had a job in a printing office at six dollars per week, gave what assistance he could to his friend in finding employment, which he did, in a dry-goods store.

When Greeley found- ed the Neiv Yorker, Jones advised him not to give credit to subscribers and advertisers, but Greeley did not take this advice, and the Neio Yorker failed. When he founded the Tribune, in 1841, he offered Jones an interest in the paper, whicii Jones de- clined, but he finally became business manager. Jones subsequently went to Albany, where he had already established a news agency, to take personal control of the business, and from the profits he established a banking lousiness. Here he again met Henry J. Raymond, who had been re- porter on the Tribune during his service as busi- ness manager. The two men then planned the establishment of the New York Times, which was started Sept. 18, 1851, as a penny paper, with H. J. Raymond as editor, and George Jones as publisher, and in one year it had a daily circula- tion of 26,000 copies, but not a sufficient rev- enue to meet expenses. Mr. Jones advanced the price to two cents, and the circulation fell to 18,000, but soon began to pay, and Raymond and Jones controlled the Times till Mr. Raymond's death in 1869. He then assumed full control of the paper, and secured as editor, first, John Bigelow, and subsequently, Louis J. Jennings. In 1870 he began his war against the "'Tweed ring" in New York city, and conducted the in- vestigations that led to the exposure of the gigantic scheme then in existence to defraud the city. Mr. Jones was offered $5,000,000 if he would drop the matter and go to Europe, which he indignantly refused, and in a few days the proofs of the fraud appeared in the columns of the Times. He erected, in 1886-90, a new " Times Building " around the shell of the old, which was still used every day and night in issuing the paper. He was a personal friend of General Grant, and it was through his wise forethought