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orders to proceed to any convenient southern port of the United States. Just as the vessels parted, the Britisli frigate Poictiers appeared and carried both the Wasp and the Frolic to Bermuda, where the American officers and crew were released on ^)arole. Upon his return to the United States, Commander Jones was received with great enthusiasm. He was waited upon by a committee appointed by the legislature of Dela- ware and was voted an elegant piece of plate with appropriate engraving. Congress voted §25,000 to compensate the officers and crew for the loss sustained by the re-capture of the Frolic, and ordered a gold medal to be presented to Jones and a silver medal to each of his officers. The several states passed congratulatory resolutions and made to the officers valuable gifts of swords and plate, and Jones was made an honorary member of the Society of the Cincinnati. He was commissioned captain, Mai'ch 13, 1813, and was given command of the Macedonian, in Decatur's squadron, operating in the Mediterranean. He was in command of the Mediterranean squadi'on, 1821-24. and of the Pacific squadron, 1826-29. He was appointed to the command of the Baltimore station; served as port captain of the harbor of New York; was commissary of the U.S. naval board, and governor of the Philadelphia naval asy- lum. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 3, 1850. JONES, Jacob Paul, philanthropist, was born in Pliiladelphia, Pa., May 9, 1806; son of Samuel and Martha (Paul) Jones; grandson of Jacob and Marj' Paul, and a descendant of Henry Lewis, who, with Lewis David and William Howell, made the first settlement in Haverford township; of Da- vid Jones, who was granted several hundred acres of land in Blockley township in 1699; and on his mother's side fourth in descent from John ap Thomas, who purchased from William Penn 10,000 acres of land in the township of Merion for himself and other Friends of Penllyn, North Wales. He was educated at the Friends' school, conducted b}- Elilui Pickering, and in the school of John Gummere at Burlington, N.J. He first engaged in the milling business owned by his maternal uncle, Samuel Paul, on the banks of the Wissahickon. and was in partnership with Israel Morris, in Philadelphia, as importer and dealer in iron and steel, 1836-60. He was a di- rector in the Bank of North America for forty years, a member of the board of managers of the Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities for twenty-five years, and was actively engaged in various other busi- ness concerns. His charities were extended and his active interest was directed to the work of

the Young Men's institute, established in 1850, the Pi-estun retreat, founded by an uncle of liis wife, and the Pennsylvania hospital, of which he was a manager for over twenty years. He was married, July 15, 1840, to Mary, daughter of Richard and Sarah Thomas, of Chester Valley, Pa., and their .son, Ricliard Thomas (Haverford, 1863), an assistant in the business of Morris & Jones, died, June 6, 1869. Jacob P. Jones gave $10,000 toward the building of Barclay Hall, Haverford college; left a legacy of $5000 to establish a scholarship at Haverford in memory of his son; to the Merchants' Fund of Philadel- phia, S15,000; to the Old Men's home, $10,000; to the Pennsylvania liosj)ital, $10,000; to the Fcjster home, $10,000; totiie Home for Aged and Infirm Colored People, $10,000; to the Female Society for Relief of Poor, $5000; to the Howard asso- ciation, $5000, and to various other charities lib- eral sums. He made Haverford college the resid- uary legatee of his entire estate, which, in 1897, brought to the college $1,000,000 as an endow- ment. He died in Pliiladelphia, Pa., ^lay 20, 1885.

JONES, James, physician, was born in George- town, D.C., Nov. 18, 1807. He was graduated from the Columbian college, Washington, D.C., in 1825, and from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1828, and practised in Georgetown, D.C. He was adjunct professor of chemistry in the Columbian college, 1830-32, and then removed to New Orleans, La., where he edited the Medical and SurgicalJournal, 1857-69; was professor of obstetrics and diseases of women and children in the University of Louisiana, 1836- 39; professor of practical medicine, 1839-66; resumed his former chair, 1866-73, and was dean of the faculty, 1841-42 and 1848-49. He lectured on chemistry and contributed to medical jour- nals. He died in New Orleans, La., Oct. 10, 1873.

JONES, James Chamberlain, governor of Tennessee, was born in Davidson county, Tenn., April 20, 1809. He was brought up by a guardian, attended a public school, and in 18-30 i-emoved to Wilson count}', Tenn., where he engaged in farming. He was a Whig representative in the state legislature in 1837 and in 1839; a Whig presidential elector in 1840; governor of Tennes- see, 1841-45, and a delegate to the Whig national convention in 1848. He removed to Mempliis, Tenn., in 1850, and was U.S. senator, 1851-57, supporting the Kansas-Nebraska bill in 1854. He died in ^lemphis, Tenn., Oct. 29. 1859.

JONES, James Kimbrough, senator, was born in Marsliall county. Miss.. Sept. 29, 1839; son of Nat Kimbrough and Mary J. (Jones) Jones, and grandson of Matthew and Edmund Jones. He removed with hisparenfts to Dallas county. Ark., in 1848, and thei'e received his education. He was a private in the Confederate army, 1861-65,