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and at the close of the war went back to his plantation, where he remained until 1873, when be entered on the practice of law in Hempstead county, Ark. He was state senator, 1873-79, and was president of the senate, 1877- 79. He was Demo- cratic representative from Arkansas in the 47th, 48th and 49th congresses, 1881-87, and was elected to the U.S. senate as a Democrat to succeed James D. Walker, Democrat, taking his seat, March 4, 1885. He was re-elected in 1890 and 1897, and was chairman of the Democratic national com- mittee, conducting the presidential campaigns of 1896 and 1900.

JONES, Jehu QIancy, diplomatist, was born in Berks county, Pa., Oct. 7, 1811; son of Jehu and Sarah (Glancy) Jones; grandson of Col. Jonathan and Margaret (Davis) Jones and great- grandson of David Jones, a native of Merioneth- shire, Wales. He was educated at Kenyon college, Ohio, and was ordained to the ministry of the P.E. church. Subsequent- ly lie was admitted to the bar and was deputy attorney-gen- eral of Berks county, Pa., 1847-49, and a representative in the 32d, 33d, 34th, 35th congresses, 1851-58, serving as chairman of the committee on ways and means. He resigned his seat in congress in 1858 to accept the position of U.S. minister to Austria, hav- ing in 1857 declined the mission to Berlin. He represented the United States at Vienna, until 1863, wlien he resumed the practice of law in Reading, Pa. He was married, June 23, 1832, to Anna, daughter of the Hon. William and Esther (West) Rodman, of Bucks county, and their son, Charles Henry Jones, lawyer, was collector of the port of Philadelphia. Jehu Glancy Jones died in Reading, Pa., March 24, 1878.

JONES, Jenkin Lloyd, clergyman, was born at Llandyssil, Cardiganshire, South Wales, Nov. 14, 1843; son of Richard and Mary (Griffith)

Jones. He immigrated to America with his parents and settled in Wisconsin in 1845. He worked on a farm until 1862, when he enlisted in the 6th Wisconsin battery and served as a private until 1865. He was graduated from the Meadville Theological school. Pa., in 1870, and was pastor at Janesville, Wis., 1872-80, and of All Souls church, Chicago, from 1882. He organized and was first secretary of the Western Uni- tarian Sunday-school society in 1873; was secretary of the Wes- tern Unitarian conference, 1875-84; established, with others. Unity, a weekly paper, in 1878, of which he became leading editor in 1879, and which became the organ of the Liberal Congress of Religions in 1894. He also be- came a lecturer on English on the university ex- tension department of the University of Cliicago, and president of the Tower Hill Summer School of Literature and Religion at Hillside, Wis. He was secretary of the World's Parliament of Relig- ions in 1893; and was elected general secretary of the Liberal Congress of Religion. He was president of the Illinois state conference of char- ities, 1897-98, and founder and first president of the Chicago Browning society. He is the author of: The Faith that Makes Faithful (1886); Prac- tical Piety (1890); The Seven Great Religions (1894); Word of the Spirit (1897); Jess; Bits of Wayside Gospel (1899); and edited Tlw Chorus of Faith: An Epitome of the Parliament of Religio)Ls (1893); A Search for an Infidel (1901).

JONES, Joel, jurist, was born in Coventry, Conn., Oct. 25, 1795. He removed to Hebron, Conn., in 1810, and engaged in business with his uncle. He was graduated from Yale in 1817, studied law with Judge Bristol, of New Haven, Conn., and at the law school of Litchfield, Conn. He removed to Wilkes Barre, Pa., and in 1822 settled in Easton, where he establislied a large practice, and where he was one of the founders of Lafayette college. He was appointed, by Gov- ernor Wolf, one of the commissioners to revise the civil code of Pennsylvania. He removed to Philadelphia in 1834; was elected associate judge in 1835 and afterward presiding judge of the dis- trict court. He was the first president of Girard college, 1847-49, and mayor of Philadelphia in 1849. He is the autlior of: Reports of a Commis- sion to Revise the Civil Code of Pennsylvania; A