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Manual of Pennsylvania Land Lata; Notes on Scripture, or Jesus and the C'otniny Glory (IMOO- G5); Knowledije of One A not Iter in the Future State; Outlines of a History of (he Court of Rome, and of the Temporal Pon-er of the Popes, trans- lated from the French, with orij;iMal notes. He also edited several Englisli works on prophecy. H • died in Piiiladrilplua, Pa.. Feb. 3, 18G0.

JONES, John, physician, was boru at Jamaica, L.I., N.Y., 172!); .son of Dr. Evan Jones, and brother of Dr. Thomas Jones whose daughter Margaret married David I. Jones of West Neck, L.I., N.Y. His father was a native of Wales and a practising pliysician there, immigrating to America in 1738 and settling on Long Island, N.Y. The son was .sent to Europe about 1743 and completed his medical education in the schools and hospitals of London, Paris, Edinburgh and Leyden. He returned to New York city, where he was professor of surgery in Kings college, 1767-76, and, with Dr. Samuel Bard, founded the New York hospital in 1771. When the British took possession of New York he removed to Pliiladelphia. and thereafter made that city his liome. He was a friend and the physician of Washington, and also an intimate of Franklin, attending him in his last illness and being named in liis will as his friend. He is the author of: Plain Remarks Upon Wounds and Fractures (1775), of which a new edition with memoir by Dr. James Mease was published in 179.5. Dr. J. W. Francis also wrote his biography for the Eiioyclopcedia Americana. He died in Phila- delphia. Pa., Jan. 23, 1791.

JONES, John Edward, governor of Nevada, was burn in North Wales, Pa., Dec. 5, 1840. He removed to Iowa with liis parents in boyhood, and was a student in the State University of Iowa, but was not graduated. He engaged in teaching, and subsequently removed to Wyoming and from tiiere to Colorado, where he was employed in mining until 1870. He then settled in Nevada, followed mining pursuits there, and was U.S. deputy collector of revenue for Nevada, 1883-86, and surveyor-general of Nevada, 1886-94. He was elected governor of the state of Nevada on the silver ticket in 1894, entered upon his duties as governor, Jan. 8, 1895, and served until his death, when Lieutenant-Governor Reinliold Sadler suc- ceeded him. Governor Jones died in San Fran- cisco. Cal., April 10. 1806.

JONES, John Marshall, soldier, was born in Charlottesville, Va., July 26, 1820. He was grad- uated from the U.S. Military academy in 1841 and brevetted second lietitenant of the 5th U.S. infantry. He was commissioned 2d lieutenant, and assigned to the 7th infantry, April 18. 1845; promoted 1st lieutenant. Aug. 20. 1847; and cap- tain, March 3, 1855. He was assistant instructor

in infantry tactics at the U.S. Military academy, 1845-52; was on frontier duty at Fort Gibson, Ind. Ter., 1853; and escorted lieutenant Whip- ple's topographical party, 1853-54. He was a member of the board to revise rifle and light in- fantry tactics, 1854-55; was on frontier duty at Fort Washita, Ind. Ter., in 1855; at Fort Belknap, Texas, 1855-58; was in garri.son at Jefferson bar- racks. Mo., 1858, and on frontier duty in the Utah expedition, 1858-60. He was at Fort Defi- ance, N.M., 1860; Fort McLane, N.M., 1861; and resigned his commission in the regular army May 27, 1861, to accept the commission of colonel of a Virginia regiment in the Confederate army. He was severely wounded in the assault on Gulp's Hill at Gettysburg, where he commanded the third brigade in Johnson's division, Ewell's corps, July 3, 1863. He participated in the battles in the Wilderness, May 5, 1864, when his brigade was driven back by Warren's corps, and on May 6, when on the old turnpike he again met Warren's corps and was killed. He died in the Wilder- ness of Virginia, May 6, 1864.

JONES, John Paul, naval officer, was boin in Arbingland, in the parish of Kirkbean, Scotland, July 6, 1747; son of John Paul, a humble gardener in the household of the Earl of Selkirk. John was the constant companion of seafaring men, as his birthplace was near the shores of the Firth of Solway. He attended the par- ish school at Kirk- bean, and studied I navigation and the French language at home. In 1759 he was bound at White- haven apprentice to the merchant ma- rine service, and serv- ed on board a ves- sel engaged in the tobacco trade with the American colonies. He next shipped as third mate on board a vessel engaged in the African slave trade, but after making two or three voyages, became dissatisfied with the busi- ness, and while in the West Indies he took pas.s- age on board a brigantine bound for Scotland. While on this voj-age the captain and mate both died of yellow fever and John took charge of the vessel and brought her into port. In recognition of this service the owner of the vessel made him master and supercargo, and he continued to trade with the West Indies and the colonies until 1768, when he became master of a large London ship. In 1770 he was obliged to go through a long trial