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graduation he established himself in Savannah, Ga. He was professor of chemistry in the Medical College of Savannah, 1856-57; of chemistry and geology in the University of Georgia, 1857-58; of chemistry in the Georgia Medical college, 1859-65; was a surgeon in the Confederate army during the civil war, 1862-65; was professor of medicine at the University of Nashville, 1866-68; and in the fall of 1868 accepted the chair of chemistry and clinical medicine in the University of Louisiana, which became Tulane University of Louisiana in 1883, his labors as professor con- tinuing till his death. He was president of the health board of the state of Louisiana, 1880-84; president of the Louisiana State Medical society, 1887-96; an honorary fellow of the Philadeli^hia College of Physicians and Surgeons, and a mem- ber of the American Medical association. He published: Chemical and Physiological Investi- gation (Smithsonian, C. to K., 1856); Observa- tions on Malarial Fever (1858-59); Transactions of the American Medical Association (1859); Mollities Ossium (1869); Observations on Hospital Gangrene (1869); Observations on Yellow Fever (1873); Medical and Surgical Memoirs (1876); Explorations of the Aboriginal Remains of Ten- nessee (Smithsonian, C. to K., 1876); Reports of the Board of Health of Louisiana (1884); Medical and Surgical Memoirs (1887); Medical and Sur- gical Memoirs (Vol. IH., parts 1 and 2, 1890). He died at New Orleans, La., Feb. 17, 1896.

JONES, Joseph Russell, diplomatist, was born in Conneaut, Ohio, Feb. 17, 1823; son of Joel and Maria (Dai't) Jones, and grandson of Capt. Samuel Jones, of Hebron, Conn., an officer in the French and Indian war. His father died in 1825. He attended a public school, and in 1836 became clerk in a store in Conneaut, where he remained until August, 1838, when he joined his mother's family at Rockton, Winnebago county, 111., and in June, 1840, went to Galena, 111., where he was clerk and subsequently partner in one of the busi- ness houses of that city. He retired from business on the dissolution of the firm in 1856. He was secretary and treasurer of the Galena and Minnesota Packet company, 1846-61; a repre- sentative in the Illinois legislature in 1860; U.S. marshal for the northern district of Illinois, 1861-69; U.S. minister to Belgium, 1869-75; de-

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clined the cabinet appointment of secretary of the interior in 1875, and was collector of the port of Chicago, 1875-76. He was married in 1848 to Elizabeth Ann, daughter of Judge Andrew Scott, of Arkansas, and they resided in Galena, 111., until 1861, when they removed to Chicago, 111. He organized the Chicago West Division Railway company in 1863, and was its president for twenty-five years, retiring from business in 1888.

JONES, Joseph Stevens, playwright, was born in 1811. He was an actor, and became pro- prietor and manager of leading Boston theatres. He was graduated from Harvard, M.D., in 1843, and was city physician for a number of years. He wrote upwards of two hundred plays, including: Solon Shingle; Eugene Aram; The Liberty Tree; Tlie Fire Warrior; The Siege of Boston; Moll Pitcher; Stephen Burroughs; The Carpenter of Rouen; The Surgeon of Paris; Job and Jacob Grey; TJie Last Dollar; The People's Lawyer; The Sons of the Cape; Zofara; Captain Lascar; Paul Revere; The Silver Spooyi, He also drama- tized The Three Experiments of Living, by Mrs. Lee. He died in Boston, Mass., Dec. 30, 1877.

JONES, Kate Emery Sanborn, librarian, was born at Henniker, N.H., June 24, 1860; daughter of Edward Burr Smith and Caroline Augiista (Emery) Sanborn; granddaughter of Smith and Mary (Burr) Sanborn and of Samuel and Olive (Brown) Emery, and a descendant of John San- born, born in England in 1620, who came ta Hampton, N.H., in 1632, with his maternal grand- father, the Rev. Stephen Bachilor. She was educated in the public schools of Concord and Franklin, N.H., and was an assistant at the Athenaeum, Boston, Mass., 1882-91; classifier and cataloguer at the Mercantile library, St. Louis, Mo., 1891-94; and librarian of the City library, Manchester, N.H., 1894-97. She married Gardner Maynard Jones (q.v.). Jvme 30, 1897. While as- sistant to Cliarles A. Cutter (q.v.) at the Boston Atheneeum, she prepared the The Cutter-San- born Author Table.

JONES, Leonard Augustus, author, was born in Templeton, Mass., Jan. 13, 1832; son of Augus- tus Appleton and Mary (Partridge) Jones; grand- son of Aaron Jones, whose father, Aaron Jones, was one of the principal proprietors and first settlers of Templeton; and a descendant of Lewis and Anna (Stone) Jones, who settled in Roxbury and were members of the church of the Rev. John Eliot in Roxbury in 1640. His mother's family was formerly of Walpole and Medfield, where the earliest of the Partridge family in America settled before 1650. He was graduated from Harvard in 1855 and from the Harvard Law school in 1858, and practised law in Boston, Mass. He was appointed judge of the court of land regis- tration for Massachusetts in 1898, and commis-