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principal of the Guthrie County high school, Panora, Iowa, 1879-83 ; and of the West Des Moines high school, Iowa, 1883-86. He travelled and studied, 1886-87 ; was professor of literature in the Illinois State Normal university, 1887-91 ; travelled in Europe and studied at Oxford, Munich, and Heidelberg, 1891-94, receiving the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Heidel- berg in 1893 ; was professor of literature at Swarthmoi^e college. Pa., 1894-96; inspector of literature for the University of the State of New York, 1896-98 ; professor of literature at the Syracuse university, 1898-99, and accepted the chair of literature at Vanderbilt university, Nash- ville, Tenn., in 1899. He was interested in the pedagogical features of the teaching of literature and the discipline derived from its study, and made several trips abroad, visiting most of the universities of Germany in order to learn their purpose and method in the teaching of German literature. He was elected in 1894 a member of the Goethe-Gesellschaft, Weimar, Germany, and of the English Goethe society, London. He is the author of : The Groivth of the Idylls of the King (1895) ; The Arthurian Legends (1896) : College- Entrance English (1897) ; edited Macbeth, Julius Ccesar and other Shaksperean plays and contrib- uted articles to American, English, and German magazines.

JONES, Richard Channing, educator, was born in Brunswick county, Va., April 12, 1841 ; son of John Cargill and Mary Ann (Walker) Jones ; grandson of John and Lucy (Cargill) Jones and of Edw^ard and Mary (Warburton) Walker. He was taken to Camden, Ala., by his parents in 1844 ; was graduated from the Univer- sity of Alabama in 1859 and was admitted to tlie bar in 1861. He served in the Confederate army during the civil war, as line and staff officer. He was married, Oct. 19, 1864, to Stella H., daughter of Major Frank Boy kin, of Camden, Ala. He resumed the practice of law at Camden, Ala., after the war, and in 1877 was appointed by Governor George S. Houston, brigadier-general of Alabama state troops ; was state senator, sessions of 1882-83 and 1884-85, and w-as tenth president of the University of Alabama and professor of international and constitutional law there, 1890-97, when he resigned to practise law at Camden, Ala. He was president of the Alabama State Bar association in 1896. He received the degree of LL.D. from the Univer- sity of Alabama in 1891.

JONES, Richard Watson, educator, was born in Greenesville county, Va., May 16, 1837 ; son of Mordecai and Martha Randolph (Grigg) Jones ; grandson of John and Nancy (Young) Jones and of Randolph and Martha (Jordan) Grigg; great- grandson of Francis and Elizabeth (Burnett)

Young. The Joneses emigrated from Wales and the Youngs from England, and both settled in eastern Virginia. Francis Young served as an officer under General Braddock, and was noted during the Revolution, serving a part of the time as commissary to General Wills. Richard Wat- son Jones attended an academy in Hicksford, Va., and was graduated from Randolph-Macon college, A.B., 1857, A.M., 1860, and from the University of Virginia, A.M., 1861. Soon after this he en- tered the Confederate army, first as a private, and was promoted from time to time. He surrendered his regiment, the 12th Virginia, at Appomattox in April, 1865. He was professor of mathematics in Randolph-Macon college, 1866-68 ; president of Petersburg Female college, 1868-71 ; president of Martha Washington college, Abingdon, Va., 1871- 76 ; professor of chemistry in the University of Mississippi, 1876-85 ; first president of the Missis- sippi Industrial Institute and College, 1885-88, and returned to the professorship of chemistry in the University of Mississippi in 1889. The honor- ary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Mississippi college in 1881. He was elected a member of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science in 1877 ; the American In- stitute of Christian Philosophy in 1881 ; the American Chemical society in 1889, and the Vic- toria institute, England, about 1880. He was married, Jan. 6, 1864, to Elizabeth Susan Spratley, and of their sons, Richard W. became president of the American National bank of Kansas City, Mo. ; Garland M. entered the practice of law in Kansas City ; C. Randolph w^as made vice-presi- dent of the Webb City bank, Mo., and Stew^art M. became president of the Bank of Commerce at Pauls Valley, Ind. Ter. He is the author of pam- phlets on the cotton army worm, also on the bull worm, published by the U.S. entomological com- mission ; of various other scientific articles and addresses before teachers' associations ; and was associate editor of the People's Eucyclojxedia, 1880-81.

JONES, Robert Ellis, educator, was born in New York city, March 18, 1858 ; son of Eleazer and Anna (Parry) Jones, and grandson of Thomas Penrhyn Jones. He was graduated from Wil- liams college, A.B., 1879 ; attended Virginia Theo- logical seminary, 1879-80, and was topographer of the U.S. geological survey, 1880-82. He was made deacon in the Protestant Episcopal church at Plymouth, Mass., by Bishop Paddock in 1883, and ordained priest at St. Luke's church, Kalamazoo, Mich., by Bishop Gillispie in 1884. He was rector of St. John's church, Williams- town, Mass., 1882-84; St. Luke's church, Kala- mazoo, Mich., 1884-89, and a member of the standing committee and dean of the convocation of the diocese of Western Michigan, 1885-89 ; rec-