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1824-29 ; and another son, Elbert Herring, was a member of the state senate and a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1821. Maj. William's son, Samuel W., was surrogate of Sche- nectady county, mayor of the city, and county judge. Samuel Jones made contributions to the collections of the New York Historical society. He died at Westneck, L.I., N.Y., Nov. 21, 1819.

JONES, Samuel, jurist, was born in West- neck, L.I., N.Y., May 26, 1769; son of Samuel and Cornelia (Herring) Jones ; grandson of Wil- liam and Phebe (Jackson) Jones, and of Elbert Herring, Esq., and great-grandson of Thomas and Freelove (Townsend) Jones. He was graduated at Yale in 1790, and at Columbia in 1793. He was a fellow student with DeWitt Clinton in his father's law office in New York city, and became an active politician. He was a member of the state assembly, 1812-14 ; city recorder, 1823 ; state chancellor, 1826-28 ; chief justice of the New York superior court, 1828-47 ; justice of the New York supreme court, 1847-49, and actively en- gaged in the practice of law, 1849-53. He re- ceived the honorary degree of LL.D. from Colum- bia in 1826, and from Union in 1841. He died in Cold Spring, L.I., N.Y., Aug. 9, 1853.

JONES, Samuel, soldier, was born in Virginia in 1820. He was graduated at the U.S. Military academy in 1841, and assigned to the 1st artillery. He was promoted 2d lieutenant, Sept. 28, 1841, and served on the Maine frontier at Houlton, pending the disputed territory controversy, 1841- 43. He was in garrison at Fort Adams, R.I., 1843-45, and at Fort Brooke, Fla., 1845-46; on recruiting service, 1846 ; at the U.S. Military academy as assistant professor of mathematics, 1846-49 ; assistant instructor in infantry tactics, 1846-48 ; assistant instructor in artillery, 1847- 48, and principal assistant professor of mathemat- ics, 1849-51. He was promoted 1st lieutenant, March 3, 1847 ; was on garrison duty at the New Orleans barracks. La., 1851-52 ; at East Pasca- goula. Miss., 1852, and at Fort McHenry, Md., 1852-54, and declined the office of commandant and professor of engineering at the Georgia Mili- tary institute in 1854. He was promoted captain, Dec. 24, 1853 ; was on frontier duty at Fort Mcintosh, Texas, 1854-55; in garrison at Fort Columbus, N.Y., 1855-56 ; on frontier duty at Fort Mcintosh, Texas. 1856-57, and at Ringgold bar- racks, Texas, 1857-58. He served as an assistant to the judge advocate of the army at Washing- ton, D.C., 1858-61, when he resigned to join the Confederate States army as colonel. He was promoted brigadier-general and succeeded Brax- ton Bragg in the command of the Army of Pen- sacola, Jan. 27, 1862, and on March 8, 1862, he was in turn succeeded by Col. Thomas M. Jones. He was promoted major-general in 1863 and com-

manded a division in West Virginia until April 9, 1864, when he was transferred to the command of the Department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, and was relieved by Gen. W. J. Hardee, Sept. 28, 1864. He resumed the com- mand of his division and was stationed at Poco- taligo, S.C, until he joined Hardee upon the evacuation of Savannah. He engaged in farming after the close of the war. He is the author of : " The Battle of Olustee, or Ocean Pond, Florida," in " Battles and Leaders of the Civil War," Vol. IV., pp. 76-79 (1888). He died at Bedford Springs, Va., July 31, 1887.

JONES, Samuel J., physician, was born at Bainbridge, Pa., March 22, 1836 ; son of Dr. Rob- ert Henry and Sarah Moret (Ekel) Jones ; grand- son of Robert and Margaret (Williamson) Jones, who were born in Ire- land and came to Philadelphia in 1806 ; and a descendant of Marcus Ekel, who was born in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1690, and came to America in 1743. He was grad- uated from Dickin- son college, A.B., 1857, A.M., 1860, and from the University of Pennsylvania,

M.D., 1860. He was appointed assistant surgeon in the U.S. navy in December, 1860. He served on the flagship Minnesota in the Atlantic blockading squadron ; was present at the battle of Hatteras Inlet, and in January, 1862, was assigned to Flag- Officer Goldsborough's staff as surgeon, and later as surgeon on the staff of Commodore Rowan. In the spring of 1863 he was assigned to duty at Philadelphia, and was promoted surgeon and as- signed to duty at Chicago, 111., as examiner of candidates for the medical corps organizing for naval service on the western rivers. In 1864 ne was ordered to the sloop-of-war Portsmouth, on the West Gulf blockading squadron, and soon after as surgeon of the New Orleans Naval hospital, where he remained until the close of the war, and served through an epidemic of yellow fever. He then served at Pensacola Naval hospital, 1865-66 ; on duty in Chicago, 1866 ; on the frigate Sabine, 1867-68, when he resigned and settled in private practice in Chicago, 111. He was profess- or of opthalmology and otology at Northwestern University Medical school, Chicago, 1870-97, be- came surgeon to the eye and ear department of St. Luke's hospital in 1869, and served in Mercy hospital and at the South Side dispensary, Chi-