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 JONES

JORDAN

June, 1864. During an engagement with the forces of General Hunter he was killed near Piedmont, Augusta county, Va., June 5, 18G4.

JONES, William Strother, clergyman, was born at " Woodside,"' Fauquier county, Va., April 10, 1852 ; son of James Fitzgerald and Anne Lewis (Marshall) Jones ; grandson of William Strother and Anne Maria (Marshall) Jones and of Thomas and Margaret W. (Lewis) Marshall ; and great-grandson of Strother and Mary Frances (Thornton) Jones and of Chief-Justice John (q.v.) and Mary Willis (Ambler) Marshall. He was prepared for college by private tutors and at the Shenandoah Valley academy, Winchester, Va., and was graduated at Washington and Lee uni- versity in 1872 and at the Theological seminary at Alexandria, Va., 1876. He was ordained to the diaconate, June, 1876, and to the priesthood in June, 1877, and took charge of Grace church, Fauquier county, upon his ordination to the diac- onate. In January, 1879, he became assistant minister of St. Thomas's parish, Owings Mills, Baltimore county, Md., and on April 1, 1883, was made rector. He was rector of St. Pauls church, Fairfield, Conn., 1888-96, and on Oct. 1, 1896, be- came rector of St. Michael's church, Trenton, N.J. He was married, Oct. 18, 1876, to Kate U. Smoot, and their son, Josiah Smoot Jones, was graduated from St. Paul's school. Concord, N.H. , 1898. He was married secondly, Nov. 22, 1888, to Minnie C. Smoot. He received the degree of D.D. from Washington and Lee university in 1893. He is the author of several letters and essays published from time to time in the chui'ch papers and other magazines.

JONES, Willie, delegate, was born in Halifax,

N.C., in 1731 ; son of Robin Jones, agent for Lord

Grenville, a lord proprietor of North Carolina.

He was educated at Eton, England, and on re-

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" took up the

cause of the patriots. He was presi- dent of the ■ North Caro- "lina commit- tee of safety in 1775, and ex officio the first governor of the new state. He was a member of the conven- tion of Dec. 18, 1776, that framed and adopted a state constitution and a delegate to the house of commons of North Carolina, 1776-78. He succeeded his brother Allen as a delegate to the Continental congress, serving 1780-81, and was elected a delegate from North Carolina to the Federal constitutional convention in 1787, but declined to serve. He was a member of the state

constitutional convention of July 21, 1788, that decided to postpone action on the Federal consti- tution, in order to secure amendments favorable to state rights, in which movement he was the leader. He was one of the commissioners ap- pointed by the general assembly of 1791 to locate a state capital and build a state house at an ex- pense not to exceed £10,000, and in 1792 the com- missioners purchased 1000 acres of land and laid out the city of Raleigh on 400 acres of the pur- chase with streets, ninety-nine and sixty-six feet wide, and the general assembly met in the new state house in 1794. He was married to ^lary, daughter of Col. Joseph Montford, of North Caro- lina, a lady noted for her wit and beauty. Their son, Capt. Willie Jones, became a prominent citizen of North Carolina. It was by the recom- mendation of Mr. Jones that John Paul, the future naval hero, offered his services to congress, and Paul is said to have adopted the surname Jones because of his admiration for Mrs. Jones. Willie Jones. Sr., died near Raleigh, N.C., in 1801.

JORDAN, David Starr, naturalist and educa- tor, was born in Gainesville, N.Y., Jan. 19, 1851 ; son of Hiram and Huldah (Hawley) Jordan; grandson of Rufus and Rebecca (Bacon) Jordan, of Port Henry, N.Y., and of David and Ann (Waldo) Hawley, of Whitehall, N.Y., and a descendant of John Elderkin Waldo, of Tolland, Conn. ; and of Richard Grenville, of the Revenge. His first ancestor in America, John Drake, who was a second cousin of Francis Drake and third cou- sin of Sir Walter Raleigh, came from Exmouth, Devon, England, with Win- throp and settled in Windsor, Conn. David Starr Jordan worked his way through college and was graduated from Cor- nell university in 1872 and from the Indiana Med- ical college in 1875. He was an instructor in the botanical laboratory of Cornell university, 1871- 72 ; professor of natural history at Lombard uni- versity, 1872-73 ; principal of the Applelon colle- giate institute. Wis., 1873-74 ; student and after- ward lecturer on marine botany at Anderson school, Penikese Island. Mass., during the summer of 1874 ; teacher of natural history in the high school of Indianapolis, Ind., 1874-75 ; lectur- er on zoology at Harvard summer school, at Cumberland Gap, 1875 ; professor of natural his- tory at Butler university, Ind., 1875-79; natu»

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