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JONES. hostilities was elected a member of the Second Texan Congress (1834). The next year he was appointed Minister to the United States. After his return from Washington he was elected from Brazoria County to the Texan Senate, and in 1841 President Houston appointed him Secretary of State. In 1844 he was elected President of Texas, an olBce which he held until February 19, 1846, when he turned over the Government to J. Pinckney Henderson, the first Governor under the Constitution of the United States. His journal and autobiography were published in 1858. Jones County, and its county-seat, Anson, in Texas, were named in his honor.

JONES, Charles Colcock (1831-93). An American lawyer, born at Savannah, Ga. He graduated at Princeton in 1852, and at the Har- vard Law School in 1855, was admitted to the bar in Savannah in 1856, and soon took high rank in his profession. He was elected ilayor of the city in 1860. On the passage of the ordinance of secession in 1861, he entered the Confederate Army and served as lieutenant-colonel of artil- lery under Gen. .1. E. Johnston vmtil the close of the war. He then removed to Xew York, where he practiced law till 187". His publications in- clude: Historical Sketch of the Chatham Artil- lerij Durinci the Confederate Struggle for Inde- pendence ( 1867) : Reminiscences of the Last Days ot Gen. Harry Lee (1870) ; Antiquities of the Southern Indians (1873): Life of Commodore Josiah Tatnall (1878): History of Georgia (2 vols., 1SS3) : and English Colonization of Georgia (1887).

JONES, David Phillips (1841-1903). An American naval engineer, born in Philadelphia, Pa. After serving as resident engineer in the office of the Surveyor-General of Utah Territory, he entered the na-y in 1862 as third assistant engineer, and in 1862-63, on board the Cimerone, and later the Sangamon, participated in the operations on the James River, Virginia, and the Saint John's River, Florida. In 1864 he was pro- moted to be second assistant engineer, and on board the Mendota. of the James River division of the North Atlantic Squadron, was present at the battle of Bermuda Hundred. In 1867 he attained the rank of passed assistant engineer, and in 1889 that of chief engineer. During a leave of absence he was constructing engineer of the Saint Louis and Southeastern Railway, in 1874-79 was instructor in steam engineering at the United .States Xaval Academy, in which ca- pacity he organized the department of mechanical drawing for cadet engineers, and from 1885 to 1888 was on duty as professor of mechanical engi- neering at the Kansas Normal College. From 1889 until his retirement in 1892 he was at the I nited States Navy training station at Newport, E. I. During the Spanish-American War (1898) he was ordered to Pittsburg. Pa., as chief in- spector of steel for that district, and at the close of the war became a consulting engineer at Pitts- burg.

JONES, Ebenezer (1820-60). An English poet. Born in Islington. London, of poor parents, he escaped from their rigid Calvinism under the leadership of Robert Owen. Shelley, and Carlyle, and turned to verse-making as a relief from office toil. At the age of twenty-three he published his first volume of poems. Studies of Sensation and Event, which met even a worse reception than it deserved. The poet was soured in conse- quence, and took up radical journalism. He re- turned to the muse onl.y when chastened by do- mestic unhappiness and sick unto death, and gave evidence by his "Winter HjTun to the Snow," "When the World is Burning," and "To Death," of what he might have done had longer life been granted him.

JONES, Edward ('Babdt Bbexln"') (1752- 1824). A Welsh harpist and author, born at Llanderfel, in Merionethshire. He was an im- portant factor in the encouragement and develop- ment of Welsh minstrelsy, and devoted his entire life to the study of the harp. He first appeared in London in 1775, and. eight years later received the royal appointment of Bard to the Prince of Wales. His works include: Musical and Poetic Relics of the Welsh Bards ( 1784 and 1794) ; The Bardic Museum of Primitive British Literature, which contains over two hundred GJaelic melodies (1802); Lyric Airs Con.^isting of Specimens of Melodies of Greek, Albanian,Wallachian, Turkish, Persian, Chinese, and Moorish Melodies (1804) ; Cheshire Melodies (1803) ; The Musical Bouquet ( 1799). Other publications for which no definite dates can be assigned are: the Musical Miscel- lany; Terpsichore's Banquet : The Minstrel's Sere- nade; Maltese Melodies: The Musical Portfolio; Musical Remains of Handel, Bach, Abel, etc.; and A Collection of Melodies for Beginners on the Harp. He died in London.

JONES, Ernest Charles (1819-68). An Eng- lish orator, poet, and politician. He was born in Berlin, and studied at Luneburg and Gottingen. He was called to the bar in 1844, and two years afterwards became deeply interested in the Chart- ist progiamme. He edited the Laborer and the Northern Star, defended O'Connor, and soon after broke with him as his own plans became more radical and revolutionary. Jones urged a provisional Government, and was elected as one of its members by the Chartists. His speeches in ilay. 1848, counseled forcible attack on the es- tablished order, and he was imprisoned for two years. He adhered to Chartism after all others had forsaken it. Jones was a persuasive and brilliant orator. His prose had little worth, but his verse was marked by a true lyric gift. He wrote: The Wood Spirit (184i): Woman's Wrongs (1855): and other tales: and the po- litical verse: The Battle Day (1855), which was highly praised by Landor; The Song of the Loiter Classes (1856); and The Song of Democracy (1857).

JONES, Henry Clary (1865—). An Ameri- can physicist, born in New London, Md.. and educated at Johns Hopkins, at Leipzig, Amster- dam, and Stockholm. He became associate pro- fessor of physical chemistry at Johns Hopkins, and wrote: Freezing Point. Boiling Point, and Conductivity Methods (1897) : Modern Theori/ of Solutions (1898) ; Beltz's Practical Method of Determining Molecular Weights (1899) : Theory of Electrolytic Dissociation (1900): and Prin- ciples of Inorganic Chemistry (1903). JONES, He.vky ( 1721-70). An Irish poet and dramatist, born at Beaulieu. near Drogheda, County Louth. He was a bricklayer by trade, but he pushed his way into literary circles through his flattery of influential men, while his ability to write complimentary verses stood him in good stead with the landladies who accepted