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
