Sirams (1845) ; James Hamilton (1848). See also " Paul Jones, der kiihne Seemann " (Leipsic, 1828).
JONES, John Percival, senator, b. in Hay,
Brecon co., Wales, in 1830. Before he was a year
old his parents came with him to the United States
and settled in northern Ohio. He attended the
public schools in Cleveland for a few years, and in
1849 went to California and engaged in mining
and farming in Tuolumne county. Subsequently
he was sheriff of the county, and was several times
its representative in the legislature. In 1867 he
was an unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant-
fovernor of California, and the same year went to
levada, where he engaged in mining and became
wealthy. He succeeded James Nye as U. S. sena-
tor from Nevada, took his seat, 4 March, 1873, and
has been twice re-elected. His term of service will
expire on 3 March, 1891. He made a notable
speech on the inflation bill in 1874.
JONES, John Pringle, jurist, b. near Newton,
Berks co., Pa., in 1812 ; d. in London, England, 16
March, 1874. He was graduated at Princeton
in 1831, studied law, and was admitted to the bar
of Philadelphia in 1834, afterward settling in prac-
tice in Reading, Pa. He was appointed in 1839
deputy attorney-general for Berks county, and on
15 March, 1847, presiding judge of the 3d judicial
district. Under the elective judiciary system of
1851 he was elected president of the Berks county
courts for the term of ten years, at the expiration
of which time he devoted himself to literature.
In 1867, on the death of Judge Maynard, of the
3d judicial district. Judge Jones was appointed
his successor for the unexpired term. In 1872 he
travelled in Europe, and was on his way home
when he died. He was the author of " Eulogy on
A. Laussat " (Philadelphia, 1834) ; and volumes xi.
and xii. of " Pennsylvania State Reports " (1850-'2).
JONES, John Sills, soldier, b. in Champaign
county, Ohio, 12 Feb., 1836. He was graduated at
Ohio Wesleyan university in 1855, studied law, and
was admitted to the bar in 1857. He was elected
Erosecuting attorney for Delaware county in 1860,
ut resigned in 1861, and enlisted as a private in
the National army. He served with distinction
throughout the war, rising to the colonelcy of the
174th Ohio regiment, and on 27 June, 1865, he was
brevetted brigadier - general of volunteers. In
1866 he was elected mayor of Delaware, Ohio, and
was prosecuting attorney of Delaware county,
1866-71, when he declined renomination. He was
a member of the board of managers of the Ohio
soldiers' and sailors' qrphans' home from 1870 till
1874, and was a trustee of Wesleyan female college
at Delaware from 1865 till 1875. He was a presi-
dential elector in 1872, and was afterward elected
to congress as a Republican, serving from 15 Oct.,
1877, till 4 March, 1879. He was elected a mem-
ber of the legislature of Ohio in 1879, re-elected in
1881, and was chairman of the judiciary committee
of the house. He became a trustee of the Ohio
soldiers' and sailors' orphan home in 1887.
JONES, John Taylor, missionary, b. in New
Ipswich, N. H„ 16 July, 1802; d. in Bangkok,
Siam, 13 Sept., 1851. He was graduated at Am-
herst in 1825. studied theology at Andover and
Newton seminaries, and was ordained a Baptist
missionary to Burmah on 28 July, 1830. Having
first acquired the Taling and Siamese languages,
he left Burmah for Siam, and reached Bangkok in
April, 1833. He visited the United States twice
subsequently, and was eminently successful as a
missionary. Columbian college gave him the de-
gree of D. D. in 1850. Dr. Jones published tracts
in Siamese (1834) ; " Brief Grammatical Notices of
the Siamese Language" (1842); and a Siamese
translation of the New Testament (1843).
JONES, John Winston, member of congress,
b. in Chesterfield, Va., 22 Nov., 1791 ; d. 29 Jan.,
1848. He was graduated at William and Mary in
1803, and was elected a representative from Vir-
ginia in congress, serving bv successive elections
from 7 Dec., 1835, till 3 March, 1845, when he de-
clined another re-election. He was speaker of the
house during his last term.
JONES, John W., physician, b. in Montgomery
county, Md., 14 April, 1806; d. in Atlanta, Ga.,
in 1872. When a boy he removed with his parents
to Kentucky. He was graduated in medicine at
Jefferson college, Philadelphia, subsequently prac-
tised in Griffin, Ga., and, after becoming a mem-
ber of the legislature, was elected a representative
in congress, and served from 6 Dec, 1847, till 3
March, 1849. He afterward removed to Alabama
and engaged in planting, but returned to Georgia
and was a professor in the State medical college.
JONES, Joseph, member of the Continental
congress, b. in Virginia in 1727; d. there, 28 Oct.,
1805. He was a member of the house of burgesses
from King George county, served on the committee
of safety in 1775 and in the convention of 1776,
and represented Virginia in the Continental con-
gress in 1778-'9 and 1780-'3. He was appointed
judge of the general court on 23 Jan., 1778, but re-
signed in October, 1779. He was reappointed to the
same court, 19 Nov., 1789, was a member of the
convention of 1788, and a major-general of Virginia
militia. He was a friend of Washington, and had
a correspondence with him relative to the limita-
tion of the power of congress by the several states
in 1780. In June, 1783, a proposition had been
made in the Virginia legislature to revoke the re-
lease to the United States of the territory north-
west of the Ohio river, but through the opposition
of Mr. Jones it was rejected, and the legislature
was induced to conform to the wishes of congress.
— His sister, Elizabeth, married Spence Monroe,
and became the mother of James Monroe, presi-
dent of the United States.
JONES, Joseph Seawell, author, b. probably
in North Carolina about 1811 ; d. in 1855. He
was graduated at the Harvard law-school in 1833,
and was the author of " A Defence of the Revolu-
tionary History of North Carolina" (1834), and
" Memorials of North Carolina " (1838).
JONES, Joseph Stevens, play-writer, b. in
1811 ; d. in Boston, Mass., 30 Dec, 1877. Early in
life he became an actor, and was at different times
proprietor and manager of the Old National, Tre-
mont, and other theatres in Boston. In 1843 he
was graduated at the Harvard medical-school, and
held the place of city physician for several years.
He wrote about 200 plays; the most popular
among them were "Solon Shingle," "Eugene
Aram," " The Liberty Tree," " The Fire Warrior,"
" The Siege of Boston," " Moll Pitcher," " Stephen
Burroughs," "The Carpenter of Rouen," with its
sequel in " The Surgeon of Paris, or the Mask of
the Huguenots," "Job and Jacob Gray," "The
Last Dollar," " The People's Lawyer," " The Sons
of the Cape," "Zofara,' "Captain Lascar," and
"Paul Revere." "The Silver Spoon," in which
William Warren, of the Boston museum, made his
great success as Jefferson Scattering Batkins, was
revived at that theatre through many seasons.
He also dramatized " The Three Experiments of
Living," by Mrs. Hannah F. Lee.
JONES, Leonard Augustus, author, b. in Templeton, Worcester co., Mass., 13 Jan.. 1832. He was graduated at Harvard in 1855, and at the
