JENKINS, Micah, soldier, b. on Edisto island, S. C, in 1836; d. in the Wilderness, Va., 6 May, 1864. He was graduated at South Carolina military institute in 1854, and established a private military school at Yorkville, S. C, in 1855. He was elected colonel of the 5th South Carolina regiment at the opening of the civil war and reorganized it at the end of its year's enlistment as Jenkins's palmetto sharp-shooters. He led a brigade in the seven days' battles around Richmond, and, after Gaines's Mills and Prazer's Farm, brought out his sharp-shooters, originally numbering more than 1,000, with but 125 men, his personal aide having been shot at his side, and his hat and clothing pierced by seventeen bullets. He was promoted to brigadier-general, and was present at the second battle of Bull Run, where he was severely wounded and where two of his colonels and his adjutant-general were killed. In the spring of 1863 he led a corps of observation on the Blackwater, near Richmond and Petersburg. In September following he went to Georgia with Longstreet, but was too late for the battle of Chickamauga. He then commanded Horn's division and accompanied Longstreet to Tennessee. He moved thence in the spring to Virginia, where he met his death, from his own men by mistake at night, on the second day of Grant's advance through the Wilderness.
JENNINGS, Francis, hymnologist, b. at Melksham, Wiltshire, England, 3 Nov., 1808. His father, William, was in the cloth trade, and afterward in the British army. Until Francis was seven years old he attended "a dame's school," and he was then put to work in a cloth-factory and a rope-yard. At last he was employed by a physician and learned to write. In 1842 he came to the United States and settled in Philadelphia. He has become one of the most thorough hymnologists in America. In 1871 the "Baptist Hymn-Book" was published, and he prepared for it a biographical index, giving the names, dates of birth, and death of the authors and their birthplaces, and also the time when the hymns were first printed. His first collection of hymn-books, numbering 300 volumes, belongs to the Baptist publication society; his second, of 600 volumes, he gave to the Baptist historical society. Besides numerous contributions to various papers and magazines, he wrote "Hymns, and other Poems" (Philadelphia, 1864).
JOHNSTON, James Steptoe, P. E. bishop, b. in Church Hill, Jefferson co., Miss., 9 June, 1843. He was educated at the University of Virginia, left that institution to join the Confederate army, and fought through the civil war, becoming a lieutenant in Gen. James E. B. Stuart's cavalry. He was admitted to the bar in 1868, but received holy orders in the following year, taking charge of St. James' church at Port Gibson, Miss., till 1876, and then for four years of the church of the Ascension, in Mount Sterling, Ky., after which he became rector of Trinity parish, Mobile, Ala. On 28 Oct., 1887, he was elected to the office of missionary bishop of western Texas, and on 6 Jan., 1888, he was consecrated in Mobile.
JONES, Patrick Henry, lawyer, b. in Westmeath, Ireland, 20 Nov., 1830. He came to this country in 1840, attended the common schools, worked on his father's farm in Cattaraugus county, N. Y., and then read law at Ellicottville. He was admitted to the bar in May, 1856, and practised at that place till the opening of the civil war, when he entered the 37th New York regiment as 2d lieutenant, 7 June, 1861. He was promoted to adjutant and then major of that regiment, and was made colonel of the 154th New York regiment on 9 Oct., 1862. He was wounded and taken prisoner at Chancellorsville, and after his exchange in October, 1863, served in the west and in the Atlanta campaign, and on 6 June, 1864, was assigned command of a brigade, at whose head he continued until the close of the war. He was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers, 4 Dec, 1864, and on 27 June, 1865, resigned and returned to the practice of his profession at Ellicottville. In 1865 he was elected clerk of the court of appeals of the state, and at the close of his three years' term he removed to New York city. On 1 April, 1869, he was appointed postmaster of New York, and he served as such during the first presidential term of Gen. Grant, after which he resigned and resumed the practice of law in that city. In 1874 he was elected register of New York, and, after serving his term of three years, returned to his profession, in the practice of which he is still engaged.
JONES, Roger, soldier, b. in Washington, D. C, 25 Feb., 1831. He is a son of Gen. Roger Jones (vol. iii., p. 470). He was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1851, served on the Texas frontier and in New Mexico, and at the beginning of the civil war was on duty at Harper's Ferry, where he destroyed the arsenal with 20,000 stand of arms, when it was seized by Virginia state troops on 18 April, 1861—for which act, done in the face of the enemy, he received the thanks of the government. He was appointed captain and assistant quartermaster on 22 April, and as such served in the office of the quartermaster-general of the Army of the Potomac, and on 12 Nov. was made a major on the staff and assigned to special duty as assistant inspector-general. He was attached to Gen. John Pope's staff for two months in 1862, when he was relieved, and was awaiting orders and on miscellaneous duty till December, 1865. From 1866 till 1876 he served as inspector-general of the Division of the Pacific. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel on 13 June, 1867, assigned to duty in the inspector-general's office at Washington on 15 Jan., 1877, became a colonel on 5 Feb., 1885, afterward acted as inspector-general of the Division of the Atlantic on Governor's island, and in August, 1888, was made brigadier-general and inspector-general of the army.
JONES, Samuel, clergyman, b. in Bettws parish, Glamorganshire, South Wales, 14 Jan., 1735; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 7 Feb., 1814. He was a son of Rev. Thomas Jones, who brought him to Philadelphia, 22 July, 1737. In 1738 Thomas, with a small colony of Welsh Baptists, founded the Tulpehoken Baptist church, Berks county, where he labored for many years. Samuel was graduated at the College of Philadelphia in 1762, and was ordained as a Baptist minister, 8 Jan., 1763. He became pastor of the Southampton and Pennepek (now Lower Dublin) churches, but in 1770 devoted his whole time to Pennepek, where he remained until his death in 1814. For many years he also conducted an academy. In 1769 Brown conferred on him the degree of A. M., and in 1786 that of D. D., which latter was also granted him in 1788 by the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Jones was one of the most active members of the Philadelphia Baptist association, and when it was incorporated in 1797 he was chosen president of the board of trustees, remaining so during his life. He was the author of "The Doctrine of the Covenants" (Philadelphia, 1783); "A Treatise on Church Discipline" (1797); "A Selection of Psalms and Hymns" (Burlington, N. J., 1800); "A Brief History of the Imposition of Hands on Baptized Persons" (Philadelphia, 1804); and "A Century Sermon before the Philadelphia Baptist Association" (1807).
