JONES, Amanda Theodosia, author, b. in East Bloomfield, Ontario co.. N. Y., 19 Oct., 1835. She was educated in the public schools, began to teach at fifteen years of age, and contributed her first literary work in 1854 to the " Ladies' Repository," a Methodist magazine. During the civil war she wrote several war-songs that were widely circu- lated. She was associate editor of the " Universe," a Chicago journal, in 1869, was subsequently con- lected with the " Western Rural," and in 1870 be- came editor of " The Bright Side," a juvenile reekly. Since 1873 she has partially given up literary work, and engaged in inventing. She has aublished several volumes of verses, including "Ulah, and Other Poems " (Buffalo, N. Y., 1860) ; "Atlantis, and Other Poems" (1866); and "A Prairie Idyl, and Other Poems" (Chicago, 1882).
JONES, Anson, president of Texas, b. in Great
Barrington, Mass., 20 Jan., 1798 ; d. in Houston,
Texas, 8 Jan., 1858. He studied medicine in Litch-
field, Conn., was licensed to practise in 1820, and
after residing successively in Philadelphia, New
Orleans, and in South America, he went to Texas and
settled in Brazoria county in 1833. As chairman
of a mass-meeting that was held there in Decem-
ber, 1835, he drew up resolutions in favor of a
declaration of independence, and of a convention
of the people of Texas to form a constitution. He
afterward raised a military company, with which
he was engaged in the battle of San Jacinto, was
judge-advocate-general, held several other military
commissions in 1836-'7, and in the last year was a
member of the Texas congress. He was minister
from Texas to the IT. S. government in 1837-'9,
President of the senate and ex-officio viee-presi-
ent of the republic in 1840, secretary of state in
1841-'4, and president from 1845 till the annexa-
tion of Texas to the United States. His earnest
opposition to this measure greatly affected his
gipularity, and destroyed his political influence,
is reason became unsettled, and in a fit of insan-
ity he died by his own hand. The county of Jones,
Texas, and its court-house, Anson, are named in his
honor. His journal, preceded by a brief autobi-
ography, was printed privately in 1859.
JONES, Catlit, pioneer, b. in Virginia about
1750 ; d. in Columbiana county, Ohio, in 1829. He
accompanied Daniel Boone to Kentucky, was one
of the twelve settlers that rescued the daughter of
Boone, who had been captured by Indians, and
while guarding the " corn-patch " with Boone was
severely wounded. After serving throughout the
Revolution, he joined the Society of Friends, be-
came a preacher, and in 1801 emigrated to Ohio.
JONES, Charles A., poet. b. in Philadelphia,
Pa., about 1815 ; d. in Mill Creek, Hamilton co.,
Ohio, 4 July, 1851. He removed with his parents
to Cincinnati in childhood, and contributed to the
press at an early age. His first articles, a series of
satirical lyrics, appeared in the Cincinnati " Ga-
zette," under the title of " Aristohaniana." After
studying law he removed to Louisiana, and prac-
tised in New Orleans. He published " The Out-
law " (Cincinnati, 1835).
JONES, Charles Colcock, clergvman, b. in Lib-
erty county, Ga., 20 Dec, 1804 ; d. there, 16 March,
1863. He was educated at Andover and Princeton
theological seminaries, was licensed to preach in
1830, and in 1831 became pastor of the 1st Pres-
byterian church of Savannah. Ga. In 1832 he re-
turned to Liberty county and devoted himself to
the education of the negro race. He was professor
of church history and polity in Columbia seminary,
S. C, in 1835-'8, returned to missionary work in
1839, and was again professor in this institution in
1847-50. He then removed to Philadelphia, and
was secretary of the board of domestic missions of
the Presbyterian church until failure of health
necessitated his return to Georgia in 1857. Besides
many tracts and papers, he published " Religious
Instruction for Negroes in the Southern States"
(Savannah, 1837) ; " Suggestions on the Instruction
of Negroes in the South " (1855) ; and a " History
of the Church of God," edited by his eldest son,
Charles (New York, 1867).— His son, Charles Col-
cock, lawyer, b. in Savannah, Ga., 28 Oct., 1831,
was graduated at Princeton in 1852, and at the Har-
vard law-school in 1855. Returning to Savannah,
Ga., he was admitted to the bar the next year, and
practised his profession, holding the office of
mayor in 1860-'l. He joined the Confederate
army in 1862, and served as colonel of artillery,
surrendering with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston in
April, 1865. Mr. Jones removed to New York city
in 1866, practised law there ten years, and, return-
ing to Georgia in 1876, settled in Augusta. He
has devoted much time and research to the his-
tory of his state and that of the antiquities of
southern Indians, and his archaeological and his-
torical collections are of interest and value. He
received the degree of LL. D. from the Uni-
versity of New York in 1880, and from Oxford
university, Ga.. in 1882. Since 1879 he has been
president of the Confederate survivors' associa-
tion of Augusta. He has published, besides
many papers on historical and scientific subjects,
"Monumental Remains of Georgia" (Savannah,
1861); "Historical Sketch of the Chatham Ar-
tillery during the Confederate Struggle for In-
dependence " (Albany, N. Y., 1867) ; " Historical
Sketch of Tomo-chi-ehi, Mico of the Yamacraws"
(1868) ; '" Reminiscences of the Last Days of Gen.
Henry Lee" (1870); "Antiquities of the Southern
Indians" (New York, 1873): "Siege of Savannah
in 1779" (Albanv, 1874); "Life of Commodore
Josiah Tatnall" (Savannah, 1878); "Dead Towns
of Georgia" (1878); "Hernando de Soto and his
March through Georgia " (1880) ; " Memoir of Jean
Pierre Purrv" (Augusta, Ga., 1880); "History of
Georgia" (2 vols., Boston and New York. 1883);
"Life, Labors, and Neglected Grave of Richard
Henry Wilde " (1885) ; " Nine Annual Addresses
before the Confederate Survivors' Association of
Augusta, Ga." (1879-87); and has edited, besides,
his father's "History of the Church of God";
"Acts passed by the General Assembly of the
Colony of Georgia from 1755 till 1774" (Wormsloe,
Ga., 1881) : and " Journal of the Transactions of the
Trustees of the Colony of Georgia by Rt. Hon.
John, Earl of Egmont" (1886). — Another son,
Joseph, physician, b. in Liberty county. Ga., 6
Sept., 1833. was graduated at Princeton in 1853,
and at the medical department of the University
of Pennsylvania in 1855. He was professor of
chemistry in the Medical college of Savannah, Ga.,
in 1856-'7,of natural philosophy in the University
of Georgia in 1858. of chemistry in the Medical
college of Georgia. Augusta, in 1859-*65, and also a
surgeon in the Confederate army. In 1866-'8 he
was professor of medicine in the University of
Nashville, and since 1869 has been professor of
chemistry and clinical medicine in Tulane uni-
versitv. New Orleans, La. He was president of the
boardof health of the state of Louisiana in 1880-'4.
and is now (1887) president of the Louisiana state
medical society. Dr. Jones has devoted his life to
the investigation of the causes and prevention of
disease in civil and rmlitary hospitals, as well as
in private practice, and while president of the
board of health was successful in excluding yellow
