April, 1822. He was a carpenter in his youth, but entered the Revolutionary array in 1775 as a cap- tain in Lippett's Rhode Island regiment. He after- ward commanded a marine corps on a National frigate, and was made prisoner at Charleston, S. C. After the war he engaged in business at Providence, was for several years a representative in the state assembly, and served as its speaker. He was gov- ernor of the state from 1811 till 1817.
JONES, William, statesman, b. in Philadelphia,
Pa., in 1760; d. in Bethlehem, Pa., 5 Sept., 1831.
He joined a volunteer company at the age of six-
teen, and was present at the battles of Trenton and
Princeton. Afterward he entered the Continental
naval service, and served gallantly under Com.
Truxtun on James river, when that officer encoun-
tered and beat off a British ship of superior force.
He then entered the merchant service, but in 1790-'3
lived in Charleston, S. C. He returned to Phila-
delphia in the latter year, and was elected to con-
gess as a Democrat, serving one term in 1801-'3.
e was secretary of the navy from 12 Jan., 1813,
to 7 Dec, 1814, and afterward served as president
of the U. S. bank and collector of the port of Phila-
delphia. He was a member of the American philo-
sophical society, and published " Winter Naviga-
tion on the Delaware " (Philadelphia, 1822).
JONES, William Edmondson, soldier, b. near
Glade Spring, Washington co., Va., in May, 1824 ;
d. near New Hope, Augusta co., Va., 5 June, 1864.
He was educated at Emory and Henry college, and
at the U. S. military academy, where he was gradu-
ated in 1848. He was assigned to the mounted
rifles, and served in various frontier posts till 26
Jan., 1857, when he resigned, and, after travelling
abroad, became a farmer near Glade Spring, Va.
He entered the Confederate army as captain, and
on 28 Sept., 1861, became colonel of the 1st Vir-
ginia cavalry. He was promoted to brigadier-gen-
eral on 19 Sept., 1862, and in the winter of 1862-3
commanded the Department of the Valley of Vir-
ginia. He was made major-general in 1863, and
then had charge of southwestern Virginia and
eastern Tennessee till he was ordered back to the
valley of Virginia to meet Gen. Hunter. He was
killed in an action with the forces of that general.
JONES, William Palmer, physician, b. in
Adair county, Ky., 17 Oct., 1819. He attended the
Louisville medical institute in 1839-'40, and subse-
quently received diplomas from the Medical college
of Ohio, and Memphis medical college. He re-
moved to Nashville, Tenn., in 1848, and has since
been a resident of that city. He established the
" Parlor Visitor " in 1852, was an editor of the
"Southern Journal of Medicine" for several years
after 1853, and in 1874 was associate editor of the
"Tennessee School Journal." He aided in found-
ing Shelby medical college in 1858, and filled its
chair of materia medica, and in 1876 became presi-
dent of Nashville medical college, and professor of
psychological medicine and mental hygiene. He
was in charge of the first military hospital in Nash-
ville on the arrival of the National forces in the
state, and in 1862 became superintendent of the
Tennessee hospital for the insane, one of the first
institutions of the kind for colored people on the
continent. As a member of the state senate he in-
troduced the public-school law, which provides
equal educational advantages for children of all
races. In 1877 he became postmaster of Nashville.
He has contributed to current medical literature,
chiefly on the treatment of the insane.
JORDAENS, Mauritius (zhor-dah'-ains), Dutch
physician, b. in Surinam in 1762; d. there in 1824.
He served as a military surgeon in Saint Eustache,
Java, and Sumatra, and in 1797 was appointed
president of the board of health of Dutch Guiana,
which post he held till his death, refusing in 1816
the presidency of the University of Leyden. His
medical publications on the diseases peculiar to
America include " Von der Wasserscheu oder der
tollen Hundswuth, nebst den bewaehrtesten Mit-
teln, diesem Ungluck zu begegnen " (2 vols., Am-
sterdam and Leipsic, 1806) ; " Des maladies pesti-
lentielles " (Amsterdam, 1809) ; " Traite de la fievre
jaune" (Surinam, 1810); "Thesaurus artis medici-
nae " (Amsterdam, 1819).
JORDAENS, Melchior, Dutch physician, b. in
Leyden in 1751 ; d. in Dort in 1829. " He entered
the service of the company of the Indies, and was
for several years surgeon in Batavia, and after-
ward in Surinam. He became deputy lieutenant-
governor of the island of Saint Eustache in 1783,
president of the board of health in Dutch Guiana in
1792, and deputy lieutenant-governor of Surinam
in 1795, which post he held till 1806, when he retired
to Dart. Jordaens not only promoted many sani-
tary measures in Guiana, but greatly exerted him-
self in improving the country, drying some former-
ly inundated lands, encouraging emigration from
Europe, and obtaining from the home government
the decree of homestead that brought the country
to the prosperity it enjoyed at the beginning of
the 19th century. Napoleon appointed Jordaens
chief surgeon of the kingdom of Westphalia in
1809. and afterward president of the board of
health of Hamburg, which post he held till 1813.
He then retired again to Dart, which he never left
afterward. Jordaens is the author of many trea-
tises, some of which are yet consulted. Those
relating to America include " Guianaland, geo-
gnostisch und geologisch dargestellt " (2 vols.. Ham-
burg, 1811); " Geognostische Bemerkungen iiber
die basaltischen Gebilde des westlichen Guiana-
landes" (2 vols.. Leipsic and Dort, 1816).
JORDAN. Ambrose Latting, lawyer, b. in
Hillsdale, Columbia co., N. Y., in 1791 ; d. in New
York city, 16 July. 1865. He began the practice
of law in Cooperstown, N. Y., in 1813, and in 1820
removed to Hudson, N. Y., where he remained in
business until he settled in New York city in 1838.
He attained eminence as a lawyer, was a member
of the assembly, a state senator, judge of the court
of appeals, and attornev-general of the state.
JORDAN, Conrad N., banker, b. in New York
city. 20 April. 1830. He studied in private schools
until e was thirteen years of age. and then, enter-
ing a printing-office, learned the trade and became
a compositor, which occupation he followed until
1852. Tie then was appointed clerk in the Hanover
bank of New York, and in 1864 was made cashier
of the Third national bank of that city. In 1880
he became treasurer of the New York, Ontario, and
Western railroad, but resigned in 1884, and in 1885
was appointed assistant treasurer of the United
States, which office he resigned in 1887 to accept
the post of vice-president of the Western national
bank in New York city. In July of that year he de-
vised a new form of silver bullion certificate, which
was issued and put on the market by the bank.
JORDAN, Cornelia Jane Matthews, poet, b. in Lvnchburg, Va., 11 Jan., 1830. She is the daughter of Edwin Matthews, who was at one time mayor of Lynchburg. Miss Matthews received her education at the Academy of the visitation in Georgetown, D. C., and in "1851 she married Francis H. Jordan, of Page county, Va. In 1863 she visited
Corinth, Miss., where her husband held a staff appointment under Gen. Beauregard, and where she wrote her poem " f«iM«t.h " This was seized on Corinth." This was seized on
