JONES
JONES
and at the close of the war went back to his
plantation, where he remained until 1873, when
be entered on the practice of law in Hempstead
county, Ark. He was
state senator, 1873-79,
and was president
of the senate, 1877-
79. He was Demo-
cratic representative
from Arkansas in the
47th, 48th and 49th
congresses, 1881-87,
and was elected to
the U.S. senate as a
Democrat to succeed
James D. Walker,
Democrat, taking his
seat, March 4, 1885.
He was re-elected in
1890 and 1897, and
was chairman of the Democratic national com-
mittee, conducting the presidential campaigns
of 1896 and 1900.
JONES, Jehu QIancy, diplomatist, was born in Berks county, Pa., Oct. 7, 1811; son of Jehu and Sarah (Glancy) Jones; grandson of Col. Jonathan and Margaret (Davis) Jones and great- grandson of David Jones, a native of Merioneth- shire, Wales. He was educated at Kenyon college, Ohio, and was ordained to the ministry of the P.E. church. Subsequent- ly lie was admitted to the bar and was deputy attorney-gen- eral of Berks county, Pa., 1847-49, and a representative in the 32d, 33d, 34th, 35th congresses, 1851-58, serving as chairman of the committee on ways and means. He resigned his seat in congress in 1858 to accept the position of U.S. minister to Austria, hav- ing in 1857 declined the mission to Berlin. He represented the United States at Vienna, until 1863, wlien he resumed the practice of law in Reading, Pa. He was married, June 23, 1832, to Anna, daughter of the Hon. William and Esther (West) Rodman, of Bucks county, and their son, Charles Henry Jones, lawyer, was collector of the port of Philadelphia. Jehu Glancy Jones died in Reading, Pa., March 24, 1878.
JONES, Jenkin Lloyd, clergyman, was born at Llandyssil, Cardiganshire, South Wales, Nov. 14, 1843; son of Richard and Mary (Griffith)
Jones. He immigrated to America with his
parents and settled in Wisconsin in 1845. He
worked on a farm until 1862, when he enlisted in
the 6th Wisconsin
battery and served as
a private until 1865.
He was graduated
from the Meadville
Theological school.
Pa., in 1870, and was
pastor at Janesville,
Wis., 1872-80, and
of All Souls church,
Chicago, from 1882.
He organized and
was first secretary
of the Western Uni-
tarian Sunday-school
society in 1873; was
secretary of the Wes-
tern Unitarian conference, 1875-84; established,
with others. Unity, a weekly paper, in 1878,
of which he became leading editor in 1879,
and which became the organ of the Liberal
Congress of Religions in 1894. He also be-
came a lecturer on English on the university ex-
tension department of the University of Cliicago,
and president of the Tower Hill Summer School
of Literature and Religion at Hillside, Wis. He
was secretary of the World's Parliament of Relig-
ions in 1893; and was elected general secretary
of the Liberal Congress of Religion. He was
president of the Illinois state conference of char-
ities, 1897-98, and founder and first president of
the Chicago Browning society. He is the author
of: The Faith that Makes Faithful (1886); Prac-
tical Piety (1890); The Seven Great Religions
(1894); Word of the Spirit (1897); Jess; Bits of
Wayside Gospel (1899); and edited Tlw Chorus of
Faith: An Epitome of the Parliament of Religio)Ls
(1893); A Search for an Infidel (1901) .
JONES, Joel, jurist, was born in Coventry, Conn., Oct. 25, 1795. He removed to Hebron, Conn., in 1810, and engaged in business with his uncle. He was graduated from Yale in 1817, studied law with Judge Bristol, of New Haven, Conn., and at the law school of Litchfield, Conn. He removed to Wilkes Barre, Pa., and in 1822 settled in Easton, where he establislied a large practice, and where he was one of the founders of Lafayette college. He was appointed, by Gov- ernor Wolf, one of the commissioners to revise the civil code of Pennsylvania. He removed to Philadelphia in 1834; was elected associate judge in 1835 and afterward presiding judge of the dis- trict court. He was the first president of Girard college, 1847-49, and mayor of Philadelphia in 1849. He is the autlior of: Reports of a Commis- sion to Revise the Civil Code of Pennsylvania; A
