JONES
JONES
principal of the Guthrie County high school,
Panora, Iowa, 1879-83 ; and of the West Des
Moines high school, Iowa, 1883-86. He travelled
and studied, 1886-87 ; was professor of literature
in the Illinois State Normal university, 1887-91 ;
travelled in Europe and studied at Oxford,
Munich, and Heidelberg, 1891-94, receiving the
degree of Ph.D. from the University of Heidel-
berg in 1893 ; was professor of literature at
Swarthmoi^e college. Pa., 1894-96; inspector of
literature for the University of the State of New
York, 1896-98 ; professor of literature at the
Syracuse university, 1898-99, and accepted the
chair of literature at Vanderbilt university, Nash-
ville, Tenn., in 1899. He was interested in the
pedagogical features of the teaching of literature
and the discipline derived from its study, and
made several trips abroad, visiting most of the
universities of Germany in order to learn their
purpose and method in the teaching of German
literature. He was elected in 1894 a member of
the Goethe-Gesellschaft, Weimar, Germany, and
of the English Goethe society, London. He is
the author of : The Groivth of the Idylls of the
King (1895) ; The Arthurian Legends (1896) : College-
Entrance English (1897) ; edited Macbeth, Julius
Ccesar and other Shaksperean plays and contrib-
uted articles to American, English, and German
magazines.
JONES, Richard Channing, educator, was born in Brunswick county, Va., April 12, 1841 ; son of John Cargill and Mary Ann (Walker) Jones ; grandson of John and Lucy (Cargill) Jones and of Edw^ard and Mary (Warburton) Walker. He was taken to Camden, Ala., by his parents in 1844 ; was graduated from the Univer- sity of Alabama in 1859 and was admitted to tlie bar in 1861. He served in the Confederate army during the civil war, as line and staff officer. He was married, Oct. 19, 1864, to Stella H., daughter of Major Frank Boy kin, of Camden, Ala. He resumed the practice of law at Camden, Ala., after the war, and in 1877 was appointed by Governor George S. Houston, brigadier-general of Alabama state troops ; was state senator, sessions of 1882-83 and 1884-85, and w-as tenth president of the University of Alabama and professor of international and constitutional law there, 1890-97, when he resigned to practise law at Camden, Ala. He was president of the Alabama State Bar association in 1896. He received the degree of LL.D. from the Univer- sity of Alabama in 1891.
JONES, Richard Watson, educator, was born in Greenesville county, Va., May 16, 1837 ; son of Mordecai and Martha Randolph (Grigg) Jones ; grandson of John and Nancy (Young) Jones and of Randolph and Martha (Jordan) Grigg; great- grandson of Francis and Elizabeth (Burnett)
Young. The Joneses emigrated from Wales and
the Youngs from England, and both settled in
eastern Virginia. Francis Young served as an
officer under General Braddock, and was noted
during the Revolution, serving a part of the time
as commissary to General Wills. Richard Wat-
son Jones attended an academy in Hicksford, Va.,
and was graduated from Randolph-Macon college,
A.B., 1857, A.M., 1860, and from the University
of Virginia, A.M., 1861. Soon after this he en-
tered the Confederate army, first as a private, and
was promoted from time to time. He surrendered
his regiment, the 12th Virginia, at Appomattox
in April, 1865. He was professor of mathematics
in Randolph-Macon college, 1866-68 ; president of
Petersburg Female college, 1868-71 ; president of
Martha Washington college, Abingdon, Va., 1871-
76 ; professor of chemistry in the University of
Mississippi, 1876-85 ; first president of the Missis-
sippi Industrial Institute and College, 1885-88,
and returned to the professorship of chemistry in
the University of Mississippi in 1889. The honor-
ary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by
Mississippi college in 1881. He was elected a
member of the American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science in 1877 ; the American In-
stitute of Christian Philosophy in 1881 ; the
American Chemical society in 1889, and the Vic-
toria institute, England, about 1880. He was
married, Jan. 6, 1864, to Elizabeth Susan Spratley,
and of their sons, Richard W. became president
of the American National bank of Kansas City,
Mo. ; Garland M. entered the practice of law in
Kansas City ; C. Randolph w^as made vice-presi-
dent of the Webb City bank, Mo., and Stew^art M.
became president of the Bank of Commerce at
Pauls Valley, Ind. Ter. He is the author of pam-
phlets on the cotton army worm, also on the bull
worm, published by the U.S. entomological com-
mission ; of various other scientific articles and
addresses before teachers' associations ; and was
associate editor of the People's Eucyclojxedia,
1880-81.
JONES, Robert Ellis, educator, was born in New York city, March 18, 1858 ; son of Eleazer and Anna (Parry) Jones, and grandson of Thomas Penrhyn Jones. He was graduated from Wil- liams college, A.B., 1879 ; attended Virginia Theo- logical seminary, 1879-80, and was topographer of the U.S. geological survey, 1880-82. He was made deacon in the Protestant Episcopal church at Plymouth, Mass., by Bishop Paddock in 1883, and ordained priest at St. Luke's church, Kalamazoo, Mich., by Bishop Gillispie in 1884. He was rector of St. John's church, Williams- town, Mass., 1882-84; St. Luke's church, Kala- mazoo, Mich., 1884-89, and a member of the standing committee and dean of the convocation of the diocese of Western Michigan, 1885-89 ; rec-
