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Bliss (FREDERICK JONES an American)

FREDERICK JONES, an American explorer, born in Mt. Lebanon, Syria, Jan. 23, 1859; son of Daniel Bliss; was graduated at Amherst College in 1880, and at the Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1887; was principal of the preparatory department of the Syrian Protestant College of Beirut for three years; was appointed Explorer to the Palestine Exploration Fund in 1890, and is best known for his excavations and finds in Jerusalem in 1894-1897, and again in 1898-1900. From 1911 to 1914 he was dean for men at the University of Rochester. He was a member of the committee appointed by General Allenby to report on the condition of buried ancient buildings in Syria and Palestine in 1919. He has published sented the United States at the sessions of the Inter-Allied war conferences, and in 1919 was one of the American delegates to the Peace Conference at Paris.