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Ford (HENRY JONES an American)

HENRY JONES, an American educator, born in Baltimore in 1851. He graduated from Baltimore City College in 1868. In 1872 he became an editorial writer on the Baltimore "American" and for several years acted as editor for papers in New York, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore. He was lecturer on political science at Johns Hopkins University in 1906-1907. In 1908 he was appointed professor of politics at Princeton. He wrote "The Rise and Growth of American Politics" (1898); "The Scotch-Irish in America" (1915); "Woodrow Wilson, the Man and His Work" (1916); "The Cleveland Era" (1919). He was a frequent contributor on economic subjects to magazines.