Jones
Jones names 9 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Jones JOHN PAUL, an American naval officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN PAUL, an American naval officer; born in Kirkham, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, July 6, 1747. His father was gardener to the Earl of Selkirk. He entered the merchant service, was engaged in the American and West Indian trade, and is said to have realized a handsome fortune. On the outbreak of war between the colonies and mother country he offered his services to the former , and in 1778, being then in command of the "Ranger," he made a descent on Whitehaven, set fire to the shipping, and plundered the Earl of Selkirk's mansion. Next year, in command of the "Bon Homme Richard" (42 guns) and a small squadron, he threatened Leith, and captured the British sloop of war " Serapis" after a bloody engagement off Flamborough Head. On his return to America he was somewhat neglected by Congress, and in 1788 entered the Russian service with the rank of rearadmiral, but owing to the jealousy of the Russian commanders soon retired from this service. He returned to Paris, where he died in poverty and ill health, July 18, 1792. In 1905 his remains were brought to America in the armored cruiser "Brooklyn" and interred at the U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.
Jones INIGO, the reviver of classireviver of classical architecture in
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
INIGO, the reviver of classireviver of classical architecture in England in the begland in the beginning of the 17th century; born in Century; born in London, England, July 15, 1573. The 15. 1573. The Earl of Pembroke sent him to Italy to ant him to Italy to study art. At Venice the works of Palthe works of Palladio inspired him with a taste for ar- Lavaste for architecture. H Having returned land, he became court architect under to Eng- James I. and Charles I. Among his best-known works are the Banqueting Bre the Banqueting House at Whitehall, Ashburnham Ashburnham House, Covent Garden Piazza, Heriot's Hospital, House, za, Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh, and Shaftesbury House. Be- Poesbury House. Being royalist and Catholic he suffered Catholic he suffered heavy losses during the Civil War, and the Civil War, and died in poverty in London, June 21, London, June 21, 1652.
Jones JACOB, an American naval an American naval officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JACOB, an American naval an American naval officer; born Srayna, Del, in near March, 1768; joined the United States Smyrna, Del., in the Unite States navy in 1799; served in the war with with Tripoli; was captured in 1803 and held eld a prisoner for 18 months; made comnonthe mander of the "Wasp" in 1811, and with her captured the English brig "Frolic" Oct. 18, 1812, but on the following day on the follo he fell in with the English war vessel Einglish "Poictiers," 74 guns, by which both the by which both the "Wasp" and its prize was taken. For was taken For his victory over the "Frolic" Jones was "Prolic" Jones was voted a gold medal by Congress, and Congress, and $25,000 was granted to him and his ed to him and his died in Philadelphia, Pa., iladelphia, Pa., crew.
Jones HENRY ARTHUR, an Eng- ARTHUR
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HENRY ARTHUR, an Eng- ARTHUR, an English dramatist; born in Grandborough, in Grandborough, Bucks, England, Sept. 20, 1851. He pt. 20, 1851. He wrote: "A Clerical Error" (1879); cal Error" (1879); "Silver King" (1882); "Saints and Sin- 2): "Saints and Sinners" (1884); "Middleman" (1889); "Judah" (1890); " Addieman" (1889); The Dancing Girl" The Dancing Girl" (1891); "The Tempter" (1893); "The (1898); "The Masqueraders" (1894); "The Triumph "The Triumph of the Philistines" (1895); "The Rogue's "The Rogue's Comedy" ( Liars" (1897); "The Manœuvres of Jane" (1898); "Mrs. 1896); "The Liars" (1897); (1898); "Mrs. Dane's Defence" (1900); "The Hyp- "The Hypocrites" (1906); "The Lie" (1914), etc. The Lie" (1914), etc.
Jones ANDRIEUS ARISTIEUS, an American public official
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ANDRIEUS ARISTIEUS, an American public official, born in Tennes- Aug. 3, 1850. He see in 1862; he received his education both general and legal at Valparaiso University in Indiana. For a time he was principal of the public schools of Las Vegas N. M., whither he had moved in 1885. Later he entered the law firm of Jones and Rogers. He became a promibecame a prominent member of the Democratic party Democratie party in the territory and state of New Mexico, of New Mexico, being National Committeeman from that Teeman from that state. Appointed first Assistant Secre- Assi t Secre tary of the Interior in 1913. 1918.
Jones JOHN PERCIVAL, an American Senator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN PERCIVAL, an American Senator. Born in England in 1829 and died in Nevada, 1912. Brought to the United - States at an early age he was educated in the Cleveland Public Schools. During 1848-1849 he went to California where he attained success as a mine owner. Removing to Nevada in 1867 he became the owner of a prosperous silver mine which gave him a large fortune. He served three terms in the United States senate and championed the cause of free silver although he was a Republican. For a time he deserted that party to follow Bryan, but later in 1900 returned to the Republicans.
Jones WESLEY LIVSEY, United States Senator from the State of Washington
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WESLEY LIVSEY, United States Senator from the State of Washington; born in Illinois in 1863, he graduated from Southern Illinois College in 1886. Three years later he moved to Washington, at that time a territory, and took up the practice of law. He identified himself with the Republican party in the State and was active in the presidential campaigns in the West. From 1899-1909 he was a member of the National Congress and in the latter year was elected to the Senate. In 1914 he was re-elected for a second term.
Jones JENKIN LLOYD, an Amer- HOYD
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JENKIN LLOYD, an Amer- HOYD, an Amer ican Unitarian clergyman. Born in Born in nan Wales in 1843 but brought to Wisconsin it to Wisconsin at an early age. After serving in the the g Civil War, he received his theological education at Meadville, Pa., and then returned as a pastor to Wisconsin. In 1882 he founded the All Souls' Church in Chicago of which he became the pastor. He has written extensively on religious subjects. He died in 1918.
Jones DAVY, in sailors' superstisailors' superstition
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
DAVY, in sailors' superstisailors' superstition, an evil sea spirit whose locker, or it whose locker, or chest is at the bottom of the sea. of the sea.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 gave the page to two famous dead men and five recent Americans, and the ranking has shifted since. John Paul Jones, whose bones were brought home in the cruiser Brooklyn in 1905, was placed in 1913 in the marble sarcophagus in the crypt of the Naval Academy chapel at Annapolis, where he remains the navy's founding hero (his birthplace is now given as Kirkbean, not Kirkham); Inigo Jones is still the reviver of classical architecture in England, though modern scholars drop Heriot's Hospital from his list and put the Queen's House at Greenwich, unmentioned above, at the head of it. The two sitting senators, listed as bare career notes, left the longer legal mark: Wesley L. Jones of Washington gave his name to the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, the Jones Act that still restricts shipping between American ports, and Andrieus A. Jones, here only Assistant Secretary of the Interior, chaired the Senate committee that carried the woman suffrage amendment. Henry Arthur Jones, then a reigning West End dramatist with twenty plays to his name, is now barely staged, remembered chiefly for The Silver King and Mrs Dane's Defence and for his late public quarrels with Shaw and Wells.
Written for this edition, 2026.