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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

REV. AMOS B. JONES, A. M., D. D., LL.D., President and Proprietor of Huntsville
Female College, was born December 4, 1841, in Randolph Macon College, Boydton,
Mecklenburg County, Va. His father, Rev. Amos W. Jones, D. D., was a son of Amos
Jones, a local preacher of North Carolina, and a native of Lewisburg, that
State. He graduated at Randolph Macon College in 1839, with the highest honors;
became tutor in his Alma Mater, and a minister of the Methodist Episcopal
Church; located in Jackson, Tenn., in 1845, where he still resides. He has been
President of the Memphis Conference Female Institute for nearly forty years. He
is a man of sterling worth as minister and educator, and is much beloved by his
hosts of friends. His wife's maiden name was Caroline Blanch, a daughter of Gen.
William Blanch, of Virginia, and a woman of the highest type of Christian
character. She died within one week after Amos B. was born.

  The subject of our sketch received his early education in Jackson, Tenn. At
different times he attended West Tennessee College, Andrew College, Union
University, and East Alabama University, at Auburn, in all of which he gave
evidence of decided thirst for knowledge and an invincible determination to take
a front rank in the world of letters. But like hundreds of Southern boys, his
education was arrested by the clash of arms. He gave up his studies in East
Alabama University, returned to his home in Jackson, Tenn., and at the age of
nineteen entered the Confederate service as second sergeant in the Sixth
Tennessee Infantry. On the reorganization of the regiment, his comrades in arms
having recognized the courage and bravery of Sergeant Jones, elected him Captain
of Company H, which position he retained until the war was over.

  As Captain he was in many battles of the West, and was wounded at Murfreesboro
and Chicamauga. Returning from the war he undertook to run a farm, as the only
expedient for immediate employment. But his old thirst for knowledge began to
revive, and by diligent study, he gathered up the fragments of his shattered
education, and heroically began anew his much cherished aspirations for a
professional life.

  In l868, he was happily united in marriage to Miss Mary G. Gates, near
Aberdeen, Miss. They have had born unto them two sons and three daughters, of
whom Amos W. and James T., are living, and Carrie, Blanch, Joseph N., and Mary
Sue are dead. In 1869, Dr. Jones, was elected to a prominent professorship in
the M. C. F. Institute, of Jackson, the home of his boyhood. This position he
held for nine years, while the rapid, solid and continuous growth of the
Institute fully demonstrated his preeminent qualifications for such work. He was
elected president of this institution in 1878, served two years most
efficiently, and resigned in 1880 to take charge of the Huntsville Female College.

  Under the conduct of Dr. Jones, with his broad culture, liberal education, and
line business administrative ability, this institution has enjoyed such solid
and continuous prosperity as it never did before. The degree of LL. D., was
conferred upon Dr. Jones by the Southwestern Baptist University, at Jackson,
Tenn., his old home, and where he was best and most favorably known. The degree
of D. D. was conferred upon him by the State University of Alabama.

  Aside from his work as an educator, Dr. Jones, is an able and eloquent gospel
minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in which he was licensed to
preach in 1873, by the Memphis Conference. While in Tennessee, he held various
offices of trust and honor in several benevolent orders. In Masonry, he was at
one time R. W. Deputy Grand Master, and at another, Right Eminent Grand
Captain-General of the Grand Commandery, of that State. He has been president of
the Alabama Y. M. C. A.; is a professor in the Correspondence University of
Chicago, and was lately elected a member of the American Institute of Christian
Philosophy.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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