Biography of Daniel Webster Jones, Bowie County, Texas

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JONES, Daniel Webster, governor of Arkansas, was born in Bowie county, Texas,
Dec. 15, 1839; son of Dr. Isaac N. and Elizabeth W. Jones, and grandson of
Daniel Jones, who emigrated from Scotland, settled in Granville county, N.C.,
and was a soldier in the Continental army under General Washington. His father
was educated at the University: of North Carolina, practised medicine in his
native county and removed with his family to Texas about 1840, where he was a
representative in the Texas congress, and subsequently to Washington, Hempstead
county, Ark. 

Daniel was educated at Washington academy, and commenced the study of law with
John R. Eakin. He entered the Confederate army in April, 1861, as 1st
lieutenant; became captain in December, 1861; was promoted major, July, 1862;
and colonel of the 20th Arkansas infantry, December, 1862, for gallantry on the
field, and was in command of a brigade of infautry at the close of the war. He
was admitted to the bar in 1865; was elected prosecuting attorney of Arkansas in
1874; was a district presidential elector in 1876, and for the state at large in
1880; attorney-general of Arkansas, in 1884 and again in 1886, and was governor
of Arkansas, 1897-1900. He favored expansion, and in February, 1900, announced
himself as a candidate for U.S. senator in opposition to Senator Berry, anti-
expansionist, whose term would expire, March 3, 1901.

JONES, DANIEL WEBSTER, soldier, lawyer, legislator, governor, was born Dec. 15,
1839, in Bowie county, Texas. In 1861 he entered the Confederate army and became
colonel of the twentieth Arkansas infantry in 1862; and was commanding a brigade
of infantry at the close of the war. In 1884-88 he was attorney general of
Arkansas; a member of the legislature in 1901; and governor in 1896-1900.