Jones, Joseph, 1833-1896

Joseph Jones was born Sept. 6, 1833, the second son of Charles Colcock Jones, Sr., a Presbyterian minister from Liberty County, Georgia. He attended the College of New Jersey at Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania. Joseph Jones began teaching in 1856 at Savannah Medical College, and later at the University of Georgia, and the Medical College of Georgia. In 1858 he married Caroline Smelt Davis of Augusta. Jones served in the Confederate military forces, as Surgeon Major throughout most of the war. He conducted studies of the diseases and injuries in Confederate hospitals and prisons, particularly Andersonville. Because of his activities at Andersonville, Jones was summoned as a witness at the trial of Henry Wirz. After the Civil War, Jones joined the faculty of the University of Nashville Medical School. Two years later, he accepted a position at the University of Louisiana (later Tulane University). His wife died in 1868, and in 1870, he married Susan Raynor Polk, daughter of the Episcopal bishop of Louisiana. Joseph Jones's children were: Mary Cuthbert (from his first marriage), Frances Devereaux, Hamilton Polk, and Laura Maxwell. From 1872 to 1893, Joseph Jones taught chemistry and clinical medicine at the University of Louisiana. He died in New Orleans, La., on Feb. 17, 1896.

From the description of Joseph Jones papers, 1820-1900. (Tulane University). WorldCat record id: 567805901

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