Amos W. Jones, A.M., D.D., president of the Memphis Conference Female Institute, is the ninth of a family of six sons and six daughters born to Amos and Mary (Myrick) Jones. He was born December 28, 1815, in Franklin County, N. C., this being the native county also of both the parents, where they were married, lived, farmed, and died, their deaths occurring at the birthplace (and where the father lived during his whole life) the mother when our subject was young, and the father in 1848. The father was a natural mechanic, but devoted most of his attention to agricultural pursuits. He was also local minister in the Methodist Church many years. Our subject entered Randolph-Macon College, Virginia, at the age of sixteen, graduating in 1839. He then spent four years as traveling minister, and accepted a professorship in the institute, of which he became president in 1853, which position he has since occupied. In 1841 he married Caroline Blanch, to which union one child was born, Amos B., president of Huntsville Female College. The mother of this child died December 10, 1841. In 1843 he married Mary E. Wamack, to which union seven children were born, the survivors being Dr. James T. Jones, of Jackson, and Mrs. Mary Anna Dashiell, of Terrell, Tex. The mother of these children died in 1853, and in 1857 Mr. Jones married Amanda C. Bigelow, five children being born, George C. and Ammatilla surviving, the former being professor and secretary of the institute faculty and the latter a student By this marriage was born Miss Ida V., who was for several years one of the prominent instructors of the institute, and whose death occurred while visiting at Chautauqua, N.Y., August 16, 1884. The mother of these children died June 5, 1886. He fills the appointment at the institute for the Memphis Conference, to which he was admitted in 1845. George C., referred to above, was born at Jackson, Tenn., on the 29th of August, 1859, and graduated at the Southwestern Baptist University in 1878, taking the degree of A.B. He then entered Vanderbilt, taking the degree of A.M. in 1879, and was alumni orator, at the same place, in 1880, in which year he began teaching in the institute, of which he is at present the principal instructor. During school vacation, in 1882, he graduated at Coiner's Commercial College, Boston, and in 1883-84 attended the department of physics and mathematics in the University of Berlin. January 14,1885, he married Lelia L. Moore, of Terrell, Tex., to whom was born one child - Ida B., still living. The Doctor, Amos W., with his whole family, are members of the Methodist Church. He is also a member of the F. & A. M., having filled most of the prominent offices of the order. George C. is a member of the K. of P. and K. of H.

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