John W. Jones (1831-1904, Tarboro, NC)
JONES, John Wesley, Tarboro, N.C., son of Frederick and Sarah Rhodes (Cherry) Jones, grandson of Frederick Jones, was born September 26, 1831, in Edgecombe county, N.C. He entered the University of North Carolina, 1853, but did not take a degree on account of failing health in the second year at college. He then went to the West Indies for the benefit of his health, returned home and commenced the study of medicine in 1854, at Tarboro, in the office of Dr. N.J. Pittman. Attended two courses of medical lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, Medical Department, Philadelphia, and was graduated in 1857. He then spent one year in Paris, France, in the School of Medicine in that city, and visited other medical schools in Europe. Tarboro has been his place of residence since entering the practice of medicine. He was horticultural editor of the Reconstructed Farmer, an agricultural journal published in Tarboro, N.C., some years ago, and has always taken a special interest in farming, to which he is at this time devoting most of his time.
Dr. Jones is a member of the American Medical Association; a member of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, and was its president in 1874-'75. He was a member of the North Carolina State Board of Health, and elected its president, 1886, which office he held during his connection with the board; was a delegate to the International Medical Congress; and of the Pan-American Medical Congress; corresponding member of the Boston Gynecological Society; member of the American Public Health Association. He was a member of the North Carolina Board of Medical Examiners; was one of the advisory council, section of gynecology, of the International Medical Congress; and of the section of climatology, World's Fair Annex, and at its meeting presented a paper on the "Eastern Division of North Carolina," with photograph of that section of the state. He also presented a paper to the International Medical Congress, on "An Antiseptic Dressing for the Treatment of Wounds, Especially Adapted to Gynecic Surgery." Dr. Jones has performed most of the capital operations common to the practice of surgery in his section and time. He was assistant surgeon and medical purveyor in the Confederate States' army.
Dr. Jones has been a busy practitioner. His reported cases and addresses before the North Carolina Medical Society, and the conjoint sessions of the North Carolina State Board of Health, and the North Carolina Medical Society, are published in the North Carolina Medical Journal, and in the Proceedings of the North Carolina Medical Society.
He is a member of the Methodist church, having connected himself with that branch of the Christian church while at college.
Married, November 8, 1861, Eugenie Helen Jeffreys, of Franklin county, North Carolina. They have had three children. only one of whom is living, Paul Jones, a lawyer in Tarboro.
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