Born in Reading, Pa., March, 1856; educated in the public schools; was graduated from the Reading High School, class of 1875; studied medicine with Dr. William F. Marks, of Reading; was graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1881; has practiced his profession in the city of Reading since his graduation in medicine; member of the Homeopathic Medical Society of Reading, and has served as its Secretary; represented the Third Ward of Reading in the School Board. Republican in politics. Address, Reading, Pa. (p. 367)
Commissioner of Berks County; was born in Colebrookdale Township, Berks County, Pa., on Feb. 22, 1844. He was educated at Mount Pleasant Seminary, Boyertown, and Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pa. He served in the Civil War in Company A., 198th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Army of the Potomac. At the close of the war he studied dentistry, and commenced practicing his profession at Lyons' Station, Pa. He then removed to Kutztown, and in 1880 located in Reading, where he is still in business. He has taken an active part in politics as a Republican, and after serving in Common Council for two years, he was elected to Select Council. He served in this branch of the city legislative body two terms, or eight years. In the fall of 1902 he was elected County Commissioner for a term of three years. He was a Republican Presidential elector in 1900. Dr. Johnson is a member of Lodge 549, Free and Accepted Masons; Excelsior Chapter, 237; Reading Commandery, No. 42, Knights Templar; Rajah Temple, Ancient Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and Keim Post, No. 76, Grand Army of the Republic. Address, Reading, Pa. (p. 369)
Lawyer; born at Reading, Pa.; son of Hon. J. Glancy Jones, of Reading, who represented the Berks County District in Congress for eight years, acting as Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, and leader of his party at the time of his appointment as Minister to Austria. Mr. Jones's paternal great-grandfather, Jonathan Jones, served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Continental Army, and his maternal grandfather, William Rodman, as an officer on the staff of General Lacey during the War of Independence and a member of Congress in 1812. Admitted to the bar in April, 1863; removed to Philadelphia in May of that year; appointed counsel for the Park Commission; counsel of the Department of Protection at the Centennial Exhibition. While President Cleveland was in office he served as Special Deputy Collector of Customs for Philadelphia. He was Vice President of the Trust Company of North America; has devoted considerable attention to literature and has published several popular and instructive works. Wrote a history of "The Campaign for the Conquest of Canada in 1776." In 1886 he published the "Genealogy of the Rodman Family from 1620 to 1886," containing 2,892 names of the descendants of his maternal ancestors. Author of "Davaults Mills," "Recollections of Venice," and "A Pedestrian Tour Through Switzerland." Several years Attaché to the American Legation at Vienna, to which court his father was accredited Ambassador during the Administration of President Buchanan; Chairman of the Board of Managers of the Sons of the Revolution; Chairman of the Council of the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania. Address, 951 Drexel Building, Philadelphia, Pa. (p. 371-372)
Lawyer; born in Reading, Pa., Sept. 8, 1874; was graduated from the Reading High School in 1891; received the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, with honors, from the University of Pennsylvania, 1896; studied law under the instruction of Isaac Hiester, Esq., of Reading; admitted to bar in Berks County in 1898. Married Mabel Catharine Lutz April 10, 1901. Republican. Address, 532 Washington St., Reading, Pa. (p. 372)
Lawyer; born Feb. 17, 1840, and after a thorough training in the best schools of this country, completed his education at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Before entering that world-renowned institution, however, he went to South America with the United States expedition against Paraguay, visiting the islands of St. Thomas and Barbadoes in the West Indies and the principal cities of the east coast of South America, and, sailing a thousand miles up the Parana Rivera to Asuncion; was present at the capitulation of Lopez, which crowned the success of the expedition. After a sojourn of several years in Europe, he returned to America and entered the law office of his father as a student, and, having been thoroughly qualified, was admitted to the bar of Berks County, April 14, 1863. He was subsequently admitted to the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth and to the bar of Philadelphia and other counties of the State. He has recently been appointed by the Bar Association of Pennsylvania Chairman of a committee to revise the corporation laws of the State. He is general counsel for the United Power and Transportation Company and the Interstate Railway Company, corporations controlling over five hundred miles of street railways in Pennsylvania and the adjoining States. It was mainly through his efforts that the city of Reading recovered title to the tract of land, lost for nearly a hundred years, at the foot of Penn's Mount, now beautifully improved as the city park and known as Penn Common; and that the free library of the city, of which he is President, was rescued from obscurity and sacrifice, placed upon an enduring foundation by liberal private contributions headed with his name, and then adopted by the public as worthy of maintenance out of the common purse. In 1862, on the invasion of Maryland by the Confederate Army, Mr. Jones enlisted as a private soldier, and was present at the battle of Antietam, and in 1863 he was made Captain of a company of Pennsylvania Volunteers. In 1866 he was elected a member of the Legislature from the county of Berks, and was twice re-elected, and in 1868, his second term, he received his party's nomination for the Speakership. Mr. Jones is a vestryman of Christ (Episcopal) Church, Reading, and a Director in many local organizations. He is also a member of the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of the Revolution, Society of the War of 1812, and Grand Army of the Republic. Mr. Jones is descended from a long line of distinguished colonial and Revolutionary ancestors on both sides of his house. His father, J. Glancy Jones, was an able lawyer and distinguished member of Congress from Berks County from 1850 to 1859, during his last term having been Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means. He resigned his seat in Congress to accept the appointment of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Austria, which office he held during the trying times of the commencement of the Civil War, when our relations with foreign countries were extremely delicate. Mr. Jones's great-grandfather, Col. Jonathan Jones, was Senior Captain of the first regiment raised in Pennsylvania for the Continental Army, October, 1775. He participated in the winter campaign for the relief of the army at Quebec, after the death of Montgomery, and also in many important engagements. For distinguished services he was promoted to the rank of Major, and later to that of Lieutenant Colonel in the Pennsylvania Line. Mr. Jones's great-great-grandfather, David Jones, came from Merioneth, Wales, to Pennsylvania in 1721 and bought a large tract of land in Caernarvon Township, where he opened and developed iron ore mines, which still bear his name. Mr. Jones's mother was the daughter of William Rodman, of Bucks County, who was a Brigade Quartermaster in the Army of the Revolution, and afterward a member of the Senate of Pennsylvania and of the Twelfth Congress of the United States. The Rodman family is one of the oldest in the New World, having settled in America in the early part of the seventeenth century, and contributed to the colonies many of their most distinguished citizens. On Nov. 26, 1870, Mr. Jones married Margaret Ellen McCarty, daughter of James McCarty, a prominent ironmaster of Reading, and Rebecca MacVeagh, his wife. He has one daughter, who is the wife of Nathaniel Ferguson, of Reading. Address, Reading, Pa. (pp. 374-375)
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