Phineas Jones
Phineas Jones | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey's 6th district | |
In office March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1883 | |
Preceded by | John L. Blake |
Succeeded by | William H. F. Fiedler |
Personal details | |
Born | Spencer, Massachusetts | April 18, 1819
Died | April 19, 1884 Newark, New Jersey | (aged 65)
Political party | Republican |
Phineas Jones (April 18, 1819, Spencer, Massachusetts – April 19, 1884, Newark, New Jersey) was a Republican politician who represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1883 to 1885.
Biography
Jones was born in Spencer, Massachusetts on April 18, 1819 to Phineas Jones, a soldier in the American Revolutionary War, and Hannah Phillips, a descendant of Rev. George Phillips who settled Watertown, Massachusetts in 1630.[1]
Jones attended the common schools in Spencer. He moved to Elizabeth, New Jersey (then called Elizabethtown) in 1855, where he was a member of the city council of Elizabeth from 1856-1860. He moved to Newark in 1860 and engaged in manufacturing and mercantile pursuits. He was vice president of the New Jersey State Agricultural Society, and served as a member of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1873 and 1874.
Jones was elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Congress, serving in office from March 4, 1881 - March 3, 1883, but declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1882.
After leaving Congress, Jones retired from active life and died in Newark on April 19, 1884, the day after his 65th birthday. He was interred in Evergreen Cemetery in Hillside, New Jersey.
References
- ^ Phillips genealogies; including the family of George Phillips, first minister of Watertown, Mass., also the families of Ebenezer Phillips, of Southboro, Mass., Thomas Phillips, of Duxbury, Mass., Thomas Phillips, of Marshfield, Mass., John Phillips, of Easton, Mass., James Phillips, of Ipswich, Mass., with brief genealogies of Walter Phillips, of Damariscotta, Me., Andrew Phillips, of Kittery, Me., Michael, Richard, Jeremy and Jeremiah Phillips, of Rhode Island; and fragmentary records, of early American families of this name. Auburn, MA 1885
External links
- United States Congress. "Phineas Jones (id: J000247)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- Phineas Jones at The Political Graveyard
- Phineas Jones at Find a Grave
- 1819 births
- 1884 deaths
- People from Spencer, Massachusetts
- American people of Welsh descent
- New Jersey Republicans
- Members of the New Jersey General Assembly
- Members of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey
- Politicians from Elizabeth, New Jersey
- Politicians from Newark, New Jersey
- Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives
- Burials at Evergreen Cemetery, Hillside, New Jersey
- 19th-century American politicians
- Businesspeople from Elizabeth, New Jersey
- Businesspeople from Newark, New Jersey
- Phillips family (New England)