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George Jones was born on July 30, 1800 on a farm near York, Pennsylvania, the son of Robert and Elizabeth (Dunnman) Jones.
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George Jones was born on July 30, 1800 on a farm near York, Pennsylvania, the son of Robert and Elizabeth (Dunnman) Jones.
George Jones graduated from Yale College in 1823, and was awarded the degree of A. M. in 1826.
After teaching two years in a school George Jones organized in Washington, he became secretary to Commodore Charles Morris commanding the Brandywine, and also teacher of navigation to the midshipmen, among whom was Matthew Fontaine Maury. After conveying Lafayette home from his visit to the United States, the Brandywine proceeded to the Mediterranean, where Jones was transferred to the Constitution, Captain David T. Patterson.
An account of the cruise of this frigate to important Mediterranean ports Jones wrote in the form of sixty-seven letters, entitled Sketches of Naval Life.
Returning to the United States in 1828, he was for two years a tutor at Yale, and then rector of the Episcopal Church, Middletown, Connecticut, for a year, after which poor health forced him to take employment in the open air in Indiana.
In 1832 George Jones was able to accept Commodore Patterson's invitation to become acting chaplain on the United States, flagship of the Mediterranean Squadron. In this frigate and the Delaware, to which he, with Patterson, was transferred in March 1834, he made a second Mediterranean cruise, an account of which he published after his arrival at Norfolk in February 1836, under the title, Excursions to Cairo, Jerusalem, Damascus, and Balbec (1836).
Meanwhile, he was commissioned chaplain, April 20, 1833.
After four years at the Norfolk Navy Yard, he served for five years on the frigates Macedonian, Columbus, Constitution, and Brandywine in turn, doing effective temperance work among the crews and striving to bring about the establishment of a naval school by writing an appeal in the Naval Magazine (May 1836), by corresponding with various naval officers, and by interviewing Secretary of the Navy Upshur in Washington.
On his return from a cruise to China in September 1845, Jones was, accordingly, ordered to the Naval School, recently organized at Annapolis. Here, as professor in charge of the department of English literature, sometimes assisting in mathematics, he remained until 1850. A chaplaincy having been established in the Naval School at its reorganization in October of that year, he became the first chaplain of the United States Naval Academy in February 1851.
The following year, Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry applied for his services, declaring he "could be useful to him" in the expedition to Japan. After this noted cruise came to a successful close, Jones was ordered by Perry to remain in New York and assist in preparing the official report of the expedition, his particular contribution being the observations of the zodiacal light in Volume III of the report. Then, obtaining leave of absence for a year, he went to Quito, Ecuador, where he spent seven months making observations to confirm his theory that this astronomical phenomenon comes from a nebulous ring round the earth. Returning home in the spring of 1857, he again became chaplain at the Naval Academy, for a period of four years. After a short tour of duty on the Minnesota, Commodore S. H. Stringham, Atlantic Squadron, he was retired for age in July 1862.
During the Civil War he did voluntary duty as chaplain and nurse in the army hospitals in Washington and at Gettysburg. His last two books were Life-Scenes from the Four Gospels (1865), and Life-Scenes from the Old Testament (1868).
His death occurred while he was stationed as chaplain at the United States Naval Asylum, Philadelphia.
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In his religious denomination George Jones was an Episcopalian, so he was ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church in Hartford, Connecticut, on January 16, 1831.
In 1837 George Jones married Mary Amelia Silliman, daughter of Gold Selleck Silliman of Brooklyn, New York, and niece of the elder Benjamin Silliman.