Background
Jones, Henry Lawrence was born on May 30, 1839 in at New New York Son of Review Lot and Lucy Ann (Bullard) Jones.
Jones, Henry Lawrence was born on May 30, 1839 in at New New York Son of Review Lot and Lucy Ann (Bullard) Jones.
Graduate Columbia College, 1858, Master of Arts, 1861, honorary South.T.D., 1892.
Deacon, 1861, priest, 1863, Protestant Episcopal Church. Assistant to his father (rector Church of the Epiphany, New York), 1861-1863. Organized parish and was rector Christ Church, 1863-1874, erecting stone edifice consecrated, 1868.
Rector Saint Stephen’s Church, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, since 1874.
Has added 7 missions to parish, and erected several church buildings President Osterhout Free Library. Life member of New York History Society.
Vice president Wyoming History and Geological Society Address: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Member of New York History.
Married Sarah Eastman Coffin, of Concord, New Hampshire (U.S.), October 6, 1869.