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Biographical sketches of the reform ministers: with a history of the passing of the reform bills, and a view of the state of Europe from the close of 1831. ... 'The life and times of William the Fourth.'
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William Patterson Jones was a famous educator, who promoted education for women, also wrote extensively for the Chicago newspapers on education. Besides, he was a consul at Macao, later at Amoy, who lectured in many parts of the country with the hope of bringing about a better understanding of conditions in China.
Background
William Patterson was born on April 23, 1831 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the second son of William Patterson and Ursula (Linderman) Jones, his ancestors having come from England with the first group of Lord Baltimore's colonists. His father, who was building contractor for Girard College, was forced by the panic of 1837 to remove to the West, where he continued as a builder both in St. Louis and Alton, and interested himself in the newly established McKendree College at Lebanon.
Education
Jones graduated at Rock River Seminary, Mount Morris, in 1849, and from Allegheny College, Meadville, in 1853.
Career
After studies he immediately became an enthusiastic supporter of the higher education of women, and determined to establish a college "where, " to use his own words, "all that was taught at Yale and Harvard should be placed within the reach of womanhood". In order to popularize his plan, he went about the country speaking wherever opportunity offered. To finance these journeys, he and his brother exhibited daguerreotypes of the Far West, enlarged by means of a pantoscope. On one of these tours, he met Matthew Vassar, who urged him to join him in his plans for Vassar College, and Henry Fowle Durant, later the founder of Wellesley College, with whom he discussed his theories.
In 1855, with gold obtained through the Californian mining adventures of his brother, J. Wesley Jones, he bought land in Evanston, then a hamlet in the wilderness, where Northwestern University was about to be established, and with the help of his father and two young brothers, he erected a building which was dedicated January 1, 1856. Under the name Northwestern Female College, the institution had opened in October 1855 with eighty-three girls in attendance. As was the case with many colleges in the West at the time, the preparatory department contained the greater number of pupils; the college classes were always small. In 1869 he transferred the college to a group of women, by whom it was operated under the name of Evanston College for Ladies, in conjunction with Northwestern University, by which institution it was finally absorbed.
In 1862 Jones was appointed United States consul at Macao, later at Amoy and then at Canton. He returned to the United States in 1868 and took an active part in promoting the plan, originated by the United States minister, Anson Burlingame, but never adopted, to use the surplus of the Chinese Indemnity Fund of 1856-57 to establish an American University for the Chinese at Peking.
He was co-author with R. P. Porter and Henry Gannett of The West: from the Census of 1880 (1882). For the last two years of his life (1884 - 86) he had been president of the normal school at Fremont, in that state.
His death occurred at Fullerton, Nebraska.
Achievements
William Patterson Jones was one of the founder of Northwestern Female College, the main aim of his activity was support of the higher education of women. As a result of his administration and educational programm, many self-reliant, individualistic women of the mid-nineteenth century are numbered among the graduates of the college, the most notable being Frances E. Willard, who used Jones's methods in her own teaching experience, and May Wright Sewall.
Besides, Jones was an enthusiastic student of Indian lore and produced two epic poems based on Indian legends, one of which, The Myth of Stone Idol.
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Views
Inspired with the idea that the school must be adapted to the pupil, he made development through individual instruction the basis of his method. In his college the young women practiced student self government and the honor system and, in order to cultivate self expression, even published a tiny newspaper.
Connections
On February 22, 1857, he married Mary Elizabeth Hayes, who was his earliest assistant at Northwestern Female College.
