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Jones, Mother
(Encyclopedia)Jones, Mother: see Jones, Mary Harris. ...Jones, Bobby
(Encyclopedia)Jones, Bobby: see Jones, Robert Tyre, Jr. ...Jones, Sir Edward Burne-
(Encyclopedia)Jones, Sir Edward Burne-: see Burne-Jones. ...Davy Jones
(Encyclopedia)Davy Jones, personification or spirit of the sea. The name is best known in the expression “Davy Jones's locker,” meaning the bottom of the sea, to which drowned sailors go. ...Jones, Antony Armstrong
(Encyclopedia)Jones, Antony Armstrong: see Snowdon, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of. ...Adams, Charles Francis, 1866–1954, U.S. Secretary of the Navy
(Encyclopedia)Adams, Charles Francis, 1866–1954, U.S. Secretary of the Navy (1929–33), b. Quincy, Mass.; grandson of Charles Francis Adams (1807–86). He practiced law for a brief period in Boston but for most...Dow Jones Average
(Encyclopedia)Dow Jones Average, indicators used to measure and report value changes in representative stock groupings on the New York stock exchange. There are four different averages—industrial stocks, transpor...Morse, John Torrey
(Encyclopedia)Morse, John Torrey, 1840–1937, American lawyer and biographer, b. Boston. Admitted to the bar in 1862, he practiced law in Boston until 1880, when he turned all his attention to writing. With Henry ...Jones, Anson
(Encyclopedia)Jones, Anson, 1798–1858, last president of the Texas republic (1844–46), b. Seekonk section of Great Barrington, Mass. He studied medicine and after an itinerant business and medical career went (...Jones, Samuel Milton
(Encyclopedia)Jones, Samuel Milton, 1846–1904, American political reformer, known as “Golden Rule” Jones, b. Wales. He was brought to America as a child and worked in the oil fields of Pennsylvania and Ohio. ...Browse by Subject
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