U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jones, John L. B. (b. 1865) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by Hu Maxwell The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899 Page 410 Rev. John L. B. Jones, Ph. B., was born in 1865, at Calhoun, Bar- bour County, son of Solomon S. Jones, a family originally from Virginia. He attended public schools of the county, the West Virginia College, Flem- ington, the Conference Seminary, at Buckhannon, Butler, Missouri, the Music School, at Pittsburg, the Dubuque Vocal Institution, Iowa. In addi- tion to these schools, he attended instruction under several private teach- ers, last of whom was Portius, and the Mountain Lake Park Chautauqua. Early in 1899 the Taylor University, of Upland, Indiana, conferred upon him the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy for special work done. He married Adaline, daughter of John T. Moss, of Barbour. They have six daughters, Winnie, Alice, Grace, May, Agnes, Ruth. In 1891 he entered the ministry, and has had charge of Ireland, Flatwoods and Aurora circuits. He is a hard student, an excellent scholar and an able preacher. He has given much attention to music, and is a successful composer of Church and Sunday School music; nor does he confine himself to sacred music, but composes both songs and music, patriotic and sentimental. He has set to music many of the songs written by Miss Ida L. Reed, Barbour County's talented hymn writer. He supplies Christmas and Easter music for churches in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, St. Louis and elsewhere. Among his best known music are, "America is Good Enough for me," "The Parting Hour," "Only a Song and a Memory," etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Barbour County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/barbour/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------