Calvin Jones (physician)

Calvin Jones (physician)

Calvin Jones (April 2, 1775 - September 20, 1846) was a North Carolina physician and a part of the group of founders of the North Carolina Medical Society. He served 1802 to 1832 as a trustee of the University of North CarolinaCitation
editor-last = Powell
editor-first = William S.
title= Dictionary of North Carolina Biography
volume = 3
year= 1988
publisher= University of North Carolina Press
location=
id= ASIN B000O7UO8W
url = http://www.wfu.edu/history/HST_WFU/jones.htm] . Jones was also elected to the North Carolina House of Commons (1799 and 1802) and as the Mayor (then called Intendant of Police) of Raleigh, North Carolina.

Jones served as adjutant general of the state militia during the period of the War of 1812 and claimed to know Andrew Jackson and Jackson's wife "very well personally" in a letter he wrote to a cousin in 1828 [cite journal
title= Birthplace buys early Jones letter
journal= Wake Forest Gazette
publisher=Carol Pelosi
date=2007-10-27
volume= 5
issue= 41
url= http://www.wakeforestgazette.com/volume_5/number_41/Birthplacebuys.htm
accessdate= 2008-01-08] .

In 1817 and 1819 he was Grand Master of Masons in North Carolina.

The 615 acre plantation he owned, Wake Forest (or Forest of Wake), was purchased by the North Carolina Baptist Convention in 1832 and became the first home of Wake Forest College [cite web
title = History
publisher = Town of Wake Forest, North Carolina
url = https://www.wakeforestnc.gov/visitors/history.aspx
accessdate = 2008-01-08 ] . The main dwelling on the site, built circa 1820, is now a museum for the Wake Forest College Birthplace Society [cite web
title = Calvin Jones Historical House
publisher = Wake Forest College Birthplace Society
url = http://www.wakeforestbirthplace.org/explore.html
accessdate = 2008-01-08 ] .

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