Charles Colcock Jones, Jr.
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Charles Colcock Jones Jr.
Charles C. Jones Jr. was born October 28, 1831 in Savannah, the son of Charles Colcock Jones, a Presbyterian minister. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University in 1852 then followed with a law degree from Harvard University in 1855. He became mayor of Savannah in 1860. Because of the war, Jones nearly lost his fortune and had to move to New York. In 1877 he moved back to Augusta, Georgia. On July 19, 1893, he died of Bright's disease.
He published the following books:
- Antiquities of the Southern Indians, particularly of the Georgia tribes (1878)
- The Dead Towns of Georgia (1878)
- History of Georgia (1883)
- The Dead Towns of Georgia (1878)
- Negro Myths of the Georgia Coast (1888)
- This last book later became a children’s collection with the famous Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit.
References
- www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
- Georgia Archaeology Who's Who
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Categories:
- Mayors of places in Georgia (U.S. state)
- Harvard Law School alumni
- Princeton University alumni
- American historians
- 1831 births
- 1893 deaths
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