Call Number:

003.031

Repository:

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Extent:

.1 linear ft. (1 volume)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Richard T. Jones autograph album (HCS 003.031), Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.

Date:

1859-1860 (inclusive)

Creator:

Jones, Richard T., 1844-1868

Form:

autograph albums

Abstract:

This small volume contains autographs from faculty and students at Haverford College. It also includes newspaper clippings about marriages and deaths of people associated with Haverford College, and commencement ceremonies. Some of the autographs contain handwritten poems, and some quotes are in Greek.

Richard Thomas Jones was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in May 1844, the son of Jacob Paul Jones, Benefactor, and Mary Thomas. He entered Haverford in 1859 and graduated in 1863. During his time at Haverford, Jones was vice president of the Loganian Society and president of the Athenaeum. He gave an address to the Loganian society about "The Literary Genius of America" in 1863. After attending Haverford, he entered the counting-house of Morris and Jones. He was an iron merchant. He married Marie Louise Bailey, dauther of Joseph T. and Marie Louise Bailey of Philadelphia, on April 29, 1868. He died in Philadelphia on June 6, 1868.

Biographical information is from "Biographical Catalog of the Matriculates of Haverford College"(1922) and "A History of Haverford College for the First Sixty Years of its Existence" (1892)

This small volume contains autographs from faculty and students at Haverford College. It also includes newspaper clippings about marriages and deaths of people associated with Haverford, and commencement ceremonies. Some of the autographs contain handwritten poems, and some quotes are in Greek.